thesouthafrican.com
The South African
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 9:00 AM · 6 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
The South African is an English-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa. This website uses WordPress behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
The South African is an English-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa.
Top issues to fix
4 issues found
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
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.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
455 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+5 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 91
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 100
- Performance
- 80
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The South African is an English-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- The South African
- Description
- The South African is an English-language South African online news publication and a leading source for news, sport, lifestyle, finance, opinion content in South Africa.
- Canonical
- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/
- Language
- en-ZA
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- 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
- Amazon
- Subject
- www.thesouthafrican.com
- Valid from
- Jan 25, 2026
- Valid to
- Feb 23, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 205
- SAN domains
- www.thesouthafrican.com, dev.thesouthafrican.com, thesouthafrican.com, s44334.pcdn.co
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 8 · H3 118
Links
243 internal · 11 external · 20 broken
Images
136 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
32 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
35.2 KB · 9.8 KB
Page size
512 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
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://thesouthafrican.com
- Final URL
- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 445 ms
- HTML size
- 512 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://thesouthafrican.com → https://www.thesouthafrican.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thesouthafrican.com use?
- thesouthafrican.com is built with WordPress, Google Analytics.
- Is thesouthafrican.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thesouthafrican.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Feb 23, 2027.
- Who hosts thesouthafrican.com?
- Hosting provider information for thesouthafrican.com is not available yet.
- What is thesouthafrican.com's SEO score?
- thesouthafrican.com scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is thesouthafrican.com's overall website score?
- thesouthafrican.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has thesouthafrican.com's score changed over time?
- thesouthafrican.com's overall score has improved by 5 points (from 86 to 91) since Jul 26, 2026.
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