What technology does thestar.co.uk use?

We did not detect any specific technologies for thestar.co.uk in the latest scan.

Is thestar.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. thestar.co.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 20, 2026.

Who hosts thestar.co.uk?

Hosting provider information for thestar.co.uk is not available yet.

What is thestar.co.uk's SEO score?

thestar.co.uk scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).

What is thestar.co.uk's overall website score?

thestar.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has thestar.co.uk's score changed over time?

thestar.co.uk's overall score has improved by 9 points (from 81 to 90) since Jul 26, 2026.

thestar.co.uk

Top issues to fix

5 issues found · 1 high priority

Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEO
Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

SEO

2 issue(s) found

Performance

403 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+9 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall: 90
SEO: 90
Security: 80
Performance: 90
Accessibility: 100

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Get all of the latest news from The Star. Providing a fresh perspective for online news.

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Meta tags

Title: Latest News | The Star
Description: Get all of the latest news from The Star. Providing a fresh perspective for online news.
Canonical: https://www.thestar.co.uk
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width,minimum-scale=1,initial-scale=1
Robots meta: max-image-preview:large,max-video-preview:-1
Manifest: https://www.thestar.co.uk/manifest.json

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

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: Let's Encrypt
Subject: thestar.co.uk
Valid from: Jun 22, 2026
Valid to: Sep 20, 2026
Days until expiry: 48
SAN domains: *.thestar.co.uk, thestar.co.uk

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
Content-Security-PolicyMissing
X-Frame-OptionsMissing
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyMissing
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 94 · H3 7

Links

135 internal · 28 external · 20 broken

Images

156 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

21 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

15.9 KB · 99.3 KB

Page size

412 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Not found
Disallow rules: 0
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://thestar.co.uk
Final URL: https://www.thestar.co.uk/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 395 ms
HTML size: 412 KB
Redirect chain: https://thestar.co.uk → https://www.thestar.co.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does thestar.co.uk use?: We did not detect any specific technologies for thestar.co.uk in the latest scan.
Is thestar.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. thestar.co.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 20, 2026.
Who hosts thestar.co.uk?: Hosting provider information for thestar.co.uk is not available yet.
What is thestar.co.uk's SEO score?: thestar.co.uk scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is thestar.co.uk's overall website score?: thestar.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has thestar.co.uk's score changed over time?: thestar.co.uk's overall score has improved by 9 points (from 81 to 90) since Jul 26, 2026.