washingtoncitypaper.com
Washington City Paper: The Free Source for Local News in D.C.
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 12:00 PM · 6 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
In depth reporting on D.C.'s local news, arts, culture, and more. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
In depth reporting on D.C.'s local news, arts, culture, and more. Stay connected with things to do in, and around, D.C.
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 1 high priority
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.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
377 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+3 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 87
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
In depth reporting on D.C.'s local news, arts, culture, and more. Stay connected with things to do in, and around, D.C.
Meta tags
- Title
- Washington City Paper: The Free Source for Local News in D.C.
- Description
- In depth reporting on D.C.'s local news, arts, culture, and more. Stay connected with things to do in, and around, D.C.
- Canonical
- https://washingtoncitypaper.com/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
- https://washingtoncitypaper.com/wp-json/wp/v2/web-app-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
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- tls.automattic.com
- Valid from
- Jun 9, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 7, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 35
- SAN domains
- tls.automattic.com, aics.com, childrenofvietnam.org, dbs.tde.mybluehost.me, energysavingawards.co.uk, ganjadepotokc.com, greenoakexteriors.com, levintirecenter.com, localpropertybuyer.co.uk, lugnutzautomotivellc.com, markbandylaw.com, olavkin.com, oldbethpagevillagerestoration.org, pages.greenoakexteriors.com, sanjadulislam.link, thekartrite.com, toyotasansebastian.com, uddercomfort.com, washingtoncitypaper.com, www.bluemoonwater.com, www.energysavingawards.co.uk, www.ganjadepotokc.com, www.jesshobbs.com, www.levintirecenter.com, www.lugnutzautomotivellc.com, www.olavkin.com, www.sanjadulislam.link, www.toyotasansebastian.com, www.uddercomfort.com, www.worldofwhirlpool.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 1 · H2 44 · H3 5
Links
122 internal · 19 external · 20 broken
Images
25 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
89 scripts · 20 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
45.2 KB · 68.0 KB
Page size
344 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://washingtoncitypaper.com
- Final URL
- https://washingtoncitypaper.com
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 370 ms
- HTML size
- 344 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://washingtoncitypaper.com
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does washingtoncitypaper.com use?
- washingtoncitypaper.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Nginx.
- Is washingtoncitypaper.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. washingtoncitypaper.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 7, 2026.
- Who hosts washingtoncitypaper.com?
- Hosting provider information for washingtoncitypaper.com is not available yet.
- What is washingtoncitypaper.com's SEO score?
- washingtoncitypaper.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is washingtoncitypaper.com's overall website score?
- washingtoncitypaper.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has washingtoncitypaper.com's score changed over time?
- washingtoncitypaper.com's overall score has improved by 3 points (from 84 to 87) since Jul 26, 2026.
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