mg.co.za
The Mail & Guardian | Africa's Better Future
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 7:00 PM · 7 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
The Mail & Guardian is a quality investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence. This website uses Next.js behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
The Mail & Guardian is a quality investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence.
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 3 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.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd 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
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.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
57 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 81
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Mail & Guardian is a quality investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Mail & Guardian | Africa's Better Future
- Description
- The Mail & Guardian is a quality investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence.
- Canonical
- https://mg.co.za/
- Language
- en-ZA
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://mg.co.za/manifest.webmanifest
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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- mg.co.za
- Valid from
- Jul 21, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 19, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 78
- SAN domains
- *.mg.co.za, mg.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 0 · H2 4 · H3 44
Links
67 internal · 9 external · 20 broken
Images
49 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
104 scripts · 7 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
350 KB · 178 B
Page size
599 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://mg.co.za
- Final URL
- https://mg.co.za
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 45 ms
- HTML size
- 599 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://mg.co.za
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does mg.co.za use?
- mg.co.za is built with Next.js, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics.
- Is mg.co.za secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. mg.co.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 19, 2026.
- Who hosts mg.co.za?
- Hosting provider information for mg.co.za is not available yet.
- What is mg.co.za's SEO score?
- mg.co.za scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is mg.co.za's overall website score?
- mg.co.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has mg.co.za's score changed over time?
- mg.co.za's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 84 to 81) since Jul 25, 2026.
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