What technology does thewest.com.au use?

We did not detect any specific technologies for thewest.com.au in the latest scan.

Is thewest.com.au secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. thewest.com.au uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Nov 1, 2026.

Who hosts thewest.com.au?

Hosting provider information for thewest.com.au is not available yet.

What is thewest.com.au's SEO score?

thewest.com.au scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is thewest.com.au's overall website score?

thewest.com.au has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has thewest.com.au's score changed over time?

thewest.com.au's overall score has improved by 7 points (from 74 to 81) since Jul 26, 2026.

thewest.com.au

The West Australian | Perth, WA, National & World News

Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 8:00 AM · 7 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs.

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 1 high priority

No H1 heading found
SEO
Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
Security
Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
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.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

Performance

1.81 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+7 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall: 81
SEO: 80
Security: 85
Performance: 70
Accessibility: 90

Organization

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

The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs.

Facebook X (Twitter)Instagram YouTube

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Email: cos@wanews.com.au

Meta tags

Title: The West Australian | Perth, WA, National & World News
Description: The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs.
Canonical: https://thewest.com.au/
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta: max-image-preview:large
Manifest: https://thewest.com.au/static/favicons/site.webmanifest?v=21

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

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: thewest.com.au
Valid from: Apr 18, 2026
Valid to: Nov 1, 2026
Days until expiry: 91
SAN domains: thewest.com.au, kalminer.com.au, *.midwesttimes.com.au, *.kalminer.tw.swmdigital.io, *.northwesttelegraph.tw.swmdigital.io, *.swtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, *.mbtimes.com.au, *.northernguardian.com.au, midwesttimes.tw.swmdigital.io, *.bunburyherald.com.au, *.northernguardian.tw.swmdigital.io, northernguardian.tw.swmdigital.io, geraldtonguardian.com.au, narroginobserver.com.au, midwesttimes.com.au, mbtimes.com.au, swtimes.com.au, *.harveyreporter.tw.swmdigital.io, *.midwesttimes.tw.swmdigital.io, kalminer.tw.swmdigital.io, *.mbtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, geraldtonguardian.tw.swmdigital.io, *.geraldtonguardian.com.au, *.bdtimes.com.au, *.pilbaranews.com.au, *.swtimes.com.au, swtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, *.broomead.tw.swmdigital.io, narroginobserver.tw.swmdigital.io, *.gsherald.com.au, albanyadvertiser.tw.swmdigital.io, *.geraldtonguardian.tw.swmdigital.io, *.albanyadvertiser.tw.swmdigital.io, soundtelegraph.tw.swmdigital.io, *.albanyadvertiser.com.au, *.narroginobserver.com.au, kimberleyecho.com.au, *.amrtimes.com.au, broomead.tw.swmdigital.io, bdtimes.com.au, *.countryman.tw.swmdigital.io, countryman.com.au, *.thewest.com.au, bdtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, harveyreporter.com.au, *.gsherald.tw.swmdigital.io, gsherald.com.au, *.narroginobserver.tw.swmdigital.io, albanyadvertiser.com.au, pilbaranews.com.au, countryman.tw.swmdigital.io, broomead.com.au, *.soundtelegraph.com.au, *.kalminer.com.au, kimberleyecho.tw.swmdigital.io, gsherald.tw.swmdigital.io, *.harveyreporter.com.au, *.northwesttelegraph.com.au, amrtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, tw.swmdigital.io, *.kimberleyecho.tw.swmdigital.io, *.bdtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, *.tw.swmdigital.io, pilbaranews.tw.swmdigital.io, bunburyherald.tw.swmdigital.io, mbtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, *.broomead.com.au, harveyreporter.tw.swmdigital.io, *.kimberleyecho.com.au, amrtimes.com.au, northwesttelegraph.com.au, *.amrtimes.tw.swmdigital.io, northwesttelegraph.tw.swmdigital.io, *.countryman.com.au, *.bunburyherald.tw.swmdigital.io, *.soundtelegraph.tw.swmdigital.io, *.pilbaranews.tw.swmdigital.io, soundtelegraph.com.au, bunburyherald.com.au, northernguardian.com.au

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 219 · H3 1

Links

280 internal · 45 external · 20 broken

Images

152 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

21 scripts · 6 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

963 KB · 186 KB

Page size

2.3 MB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

No H1 heading found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://thewest.com.au
Final URL: https://thewest.com.au
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.76 s
HTML size: 2.3 MB
Redirect chain: https://thewest.com.au

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does thewest.com.au use?: We did not detect any specific technologies for thewest.com.au in the latest scan.
Is thewest.com.au secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. thewest.com.au uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Nov 1, 2026.
Who hosts thewest.com.au?: Hosting provider information for thewest.com.au is not available yet.
What is thewest.com.au's SEO score?: thewest.com.au scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is thewest.com.au's overall website score?: thewest.com.au has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has thewest.com.au's score changed over time?: thewest.com.au's overall score has improved by 7 points (from 74 to 81) since Jul 26, 2026.