What technology does sowetan.co.za use?

We did not detect any specific technologies for sowetan.co.za in the latest scan.

Is sowetan.co.za secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. sowetan.co.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 4, 2026.

Who hosts sowetan.co.za?

Hosting provider information for sowetan.co.za is not available yet.

What is sowetan.co.za's SEO score?

sowetan.co.za scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is sowetan.co.za's overall website score?

sowetan.co.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

What company operates sowetan.co.za?

sowetan.co.za is operated by Sowetan. Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.

Has sowetan.co.za's score changed over time?

sowetan.co.za's overall score has stayed steady at 86/100 since Jul 26, 2026.

sowetan.co.za

Sowetan - Your news, sport and entertainment on the move

Last scanned Aug 3, 2026, 6:00 AM · 5 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

Your news, sport and entertainment. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

Sowetan

Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.

Top issues to fix

7 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.
No H1 heading found
SEO
Add 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
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.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

574 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

0 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall: 86
SEO: 80
Security: 75
Performance: 100
Accessibility: 90

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Sowetan

Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.

Facebook X (Twitter)Instagram YouTube

Contact

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

Email: ratsatsik@arena.africa singert@arena.africa

Meta tags

Title: Sowetan - Your news, sport and entertainment on the move
Description: Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.
Canonical: https://www.sowetan.co.za/
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width,initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

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: Let's Encrypt
Subject: arenaholdings.web.arc-cdn.net
Valid from: Jun 6, 2026
Valid to: Sep 4, 2026
Days until expiry: 32
SAN domains: arenaholdings.web.arc-cdn.net, t1meslive.co.za, www.bd.co.za, www.businessday.co.za, www.dailydispatch.co.za, www.dispatch.co.za, www.financialmail.bd.co.za, www.financialmail.businessday.co.za, www.heraldonline.co.za, www.sowetan.co.za, www.sowetanonline.co.za, www.sundaytimes.timeslive.co.za, www.t1meslive.co.za, www.theherald.co.za, www.timeslive.co.za, www.wantedonline.co.za

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 27 · H3 22

Links

86 internal · 17 external · 20 broken

Images

43 total · 7 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

15 scripts · 7 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

132 KB · 32.5 KB

Page size

284 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

Scan details

Requested URL: https://sowetan.co.za
Final URL: https://www.sowetan.co.za:443/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 569 ms
HTML size: 284 KB
Redirect chain: https://sowetan.co.za → https://www.sowetan.co.za:443/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does sowetan.co.za use?: We did not detect any specific technologies for sowetan.co.za in the latest scan.
Is sowetan.co.za secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. sowetan.co.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 4, 2026.
Who hosts sowetan.co.za?: Hosting provider information for sowetan.co.za is not available yet.
What is sowetan.co.za's SEO score?: sowetan.co.za scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is sowetan.co.za's overall website score?: sowetan.co.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates sowetan.co.za?: sowetan.co.za is operated by Sowetan. Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.
Has sowetan.co.za's score changed over time?: sowetan.co.za's overall score has stayed steady at 86/100 since Jul 26, 2026.