thewirecutter.com
Wirecutter: New Product Reviews, Deals, and Buying Advice
Last scanned Aug 5, 2026, 12:00 PM · 5 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Wirecutter tests and reviews the best tech, appliances, gear, and more. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is good (75/100). Security scores excellent (95/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
Wirecutter tests and reviews the best tech, appliances, gear, and more. You can trust our veteran journalists, scientists, and experts to find the best stuff.
Top issues to fix
7 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.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
4 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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
412 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
2 issue(s) found
Score history
0 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 85
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 95
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 75
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Wirecutter tests and reviews the best tech, appliances, gear, and more. You can trust our veteran journalists, scientists, and experts to find the best stuff.
Meta tags
- Title
- Wirecutter: New Product Reviews, Deals, and Buying Advice
- Description
- Wirecutter tests and reviews the best tech, appliances, gear, and more. You can trust our veteran journalists, scientists, and experts to find the best stuff.
- Canonical
- https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large, noarchive
- Manifest
- https://dv-siren-prd.global.ssl.fastly.net/static/manifest.json
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
- DigiCert Inc
- Subject
- nytimes.com
- Valid from
- Feb 27, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 13, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 39
- SAN domains
- nytimes.com, www.homedelivery.nytimes.com, *.api.dev.nytimes.com, *.api.nytimes.com, *.api.stg.nytimes.com, *.blogs.nytimes.com, *.blogs.stg.nytimes.com, *.dev.nyt.com, *.dev.nyt.net, *.dev.nytimes.com, *.newsdev.nyt.net, *.newsdev.nytimes.com, *.nyt.com, *.nyt.net, *.nytco.com, *.nytimes.com, *.payflow.sbx.nytimes.com, *.sbx.nytimes.com, *.stg.newsdev.nyt.net, *.stg.newsdev.nytimes.com, *.stg.nyt.com, *.stg.nyt.net, *.stg.nytimes.com, *.timestalks.com, nyt.com, nyt.net, nytco.com, timestalks.com, *.myaccount-preview.stg.nytimes.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 4 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 7 · H3 20
Links
874 internal · 9 external · 16 broken
Images
142 total · 66 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
29 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
230 KB · 40.6 KB
Page size
573 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://thewirecutter.com
- Final URL
- https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 401 ms
- HTML size
- 573 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://thewirecutter.com → https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thewirecutter.com use?
- thewirecutter.com is built with Next.js, WordPress, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel.
- Is thewirecutter.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thewirecutter.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Sep 13, 2026.
- Who hosts thewirecutter.com?
- Hosting provider information for thewirecutter.com is not available yet.
- What is thewirecutter.com's SEO score?
- thewirecutter.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is thewirecutter.com's overall website score?
- thewirecutter.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has thewirecutter.com's score changed over time?
- thewirecutter.com's overall score has stayed steady at 85/100 since Jul 26, 2026.
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