theintercept.com
The Intercept
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 12:33 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Excellent
Top issues to fix
4 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
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Slow estimated load (4.1s)
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robots.txt not found
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sitemap.xml not found
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Summary
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable. This website uses WordPress. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
4.13 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Intercept
- Description
- Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
- Canonical
- https://theintercept.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- theintercept.com
- Valid from
- Jun 26, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 24, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 64
- SAN domains
- theintercept.com, www.theintercept.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 14 · H3 35
Links
63 internal · 14 external · 0 broken
Images
36 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
16 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
93.6 KB · 27.5 KB
Page size
142 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://theintercept.com
- Final URL
- https://theintercept.com
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 4.13 s
- HTML size
- 142 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://theintercept.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does theintercept.com use?
- theintercept.com is built with WordPress, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is theintercept.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. theintercept.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 24, 2026.
- Who hosts theintercept.com?
- Hosting provider information for theintercept.com is not available yet.
- What is theintercept.com's SEO score?
- theintercept.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is theintercept.com's overall website score?
- theintercept.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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