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The Critic | Britain’s most civilised magazine

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 3:19 PM

85

Overall score

Great

Summary

Britain’s most civilised magazine for arts, culture, politics, fashion and much more. This website uses WordPress hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

Britain’s most civilised magazine for arts, culture, politics, fashion and much more

United States
Hosted on Cloudflare

Products & pricing

Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.

Subscribe

£60 GBP

Top issues to fix

4 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.

  • 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.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

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

  • 1 broken link on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

85

SEO

2 issue(s) found

75

Performance

510 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

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.

Britain’s most civilised magazine for arts, culture, politics, fashion and much more

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
The Critic | Britain’s most civilised magazine
Description
Britain’s most civilised magazine for arts, culture, politics, fashion and much more
Canonical
https://thecritic.co.uk/
Language
en-GB
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The Critic | Britain’s most civilised magazine
og:description
Britain’s most civilised magazine for arts, culture, politics, fashion and much more
og:type
website
og:url
https://thecritic.co.uk/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
The Critic | Britain’s most civilised magazine
twitter:description
Britain’s most civilised magazine for arts, culture, politics, fashion and much more

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Cloudflare
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
104.26.4.118
ASN
AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 104.26.4.118
  • 172.67.69.182
  • 104.26.5.118
AAAA
  • 2606:4700:20::681a:576
  • 2606:4700:20::681a:476
  • 2606:4700:20::ac43:45b6
MX
  • alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
  • aspmx.l.google.com
TXT
  • google-site-verification=eqgpVQyuDeZ26silNnTBgBvxI5k1DR7Cj7Vif-0GomI
  • v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
  • google-site-verification=DtBkb6rtghzv7LAVDGrVYx3BNkPkrd886V2gKqGuUCw
  • mandrill_verify.DBnMHz4XdF_LQ4NbVzx5kw
NS
  • irma.ns.cloudflare.com
  • nile.ns.cloudflare.com
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
thecritic.co.uk
Valid from
Jun 19, 2026
Valid to
Sep 17, 2026
Days until expiry
52
SAN domains
thecritic.co.uk, *.thecritic.co.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 1 · H3 47

Links

101 internal · 6 external · 1 broken

Images

38 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

24 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.0 MB · 9.4 KB

Page size

377 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
1
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • No H1 heading found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Careers

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This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://thecritic.co.uk
Final URL
https://thecritic.co.uk
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
503 ms
HTML size
377 KB
Redirect chain
https://thecritic.co.uk

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does thecritic.co.uk use?
thecritic.co.uk is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is thecritic.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. thecritic.co.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 17, 2026.
Who hosts thecritic.co.uk?
thecritic.co.uk is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
What is thecritic.co.uk's SEO score?
thecritic.co.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is thecritic.co.uk's overall website score?
thecritic.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What products does thecritic.co.uk offer?
thecritic.co.uk offers Subscribe.
Is thecritic.co.uk hiring?
thecritic.co.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.