Sars.gov.za SARS Home

Sars.gov.za Overview

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User Experience 98/100

When it comes to the structure of the website sars.gov.za, it is worth mentioning that it has a clean and minimalistic design with a white background that highlights the content on the site. The website is well-structured, and navigation is easy. The placement of the main menu and dropdown menus provide easy access to website's different sections.

As you land on the home page, the main menu gives easy access to different categories of the website, such as About SARS, Customs and Excise, Tax and eCommerce. The homepage is neatly organized, with the main content space being used to promote the latest news and announcements, as well as upcoming events and deadlines. Users can easily access various tax tools accessible from a separate menu dedicated to such tools.

The website is family-friendly since it is designed primarily to provide information about tax, customs, and excise in South Africa. The information provided on the site is presented in a clear and straightforward manner so that users can easily understand and access the different services offered by SARS.

Regarding site performance, the PageSpeed Insights scores were impressive, with a perfect score in terms of speed and high score for user experience. The fact that the website is hosted by CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US hosting also adds to the site's performance and reliability.

In conclusion, the website structure of sars.gov.za is well-designed and easy to navigate. It provides an accessible source of information for South Africans on tax, customs and excise matters. The perfect score in terms of speed and high score for user experience make this website a good example to follow for other government websites aspiring to provide user-friendly, meaningful and easily accessible services to the public.

Sars.gov.za Rank Summary

Global Rank

17,916

Average Load Time

1.02sec

Links In Count

912

Website Value

$665,760

Audience Geography. Where are sars.gov.za visitors located?

Country	Visitors
South Africa ZA	93%
India IN	2.4%
United States US	0.9%
Other	3.7%

Country	Pageviews
South Africa ZA	95.5%
United States US	1.2%
India IN	1.2%
Other	2.2%

Country	Rank
South Africa ZA	115
India IN	76528
United States US	183941

Where do visitors go on sars.gov.za?

Subdomain	Pageviews
sars.gov.za	85.52%
tools.sars.gov.za	13.48%
other	1%

Subdomain	Pageviews per User
sars.gov.za	1.9
tools.sars.gov.za	1.2

Subdomain	Reach
sars.gov.za	92.94%
tools.sars.gov.za	23.52%

How popular is sars.gov.za?

Period	Global Rank	Global Rank Delta
past 3 months	17916	-2618
past month	20988	3609
past week	24141	884
yesterday	27782	-40810

Days	Pageviews Rank	Pageviews Rank Delta	Pageviews per Million	Pageviews per Million Delta	Pageviews per User	Pageviews per User Delta
90	27316	-2307	244	10%	2.1	-7.207%
30	31982	6351	21	-14.44%	2	-7.727%
7	42301	6070	16	-17.62%	1.6	-19.8%
1	28389	-91636	26	500%	3	200%

Days	Reach Rank	Reach Rank Delta	Reach per Million	Reach per Million Delta
90	16233	-2839	41	19%
30	19068	2971	38	-7.458%
7	20204	-842	36	3%
1	35793	-18791	30	90%

Sars.gov.za Website Safety

Overview

Last Updated: 11/10/2024

Overall result - sars.gov.za is safe.

We gather website safety and reputation data and compare it with available third-party sources so we calculate own safety and trustworthiness rate based on information that we get.

Norton Connect Safe

Last Updated: 03/21/2024

sars.gov.za is safe.

Norton ConnectSafe evaluates sars.gov.za for any unsafe and insecure content. The results are critical for families with young children.

Google Safe Search

Last Updated: 10/13/2016

sars.gov.za is safe.

SafeSearch is used as a parental control tool to filter out any inappropriate for your children search results on your devices: phones, tablets or personal computers.

Google Safe Browsing

Last Updated: 01/09/2019

sars.gov.za is safe.
Malware: not found.
Phishing: not detected.
Unwanted software: not found.
Harmfull applications: not found.

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Site Advisor

Last Updated: 02/22/2021

sars.gov.za is safe.

McAfee assesses sars.gov.za for a meaningful set of security threats. Featured dangers from annoying pop-ups to hidden Trojans, that can steal your identity, will be revealed. McAfee does not analyze sars.gov.za for mature or inappropriate content, only security checks are evaluated.

Web of Trust

Last Updated: 01/09/2019

sars.gov.za child safety is very good.

The WOT calculates reputation of the sars.gov.za. This reputation system receives ratings from users and information from third-party sources, assesses the sars.gov.za for safety features and confirms, whether sars.gov.za is suitable for children.

SSL Information

SSL Checker Tool

Domain	sars.gov.za
Issuer Organization	CloudFlare, Inc.
Issuer	Cloudflare Inc ECC CA-3
Algorithm	ecdsa-with-SHA256
Valid form	07/06/2020
Expiration	07/06/2021
Signed	Certificate is not self signed
Additional Domains	.sars.gov.za .downloads.sars.gov.za sars.gov.za .webportal.sars.gov.za .adfs.sars.gov.za

Sars.gov.za Rank History

Alexa Rank shows how popular sars.gov.za is in comparison with other sites. The most popular site has Alexa Rank equals 1. If sars.gov.za has Alexa Rank equals 100,000, then it is in TOP 100,000 popular sites in the world. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to sars.gov.za and pageviews on sars.gov.za over the past 3 months.

