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direct.gov.uk

Welcome to GOV.UK

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 9:00 PM · 10 views

84

Overall score

Great

Summary

GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information. This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (60/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No structured data (JSON-LD) found.

GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.

Top issues to fix

4 issues found

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

80

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

292 ms

60

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall
84
SEO
80
Security
60
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.

Meta tags

Title
Welcome to GOV.UK
Description
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
Canonical
https://www.gov.uk/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Welcome to GOV.UK
og:description
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
og:type
—
og:url
—

Twitter Card

twitter:card
—
twitter:title
—
twitter:description
—

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Ruby on RailsNginx

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
—
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
—
ASN
—

DNS records

TypeValue
A—
AAAA—
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME—
IPv6 supportNo

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
149
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 13 · H3 29

Links

54 internal · 3 external · 20 broken

Images

4 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

7 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

506 B · 0 B

Page size

83.5 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://direct.gov.uk
Final URL
https://www.gov.uk
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
291 ms
HTML size
83.5 KB
Redirect chain
https://direct.gov.uk → https://www.gov.uk

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does direct.gov.uk use?
direct.gov.uk is built with Ruby on Rails, Nginx.
Is direct.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. direct.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
Who hosts direct.gov.uk?
Hosting provider information for direct.gov.uk is not available yet.
What is direct.gov.uk's SEO score?
direct.gov.uk scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is direct.gov.uk's overall website score?
direct.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has direct.gov.uk's score changed over time?
direct.gov.uk's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 85 to 84) since Jul 25, 2026.