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The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Source for Cybersecurity News

Last scanned Jul 24, 2026, 10:25 PM · 1 view

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 hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (95/100) 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 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.

United States
Hosted on Cloudflare

Top issues to fix

2 issues found

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

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

  • 2 broken links on the page

    SEO

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

95

SEO

1 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.45 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 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 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

Contact

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

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
Cloudflare
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
172.67.72.95
ASN
AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 172.67.72.95
  • 104.26.10.117
  • 104.26.11.117
AAAA
  • 2606:4700:20::681a:b75
  • 2606:4700:20::681a:a75
  • 2606:4700:20::ac43:485f
MX
  • alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
  • aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
  • aspmx2.googlemail.com
  • alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
  • aspmx3.googlemail.com
  • alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
TXT
NS
  • kurt.ns.cloudflare.com
  • maria.ns.cloudflare.com
CAA
  • 0 issue "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
  • 0 issue "comodoca.com"
  • 0 issuewild "comodoca.com"
  • 0 issuewild "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
  • 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
  • 0 issue "ssl.com"
  • 0 issuewild "pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
  • 0 issuewild "letsencrypt.org"
  • 0 issuewild "ssl.com"
  • 0 issue "pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

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
87
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

50 internal · 20 external · 2 broken

Images

52 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

16 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

70.4 KB · 59.2 KB

Page size

206 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

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://thehackernews.com
Final URL
https://thehackernews.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.45 s
HTML size
206 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?
thehackernews.com is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
What is thehackernews.com's SEO score?
thehackernews.com scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
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.
Is thehackernews.com hiring?
thehackernews.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.