bgs.ac.uk
Welcome to BGS - British Geological Survey
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:18 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
This website uses WordPress hosted on JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.
- United Kingdom
- Hosted on JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
18/01012/FUL
£31 GBP
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
TLS certificate expires in 16 days
SecurityRenew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
829 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Welcome to BGS - British Geological Survey
- Description
- Canonical
- https://www.bgs.ac.uk/
- Language
- en-GB
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.171.144.27
- ASN
- AS786 (JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Sectigo Limited
- Subject
- *.bgs.ac.uk
- Valid from
- Aug 13, 2025
- Valid to
- Aug 13, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 16
- SAN domains
- *.bgs.ac.uk, bgs.ac.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 3 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 2 · H2 8 · H3 1
Links
181 internal · 9 external · 1 broken
Images
50 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
43 scripts · 21 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
646 KB · 499 KB
Page size
162 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Missing meta description
- Multiple H1 headings found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://bgs.ac.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.bgs.ac.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 826 ms
- HTML size
- 162 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://bgs.ac.uk → https://www.bgs.ac.uk// → https://www.bgs.ac.uk/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does bgs.ac.uk use?
- bgs.ac.uk is built with WordPress, Bootstrap, jQuery, Google Analytics.
- Is bgs.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. bgs.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Aug 13, 2026.
- Who hosts bgs.ac.uk?
- bgs.ac.uk is hosted on JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB.
- What is bgs.ac.uk's SEO score?
- bgs.ac.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is bgs.ac.uk's overall website score?
- bgs.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does bgs.ac.uk offer?
- bgs.ac.uk offers 18/01012/FUL.
- Is bgs.ac.uk hiring?
- bgs.ac.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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