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The Bookseller - Home

Last scanned Aug 3, 2026, 4:00 AM · 8 views

88

Overall score

Great

Summary

In this week's issue:Lead Story: Paid-for PublishingCountry Focus: WalesBookshop Spotlight: Welsh IndependentsAuthor Profile: Rebecca HumphriesPaperback Preview: July 2022. This website uses Apache. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

In this week's issue:Lead Story: Paid-for PublishingCountry Focus: WalesBookshop Spotlight: Welsh IndependentsAuthor Profile: Rebecca HumphriesPaperback Preview: July 2022

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.

  • 3 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

65

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

569 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+10 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
88
SEO
65
Security
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
90

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

In this week's issue:Lead Story: Paid-for PublishingCountry Focus: WalesBookshop Spotlight: Welsh IndependentsAuthor Profile: Rebecca HumphriesPaperback Preview: July 2022

Meta tags

Title
The Bookseller - Home
Description
In this week's issue:Lead Story: Paid-for PublishingCountry Focus: WalesBookshop Spotlight: Welsh IndependentsAuthor Profile: Rebecca HumphriesPaperback Preview: July 2022
Canonical
https://www.thebookseller.com/home
Language
En
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2.0
Robots meta
index,follow,max-image-preview:large,max-snippet:-1,max-video-preview:-1
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Home
og:description
In this week's issue:Lead Story: Paid-for PublishingCountry Focus: WalesBookshop Spotlight: Welsh IndependentsAuthor Profile: Rebecca HumphriesPaperback Preview: July 2022
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.thebookseller.com/home

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
Home
twitter:description
In this week's issue:Lead Story: Paid-for PublishingCountry Focus: WalesBookshop Spotlight: Welsh IndependentsAuthor Profile: Rebecca HumphriesPaperback Preview: July 2022

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Amazon
Subject
*.thebookseller.com
Valid from
Oct 6, 2025
Valid to
Nov 4, 2026
Days until expiry
93
SAN domains
*.thebookseller.com, thebookseller.com

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyEnabled

Compression: gzip · 4 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 125 · H3 16

Links

118 internal · 29 external · 20 broken

Images

125 total · 6 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

22 scripts · 12 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

755 B · 7.9 KB

Page size

227 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://thebookseller.com
Final URL
https://www.thebookseller.com/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
565 ms
HTML size
227 KB
Redirect chain
https://thebookseller.com → https://www.thebookseller.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does thebookseller.com use?
thebookseller.com is built with jQuery, Google Analytics, Apache.
Is thebookseller.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. thebookseller.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Nov 4, 2026.
Who hosts thebookseller.com?
Hosting provider information for thebookseller.com is not available yet.
What is thebookseller.com's SEO score?
thebookseller.com scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is thebookseller.com's overall website score?
thebookseller.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has thebookseller.com's score changed over time?
thebookseller.com's overall score has improved by 10 points (from 78 to 88) since Jul 26, 2026.