news.ycombinator.com
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news.ycombinator.com
Scanned:
88/ 100
Score by axis
- Security92
- Performance100
- SEO50
- Reputation100
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Fix what matters first
- 1Meta description+3
Add a <meta name="description"> of roughly 50–160 characters.
- 2Image alt text+3
Most images lack alt text — add descriptive alt attributes.
- 3SPF email anti-spoofing+1
Add an TXT record (v=spf1 …) so others can't spoof email from your domain.
- 4DMARC email anti-spoofing+1
Add a TXT record at _dmarc (v=DMARC1; p=…) to control spoofed-email handling.
- 5Canonical URL+1
Add <link rel="canonical"> to avoid duplicate-content issues.
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All checks
Security
92/ 100- Pass
HTTPS & HTTP→HTTPS redirect
HTTPS available; HTTP redirects to HTTPS
- Pass
TLS certificate validity
Valid; expires in 39 days
- Pass
HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security)
Present
- Pass
Content-Security-Policy
Present
- Pass
Core security headers
All present
- Pass
Mixed content (HTTP on HTTPS)
No insecure (http://) subresources
- Warn
SPF email anti-spoofing
No record
Add an TXT record (v=spf1 …) so others can't spoof email from your domain.
- Warn
DMARC email anti-spoofing
No record
Add a TXT record at _dmarc (v=DMARC1; p=…) to control spoofed-email handling.
- Pass
Vulnerable front-end libraries
No known-vulnerable libraries detected
Performance
100/ 100- Pass
Time to First Byte
63 ms
- Pass
Text compression
Enabled (gzip)
- Pass
HTTP/2 or HTTP/3
HTTP/2.0
- Pass
Cache-Control
private; max-age=0
- Pass
Core Web Vitals (PageSpeed)
perf 100/100, 534ms, 0.00 (field)
SEO
50/ 100- Pass
Page title
Hacker News
- Fail
Meta description
Missing meta description
Add a <meta name="description"> of roughly 50–160 characters.
- Warn
Canonical URL
No canonical link
Add <link rel="canonical"> to avoid duplicate-content issues.
- Pass
robots.txt
Present and not blocking
- Warn
XML sitemap
No sitemap found
Publish a sitemap.xml and reference it from robots.txt.
- Warn
Single H1
0 H1 tag(s)
Add exactly one <h1> describing the page.
- Fail
Image alt text
0/2 images have alt (0%)
Most images lack alt text — add descriptive alt attributes.
- Warn
Structured data (JSON-LD)
No structured data
Add schema.org to enable rich results.
Infrastructure
100/ 100- N/A
CMS detection
No CMS fingerprint detected
- Pass
Web server
nginx
- N/A
CDN detection
No CDN fingerprint detected
- Pass
TLS version
TLS 1.3
- Pass
IPv6 (AAAA record)
AAAA record present
Reputation
100/ 100- N/A
Google Safe Browsing
Safe Browsing not configured
- Pass
Domain blacklist status
Not on major blocklists
- Pass
Domain age
Registered 2005-03-20 (~259 months)
- Pass
Domain expiry
Expires in 257 days
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