dwp.gov.uk
Department for Work and Pensions - GOV.UK
Last scanned Jul 30, 2026, 2:00 PM · 6 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (60/100) and performance excellent (100/100). 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 .
Top issues to fix
4 issues found
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.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
920 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+2 overall since Jul 22, 2026
- Overall
- 86
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 60
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
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 .
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
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
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
- 151
- 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
114 internal · 9 external · 20 broken
Images
25 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
7 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
506 B · 0 B
Page size
130 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://dwp.gov.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 918 ms
- HTML size
- 130 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?
- Hosting provider information for dwp.gov.uk is not available yet.
- What is dwp.gov.uk's SEO score?
- dwp.gov.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is dwp.gov.uk's overall website score?
- dwp.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has dwp.gov.uk's score changed over time?
- dwp.gov.uk's overall score has improved by 2 points (from 84 to 86) since Jul 22, 2026.
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