What technology does wmbfnews.com use?

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

Is wmbfnews.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. wmbfnews.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Aug 25, 2026.

Who hosts wmbfnews.com?

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

What is wmbfnews.com's SEO score?

wmbfnews.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is wmbfnews.com's overall website score?

wmbfnews.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

wmbfnews.com

WMBF | Myrtle Beach, Florence

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 12:49 PM

Overall score

Great

Summary

WMBF News is South Carolina's home for live, local, late-breaking news and First Alert Weather headlines for Myrtle Beach, Florence, and the Grand Strand and Pee Dee. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

WMBF News is South Carolina's home for live, local, late-breaking news and First Alert Weather headlines for Myrtle Beach, Florence, and the Grand Strand and Pee Dee.

Top issues to fix

7 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.
TLS certificate expires in 27 days
Security
Renew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
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.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

Performance

766 ms

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.

WMBF News is South Carolina's home for live, local, late-breaking news and First Alert Weather headlines for Myrtle Beach, Florence, and the Grand Strand and Pee Dee.

Facebook X (Twitter)

Contact

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

Email: wmbf-publicfile@gray.tv

Meta tags

Title: WMBF | Myrtle Beach, Florence
Description: WMBF News is South Carolina's home for live, local, late-breaking news and First Alert Weather headlines for Myrtle Beach, Florence, and the Grand Strand and Pee Dee.
Canonical: https://www.wmbfnews.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: —
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: gray4.web.arc-cdn.net
Valid from: May 27, 2026
Valid to: Aug 25, 2026
Days until expiry: 27
SAN domains: gray4.web.arc-cdn.net, m.live5news.com, m.nbc12.com, m.wect.com, m.wflx.com, m.wistv.com, m.wmbfnews.com, www.12onyourside.com, www.21alivenews.com, www.25newsnow.com, www.29news.com, www.cbs3duluth.com, www.fortwaynesnbc.com, www.goroute66.com, www.graytrainingcenter.tv, www.hoiabc.com, www.kbjr.com, www.kbjr6.com, www.kbjr6.tv, www.kdlh.com, www.ktiv.com, www.kttc.com, www.kxnvreno.com, www.live5news.com, www.myfox47.com, www.mysuncoast.com, www.nbc12.com, www.nbc29.com, www.news25now.com, www.northernnewsnow.com, www.noticiasetx.com, www.sutelemundo20.com, www.telemundoamarillo.com, www.telemundoatlanta.com, www.telemundocentraltexas.com, www.telemundocleveland.com, www.telemundolubbock.com, www.telemundotexoma.com, www.tpsnsports.com, www.wbng.com, www.wbtv.com, www.wect.com, www.week.com, www.wflx.com, www.wgem.com, www.wistv.com, www.wmbfnews.com, www.wpta21.com, www.wpta21.tv, www.wvirtv.com, www.wvva.com

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 2 · H3 5

Links

101 internal · 14 external · 20 broken

Images

40 total · 1 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

27 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

247 KB · 0 B

Page size

398 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

Meta description longer than 160 characters
No H1 heading found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://wmbfnews.com
Final URL: https://www.wmbfnews.com:443/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 758 ms
HTML size: 398 KB
Redirect chain: https://wmbfnews.com → https://www.wmbfnews.com:443/

See something wrong on this report? Request a correction

Frequently asked questions

What technology does wmbfnews.com use?: We did not detect any specific technologies for wmbfnews.com in the latest scan.
Is wmbfnews.com secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. wmbfnews.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Aug 25, 2026.
Who hosts wmbfnews.com?: Hosting provider information for wmbfnews.com is not available yet.
What is wmbfnews.com's SEO score?: wmbfnews.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is wmbfnews.com's overall website score?: wmbfnews.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.