defra.gov.uk
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - GOV.UK
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 4:25 AM · 4 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. This website uses Nginx hosted on Fastly behind Fastly CDN. SEO is excellent (95/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (60/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 36 agencies and public bodies .
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds said:
£153 GBP
Top issues to fix
1 issue found
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
1.40 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 36 agencies and public bodies .
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - GOV.UK
- Description
- We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 36 agencies and public bodies .
- Canonical
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:none
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
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| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Subject
- www.gov.uk
- Valid from
- Nov 26, 2025
- Valid to
- Dec 28, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 155
- SAN domains
- www.gov.uk, *.businesslink.gov.uk, *.direct.gov.uk, *.publishing.service.gov.uk, *.cabinet-office.gov.uk, assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, service.gov.uk, data.gov.uk, dfid.gov.uk, cabinet-office.gov.uk, api.gov.uk, www.data.gov.uk, gov.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 20 · H3 23
Links
115 internal · 14 external · 0 broken
Images
23 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
7 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
190 KB · 286 KB
Page size
142 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 5
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://defra.gov.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.40 s
- HTML size
- 142 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://defra.gov.uk → https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does defra.gov.uk use?
- defra.gov.uk is built with Nginx.
- Is defra.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. defra.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
- Who hosts defra.gov.uk?
- defra.gov.uk is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is defra.gov.uk's SEO score?
- defra.gov.uk scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is defra.gov.uk's overall website score?
- defra.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does defra.gov.uk offer?
- defra.gov.uk offers Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds said:.
- Is defra.gov.uk hiring?
- defra.gov.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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