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cao.ac.za

CAO: Home

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 1:19 PM

71

Overall score

Fair

Summary

The CAO (Central Applications Office) is a one stop shop handling applications for certificate, undergraduate diploma and bachelor degree programmes at higher education institutions in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and for study p… This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is fair (55/100) and accessibility is fair (65/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

The CAO (Central Applications Office) is a one stop shop handling applications for certificate, undergraduate diploma and bachelor degree programmes at higher education institutions in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and for study programmes at UNISA from diplomas to doctorates

Top issues to fix

15 issues found · 3 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • 1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

+9 more issues — details in the sections below.

55

SEO

7 issue(s) found

100

Performance

144 ms

65

Security

HTTPS & header checks

65

Accessibility

3 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

The CAO (Central Applications Office) is a one stop shop handling applications for certificate, undergraduate diploma and bachelor degree programmes at higher education institutions in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and for study programmes at UNISA from diplomas to doctorates

Facebook

Meta tags

Title
CAO: Home
Description
The CAO (Central Applications Office) is a one stop shop handling applications for certificate, undergraduate diploma and bachelor degree programmes at higher education institutions in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and for study programmes at UNISA from diplomas to doctorates
Canonical
Language
Charset
iso-8859-1
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
—
og:description
—
og:type
—
og:url
—

Twitter Card

twitter:card
—
twitter:title
—
twitter:description
—

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

jQueryGoogle Analytics

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
—
CDN provider
—
IP address
—
ASN
—

DNS records

TypeValue
A—
AAAA—
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME—
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.2
Issuer
Sectigo Limited
Subject
*.cao.ac.za
Valid from
Mar 10, 2026
Valid to
Mar 10, 2027
Days until expiry
225
SAN domains
*.cao.ac.za, cao.ac.za

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsMissing
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
  • Referrer-PolicyMissing
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: none · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 9 · H3 0

Links

27 internal · 10 external · 20 broken

Images

27 total · 9 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

24 scripts · 13 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

5.4 KB · 8.0 KB

Page size

85.2 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Missing canonical link
  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text
  • No H1 heading found
  • Missing <html lang> attribute

Scan details

Requested URL
https://cao.ac.za
Final URL
https://cao.ac.za
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
143 ms
HTML size
85.2 KB
Redirect chain
https://cao.ac.za

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does cao.ac.za use?
cao.ac.za is built with jQuery, Google Analytics.
Is cao.ac.za secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. cao.ac.za uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Mar 10, 2027.
Who hosts cao.ac.za?
Hosting provider information for cao.ac.za is not available yet.
What is cao.ac.za's SEO score?
cao.ac.za scored 55/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is cao.ac.za's overall website score?
cao.ac.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 71/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.