Website reputation report

africanexponent.com

Last checked 1 day ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Public pages were observed on africanexponent.com, but their subject was not confidently classified. An About page was also found. The sampled pages were marked as English-language. Recurring page-metadata topics include african, african exponent, africa.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

70/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History91 Infrastructure93 Website Security95 Security Hygiene35 Transparency59 Reputation50 Operational Stability84
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about africanexponent.com

Updated Sep 30, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on africanexponent.com. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: Measuring Africa , one index, ranking, and dataset at a time.Africa is the world's most talked-about continent and its least measured one. Narratives about…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Jun 13, 2015. Registrar: Squarespace Domains II LLC.

Recorded expiry date: Jun 13, 2027. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 2000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Dec 23, 2026.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 70/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on africanexponent.com

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

The African Exponent - Africa MeasuredBuilding the definitive knowledge graph of Africa: indices, rankings, and country data from trusted public sources About The African Exponenthttps://www.africanexponent.com/about-us/ Contact Ushttps://www.africanexponent.com/contact-us/ About African ExponentIndependent journalism on African politics, business, and culture. Features - The African Exponent - Africa MeasuredAnalytical pieces exploring why Africa is the way it currently is today Madagascar’s Failed $170m Cable Car Project and 5 Reasons Why Imported Western Solutions Keep Failing AfricaMadagascar borrowed $173 million to import a European transit model. Today, the cable cars hang empty above a capital city that never rode them, leaving citizens to pay off the deb African Currency Exchange Rates — Official vs Parallel Market | The African Exponenthttps://www.africanexponent.com/money/ How We Measure — FX methodologyHow The African Exponent measures FX: official vs market, premium formula, sources, status badges, and cadence. Top 10 Most Technologically Advanced Countries in Africa 2026Egypt is Africa's most AI-ready government, ranking 51st of 195 in the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025, ahead of Kenya (65th) and South Africa (67th). Top 10 African Countries with the Strongest Currency in 2026Tunisia has the strongest currency in Africa, with the dinar trading at 2.96 to the US dollar at the start of August 2026, followed by Libya (6.41) and Morocco (9.38), according to

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on africanexponent.com

8 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

africanTitle, H1, Meta description7 sampled pages
african exponentTitle, H1, Meta description6 sampled pages
africaTitle, H1, Meta description5 sampled pages
exponent africa measuredTitle, H12 sampled pages
currencyTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
countriesTitle, H12 sampled pages
in africaTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
marketTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
91/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
93/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
35/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
59/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
84/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-09-30T06:24:18+00:00
HTML bytes submitted225,632
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-09-30T06:00:08+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,017

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

4 resources checked · 8 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts8
Inline scripts6
Embedded frames0
External script hosts3

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainafricanexponent.com
RegistrarSquarespace Domains II LLC
RegisteredJun 13, 2015
Domain age11 years
ExpiresJun 13, 2027
Registry statusesclient delete prohibited · client transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address188.114.96.3
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNCloudflare
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.africanexponent.com/
Endpoint188.114.96.3
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFCloudflare · Not detected
DNS surface12 records · 2 nameservers · 5 mail exchangers
Protection signals0 security headers · 4 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size225,632 bytes
HTTP check duration2,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources8 · 3 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 4 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YE1
Valid fromSep 24, 2026
Valid untilDec 23, 2026
Certificate names*.africanexponent.com · africanexponent.com

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A188.114.96.2TTL —
A188.114.97.2TTL —
AAAA2a06:98c1:3120::2TTL —
AAAA2a06:98c1:3121::2TTL —
NSfaye.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
NSjake.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
TXTv=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~allTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

0 observed

Header evidence is unavailable. Missing data is not treated as a clean result or proof of compromise.

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Cloudflare 98% Google Analytics 94% Stripe 96% Tailwind CSS 72%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis could not be completed or no eligible script files were sampled. No clean result is implied.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Measuring Africa — one index, ranking, and dataset at a time.Africa is the world's most talked-about continent and its least measured one. Narratives about it are written everywhere — in boardrooms, in foreign capitals, in headlines that flatten fifty-four countries into a single story. We started The African Exponent in 2015

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleThe African Exponent - Africa Measured
First headingThe African Exponent — Africa, Measured
DescriptionBuilding the definitive knowledge graph of Africa: indices, rankings, and country data from trusted public sources
Canonical URLhttps://www.africanexponent.com/
Final URLhttps://www.africanexponent.com/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · 2000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesWebSite
Page page detectedhttps://www.africanexponent.com/tag/features/About page detectedhttps://www.africanexponent.com/about-us/Contact page detectedhttps://www.africanexponent.com/contact-us/
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
missing100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
5100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
12100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.africanexponent.com/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
rapid-radar-ring-339

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of africanexponent.com
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about africanexponent.com

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Is africanexponent.com safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 70/100 with 75% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on africanexponent.com?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was africanexponent.com registered?

The public registry record shows Jun 13, 2015. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did africanexponent.com have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does africanexponent.com describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.