iol.co.za
IOL | Breaking News, Business, Sports & Lifestyle from South Africa
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 3:00 PM · 9 views
Overall score
Great
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 behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
IOL
Stay informed with IOL your trusted news outlet covering stories in South Africa: politics, crime, business, tech, culture, sports, lifestyle & more
Top issues to fix
8 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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
709 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+1 overall since Jul 21, 2026
- Overall
- 84
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
IOL
Stay informed with IOL your trusted news outlet covering stories in South Africa: politics, crime, business, tech, culture, sports, lifestyle & more
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
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- 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
- iol.co.za
- Valid from
- Jul 8, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 6, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 68
- 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
135 internal · 7 external · 20 broken
Images
5 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
53 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
382 KB · 0 B
Page size
617 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- robots.txt not found
- 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
- 697 ms
- HTML size
- 617 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?
- Hosting provider information for iol.co.za is not available yet.
- What is iol.co.za's SEO score?
- iol.co.za scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is iol.co.za's overall website score?
- iol.co.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates iol.co.za?
- iol.co.za is operated by IOL. Stay informed with IOL your trusted news outlet covering stories in South Africa: politics, crime, business, tech, culture, sports, lifestyle & more
- Has iol.co.za's score changed over time?
- iol.co.za's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 83 to 84) since Jul 21, 2026.
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