sciencenews.org
sciencenews.org is ranked #8,600 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 69 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Jan 18, 1996, 30 years, 8 months ago, through Network Solutions, LLC, and is paid up until Jan 19, 2027. Its homepage uses WordPress, Google Tag Manager, Google AdSense and Stripe. It is served through Cloudflare.
Popularity rank
#8,600 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #7,835.
Domain registration
- Registered
- Jan 18, 1996 (30 years, 8 months ago)
- Expires
- Jan 19, 2027
- Registrar
- Network Solutions, LLC
- Name servers
bjorn.ns.cloudflare.com,ryleigh.ns.cloudflare.com- DNSSEC
- Not signed
From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 7, 2026.
Technology stack
Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.
Homepage SEO check
Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.
20 passed · 3 warnings · 0 failed
Content
- ✓Title56 characters
- ✓Meta description139 characters
- ✓H1 headingExactly one H1
- ✓Subheadings14 H2 headings
- ✓Image alt textAll 32 images have alt text
- ✓Content lengthAbout 1,627 words
Indexing
- ✓IndexableNo noindex directive
- ✓Canonical URLhttps://www.sciencenews.org
- ✓robots.txtFound
- ✓XML sitemapFound
- ✓Language attributeen-US
- ✓Structured dataOrganization, WebSite, CollectionPage
Social sharing
- ✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
- ✓Twitter / X cardsummary_large_image
Technical
- ✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
- ✓Mobile viewportFound
- ✓FaviconFound
- ✓Character encodingUTF-8
Security headers
- !Strict-Transport-SecurityNot set
- ✓Content-Security-PolicySet
- ✓Clickjacking protectionSet
- !X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
- !Referrer-PolicyNot set
Server response
- Final URL
https://www.sciencenews.org/- HTTP status
- 200
- Server
cloudflare- Response time
- 221 ms (first byte 207 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
- HTML size
- 831 KB
- Compression
- br
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Questions about sciencenews.org
How popular is sciencenews.org?
sciencenews.org is #8,600 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.
How old is sciencenews.org?
sciencenews.org was registered on Jan 18, 1996, which makes the domain 30 years, 8 months old.
What is sciencenews.org built with?
We detected WordPress, Google Tag Manager, Google AdSense, Stripe and Cloudflare on its homepage.
Who is the registrar of sciencenews.org?
Network Solutions, LLC, according to the registry's RDAP record.