What technology does sfgate.com use?

sfgate.com is built with Next.js, Apache.

Is sfgate.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. sfgate.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Oct 7, 2026.

Who hosts sfgate.com?

Hosting provider information for sfgate.com is not available yet.

What is sfgate.com's SEO score?

sfgate.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is sfgate.com's overall website score?

sfgate.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

sfgate.com

SFGATE: San Francisco Bay Area News, Sports, Culture, Travel, Food, California Parks

Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM

Overall score

Great

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 1 high priority

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.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
3 cookies 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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEO
Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

Summary

Today's San Francisco Bay Area news, plus the latest in sports, weather, food, politics, culture, tech, Tahoe and national parks. This website uses Next.js behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

Performance

2.90 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 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.

Facebook X (Twitter)Instagram

Contact

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

Email: support.bestof@hearst.com

Meta tags

Title: SFGATE: San Francisco Bay Area News, Sports, Culture, Travel, Food, California Parks
Description: Today's San Francisco Bay Area news, plus the latest in sports, weather, food, politics, culture, tech, Tahoe and national parks.
Canonical: https://www.sfgate.com/
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta: index, follow, nocache
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Next.js Apache

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: Fastly
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: GlobalSign nv-sa
Subject: *.beaumontenterprise.com
Valid from: Sep 5, 2025
Valid to: Oct 7, 2026
Days until expiry: 81
SAN domains: *.beaumontenterprise.com, *.austinhomemag.com, *.austinmonthly.com, *.bigrapidsnews.com, *.chron.com, *.connecticutmag.com, *.countytimes.com, *.ctinsider.com, *.ctnews.com, *.ctpost.com, *.dariennewsonline.com, *.darientimes.com, *.expressnews.com, *.fairfieldcitizenonline.com, *.foothillstrader.com, *.gametimect.com, *.greenstate.com, *.greenwichtime.com, *.hdnux.com, *.hearstdigitalnews.com, *.hearstmediact.com, *.hearstmediatx.com, *.hearstnp.com, *.houstonchronicle.com, *.htvnativeadsolutions.com, *.lakecountystar.com, *.lmtonline.com, *.manisteenews.com, *.michigansthumb.com, *.middletownpress.com, *.milfordmirror.com, *.mrt.com, *.myjournalcourier.com, *.myplainview.com, *.mysanantonio.com, *.ncadvertiser.com, *.newcanaannewsonline.com, *.newmilfordspectrum.com, *.newstimes.com, *.nhregister.com, *.ourmidland.com, *.recordpatriot.com, *.registercitizen.com, *.s.hdnux.com, *.sanantoniomag.com, *.seattlepi.com, *.sfchronicle.com, *.sfgate.com, *.sheltonherald.com, *.shorelinetimes.com, *.southernctjobs.com, *.stamfordadvocate.com, *.theheraldreview.com, *.thehomemonthly.com, *.thehour.com, *.theintelligencer.com, *.theridgefieldpress.com, *.thetelegraph.com, *.timesunion.com, *.trumbulltimes.com, *.westhartfordnews.com, *.westport-news.com, *.wiltonbulletin.com, *.yourconroenews.com

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 4 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 103 · H3 0

Links

112 internal · 34 external · 1 broken

Images

66 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

68 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

617 KB · 39.0 KB

Page size

791 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

Scan details

Requested URL: https://sfgate.com
Final URL: https://www.sfgate.com/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 2.88 s
HTML size: 791 KB
Redirect chain: https://sfgate.com → https://www.sfgate.com/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does sfgate.com use?: sfgate.com is built with Next.js, Apache.
Is sfgate.com secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. sfgate.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Oct 7, 2026.
Who hosts sfgate.com?: Hosting provider information for sfgate.com is not available yet.
What is sfgate.com's SEO score?: sfgate.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is sfgate.com's overall website score?: sfgate.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.