sowetan.co.za
Sowetan - Your news, sport and entertainment on the move
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:18 AM
Overall score
Great
Summary
Your news, sport and entertainment. This website is hosted on RELIANCEJIO-IN - Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
Sowetan
Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.
- India
- Hosted on RELIANCEJIO-IN - Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN
Top issues to fix
4 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
1.33 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Sowetan
Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
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
- RELIANCEJIO-IN - Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 49.44.50.9
- ASN
- AS55836 (RELIANCEJIO-IN - Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
|
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | Yes |
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
- 39
- 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 26 · H3 22
Links
85 internal · 18 external · 0 broken
Images
42 total · 7 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
15 scripts · 7 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
615 KB · 32.5 KB
Page size
283 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 19
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 32
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
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
- 1.32 s
- HTML size
- 283 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?
- sowetan.co.za is hosted on RELIANCEJIO-IN - Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, IN.
- What is sowetan.co.za's SEO score?
- sowetan.co.za scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- 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.
- Is sowetan.co.za hiring?
- sowetan.co.za has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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