What technology does votesmart.org use?

votesmart.org is built with Next.js.

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?

Hosting provider information for votesmart.org is not available yet.

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 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has votesmart.org's score changed over time?

votesmart.org's overall score has improved by 3 points (from 77 to 80) since Jul 26, 2026.

votesmart.org

Vote Smart

Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 10:00 AM · 6 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

Vote Smart provides free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans. This website uses Next.js behind Vercel CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is fair (70/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

Vote Smart provides free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans.

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Over half of images are missing alt text
Accessibility
Add alt attributes to images — screen readers depend on them, and they help image SEO.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
Security
Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

25 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+3 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall: 80
SEO: 75
Security: 75
Performance: 100
Accessibility: 70

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.

X (Twitter)Facebook

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.

Next.js

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: Vercel
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: www.votesmart.org
Valid from: Jun 17, 2026
Valid to: Sep 15, 2026
Days until expiry: 44
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 · 20 broken

Images

5 total · 5 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

24 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

674 B · 96.5 KB

Page size

157 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

Scan details

Requested URL: https://votesmart.org
Final URL: https://www.votesmart.org/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 22 ms
HTML size: 157 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.
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?: Hosting provider information for votesmart.org is not available yet.
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 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has votesmart.org's score changed over time?: votesmart.org's overall score has improved by 3 points (from 77 to 80) since Jul 26, 2026.

Top issues to fix

Score history

Organization

Meta tags

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

Technologies

Hosting & CDN

DNS records

TLS / SSL certificate

Security headers

Content & assets

Robots.txt & Sitemap

SEO issues

Accessibility issues

Scan details

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