sabcnews.com
Official SABC News - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM
Overall score
Fair
Summary
TOP STORIES LATEST NEWS LIVE BLOG LATEST NEWS MUST WATCH SOUTH AFRICA WEATHER POLITICS BUSINESS SPORT MOST READ AFRICA WORLD NEWS. This website uses WordPress. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
TOP STORIES LATEST NEWS LIVE BLOG LATEST NEWS MUST WATCH SOUTH AFRICA WEATHER POLITICS BUSINESS SPORT MOST READ AFRICA WORLD NEWS
Top issues to fix
10 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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
+4 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
3.78 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
TOP STORIES LATEST NEWS LIVE BLOG LATEST NEWS MUST WATCH SOUTH AFRICA WEATHER POLITICS BUSINESS SPORT MOST READ AFRICA WORLD NEWS
Meta tags
- Title
- Official SABC News - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.
- Description
- TOP STORIES LATEST NEWS LIVE BLOG LATEST NEWS MUST WATCH SOUTH AFRICA WEATHER POLITICS BUSINESS SPORT MOST READ AFRICA WORLD NEWS
- Canonical
- https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- follow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
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
- DigiCert Inc
- Subject
- www.sabcnews.com
- Valid from
- May 26, 2026
- Valid to
- Dec 10, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 134
- SAN domains
- www.sabcnews.com, sabcnews.com, www.sabcnews.co.za, sabcnews.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 28 · H3 3
Links
52 internal · 19 external · 20 broken
Images
42 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
63 scripts · 37 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
106 KB · 287 KB
Page size
530 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
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://sabcnews.com
- Final URL
- https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 3.77 s
- HTML size
- 530 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://sabcnews.com → http://sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ → https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does sabcnews.com use?
- sabcnews.com is built with WordPress, Bootstrap, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is sabcnews.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. sabcnews.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Dec 10, 2026.
- Who hosts sabcnews.com?
- Hosting provider information for sabcnews.com is not available yet.
- What is sabcnews.com's SEO score?
- sabcnews.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is sabcnews.com's overall website score?
- sabcnews.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 74/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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