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blog.gov.uk

GOV.UK blogs

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 10:00 AM · 10 views

82

Overall score

Great

Summary

This website uses WordPress behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing meta description

    SEO

    Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • 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.

  • 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.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

65

SEO

5 issue(s) found

80

Performance

3.08 s

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-2 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall
82
SEO
65
Security
90
Performance
80
Accessibility
100

Meta tags

Title
GOV.UK blogs
Description
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest
https://www.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/themes/gds-blogs/build/govuk-assets/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
—
og:description
—
og:type
—
og:url
—

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
GOV.UK blogs
twitter:description
Welcome to GOV.UK blogs - see blog posts

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

WordPressjQueryNginx

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
—
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
—
ASN
—

DNS records

TypeValue
A—
AAAA—
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME—
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Amazon
Subject
*.blog.gov.uk
Valid from
Dec 27, 2025
Valid to
Jan 24, 2027
Days until expiry
176
SAN domains
*.blog.gov.uk, blog.gov.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 5 · H3 145

Links

4 internal · 156 external · 20 broken

Images

2 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

14 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.0 KB · 16.7 KB

Page size

129 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
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://blog.gov.uk
Final URL
https://www.blog.gov.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
3.08 s
HTML size
129 KB
Redirect chain
https://blog.gov.uk → https://www.blog.gov.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does blog.gov.uk use?
blog.gov.uk is built with WordPress, jQuery, Nginx.
Is blog.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. blog.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 24, 2027.
Who hosts blog.gov.uk?
Hosting provider information for blog.gov.uk is not available yet.
What is blog.gov.uk's SEO score?
blog.gov.uk scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is blog.gov.uk's overall website score?
blog.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has blog.gov.uk's score changed over time?
blog.gov.uk's overall score has declined by 2 points (from 84 to 82) since Jul 25, 2026.