thestrad.com
The Strad, essential reading for the string music world since 1890
Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
Since its launch in 1890, the magazine has brought its readers the best features, comment and analysis on all issues of interest to string teachers, players, students, instrument makers and enthusiasts. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on AWS. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Since its launch in 1890, the magazine has brought its readers the best features, comment and analysis on all issues of interest to string teachers, players, students, instrument makers and enthusiasts. Authoritative, trusted and influential, The Strad keeps readers informed about the latest news, groundbreaking research and techniques in all aspects of playing and making stringed instruments through its print and digital platforms.
- United States
- Hosted on AWS
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 1 high priority
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
3 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
349 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Since its launch in 1890, the magazine has brought its readers the best features, comment and analysis on all issues of interest to string teachers, players, students, instrument makers and enthusiasts. Authoritative, trusted and influential, The Strad keeps readers informed about the latest news, groundbreaking research and techniques in all aspects of playing and making stringed instruments through its print and digital platforms.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Strad, essential reading for the string music world since 1890
- Description
- Since its launch in 1890, the magazine has brought its readers the best features, comment and analysis on all issues of interest to string teachers, players, students, instrument makers and enthusiasts. Authoritative, trusted and influential, The Strad keeps readers informed about the latest news, groundbreaking research and techniques in all aspects of playing and making stringed instruments through its print and digital platforms.
- Canonical
- https://www.thestrad.com
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- noarchive
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 52.223.11.33
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.2
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- thestrad.com
- Valid from
- Jan 13, 2026
- Valid to
- Feb 11, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 170
- SAN domains
- thestrad.com, *.thestrad.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 3 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 116 · H3 17
Links
20 internal · 171 external · 0 broken
Images
130 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
42 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.7 MB · 1.1 MB
Page size
223 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 27
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No H1 heading found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://thestrad.com
- Final URL
- https://www.thestrad.com:443/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 345 ms
- HTML size
- 223 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://thestrad.com → https://www.thestrad.com:443/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thestrad.com use?
- thestrad.com is built with Django, jQuery, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel.
- Is thestrad.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thestrad.com uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Feb 11, 2027.
- Who hosts thestrad.com?
- thestrad.com is hosted on AWS.
- What is thestrad.com's SEO score?
- thestrad.com scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is thestrad.com's overall website score?
- thestrad.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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