What technology does wits.ac.za use?

wits.ac.za is built with jQuery, Apache.

Is wits.ac.za secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. wits.ac.za uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Dec 4, 2026.

What is wits.ac.za's SEO score?

wits.ac.za scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is wits.ac.za's overall website score?

wits.ac.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

What products does wits.ac.za offer?

wits.ac.za offers What’s at stake?.

Is wits.ac.za hiring?

wits.ac.za has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.

wits.ac.za

Home - Wits University

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 2 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

Explore Wits University's world-class programmes, research, and vibrant campus life. This website uses Apache hosted on TENET (The UNINET Project) - TENET (The UNINET Project), ZA. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

Explore Wits University's world-class programmes, research, and vibrant campus life.

South Africa

Hosted on TENET (The UNINET Project) - TENET (The UNINET Project), ZA

Products & pricing

Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.

What’s at stake?

$2 USD

Top issues to fix

7 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-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.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

Performance

893 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 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.

Explore Wits University's world-class programmes, research, and vibrant campus life.

Facebook Instagram X (Twitter)YouTube LinkedIn

Contact

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

Email: ITStudentHelp@wits.ac.za IThelp@wits.ac.za Reshma.Lakha-Singh@wits.ac.za enquiries.studentaffairs@wits.ac.za info.ccdu@wits.ac.za vijanthi.purmasir@wits.ac.za
Phone: 0800004770

Source: https://www.wits.ac.za/about-wits/contact-us/

Meta tags

Title: Home - Wits University
Description: Explore Wits University's world-class programmes, research, and vibrant campus life.
Canonical
Language: en
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

jQuery Apache

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: TENET (The UNINET Project) - TENET (The UNINET Project), ZA
CDN provider: —
IP address: 146.141.13.50
ASN: AS2018 (TENET (The UNINET Project) - TENET (The UNINET Project), ZA)

DNS records

Type	Value
A	146.141.13.50
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	ccms.wits.ac.za
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.2
Issuer: Sectigo Limited
Subject: www.wits.ac.za
Valid from: May 20, 2026
Valid to: Dec 4, 2026
Days until expiry: 131
SAN domains: www.wits.ac.za, digitaldome.wits.ac.za, giving.wits.ac.za, my.wits.ac.za, sterkfonteincaves.wits.ac.za, wits.ac.za, wits100.wits.ac.za, zylstra.wits.ac.za

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 3 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 1 · H3 0

Links

29 internal · 9 external · 0 broken

Images

6 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

14 scripts · 9 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

424 KB · 309 KB

Page size

31.3 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Found
Disallow rules: 1
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

Missing canonical link
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
sitemap.xml not found

Careers

View careers page

This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.

Scan details

Requested URL: https://wits.ac.za
Final URL: https://www.wits.ac.za
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 893 ms
HTML size: 31.3 KB
Redirect chain: https://wits.ac.za → https://www.wits.ac.za

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