thecountry.co.nz
NZ Rural News & Farming Insights - The Country - NZ Herald - NZ Herald
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 10:00 PM · 14 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
Explore the latest in New Zealand's farming and rural news with The Country. This website uses Google Ads. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance poor (45/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Explore the latest in New Zealand's farming and rural news with The Country. Stay informed on agricultural trends, rural issues, and insights from NZ Herald.
Top issues to fix
10 issues found · 2 high priority
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.
Slow estimated load (4.2s)
PerformanceUse a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
TLS certificate expires in 19 days
SecurityRenew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
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.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
+4 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
4.23 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-6 overall since Jul 22, 2026
- Overall
- 73
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 85
- Performance
- 45
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Explore the latest in New Zealand's farming and rural news with The Country. Stay informed on agricultural trends, rural issues, and insights from NZ Herald.
Meta tags
- Title
- NZ Rural News & Farming Insights - The Country - NZ Herald - NZ Herald
- Description
- Explore the latest in New Zealand's farming and rural news with The Country. Stay informed on agricultural trends, rural issues, and insights from NZ Herald.
- Canonical
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/
- Language
- en-NZ
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, NOODP, noarchive, max-image-preview:large
- 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
- nzme.web.arc-cdn.net
- Valid from
- May 20, 2026
- Valid to
- Aug 18, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 19
- SAN domains
- beta.nzherald.co.nz, dev.businessdesk.co.nz, dev.nzherald.co.nz, m.nzherald.co.nz, nzme.web.arc-cdn.net, play-fusion.nzherald.co.nz, play.businessdesk.co.nz, play.nzherald.co.nz, pre-prod.businessdesk.co.nz, prod.businessdesk.co.nz, staging.businessdesk.co.nz, staging.nzherald.co.nz, www-fusion.nzherald.co.nz, www.nzherald.co.nz
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 5 · H3 0
Links
81 internal · 49 external · 20 broken
Images
1 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
29 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.1 MB · 0 B
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
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://thecountry.co.nz
- Final URL
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 4.21 s
- HTML size
- 1.2 MB
- Redirect chain
- https://thecountry.co.nz → https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thecountry.co.nz use?
- thecountry.co.nz is built with Tailwind CSS, jQuery, Google Ads.
- Is thecountry.co.nz secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thecountry.co.nz uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Aug 18, 2026.
- Who hosts thecountry.co.nz?
- Hosting provider information for thecountry.co.nz is not available yet.
- What is thecountry.co.nz's SEO score?
- thecountry.co.nz scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is thecountry.co.nz's overall website score?
- thecountry.co.nz has an overall SiteGraph score of 73/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has thecountry.co.nz's score changed over time?
- thecountry.co.nz's overall score has declined by 6 points (from 79 to 73) since Jul 22, 2026.
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