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Australian Electoral Commission

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 3:19 PM

84

Overall score

Great

Summary

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electora… This website uses Google Analytics hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electoral process.

United States
Hosted on AWS

Products & pricing

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

Australian Electoral Commission

$0 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.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • 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.

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

163 ms

75

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.

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electoral process.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Australian Electoral Commission
Description
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electoral process.
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Australian Electoral Commission
og:description
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electoral process.
og:type
og:url
www.aec.gov.au

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
AWS
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
18.239.153.96
ASN
AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 18.239.153.96
  • 18.239.153.18
  • 18.239.153.31
  • 18.239.153.79
AAAA
MX
  • mailin1.servicesaustralia.gov.au
  • mailin2.servicesaustralia.gov.au
TXT
NS
  • ns-639.awsdns-15.net
  • ns-194.awsdns-24.com
  • ns-1628.awsdns-11.co.uk
  • ns-1382.awsdns-44.org
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
DigiCert Inc
Subject
aec.gov.au
Valid from
Dec 9, 2025
Valid to
Dec 9, 2026
Days until expiry
136
SAN domains
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Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 10 · H3 31

Links

101 internal · 17 external · 0 broken

Images

16 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

14 scripts · 6 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

499 KB · 814 KB

Page size

77.6 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
83
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Missing canonical link
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://aec.gov.au
Final URL
https://aec.gov.au
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
162 ms
HTML size
77.6 KB
Redirect chain
https://aec.gov.au

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does aec.gov.au use?
aec.gov.au is built with Bootstrap, jQuery, Google Analytics.
Is aec.gov.au secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. aec.gov.au uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Dec 9, 2026.
Who hosts aec.gov.au?
aec.gov.au is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
What is aec.gov.au's SEO score?
aec.gov.au scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is aec.gov.au's overall website score?
aec.gov.au has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What products does aec.gov.au offer?
aec.gov.au offers Australian Electoral Commission.
Is aec.gov.au hiring?
Yes. aec.gov.au has 5 open roles listed on their careers page.