the-star.co.ke
The Star
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 8:00 AM · 8 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
The Star brings you breaking news, developing stories, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, sports and much more from Kenya and around the world, throughout the day. This website uses Next.js behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
The Star brings you breaking news, developing stories, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, sports and much more from Kenya and around the world, throughout the day.
Top issues to fix
10 issues found · 3 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
+4 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
1.75 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-2 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 74
- SEO
- 65
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 80
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Star brings you breaking news, developing stories, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, sports and much more from Kenya and around the world, throughout the day.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Star
- Description
- The Star brings you breaking news, developing stories, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, sports and much more from Kenya and around the world, throughout the day.
- Canonical
- https://www.the-star.co.ke
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow
- Manifest
- https://the-star.co.ke/manifest.webmanifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- 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
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- the-star.co.ke
- Valid from
- Jun 12, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 10, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 38
- SAN domains
- the-star.co.ke, *.the-star.co.ke
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 2 · H3 1
Links
110 internal · 8 external · 20 broken
Images
37 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
68 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
248 KB · 1.1 KB
Page size
347 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No H1 heading found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://the-star.co.ke
- Final URL
- https://the-star.co.ke
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.75 s
- HTML size
- 347 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://the-star.co.ke
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does the-star.co.ke use?
- the-star.co.ke is built with Next.js, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics, Google Ads.
- Is the-star.co.ke secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. the-star.co.ke uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 10, 2026.
- Who hosts the-star.co.ke?
- Hosting provider information for the-star.co.ke is not available yet.
- What is the-star.co.ke's SEO score?
- the-star.co.ke scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is the-star.co.ke's overall website score?
- the-star.co.ke has an overall SiteGraph score of 74/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has the-star.co.ke's score changed over time?
- the-star.co.ke's overall score has declined by 2 points (from 76 to 74) since Jul 26, 2026.
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