usatoday.com
USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 11:00 AM · 17 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos. This website uses Google Ads. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
USA TODAY
USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
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.
10 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.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
135 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 15, 2026
- Overall
- 92
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 100
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
USA TODAY
USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
Meta tags
- Title
- USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today
- Description
- USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
- Canonical
- https://www.usatoday.com
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1
- Robots meta
- NOODP, NOYDIR, max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- usatoday.com
- Valid from
- Jun 3, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 1, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 33
- SAN domains
- *.app.com, *.azcentral.com, *.cincinnati.com, *.desmoinesregister.com, *.detroitnews.com, *.freep.com, *.gannett-cdn.com, *.gannettdigital.com, *.gcion.com, *.indystar.com, *.jsonline.com, *.northjersey.com, *.tennessean.com, *.usatoday.com, *.usatodaynetworkservice.com, app.com, azcentral.com, cincinnati.com, desmoinesregister.com, detroitnews.com, freep.com, gannett-cdn.com, gannettdigital.com, gcion.com, indystar.com, jsonline.com, northjersey.com, tennessean.com, usatoday.com, usatodaynetworkservice.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 10 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0
Links
77 internal · 60 external · 20 broken
Images
18 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
8 scripts · 0 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
147 KB · 26.4 KB
Page size
237 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
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://usatoday.com
- Final URL
- https://www.usatoday.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 131 ms
- HTML size
- 237 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://usatoday.com → https://www.usatoday.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does usatoday.com use?
- usatoday.com is built with Google Ads.
- Is usatoday.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. usatoday.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 1, 2026.
- Who hosts usatoday.com?
- Hosting provider information for usatoday.com is not available yet.
- What is usatoday.com's SEO score?
- usatoday.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is usatoday.com's overall website score?
- usatoday.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates usatoday.com?
- usatoday.com is operated by USA TODAY. USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
- Has usatoday.com's score changed over time?
- usatoday.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 95 to 92) since Jul 15, 2026.
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