dft.gov.uk
Department for Transport - GOV.UK
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
We work with our agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. This website uses Nginx hosted on Fastly behind Fastly CDN. SEO is excellent (95/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
We work with our agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move. DfT is a ministerial department, supported by 23 agencies and public bodies .
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Top issues to fix
2 issues found
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Sluggish estimated load (3.8s)
PerformanceTarget under 3 seconds: enable compression and serve static assets from a CDN.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
3.84 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
We work with our agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move. DfT is a ministerial department, supported by 23 agencies and public bodies .
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Department for Transport - GOV.UK
- Description
- We work with our agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move. DfT is a ministerial department, supported by 23 agencies and public bodies .
- Canonical
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport
- 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 |
|
| 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 19 · H3 20
Links
114 internal · 14 external · 0 broken
Images
27 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
7 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
190 KB · 286 KB
Page size
136 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://dft.gov.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 3.84 s
- HTML size
- 136 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://dft.gov.uk → https://www.dft.gov.uk/ → http://aka.dft.gov.uk → https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does dft.gov.uk use?
- dft.gov.uk is built with Nginx.
- Is dft.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. dft.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
- Who hosts dft.gov.uk?
- dft.gov.uk is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is dft.gov.uk's SEO score?
- dft.gov.uk scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is dft.gov.uk's overall website score?
- dft.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 94/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is dft.gov.uk hiring?
- dft.gov.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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