theindependent.sg
The Independent Singapore News - Latest Breaking News
Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:21 PM
Overall score
Great
Summary
Latest: 'What about Maju Forest?' Commenters ask after PM Wong says Singapore's vision is to become a city of nature – Leading Singapore News and Southeast Asia. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Latest: 'What about Maju Forest?' Commenters ask after PM Wong says Singapore's vision is to become a city of nature – Leading Singapore News and Southeast Asia.
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
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.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
4 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Latest: 'What about Maju Forest?' Commenters ask after PM Wong says Singapore's vision is to become a city of nature – Leading Singapore News and Southeast Asia.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Independent Singapore News - Latest Breaking News
- Description
- Latest: 'What about Maju Forest?' Commenters ask after PM Wong says Singapore's vision is to become a city of nature – Leading Singapore News and Southeast Asia.
- Canonical
- https://theindependent.sg/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- follow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
- https://theindependent.sg/manifest.json
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
- theindependent.sg
- Valid from
- Jun 30, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 28, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 34
- SAN domains
- theindependent.sg, *.theindependent.sg
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 3 · H2 0 · H3 44
Links
68 internal · 10 external · 16 broken
Images
5 total · 2 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
73 scripts · 10 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
149 KB · 237 KB
Page size
5.4 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
- Multiple H1 headings found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://theindependent.sg
- Final URL
- https://theindependent.sg
- HTTP status
- 403
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 4 ms
- HTML size
- 5.4 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://theindependent.sg
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does theindependent.sg use?
- theindependent.sg is built with WordPress, jQuery, Cloudflare Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel.
- Is theindependent.sg secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. theindependent.sg uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 28, 2026.
- Who hosts theindependent.sg?
- Hosting provider information for theindependent.sg is not available yet.
- What is theindependent.sg's SEO score?
- theindependent.sg scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is theindependent.sg's overall website score?
- theindependent.sg has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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