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arstechnica.com

Security, TLS & performance report · checked 2026-11-01T04:24:57Z · category: news

Security headers: B 83/100 (rank #82 of 461) · TLS: TLSv1.2 · Cert expires in 68 days (rank #188 of 459 soonest) · Response: 332.5 ms (rank #302 of 446)

Certificate valid for 68 more days (until Jan 8 23:59:59 2027 GMT).

TLS certificate

Field	Value
Issuer	Amazon
Subject CN	*.arstechnica.com
Valid until	Jan 8 23:59:59 2027 GMT
Days left	68
TLS version	TLSv1.2
SAN entries	2

Security headers (83/100, grade B)

Header	Status
`strict-transport-security`	max-age=2592000
`content-security-policy`	default-src https: data: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; child-src https: data: blob:; conn
`x-frame-options`	SAMEORIGIN
`x-content-type-options`	nosniff
`permissions-policy`	local-network-access=()
`referrer-policy`	missing

Availability & performance

Field	Value
Availability	100% (3/3 probes)
Avg response	332.5 ms
Fastest / slowest	318.5 / 355.3 ms
HTTP status	200 (https)
Server	n/a

DNS & robots.txt

Field	Value
A records	3.128.8.29, 3.13.112.100
Nameservers	n/a
MX records	5
robots.txt	present (1 sitemap refs, 34 disallow rules)

How arstechnica.com compares

Site	Headers	Score	Cert days left	ms
theguardian.com	A	100	124	501.1
techcrunch.com	A	100	40	82.5
politico.com	A	100	124	300.6
gizmodo.com	A	100	43	266.6
apnews.com	B	83	74	29.3
economist.com	B	83	69	51.9
forbes.com	B	83	195	22.6
ft.com	B	83	193	71.7

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