smh.com.au
Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 10 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. This website uses Google Ads behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.
Top issues to fix
4 issues found
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.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
185 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+7 overall since Jul 18, 2026
- Overall
- 91
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 100
- Performance
- 80
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au
- Description
- Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.
- Canonical
- https://www.smh.com.au/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
- Robots meta
- noarchive,noodp,index
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
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 1.2
- Issuer
- Sectigo Limited
- Subject
- nine.com.au
- Valid from
- Jun 19, 2026
- Valid to
- Jan 3, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 158
- SAN domains
- nine.com.au, *.2ue.com.au, *.4bh.com.au, *.9pub.io, *.addelivery.com.au, *.adonline.com.au, *.advertisers.com.au, *.afr.com, *.brisbanetimes.com.au, *.cdn.ninetech.dev, *.comms-test.afr.com, *.comms-test.brisbanetimes.com.au, *.comms-test.smh.com.au, *.comms-test.theage.com.au, *.comms-test.watoday.com.au, *.comms.afr.com, *.comms.brisbanetimes.com.au, *.comms.smh.com.au, *.comms.theage.com.au, *.comms.watoday.com.au, *.dev.9pub.io, *.dev.nine.com.au, *.dev.platform.ink, *.f2.com.au, *.fairfax.com.au, *.fairfaxapi.com.au, *.fairfaxmedia.com.au, *.ffx.io, *.ffxblue.com.au, *.goodfood.com.au, *.goodfoodmonth.com, *.magic1278.com.au, *.myfairfax.com.au, *.nine.com.au, *.ninetech.dev, *.notifications.afr.com, *.platform.ink, *.smh.com.au, *.staging.9pub.io, *.staging.nine.com.au, *.staging.platform.ink, *.test.9pub.io, *.test.nine.com.au, *.test.platform.ink, *.theage.com.au, *.watoday.com.au, 2ue.com.au, 4bh.com.au, addelivery.com.au, adonline.com.au, afr.com, brisbanetimes.com.au, magic1278.com.au, smh.com.au, theage.com.au, watoday.com.au
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 27 · H3 117
Links
287 internal · 41 external · 20 broken
Images
98 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
21 scripts · 0 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
661 KB · 239 KB
Page size
1.2 MB
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://smh.com.au
- Final URL
- https://www.smh.com.au/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 160 ms
- HTML size
- 1.2 MB
- Redirect chain
- https://smh.com.au → https://www.smh.com.au/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does smh.com.au use?
- smh.com.au is built with Google Ads.
- Is smh.com.au secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. smh.com.au uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Jan 3, 2027.
- Who hosts smh.com.au?
- Hosting provider information for smh.com.au is not available yet.
- What is smh.com.au's SEO score?
- smh.com.au scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is smh.com.au's overall website score?
- smh.com.au has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has smh.com.au's score changed over time?
- smh.com.au's overall score has improved by 7 points (from 84 to 91) since Jul 18, 2026.
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