Sars.gov.za Hosting Information

Server Location

Geolocation Tool

ASN Information

ASN Lookup Tool

ASN ID: 13335

ASN Title: CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US

Last Update: 07/18/2024

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OrgTechName: Admin
OrgTechPhone: +1-650-319-8930
OrgTechEmail: rir@cloudflare.com
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OrgAbusePhone: +1-650-319-8930
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Sars.gov.za Domain Registration and Settings

WHOIS

WHOIS Lookup Tool

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DNS Records

DNS Lookup Tool

Host	A Record	TTL
sars.gov.za	196.38.114.178	300
sars.gov.za	105.247.12.28	300

Host	MX Record	Priority	TTL
sars.gov.za	za-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.co.za	10	300
sars.gov.za	za-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.co.za	10	300

Host	NS Record	TTL
sars.gov.za	ns2.vodacombusiness.co.za	300
sars.gov.za	ns1.vodacombusiness.co.za	300

Host	TXT Record	TTL
sars.gov.za	v=spf1 ip4:105.247.12.192/26 ip4:196.36.218.48/28 ip4:208.85.49.60 ip4:196.38.58.90 ip4:196.38.58.91 include:_netblocks.mimecast.com -all	300
sars.gov.za	s0a0r83071	300

ns1.vodacombusiness.co.za
TTL: 300
Email address: dnsadmin.vodacombusiness.co.za
Serial: 2019060500
Refresh: 10800
Retry: 3600
Expire: 604800
Minimum: 38400

Sars.gov.za HTML Check

HTML Validation Tool

Errors

Obsolete doctype. Expected “<!DOCTYPE html>”.

Attribute “__expr-val-dir” not allowed on element “html” at this point.

Bad value “Expires” for attribute “http-equiv” on element “meta”.

A “meta” element with an “http-equiv” attribute whose value is “X-UA-Compatible” must have a “content” attribute with the value “IE=edge”.

CSS: Parse Error.

Attribute “scroll” not allowed on element “body” at this point.

The “cellpadding” attribute on the “table” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

The “cellspacing” attribute on the “table” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

The “width” attribute on the “table” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

The “border” attribute on the “table” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

The “valign” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

Attribute “webpartid” not allowed on element “div” at this point.

Attribute “haspers” not allowed on element “div” at this point.

Attribute “width” not allowed on element “div” at this point.

Attribute “onlyformepart” not allowed on element “div” at this point.

Attribute “allowdelete” not allowed on element “div” at this point.

Attribute “alt” not allowed on element “input” at this point.

An “img” element must have an “alt” attribute, except under certain conditions. For details, consult guidance on providing text alternatives for images.

The “nowrap” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

The “width” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

Attribute “valign” not allowed on element “img” at this point.

The “align” attribute on the “div” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

Self-closing syntax (“/>”) used on a non-void HTML element. Ignoring the slash and treating as a start tag.

End tag “td” seen, but there were open elements.

Unclosed element “div”.

Bad value “_new” for attribute “target” on element “a”: Reserved keyword “new” used.

Attribute “sarscsaiap” not allowed on element “img” at this point.

A slash was not immediately followed by “>”.

Bad value “/Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/Slider/css/global.css” for attribute “href” on element “link”: Illegal character in path segment: space is not allowed.

Attribute “link” not allowed on element “link” at this point.

Bad value “/Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/Slider/js/slideshow.js” for attribute “src” on element “script”: Illegal character in path segment: space is not allowed.

Bad value “/Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/Slider/js/slides.min.jquery.js” for attribute “src” on element “script”: Illegal character in path segment: space is not allowed.

Bad value “/Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/Slider/img/arrow-prev.jpg” for attribute “src” on element “img”: Illegal character in path segment: space is not allowed.

Bad value “53px” for attribute “height” on element “img”: Expected a digit but saw “p” instead.

Bad value “52px” for attribute “width” on element “img”: Expected a digit but saw “p” instead.

Bad value “none” for attribute “border” on element “img”: Only “0” is a permitted zero literal.

Bad value “/Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/Slider/img/arrow-next.jpg” for attribute “src” on element “img”: Illegal character in path segment: space is not allowed.

Bad value “3, 0, 230, 55” for attribute “coords” on element “area”: Expected a minus sign or a digit but saw “ ” instead.

Element “area” is missing required attribute “alt”.

Bad value “3, 64, 230, 110” for attribute “coords” on element “area”: Expected a minus sign or a digit but saw “ ” instead.

Bad value “3, 124, 228, 169” for attribute “coords” on element “area”: Expected a minus sign or a digit but saw “ ” instead.

Bad value “3, 183, 227, 221” for attribute “coords” on element “area”: Expected a minus sign or a digit but saw “ ” instead.

Bad value “1, 238, 228, 277” for attribute “coords” on element “area”: Expected a minus sign or a digit but saw “ ” instead.

Bad value “6, 289, 227, 329” for attribute “coords” on element “area”: Expected a minus sign or a digit but saw “ ” instead.

The “align” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

Attribute “width” not allowed on element “tr” at this point.

Attribute “height” not allowed on element “tr” at this point.

The “height” attribute on the “td” element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

Start tag “div” seen in “table”.

Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.

Warnings

The “type” attribute is unnecessary for JavaScript resources.

The “type” attribute for the “style” element is not needed and should be omitted.

The “border” attribute is obsolete. Consider specifying “img { border: 0; }” in CSS instead.

Sars.gov.za Desktop Performance

Last tested: 08/24/2016

Desktop Speed

81%

Optimize images

Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content

Avoid landing page redirects

Prioritize visible content

Minify CSS

Leverage browser caching

Minify HTML

Minify JavaScript

Desktop Resource Breakdown

Total Resources	75
Number of Hosts	6
Static Resources	31
JavaScript Resources	27
CSS Resources	8

Sars.gov.za Mobile Insights

Last tested: 12/09/2019

Mobile Usability

77%

Use legible font sizes

Configure the viewport

Mobile Speed

100%

Mobile Resource Breakdown

Total Resources	2
Number of Hosts	1

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Sars.gov.za Desktop Performance

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