Skip to main content
SGSiteGraph

theconversation.com

The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 12:00 PM · 12 views

83

Overall score

Great

Summary

Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. This website uses Next.js behind Fastly CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

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

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • 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.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

90

Performance

553 ms

85

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

-5 overall since Jul 15, 2026

Overall
83
SEO
70
Security
85
Performance
90
Accessibility
90

Organization

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

Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Description
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Canonical
https://theconversation.com/global
Language
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest
https://theconversation.com/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
og:description
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
theconversation.com
Valid from
Jun 12, 2026
Valid to
Sep 10, 2026
Days until expiry
42
SAN domains
theconversation.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 1 · H3 63

Links

92 internal · 7 external · 20 broken

Images

126 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

23 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

83.3 KB · 0 B

Page size

663 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Title longer than 60 characters
  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • Missing <html lang> attribute

Scan details

Requested URL
https://theconversation.com
Final URL
https://theconversation.com/global
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
540 ms
HTML size
663 KB
Redirect chain
https://theconversation.com → https://theconversation.com/global

See something wrong on this report? Request a correction

Frequently asked questions

What technology does theconversation.com use?
theconversation.com is built with Next.js, Nginx.
Is theconversation.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. theconversation.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 10, 2026.
Who hosts theconversation.com?
Hosting provider information for theconversation.com is not available yet.
What is theconversation.com's SEO score?
theconversation.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is theconversation.com's overall website score?
theconversation.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has theconversation.com's score changed over time?
theconversation.com's overall score has declined by 5 points (from 88 to 83) since Jul 15, 2026.