cheknews.ca
CHEK News - Independent, employee-owned.
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 1:19 PM
Overall score
Great
Summary
Breaking news, local stories, weather, sports and events on Vancouver Island. This website uses WordPress. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.
Breaking news, local stories, weather, sports and events on Vancouver Island. Based in Victoria, BC with bureaus in Nanaimo and Comox Valley.
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
346 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Breaking news, local stories, weather, sports and events on Vancouver Island. Based in Victoria, BC with bureaus in Nanaimo and Comox Valley.
Meta tags
- Title
- CHEK News - Independent, employee-owned.
- Description
- Breaking news, local stories, weather, sports and events on Vancouver Island. Based in Victoria, BC with bureaus in Nanaimo and Comox Valley.
- Canonical
- https://cheknews.ca/
- Language
- en-CA
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
- https://cheknews.ca/wp-json/wp/v2/web-app-manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- tls.automattic.com
- Valid from
- Jul 17, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 15, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 78
- SAN domains
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Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 60 · H3 5
Links
124 internal · 25 external · 20 broken
Images
52 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
73 scripts · 18 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
40.5 KB · 70.8 KB
Page size
441 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://cheknews.ca
- Final URL
- https://cheknews.ca
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 337 ms
- HTML size
- 441 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://cheknews.ca
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does cheknews.ca use?
- cheknews.ca is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is cheknews.ca secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. cheknews.ca uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 15, 2026.
- Who hosts cheknews.ca?
- Hosting provider information for cheknews.ca is not available yet.
- What is cheknews.ca's SEO score?
- cheknews.ca scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is cheknews.ca's overall website score?
- cheknews.ca has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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