thestranger.com
Homepage - The Stranger
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.
- United States
- Hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Love Our Arts & Culture Coverage?
$10/mo USD
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 3 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
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.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
4 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
730 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Homepage - The Stranger
- Description
- Canonical
- https://www.thestranger.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
- https://www.thestranger.com/wp-json/wp/v2/web-app-manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.0.78.24
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX |
|
| TXT | — |
| NS |
|
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- tls.automattic.com
- Valid from
- Jun 1, 2026
- Valid to
- Aug 30, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 35
- SAN domains
- tls.automattic.com, allynebetancourt.com, moldinspectioninc.com, townsenddtlintern.com, waughbjj.com, www.allynebetancourt.com, www.moldinspectioninc.com, www.thestranger.com, www.townsenddtlintern.com, www.waughbjj.com, yetchroofing.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 53 · H3 5
Links
97 internal · 22 external · 4 broken
Images
38 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
66 scripts · 18 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
400 KB · 1.3 MB
Page size
339 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Missing meta description
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Careers
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://thestranger.com
- Final URL
- https://www.thestranger.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 724 ms
- HTML size
- 339 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://thestranger.com → https://www.thestranger.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thestranger.com use?
- thestranger.com is built with WordPress, Shopify, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is thestranger.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thestranger.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Aug 30, 2026.
- Who hosts thestranger.com?
- thestranger.com is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is thestranger.com's SEO score?
- thestranger.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is thestranger.com's overall website score?
- thestranger.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does thestranger.com offer?
- thestranger.com offers Love Our Arts & Culture Coverage?.
- Is thestranger.com hiring?
- thestranger.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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