votesmart.org
Vote Smart
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Fair
Summary
Vote Smart provides free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans. This website uses Next.js hosted on AWS behind Vercel CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is fair (70/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (85/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.
Vote Smart provides free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans.
- United States
- Hosted on AWS
Top issues to fix
9 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Over half of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to images — screen readers depend on them, and they help image SEO.
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.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
31 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Vote Smart provides free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans.
Meta tags
- Title
- Vote Smart
- Description
- Vote Smart provides free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans.
- Canonical
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
- Robots meta
- max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
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
- www.votesmart.org
- Valid from
- Jun 17, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 15, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 51
- SAN domains
- www.votesmart.org
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 1 · H2 5 · H3 0
Links
2 internal · 20 external · 15 broken
Images
5 total · 5 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
34 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.7 MB · 125 KB
Page size
156 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing canonical link
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- Over half of images are missing alt text
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://votesmart.org
- Final URL
- https://www.votesmart.org/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 28 ms
- HTML size
- 156 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://votesmart.org → https://www.votesmart.org/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does votesmart.org use?
- votesmart.org is built with Next.js, Google Analytics, TikTok Pixel.
- Is votesmart.org secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. votesmart.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 15, 2026.
- Who hosts votesmart.org?
- votesmart.org is hosted on AWS, behind Vercel CDN.
- What is votesmart.org's SEO score?
- votesmart.org scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is votesmart.org's overall website score?
- votesmart.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 77/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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