Surface Noise

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Added July 17, 2026 · Last analysed July 17, 2026 · via · 78% unique tagline

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StackScope is a free public catalogue of indie launches. We find launches on Product Hunt, Hacker News and similar feeds, then crawl each site to detect its tech stack and score it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 17 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Surface Noise is partway there, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 17, 2026. The site is hosted on Oracle Corporation in the United States, with a domain registered 5 weeks before launch. The crawl picked up 13 technologies on this site, covering wordpress plugin, javascript library, analytics, and CMS. The stack includes WordPress, Apache, and Bluehost DNS.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 1,180 other launches.

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5.9

StackScope Score

Fair

90/100 Launch Readiness

Launch ready

0/6 Security Headers

Poor

2/3 Legal

Partial

2/2 Crawl files

Complete

94/100 Performance

Fast

Vibe Score 8 · Few AI signals

How much the site looks AI-generated. Informational pattern-match signal, not a verdict. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (13)

Infrastructure

DNS	Bluehost DNS
Server	Apache

Email marketing	MailPoet (2)

Build & Framework

CMS	WordPress (5)
Font	Google Fonts
JavaScript library	jQuery (2)
JavaScript library	Parsley.js
WordPress plugin	Kadence
	Site Kit by Google
	Yoast

Analytics & Marketing

Analytics	Google Analytics (4)
Social	ShareThis (2)
Tag management	Google Tag Manager (5)

Infrastructure

Network

ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US

AS31898 · US

DNS

Bluehost DNS

Authoritative nameserver

DNSSEC

Not enabled

DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.

Green hosting

Not green hosted

No green-energy record. Data from The Green Web Foundation.

SSL Certificate

Let's Encrypt

Valid 8 Jun 2026 to 6 Sep 2026

Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Domain Age

1 month

Registered Jun 2026 · Porkbun LLC

Email Security

✗

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.

DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.

✗

DMARC p=none None (p=none). Monitoring only.

MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.

TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (3)

Cookies (2)

Name	Lifetime	Detected as
_ga	1y	Google Analytics
_ga_F2GNB18HKL	1y	Google Analytics

Session storage (1)

Key	Size	Detected as
wpEmojiSettingsSupports	70 B	WordPress

Readiness Breakdown How?

✓ Custom title and meta description

⚠

Open Graph tags (title, image, description) (partial) missing og:image

✓ Twitter card meta tags

✓ Canonical URL declared

✓ Responsive viewport meta tag

✓ Favicon present

✓ Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

⚠

Page title is 72 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.

⚠

Meta description is 196 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 155–160 characters of the description in desktop search results (less on mobile); anything past that won't appear.

Performance How?

867 ms Server response

14% Faster than peers

1476 ms Largest contentful paint

0.00 Cumulative layout shift

927 KB Page weight

56 KB Image weight

5 Third-party domains

0 Console errors

0 Failed requests

⚠ 2 images: 1 oversized

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

Signal	Points
AI palette signals	+5
AI writing signals	+3

This score is based on structural patterns and is not definitive. Many legitimate sites may trigger signals, and AI-built sites may go undetected. It should be treated as an indicator, not a verdict.

AI Stance

No AI stance declared

✗ llms.txt published

✓ No AI bots blocked in robots.txt

Content-Signal

? No directive declared

Link headers

? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt

✓ sitemap.xml (12 URLs)

✗ security.txt

✗ llms.txt

✗ ads.txt

✗ humans.txt

Legal

✓ Privacy Policy

/privacy-policy/

? Terms of Service not detected

? Consent manager not detected

Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.

64% unique

Mentions:

GDPR Cookies DPO Do Not Sell

Security Headers (0/6)

✗

Referrer-Policy

✗

X-Frame-Options

✗

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)

✗

X-Content-Type-Options

✗

Content-Security-Policy

✗

Strict-Transport-Security

–

X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

✓ Code splitting

13 JS files

11 CSS files

5 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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