What technology does polity.org.za use?

polity.org.za is built with PHP, Google Analytics.

Is polity.org.za secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. polity.org.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 8, 2026.

Who hosts polity.org.za?

Hosting provider information for polity.org.za is not available yet.

What is polity.org.za's SEO score?

polity.org.za scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is polity.org.za's overall website score?

polity.org.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 79/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

polity.org.za

News | South African | African | International | Videos

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM · 3 views

Overall score

Fair

Summary

Polity.org.za offers a unique take on news, with a focus on political, legal, economic and social issues in South Africa and Africa, as well as international affairs. This website uses Google Analytics behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Polity.org.za offers a unique take on news, with a focus on political, legal, economic and social issues in South Africa and Africa, as well as international affairs. Polity strives to provide our readers reliable and objective reporting on important issu

Top issues to fix

11 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.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
Security
Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
1 cookie 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.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

+5 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

5 issue(s) found

Performance

1.60 s

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.

LinkedIn Instagram YouTube X (Twitter)Facebook

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Email: advertising@creamermedia.co.za subscriptions@creamermedia.co.za

Meta tags

Title: News | South African | African | International | Videos
Description: Polity.org.za offers a unique take on news, with a focus on political, legal, economic and social issues in South Africa and Africa, as well as international affairs. Polity strives to provide our readers reliable and objective reporting on important issu
Canonical
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

PHP Google Analytics

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: polity.org.za
Valid from: Aug 9, 2026
Valid to: Nov 8, 2026
Days until expiry: 75
SAN domains: polity.org.za, *.polity.org.za

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 49 · H3 17

Links

100 internal · 18 external · 20 broken

Images

44 total · 17 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

48 scripts · 6 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

19.2 KB · 6.4 KB

Page size

116 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
Missing canonical link
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://polity.org.za
Final URL: https://www.polity.org.za
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.60 s
HTML size: 116 KB
Redirect chain: https://polity.org.za → https://www.polity.org.za

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