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blog.gov.uk

GOV.UK blogs

Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 8:25 AM · 3 views

84

Overall score

Great

Summary

This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

United States
Hosted on AWS

Top issues to fix

5 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.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

70

SEO

4 issue(s) found

80

Performance

2.76 s

90

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.

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
AWS
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
18.161.97.57
ASN
AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 18.161.97.57
  • 18.161.97.41
  • 18.161.97.76
  • 18.161.97.21
AAAA
  • 2600:9000:23d0:2400:16:702d:4080:93a1
  • 2600:9000:23d0:b200:16:702d:4080:93a1
  • 2600:9000:23d0:8a00:16:702d:4080:93a1
  • 2600:9000:23d0:c400:16:702d:4080:93a1
  • 2600:9000:23d0:8200:16:702d:4080:93a1
  • 2600:9000:23d0:9c00:16:702d:4080:93a1
  • 2600:9000:23d0:fe00:16:702d:4080:93a1
  • 2600:9000:23d0:4400:16:702d:4080:93a1
MX—
TXT—
NS
  • ns-1943.awsdns-50.co.uk
  • ns-59.awsdns-07.com
  • ns-779.awsdns-33.net
  • ns-1182.awsdns-19.org
CAA—
CNAME
  • d108ckuk90sd1e.cloudfront.net
IPv6 supportYes

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
183
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 144

Links

4 internal · 155 external · 0 broken

Images

2 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

14 scripts · 4 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

701 KB · 344 KB

Page size

125 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
9
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Missing meta description
  • Missing canonical link
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) 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
2.76 s
HTML size
125 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?
blog.gov.uk is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
What is blog.gov.uk's SEO score?
blog.gov.uk scored 70/100 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 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.