What technology does archives.gov use?

archives.gov is built with Drupal, Bootstrap, jQuery.

Is archives.gov secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. archives.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Entrust Limited, valid until Oct 31, 2026.

Who hosts archives.gov?

Hosting provider information for archives.gov is not available yet.

What is archives.gov's SEO score?

archives.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is archives.gov's overall website score?

archives.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has archives.gov's score changed over time?

archives.gov's overall score has declined by 5 points (from 93 to 88) since Jul 18, 2026.

archives.gov

National Archives | Home

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 14 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

This website uses Drupal behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 2 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 meta description
SEO
Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
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.
20 broken links on the page
SEO
Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

Performance

1.03 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-5 overall since Jul 18, 2026

Overall: 88
SEO: 75
Security: 90
Performance: 90
Accessibility: 100

Contact

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

Phone: 1-866-272-6272

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Drupal Bootstrap jQuery

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: CloudFront
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: Entrust Limited
Subject: archives.gov
Valid from: Sep 30, 2025
Valid to: Oct 31, 2026
Days until expiry: 94
SAN domains: archives.gov, nara.gov, www.archives.gov, www.nara.gov

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 13 · H3 1

Links

62 internal · 9 external · 20 broken

Images

2 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

41 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

7.0 KB · 3.4 KB

Page size

30.1 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

Missing meta description
Missing canonical link
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://archives.gov
Final URL: https://www.archives.gov/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.03 s
HTML size: 30.1 KB
Redirect chain: https://archives.gov → https://www.archives.gov/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does archives.gov use?: archives.gov is built with Drupal, Bootstrap, jQuery.
Is archives.gov secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. archives.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Entrust Limited, valid until Oct 31, 2026.
Who hosts archives.gov?: Hosting provider information for archives.gov is not available yet.
What is archives.gov's SEO score?: archives.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is archives.gov's overall website score?: archives.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has archives.gov's score changed over time?: archives.gov's overall score has declined by 5 points (from 93 to 88) since Jul 18, 2026.