What technology does wafb.com use?

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

Is wafb.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. wafb.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 13, 2026.

Hosting provider information for wafb.com is not available yet.

What is wafb.com's SEO score?

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

What is wafb.com's overall website score?

wafb.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

wafb.com

WAFB | Louisiana News, Weather, Sports | Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:18 AM

Overall score

Fair

Summary

Baton Rouge, Louisiana latest news, weather & sports from WAFB TV. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance fair (55/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana latest news, weather & sports from WAFB TV

Top issues to fix

6 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-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEO
Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
Sluggish estimated load (3.5s)
Performance
Target under 3 seconds: enable compression and serve static assets from a CDN.
1 broken link on the page
SEO
Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

Performance

3.49 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.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana latest news, weather & sports from WAFB TV

Facebook X (Twitter)

Contact

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

Email: wafb-publicfile@gray.tv

Meta tags

Title: WAFB | Louisiana News, Weather, Sports | Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana latest news, weather & sports from WAFB TV
Canonical: https://www.wafb.com
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, minimum-scale=1, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
Robots meta: index,follow,noarchive
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: —
IP address: 49.44.50.18
ASN: —

DNS records

Type	Value
A	49.44.50.18 49.44.50.9
AAAA	2600:140f:4::1736:5092 2600:140f:4::1736:5062
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	gray-wafb-prod.arc-dns.net
IPv6 support	Yes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: Let's Encrypt
Subject: gray3.web.arc-cdn.net
Valid from: Jul 15, 2026
Valid to: Oct 13, 2026
Days until expiry: 79
SAN domains: gray-wbbj-prod.gtv-cdn.com, gray3.web.arc-cdn.net, m.14news.com, m.cleveland19.com, m.fox19.com, m.fox8live.com, m.hawaiinewsnow.com, m.kait8.com, m.kcbd.com, m.kfvs12.com, m.kltv.com, m.kplctv.com, m.ksla.com, m.kswo.com, m.ktre.com, m.newschannel10.com, m.newschannel6now.com, m.tucsonnewsnow.com, m.wafb.com, m.waff.com, m.wave3.com, m.wbrc.com, m.wdam.com, m.wlbt.com, m.wlox.com, m.wmcactionnews5.com, m.wsfa.com, m.wtvm.com, www.14news.com, www.actionnews5.com, www.cleveland19.com, www.fox19.com, www.fox34.com, www.fox8live.com, www.hawaiinewsnow.com, www.k5thehometeam.com, www.kait8.com, www.kcbd.com, www.keyc.com, www.kfvs12.com, www.kltv.com, www.kold.com, www.kplctv.com, www.ksla.com, www.kswo.com, www.ktre.com, www.newschannel10.com, www.newschannel6now.com, www.telemundolaredo.tv, www.tucsonnewsnow.com, www.wafb.com, www.waff.com, www.wave3.com, www.wbbjtv.com, www.wbrc.com, www.wdam.com, www.wlbt.com, www.wlox.com, www.wltz.com, www.wmcactionnews5.com, www.wsfa.com, www.wtvm.com, www.wwnytv.com, www.wwnytv.net

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 4 · H3 4

Links

126 internal · 16 external · 1 broken

Images

44 total · 1 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

27 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.1 MB · 0 B

Page size

430 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Found
Disallow rules: 20
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

Title longer than 60 characters
No H1 heading found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://wafb.com
Final URL: https://www.wafb.com:443/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 3.48 s
HTML size: 430 KB
Redirect chain: https://wafb.com → https://www.wafb.com:443/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does wafb.com use?: We did not detect any specific technologies for wafb.com in the latest scan.
Is wafb.com secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. wafb.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 13, 2026.
Who hosts wafb.com?: Hosting provider information for wafb.com is not available yet.
What is wafb.com's SEO score?: wafb.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is wafb.com's overall website score?: wafb.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.