thedirect.com
The Direct | Latest Movie, TV & Streaming News
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 10:00 PM · 5 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
The Direct is a leading entertainment news website covering the biggest movies and TV shows across theaters, broadcast cable, and streaming platforms. This website uses Google Analytics behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
The Direct
The Direct is a leading entertainment news website covering the biggest movies and TV shows across theaters, broadcast cable, and streaming platforms.
Top issues to fix
4 issues found
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
1.19 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-6 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 93
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 100
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Direct
The Direct is a leading entertainment news website covering the biggest movies and TV shows across theaters, broadcast cable, and streaming platforms.
- Founded
- Jan 1, 2020
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Direct | Latest Movie, TV & Streaming News
- Description
- The Direct is a leading entertainment news site covering the biggest movies and TV shows across theaters and streaming platforms. From Marvel, DC, and Star Wars to hit series on Disney+, Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime Video, and more — we deliver the latest updates, trailers, and exclusive insights. | Page 1
- Canonical
- https://thedirect.com
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- thedirect.com
- Valid from
- Jun 29, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 27, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 55
- SAN domains
- *.thedirect.com, thedirect.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 20 · H3 40
Links
96 internal · 4 external · 20 broken
Images
59 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
9 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
9.5 KB · 4.6 KB
Page size
172 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
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://thedirect.com
- Final URL
- https://thedirect.com
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.19 s
- HTML size
- 172 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://thedirect.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thedirect.com use?
- thedirect.com is built with Google Analytics.
- Is thedirect.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thedirect.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 27, 2026.
- Who hosts thedirect.com?
- Hosting provider information for thedirect.com is not available yet.
- What is thedirect.com's SEO score?
- thedirect.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is thedirect.com's overall website score?
- thedirect.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 93/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates thedirect.com?
- thedirect.com is operated by The Direct. The Direct is a leading entertainment news website covering the biggest movies and TV shows across theaters, broadcast cable, and streaming platforms.
- Has thedirect.com's score changed over time?
- thedirect.com's overall score has declined by 6 points (from 99 to 93) since Jul 26, 2026.
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