What technology does cicnews.com use?

cicnews.com is built with PHP, WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Nginx.

Is cicnews.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. cicnews.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Oct 20, 2026.

Who hosts cicnews.com?

Hosting provider information for cicnews.com is not available yet.

What is cicnews.com's SEO score?

cicnews.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is cicnews.com's overall website score?

cicnews.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

cicnews.com

CIC News | The Voice of Canadian Immigration

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 1:49 PM

Overall score

Great

Summary

CIC News is the world's most trusted Canadian immigration news website. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

CIC News is the world's most trusted Canadian immigration news website. We cover immigration to Canada, IRCC, Express Entry, visas, study and work permits, sponsorship, and more.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Security
Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
2 cookies 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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

Performance

650 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 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.

CIC News is the world's most trusted Canadian immigration news website. We cover immigration to Canada, IRCC, Express Entry, visas, study and work permits, sponsorship, and more.

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Meta tags

Title: CIC News | The Voice of Canadian Immigration
Description: CIC News is the world's most trusted Canadian immigration news website. We cover immigration to Canada, IRCC, Express Entry, visas, study and work permits, sponsorship, and more.
Canonical: https://www.cicnews.com
Language: en-US
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta: max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

PHP WordPress jQuery Google Analytics Meta Pixel Nginx

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: GlobalSign nv-sa
Subject: imperva.com
Valid from: Jul 22, 2026
Valid to: Oct 20, 2026
Days until expiry: 83
SAN domains: evaluator.canadavisa.com, cicnews.com, portal.canadavisa.com, trackit.canadavisa.com, *.cicnews.com, imperva.com

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyEnabled
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: none · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 12 · H3 0

Links

76 internal · 10 external · 20 broken

Images

101 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

31 scripts · 7 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

21.4 KB · 12.6 KB

Page size

179 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
No H1 heading found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://cicnews.com
Final URL: https://www.cicnews.com/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 647 ms
HTML size: 179 KB
Redirect chain: https://cicnews.com → https://www.cicnews.com/

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