westword.com
Denver Westword | The Leading Independent News Source in Denver, Colorado
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 2 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Original reporting and compelling writing on local news, restaurants, arts and culture have made Denver Westword a vital resource since 1977. This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Original reporting and compelling writing on local news, restaurants, arts and culture have made Denver Westword a vital resource since 1977.
- United States
- Hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
Top issues to fix
6 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.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
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.
3 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
1.02 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Original reporting and compelling writing on local news, restaurants, arts and culture have made Denver Westword a vital resource since 1977.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Denver Westword | The Leading Independent News Source in Denver, Colorado
- Description
- Original reporting and compelling writing on local news, restaurants, arts and culture have made Denver Westword a vital resource since 1977.
- Canonical
- https://www.westword.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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.0.66.89
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
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
- westword.com
- Valid from
- Jul 22, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 20, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 86
- SAN domains
- westword.com, www.westword.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 0 · H2 8 · H3 82
Links
138 internal · 24 external · 3 broken
Images
48 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
31 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
579 KB · 105 KB
Page size
256 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 1
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://westword.com
- Final URL
- https://www.westword.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.01 s
- HTML size
- 256 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://westword.com → https://www.westword.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does westword.com use?
- westword.com is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is westword.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. westword.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 20, 2026.
- Who hosts westword.com?
- westword.com is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is westword.com's SEO score?
- westword.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is westword.com's overall website score?
- westword.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is westword.com hiring?
- westword.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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