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Wirecutter: New Product Reviews, Deals, and Buying Advice

Last scanned Aug 5, 2026, 12:00 PM · 5 views

85

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

    SEO

    Add 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

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • 4 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

    Accessibility

    Add alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

80

SEO

3 issue(s) found

90

Performance

412 ms

95

Security

HTTPS & header checks

75

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

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Wirecutter: New Product Reviews, Deals, and Buying Advice
og: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.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

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.