iol.co.za
IOL | Breaking News, Business, Sports & Lifestyle from South Africa
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
Summary
Stay informed with IOL your trusted news outlet covering stories in South Africa: politics, crime, business, tech, culture, sports, lifestyle & more. This website uses Next.js hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
2.87 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- IOL | Breaking News, Business, Sports & Lifestyle from South Africa
- Description
- Stay informed with IOL your trusted news outlet covering stories in South Africa: politics, crime, business, tech, culture, sports, lifestyle & more
- Canonical
- https://iol.co.za/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://iol.co.za/manifest.json
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Cloudflare
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- 172.66.168.156
- ASN
- AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
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| MX |
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| TXT |
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| NS |
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| CAA |
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| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- iol.co.za
- Valid from
- Jul 8, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 6, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 76
- SAN domains
- iol.co.za, mandela-day.iol.co.za, *.mandela-day.iol.co.za
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- 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 0 · H3 0
Links
137 internal · 8 external · 0 broken
Images
5 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
52 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
417 KB · 88 B
Page size
686 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 30
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://iol.co.za
- Final URL
- https://iol.co.za
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.86 s
- HTML size
- 686 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://iol.co.za
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does iol.co.za use?
- iol.co.za is built with Next.js, Cloudflare Analytics.
- Is iol.co.za secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. iol.co.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 6, 2026.
- Who hosts iol.co.za?
- iol.co.za is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
- What is iol.co.za's SEO score?
- iol.co.za scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is iol.co.za's overall website score?
- iol.co.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates iol.co.za?
- iol.co.za is operated by IOL.
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