reddit.com

Last checked 1d ago · 24 issues found

55Overall

51Speed

58SEO

94Security

15AI readiness

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Speed 4 to fix

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Largest Contentful Paint
5.1 s
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Total Blocking Time
920 ms
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Mobile performance score
51/100 on Google PageSpeed (mobile)
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Avoid multiple page redirects
Potential saving about 0.8s
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Reduce unused JavaScript
Potential saving about 0.5s
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Desktop performance score
74/100 on Google PageSpeed (desktop)
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Server response time
Homepage started responding in 38 ms.
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Cumulative Layout Shift
0.001

SEO 9 to fix

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Meta description
No meta description.
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One H1 heading
0 H1 tag(s) found.
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Social share tags
Missing: og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type
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Enough content on the page
1 words of visible text.
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Missing pages return 404
A made-up URL returns 200 instead of 404, so search engines can index endless empty pages (soft 404s).
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XML sitemap
No valid sitemap at https://www.reddit.com/sitemap.xml.
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Title tag
"Reddit" (6 chars)
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Canonical URL
No canonical link tag.
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X (Twitter) card tags
No twitter:card tag, so links shared on X show without a large preview.
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Inner pages
Fewer than 2 inner pages could be read from the homepage links and sitemap, so only the homepage was graded.
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Homepage returns 200
HTTP 200
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Page can be indexed
No noindex directive.
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Language declared
lang="en"
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Mobile viewport
Viewport meta tag present.
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Image alt text
No images on the page.
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Short redirect chain
http://reddit.com/ takes 2 redirect(s): 301 → https://reddit.com/, 301 → https://www.reddit.com/
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Character encoding
Charset declared in the HTML.
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Favicon
Favicon found.
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www and non-www go to one address
reddit.com redirects to www.reddit.com.
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robots.txt
Found at /robots.txt.
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No broken internal links
Checked 0 internal links from the homepage.
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Accessibility
93/100 on Google Lighthouse
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Best practices
96/100 on Google Lighthouse

Security 2 to fix

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Referrer-Policy
No referrer-policy header.
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Permissions-Policy
No permissions-policy header.
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Served over HTTPS
The homepage loads over HTTPS.
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HTTP redirects to HTTPS
http:// returns 301 to HTTPS.
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HSTS header
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains
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Content Security Policy
content-security-policy: default-src 'none'; script-src 'nonce-68eb4d4f-b538-4c19-aa95-9e1fee570dc6'; style-src 'unsafe-inline'; img-src https://
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Clickjacking protection
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
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X-Content-Type-Options
x-content-type-options: nosniff
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No mixed content
All resources load over HTTPS.
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Server software not exposed
No software versions in response headers.
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Cookies set securely
1 cookie(s) set on the homepage, all with the Secure flag.
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SPF record (email spoofing)
v=spf1 include:spf0.reddit.com -all
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DMARC policy (email spoofing)
Policy is p=reject: v=DMARC1; p=reject; fo=1; ruf=mailto:reddit@us.cp-dmarc.com; rua=mailto:reddit@us.cp-dmarc.com

AI readiness 9 to fix

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AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt
robots.txt blocks: gptbot, oai-searchbot, chatgpt-user, claudebot, perplexitybot, google-extended
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AI crawlers not blocked by firewall
Blocked: GPTBot (403), ClaudeBot (429)
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Content readable without JavaScript
1 words in the raw HTML. Most AI crawlers don't run JavaScript.
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Content split into headed sections
0 H2/H3 headings in the raw HTML. Answer engines lift passages section by section, using the heading to know what each one is about.
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Structured data (schema.org)
No JSON-LD structured data.
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llms.txt file
No /llms.txt file.
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Answers real questions
No question-style headings or FAQ schema on the 1 page(s) read. AI answers are built from pages that state a question and answer it directly.
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Content shows when it was updated
No lastmod dates in the sitemap and no dateModified on the homepage, so crawlers can't tell how current the content is.
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Clear page summary
AI answers often reuse your title and meta description to describe you.
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NIST, MITRE and CISA citations resolve
No NIST, MITRE or CISA links found on the homepage and 0 linked content pages and posts. Only scored on sites that cite them.

Domain all good

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Domain age
Registered 2005-04-29 (21 years ago).
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Registrar
MarkMonitor Inc.
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Hosting network
Fastly, Inc. (151.101.65.140)