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The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Source for Cybersecurity News

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 12:00 AM · 10 views

96

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers. 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 (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

The Hacker News

The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers.

Top issues to fix

4 issues found

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

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

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

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

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

21 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

0 overall since Jul 24, 2026

Overall
96
SEO
85
Security
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

The Hacker News

The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers.

Founded
Jan 1, 2000

Meta tags

Title
The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Source for Cybersecurity News
Description
The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers.
Canonical
https://thehackernews.com/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=6.0
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest
https://thehackernews.com/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Source for Cybersecurity News
og:description
The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers.
og:type
website
og:url
https://thehackernews.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Source for Cybersecurity News
twitter:description
The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers.

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
thehackernews.com
Valid from
Jul 22, 2026
Valid to
Oct 20, 2026
Days until expiry
80
SAN domains
thehackernews.com, *.thehackernews.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 20 · H3 0

Links

51 internal · 19 external · 20 broken

Images

52 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

16 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

13.4 KB · 59.3 KB

Page size

181 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://thehackernews.com
Final URL
https://thehackernews.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
18 ms
HTML size
181 KB
Redirect chain
https://thehackernews.com

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does thehackernews.com use?
thehackernews.com is built with Google Analytics.
Is thehackernews.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. thehackernews.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 20, 2026.
Who hosts thehackernews.com?
Hosting provider information for thehackernews.com is not available yet.
What is thehackernews.com's SEO score?
thehackernews.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is thehackernews.com's overall website score?
thehackernews.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 96/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates thehackernews.com?
thehackernews.com is operated by The Hacker News. The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec professionals and decision-makers.
Has thehackernews.com's score changed over time?
thehackernews.com's overall score has stayed steady at 96/100 since Jul 24, 2026.