sowetanlive.co.za
Sowetan - Your news, sport and entertainment on the move
Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM
Overall score
Great
Summary
Your news, sport and entertainment. This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is good (80/100) 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.
Top issues to fix
7 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.
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.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
1.31 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.
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
- Aug 24, 2026
- Valid to
- Nov 22, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 89
- 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.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
86 internal · 17 external · 4 broken
Images
44 total · 8 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
43 scripts · 8 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
131 KB · 40.9 KB
Page size
280 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
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://sowetanlive.co.za
- Final URL
- https://www.sowetan.co.za/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.31 s
- HTML size
- 280 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://sowetanlive.co.za → https://www.sowetan.co.za/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does sowetanlive.co.za use?
- sowetanlive.co.za is built with Google Analytics, Meta Pixel.
- Is sowetanlive.co.za secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. sowetanlive.co.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 22, 2026.
- Who hosts sowetanlive.co.za?
- Hosting provider information for sowetanlive.co.za is not available yet.
- What is sowetanlive.co.za's SEO score?
- sowetanlive.co.za scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is sowetanlive.co.za's overall website score?
- sowetanlive.co.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates sowetanlive.co.za?
- sowetanlive.co.za is operated by Sowetan. Your news, sport and entertainment. In the know, on the move.
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