thewire.co.uk
The Wire - Adventures in Sound and Music
Last scanned Jul 27, 2026, 8:44 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
The world's greatest print and online music magazine. This website uses Nginx hosted on SIMPLYTRANSIT - Team Blue Carrier Limited, GB. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (85/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.
The world's greatest print and online music magazine. Independent since 1982. News, features, audio, video, shop and subscribe.
- United Kingdom
- Hosted on SIMPLYTRANSIT - Team Blue Carrier Limited, GB
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Print + digital subscription
£75 GBP
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
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.
2 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.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
556 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 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
- The Wire - Adventures in Sound and Music
- Description
- The world's greatest print and online music magazine. Independent since 1982. News, features, audio, video, shop and subscribe.
- Canonical
- https://www.thewire.co.uk
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- SIMPLYTRANSIT - Team Blue Carrier Limited, GB
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 94.76.240.81
- ASN
- AS29550 (SIMPLYTRANSIT - Team Blue Carrier Limited, GB)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX |
|
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.2
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- thewire.co.uk
- Valid from
- Jun 26, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 24, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 59
- SAN domains
- thewire.co.uk, www.thewire.co.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 3 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 112 · H2 2 · H3 6
Links
148 internal · 12 external · 0 broken
Images
91 total · 2 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
15 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.1 MB · 103 KB
Page size
145 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 96
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Multiple H1 headings found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
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://thewire.co.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.thewire.co.uk/home/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 554 ms
- HTML size
- 145 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://thewire.co.uk → https://www.thewire.co.uk/ → https://www.thewire.co.uk/home/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thewire.co.uk use?
- thewire.co.uk is built with jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is thewire.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thewire.co.uk uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 24, 2026.
- Who hosts thewire.co.uk?
- thewire.co.uk is hosted on SIMPLYTRANSIT - Team Blue Carrier Limited, GB.
- What is thewire.co.uk's SEO score?
- thewire.co.uk scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is thewire.co.uk's overall website score?
- thewire.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does thewire.co.uk offer?
- thewire.co.uk offers Print + digital subscription.
- Is thewire.co.uk hiring?
- thewire.co.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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