education.gov.uk
Department for Education - GOV.UK
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:17 AM · 2 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy in England. 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.
The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy in England. DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 13 agencies and public bodies .
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Top issues to fix
1 issue found
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
507 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy in England. DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 13 agencies and public bodies .
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Department for Education - GOV.UK
- Description
- The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy in England. DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 13 agencies and public bodies .
- Canonical
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education
- 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
- 155
- 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 19 · H3 22
Links
115 internal · 15 external · 0 broken
Images
25 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
7 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
190 KB · 286 KB
Page size
132 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://education.gov.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 505 ms
- HTML size
- 132 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://education.gov.uk → https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does education.gov.uk use?
- education.gov.uk is built with Nginx.
- Is education.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. education.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
- Who hosts education.gov.uk?
- education.gov.uk is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is education.gov.uk's SEO score?
- education.gov.uk scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is education.gov.uk's overall website score?
- education.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 99/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is education.gov.uk hiring?
- education.gov.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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