wikihow.com
wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
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.
Over half of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to images — screen readers depend on them, and they help image SEO.
3 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
Summary
Learn how to do anything with wikiHow, the world's most popular how-to website. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on Fastly. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is fair (70/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
18 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- wiki@wikihow.com
Meta tags
- Title
- wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.
- Description
- Learn how to do anything with wikiHow, the world's most popular how-to website. Easy, well-researched, and trustworthy instructions for everything you want to know.
- Canonical
- https://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width
- Robots meta
- index,follow
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Fastly
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 151.101.193.91
- ASN
- AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Subject
- *.wikihow.com
- Valid from
- Sep 21, 2025
- Valid to
- Oct 23, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 96
- SAN domains
- *.wikihow.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 3 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 4 · H3 27
Links
181 internal · 24 external · 0 broken
Images
153 total · 152 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
120 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
943 KB · 555 KB
Page size
361 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 81
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- Missing OpenGraph tags
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- Over half of images are missing alt text
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://wikihow.com
- Final URL
- https://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 11 ms
- HTML size
- 361 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://wikihow.com → https://www.wikihow.com/ → https://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does wikihow.com use?
- wikihow.com is built with Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel.
- Is wikihow.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. wikihow.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Oct 23, 2026.
- Who hosts wikihow.com?
- wikihow.com is hosted on Fastly.
- What is wikihow.com's SEO score?
- wikihow.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is wikihow.com's overall website score?
- wikihow.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is wikihow.com hiring?
- wikihow.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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