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thecatholicthing.org

The Catholic Thing

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:23 PM

80

Overall score

Great

Summary

The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is fair (70/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.

The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 2 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Over half of images are missing alt text

    Accessibility

    Add alt attributes to images — screen readers depend on them, and they help image SEO.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • 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.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

80

Performance

1.60 s

80

Security

HTTPS & header checks

70

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
The Catholic Thing
Description
The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary.
Canonical
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The Catholic Thing
og:description
The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
thecatholicthing.org
Valid from
Jul 15, 2026
Valid to
Oct 13, 2026
Days until expiry
48
SAN domains
thecatholicthing.org, *.thecatholicthing.org

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 3 · H2 0 · H3 17

Links

79 internal · 12 external · 8 broken

Images

16 total · 9 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

62 scripts · 11 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

24.2 KB · 500 KB

Page size

135 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • Over half of images are missing alt text

Scan details

Requested URL
https://thecatholicthing.org
Final URL
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.60 s
HTML size
135 KB
Redirect chain
https://thecatholicthing.org → https://www.thecatholicthing.org/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does thecatholicthing.org use?
thecatholicthing.org is built with Svelte, WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is thecatholicthing.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. thecatholicthing.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 13, 2026.
Who hosts thecatholicthing.org?
Hosting provider information for thecatholicthing.org is not available yet.
What is thecatholicthing.org's SEO score?
thecatholicthing.org scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is thecatholicthing.org's overall website score?
thecatholicthing.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.