designcouncil.org.uk
Design shapes the world - Design Council
Last scanned Aug 4, 2026, 2:00 PM · 11 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
We are the UK's national champion for design, dedicated to all design disciplines, showcasing brilliance, leading on new thinking, evidencing value and influencing policy to create an environment for design to thrive. This website uses Apache. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Design Council
We are the UK's national champion for design, dedicated to all design disciplines, showcasing brilliance, leading on new thinking, evidencing value and influencing policy to create an environment for design to thrive.
Top issues to fix
6 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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
1 broken link on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
416 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 27, 2026
- Overall
- 91
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 80
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Design Council
We are the UK's national champion for design, dedicated to all design disciplines, showcasing brilliance, leading on new thinking, evidencing value and influencing policy to create an environment for design to thrive.
Meta tags
- Title
- Design shapes the world - Design Council
- Description
- We are the UK's national champion for design, dedicated to all design disciplines, showcasing brilliance, leading on new thinking, evidencing value and influencing policy to create an environment for design to thrive.
- Canonical
- https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index,follow
- Manifest
- https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/manifest.webmanifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.2
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- designcouncil.org.uk
- Valid from
- Jul 18, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 16, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 72
- SAN domains
- designcouncil.org.uk, www.designcouncil.org.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 6 · H3 17
Links
44 internal · 11 external · 1 broken
Images
17 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
12 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
88.4 KB · 34.4 KB
Page size
30.4 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://designcouncil.org.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 416 ms
- HTML size
- 30.4 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://designcouncil.org.uk → https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does designcouncil.org.uk use?
- designcouncil.org.uk is built with Google Analytics, Google Ads, Apache.
- Is designcouncil.org.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. designcouncil.org.uk uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 16, 2026.
- Who hosts designcouncil.org.uk?
- Hosting provider information for designcouncil.org.uk is not available yet.
- What is designcouncil.org.uk's SEO score?
- designcouncil.org.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is designcouncil.org.uk's overall website score?
- designcouncil.org.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates designcouncil.org.uk?
- designcouncil.org.uk is operated by Design Council. We are the UK's national champion for design, dedicated to all design disciplines, showcasing brilliance, leading on new thinking, evidencing value and influencing policy to create an environment for design to thrive.
- Has designcouncil.org.uk's score changed over time?
- designcouncil.org.uk's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 94 to 91) since Jul 27, 2026.
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