What technology does thestar.com.my use?

thestar.com.my is built with Bootstrap, jQuery, Nginx.

Is thestar.com.my secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. thestar.com.my uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Oct 1, 2026.

Who hosts thestar.com.my?

Hosting provider information for thestar.com.my is not available yet.

What is thestar.com.my's SEO score?

thestar.com.my scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).

What is thestar.com.my's overall website score?

thestar.com.my has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

thestar.com.my

The Star | Malaysia News: National, Regional and World News

Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 12:33 PM · 1 view

Overall score

Great

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Slow estimated load (12.4s)
Performance
Use a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
Security
Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
Security
Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
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.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

Summary

Get the latest Malaysia news stories and opinions with focus on National, Regional, Sarawak and World News, as well as reports from Parliament and Court. This website uses Nginx behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

SEO

2 issue(s) found

Performance

12.37 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

YouTube Instagram X (Twitter)Facebook

Meta tags

Title: The Star | Malaysia News: National, Regional and World News
Description: Get the latest Malaysia news stories and opinions with focus on National, Regional, Sarawak and World News, as well as reports from Parliament and Court.
Canonical: https://www.thestar.com.my
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1
Robots meta: index,follow
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Bootstrap jQuery Nginx

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: *.thestar.com.my
Valid from: Mar 18, 2026
Valid to: Oct 1, 2026
Days until expiry: 72
SAN domains: *.thestar.com.my, thestar.com.my

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 28 · H3 6

Links

113 internal · 43 external · 0 broken

Images

11 total · 5 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

137 scripts · 28 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

145 KB · 4.3 KB

Page size

287 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.com.my
Final URL: https://www.thestar.com.my
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 12.36 s
HTML size: 287 KB
Redirect chain: https://thestar.com.my → https://www.thestar.com.my

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does thestar.com.my use?: thestar.com.my is built with Bootstrap, jQuery, Nginx.
Is thestar.com.my secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. thestar.com.my uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Oct 1, 2026.
Who hosts thestar.com.my?: Hosting provider information for thestar.com.my is not available yet.
What is thestar.com.my's SEO score?: thestar.com.my scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is thestar.com.my's overall website score?: thestar.com.my has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.