cityofboston.gov
Homepage | Boston.gov
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 3:19 PM
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
Welcome to the official homepage for the City of Boston. This website uses Nginx hosted on INCAPSULA - Incapsula Inc, US behind Fastly CDN. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100).
Welcome to the official homepage for the City of Boston.
- United States
- Hosted on INCAPSULA - Incapsula Inc, US
Top issues to fix
4 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
4 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
0 issue(s) found
Performance
2.76 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 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
- Homepage | Boston.gov
- Description
- Welcome to the official homepage for the City of Boston.
- Canonical
- https://www.boston.gov/homepage-bostongov
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- INCAPSULA - Incapsula Inc, US
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- IP address
- 45.223.83.58
- ASN
- AS19551 (INCAPSULA - Incapsula Inc, US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Subject
- imperva.com
- Valid from
- Jun 12, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 10, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 46
- SAN domains
- audi.co.uk, expert-link.com, sandbox-idm.secureco.co, www.iaproducers.com, *.audi.co.uk, iaproducers.com, candex.com, www.candex.com, *.conduent.com, *.mishmarot.com, www.farmersspecialtyauto.com, dreamstudiosba.com, www.dreamstudiosba.com, farmersspecialtyauto.com, conduent.com, www.boston.gov, www.expert-link.com, *.supplier.mckesson.com, boston.gov, imperva.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 9 · H3 6
Links
71 internal · 12 external · 4 broken
Images
33 total · 12 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
23 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
322 KB · 378 KB
Page size
128 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 34
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 4266
SEO issues
No SEO issues detected.
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://cityofboston.gov
- Final URL
- https://www.boston.gov/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.76 s
- HTML size
- 128 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://cityofboston.gov → https://www.cityofboston.gov/ → https://www.boston.gov/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does cityofboston.gov use?
- cityofboston.gov is built with Drupal, Nginx.
- Is cityofboston.gov secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. cityofboston.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Sep 10, 2026.
- Who hosts cityofboston.gov?
- cityofboston.gov is hosted on INCAPSULA - Incapsula Inc, US, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is cityofboston.gov's SEO score?
- cityofboston.gov scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is cityofboston.gov's overall website score?
- cityofboston.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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