What technology does ecfr.gov use?

ecfr.gov is built with Ruby on Rails.

Is ecfr.gov secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. ecfr.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Dec 20, 2026.

What is ecfr.gov's SEO score?

ecfr.gov scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is ecfr.gov's overall website score?

ecfr.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

ecfr.gov

Federal Register :: Request Access

Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 12:33 PM · 2 views

Overall score

Great

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 1 high priority

Missing meta description
SEO
Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEO
Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
Missing html lang attribute
Accessibility
Set <html lang="…"> so screen readers pick the right pronunciation rules.

Summary

This website uses Ruby on Rails hosted on AWS. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

899 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Ruby on Rails

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: AWS
CDN provider: —
IP address: 99.83.174.136
ASN: AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)

DNS records

Type	Value
A	99.83.174.136 75.2.36.59
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	—
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: Amazon
Subject: federalregister.gov
Valid from: Nov 22, 2025
Valid to: Dec 20, 2026
Days until expiry: 152
SAN domains: federalregister.gov, *.federalregister.gov

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyEnabled
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 0 · H3 1

Links

1 internal · 2 external · 0 broken

Images

1 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

4 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

871 KB · 8.1 KB

Page size

10.3 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Found
Disallow rules: 1
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

Missing meta description
Missing canonical link
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
Missing OpenGraph tags
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://ecfr.gov
Final URL: https://unblock.federalregister.gov
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 899 ms
HTML size: 10.3 KB
Redirect chain: https://ecfr.gov → https://unblock.federalregister.gov

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