washingtonblade.com
Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News
Last scanned Aug 3, 2026, 4:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
The oldest LGBTQ newspaper in the U.S. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
The oldest LGBTQ newspaper in the U.S. covering the latest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news in Washington, DC and around the world.
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
1.32 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
0 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 79
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 70
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The oldest LGBTQ newspaper in the U.S. covering the latest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news in Washington, DC and around the world.
Meta tags
- Title
- Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News
- Description
- The oldest LGBTQ newspaper in the U.S. covering the latest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news in Washington, DC and around the world.
- Canonical
- https://www.washingtonblade.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- 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
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- washingtonblade.com
- Valid from
- Jul 22, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 20, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 77
- SAN domains
- washingtonblade.com, *.washingtonblade.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- 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 84 · H3 2
Links
150 internal · 8 external · 20 broken
Images
217 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
105 scripts · 15 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
152 KB · 51.0 KB
Page size
497 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://washingtonblade.com
- Final URL
- https://www.washingtonblade.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.31 s
- HTML size
- 497 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://washingtonblade.com → https://www.washingtonblade.com/
See something wrong on this report? Request a correction
Related websites
Same technology stack
rbj.net
Rochester Business Journal
steelersdepot.com
Steelers Depot - Steelers News Blog
mangaforfree.com
Read Manga and Manhwa Free
right2vote.in
India's Best and Government Approved Online Voting Website
athemeart.com
Userfriendly Enterprise Grade WordPress Themes & Plugins
lpzoo.org
Wildlife Experience in the Heart of Chicago | Lincoln Park Zoo
Frequently asked questions
- What technology does washingtonblade.com use?
- washingtonblade.com is built with WordPress, WooCommerce, Bootstrap, jQuery, Google Analytics.
- Is washingtonblade.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. washingtonblade.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 20, 2026.
- Who hosts washingtonblade.com?
- Hosting provider information for washingtonblade.com is not available yet.
- What is washingtonblade.com's SEO score?
- washingtonblade.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is washingtonblade.com's overall website score?
- washingtonblade.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 79/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has washingtonblade.com's score changed over time?
- washingtonblade.com's overall score has stayed steady at 79/100 since Jul 26, 2026.
OpenGraph & Twitter Card
OpenGraph
Twitter Card