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dvsa.gov.uk

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - GOV.UK

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:23 PM

99

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

We carry out driving tests, approve people to be driving instructors and MOT testers, carry out tests to make sure lorries and buses are safe to drive, carry out roadside checks on drivers and vehicles, and monitor vehic… 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 excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

We carry out driving tests, approve people to be driving instructors and MOT testers, carry out tests to make sure lorries and buses are safe to drive, carry out roadside checks on drivers and vehicles, and monitor vehicle recalls. DVSA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Transport .

United States
Hosted on Fastly

Top issues to fix

1 issue found

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

95

SEO

1 issue(s) found

100

Performance

814 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

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Organization

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

We carry out driving tests, approve people to be driving instructors and MOT testers, carry out tests to make sure lorries and buses are safe to drive, carry out roadside checks on drivers and vehicles, and monitor vehicle recalls. DVSA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Transport .

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Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/contact-dvsa

Meta tags

Title
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - GOV.UK
Description
We carry out driving tests, approve people to be driving instructors and MOT testers, carry out tests to make sure lorries and buses are safe to drive, carry out roadside checks on drivers and vehicles, and monitor vehicle recalls. DVSA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Transport .
Canonical
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver-and-vehicle-standards-agency
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
max-image-preview:none
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
og:description
We carry out driving tests, approve people to be driving instructors and MOT testers, carry out tests to make sure lorries and buses are safe to drive, carry out roadside checks on drivers and vehicles, and monitor vehicle recalls. DVSA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Transport .
og:type
article
og:url
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver-and-vehicle-standards-agency

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
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twitter:description
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Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Nginx

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Fastly
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
151.101.128.144
ASN
AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 151.101.128.144
  • 151.101.64.144
  • 151.101.192.144
  • 151.101.0.144
AAAA
  • 2a04:4e42:200::144
  • 2a04:4e42::144
  • 2a04:4e42:600::144
  • 2a04:4e42:400::144
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME
  • www-cdn.production.govuk.service.gov.uk
IPv6 supportYes

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
125
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 16 · H3 18

Links

106 internal · 13 external · 0 broken

Images

20 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

7 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

191 KB · 291 KB

Page size

117 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.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://dvsa.gov.uk
Final URL
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver-and-vehicle-standards-agency
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
812 ms
HTML size
117 KB
Redirect chain
https://dvsa.gov.uk → https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver-and-vehicle-standards-agency

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does dvsa.gov.uk use?
dvsa.gov.uk is built with Nginx.
Is dvsa.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. dvsa.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
Who hosts dvsa.gov.uk?
dvsa.gov.uk is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
What is dvsa.gov.uk's SEO score?
dvsa.gov.uk scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is dvsa.gov.uk's overall website score?
dvsa.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 99/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.