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waitbutwhy.com

Wait But Why

Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 10:00 PM · 5 views

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.

A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • 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.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • 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.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

165 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-3 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
89
SEO
85
Security
75
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

Meta tags

Title
Wait But Why
Description
A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.
Canonical
https://waitbutwhy.com/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Homepage
og:description
A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.
og:type
website
og:url
https://waitbutwhy.com/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description
Wait But Why - Tim Urban

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
waitbutwhy.com
Valid from
Jul 29, 2026
Valid to
Oct 27, 2026
Days until expiry
85
SAN domains
waitbutwhy.com, *.waitbutwhy.com

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 2 · H2 0 · H3 11

Links

128 internal · 38 external · 20 broken

Images

64 total · 6 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

70 scripts · 18 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

25.5 KB · 22.9 KB

Page size

176 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://waitbutwhy.com
Final URL
https://waitbutwhy.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
162 ms
HTML size
176 KB
Redirect chain
https://waitbutwhy.com

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does waitbutwhy.com use?
waitbutwhy.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel.
Is waitbutwhy.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. waitbutwhy.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 27, 2026.
Who hosts waitbutwhy.com?
Hosting provider information for waitbutwhy.com is not available yet.
What is waitbutwhy.com's SEO score?
waitbutwhy.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is waitbutwhy.com's overall website score?
waitbutwhy.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has waitbutwhy.com's score changed over time?
waitbutwhy.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 92 to 89) since Jul 26, 2026.