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charleston-sc.gov

Charleston, SC - Official Website | Official Website

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM · 1 view

90

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

The Official Website For The City of Charleston, South Carolina. This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

The Official Website For The City of Charleston, South Carolina

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • 2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • 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.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

434 ms

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.

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

The Official Website For The City of Charleston, South Carolina

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Charleston, SC - Official Website | Official Website
Description
The Official Website For The City of Charleston, South Carolina
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
City of Charleston, SC | Official Website
og:description
The official website of the City of Charleston, South Carolina. Find city services, pay bills, view council agendas, apply for permits, and access resources for residents, businesses, and visitors.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.charleston-sc.gov/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
City of Charleston, SC | Official Website
twitter:description
The official website of the City of Charleston, South Carolina.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.2
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
www.charleston-sc.gov
Valid from
Aug 17, 2026
Valid to
Nov 15, 2026
Days until expiry
82
SAN domains
charleston-sc.gov, www.charleston-sc.gov

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 3 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 3 · H3 15

Links

47 internal · 12 external · 6 broken

Images

7 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

62 scripts · 10 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

52.5 KB · 50.8 KB

Page size

168 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • 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://charleston-sc.gov
Final URL
https://charleston-sc.gov
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
431 ms
HTML size
168 KB
Redirect chain
https://charleston-sc.gov

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does charleston-sc.gov use?
charleston-sc.gov is built with jQuery, Google Analytics.
Is charleston-sc.gov secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. charleston-sc.gov uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 15, 2026.
Who hosts charleston-sc.gov?
Hosting provider information for charleston-sc.gov is not available yet.
What is charleston-sc.gov's SEO score?
charleston-sc.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is charleston-sc.gov's overall website score?
charleston-sc.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.