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bl.uk

The British Library - the national Library of the UK

Last scanned Jul 24, 2026, 8:25 PM · 1 view

92

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Visit the national library of the UK. This website uses Next.js hosted on Azure. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (85/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.

Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.

United States
Hosted on Azure

Top issues to fix

2 issues found

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

85

SEO

2 issue(s) found

85

Performance

599 ms

100

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.

Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
The British Library - the national Library of the UK
Description
Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.
Canonical
https://www.bl.uk
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
index
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Welcome to the British Library
og:description
We are the UK's national library. Open to everyone and free to use. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.bl.uk

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Welcome to the British Library
twitter:description
We are the UK's national library. Open to everyone and free to use. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Azure
CDN provider
IP address
150.171.109.130
ASN
AS8075 (MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 150.171.109.130
AAAA
  • 2603:1061:14:80::1
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
  • fde-web-afd-prd-webfproj-001-eze5erb2dxckepgb.a02.azurefd.net
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
DigiCert Inc
Subject
www.bl.uk
Valid from
Jun 12, 2026
Valid to
Dec 12, 2026
Days until expiry
141
SAN domains
www.bl.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 2 · H2 4 · H3 7

Links

31 internal · 15 external · 0 broken

Images

5 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

65 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.7 MB · 148 KB

Page size

185 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
574

SEO issues

  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Careers

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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://bl.uk
Final URL
https://www.bl.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
596 ms
HTML size
185 KB
Redirect chain
https://bl.uk → https://www.bl.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does bl.uk use?
bl.uk is built with Next.js, Google Analytics.
Is bl.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. bl.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Dec 12, 2026.
Who hosts bl.uk?
bl.uk is hosted on Azure.
What is bl.uk's SEO score?
bl.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is bl.uk's overall website score?
bl.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is bl.uk hiring?
bl.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.