dwp.gov.uk
Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK
Last scanned Jul 22, 2026, 8:11 PM
Overall score
Great
Summary
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. 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 good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 15 agencies and public bodies .
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Top issues to fix
2 issues found · 1 high priority
Slow estimated load (4.7s)
PerformanceUse a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
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
4.73 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 15 agencies and public bodies .
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK
- Description
- The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 15 agencies and public bodies .
- Canonical
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions
- 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
- 158
- 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 18 · H3 23
Links
115 internal · 9 external · 0 broken
Images
24 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
7 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
190 KB · 286 KB
Page size
129 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://dwp.gov.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 4.73 s
- HTML size
- 129 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://dwp.gov.uk → https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does dwp.gov.uk use?
- dwp.gov.uk is built with Nginx.
- Is dwp.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. dwp.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
- Who hosts dwp.gov.uk?
- dwp.gov.uk is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is dwp.gov.uk's SEO score?
- dwp.gov.uk scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is dwp.gov.uk's overall website score?
- dwp.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is dwp.gov.uk hiring?
- dwp.gov.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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