cottages.com
Holiday Cottages to Rent | UK Self-Catering Holidays
Last scanned Aug 5, 2026, 4:00 PM · 9 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
cottages.com is one of the UK's leading providers of self-catering holiday cottages, with over 19,000 properties across England, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands. This website uses WordPress behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.
cottages.com
cottages.com is one of the UK's leading providers of self-catering holiday cottages, with over 19,000 properties across England, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands.
- Sunway House, Raglan Road, Lowestoft, NR32 2LW, United Kingdom
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
656 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-2 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 82
- SEO
- 90
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 75
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
cottages.com
cottages.com is one of the UK's leading providers of self-catering holiday cottages, with over 19,000 properties across England, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands.
- Founded
- Jan 1, 1981
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- +performance@f.monetate.net+performance@mountain.com+performance@sslwidget.criteo.com+performance@steelhouse.com+performance@steelhousemedia.com+performance@track.adform.net
- Address
- Sunway House, Raglan Road, Lowestoft, NR32 2LW, United Kingdom
Meta tags
- Title
- Holiday Cottages to Rent | UK Self-Catering Holidays
- Description
- Over 19,000 holiday cottages to rent with clear pricing, verified reviews & no hidden fees. Book for £25 deposit with flexible cancellation today!
- Canonical
- https://www.cottages.com
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- data:application/json;charset=utf-8,{"name":"Holiday Cottages to Rent | UK Self-Catering Holidays","short_name":"cottages.com","display":"standalone","orientation":"portrait","description":"Over 19,000 holiday cottages to rent with clear pricing, verified reviews & no hidden fees. Book for £25 deposit with flexible cancellation today!","background_color":"rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)","theme_color":"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)","icons":[{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_x48.png","sizes":"48x48","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_x72.png","sizes":"72x72","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_x96.png","sizes":"96x96","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_x128.png","sizes":"128x128","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_x192.png","sizes":"192x192","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_x384.png","sizes":"384x384","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_x512.png","sizes":"512x512","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com_HD.png","sizes":"16x16","type":"image/png"},{"src":"https://static.age.awaze.com/landing-pages-mfe/da59d2f/public/brand/cottages.com/favicon_cottages.com.svg","sizes":"any","type":"image/svg+xml"}]}
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- age.awaze.com
- Valid from
- Aug 15, 2025
- Valid to
- Sep 13, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 39
- SAN domains
- age.awaze.com, *.postbook.awaze.com, www.cottages.com, checkout-mfe.awaze.com, let.cottages.com, *.age.awaze.com, hoseasons.co.uk, www.hoseasons.co.uk, *.api.age.awaze.com, postbook.awaze.com, cottages.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 18 · H3 24
Links
107 internal · 10 external · 0 broken
Images
49 total · 3 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
60 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.5 MB · 74 B
Page size
791 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://cottages.com
- Final URL
- https://www.cottages.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 640 ms
- HTML size
- 791 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://cottages.com → https://www.cottages.com/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does cottages.com use?
- cottages.com is built with Next.js, WordPress, Google Analytics, TikTok Pixel, Nginx.
- Is cottages.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. cottages.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Sep 13, 2026.
- Who hosts cottages.com?
- Hosting provider information for cottages.com is not available yet.
- What is cottages.com's SEO score?
- cottages.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is cottages.com's overall website score?
- cottages.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates cottages.com?
- cottages.com is operated by cottages.com. cottages.com is one of the UK's leading providers of self-catering holiday cottages, with over 19,000 properties across England, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands.
- Has cottages.com's score changed over time?
- cottages.com's overall score has declined by 2 points (from 84 to 82) since Jul 26, 2026.
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