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essex.gov.uk

Welcome to Essex | Essex County Council

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM

87

Overall score

Great

Summary

This website uses Nginx behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 2 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Missing meta description

    SEO

    Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.

  • 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.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

65

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

188 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 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.

Organization

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

FacebookX (Twitter)LinkedInYouTube

Meta tags

Title
Welcome to Essex | Essex County Council
Description
Canonical
https://www.essex.gov.uk/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest
https://www.essex.gov.uk/themes/custom/ecc_theme_gov/assets/images/favicons/site.webmanifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
—
og:description
—
og:type
—
og:url
—

Twitter Card

twitter:card
—
twitter:title
—
twitter:description
—

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

DrupalNginx

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
—
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
—
ASN
—

DNS records

TypeValue
A—
AAAA—
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME—
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Sectigo Limited
Subject
*.essex.gov.uk
Valid from
Dec 9, 2025
Valid to
Dec 5, 2026
Days until expiry
103
SAN domains
*.essex.gov.uk, essex.gov.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 10 · H3 15

Links

26 internal · 7 external · 0 broken

Images

6 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

5 scripts · 6 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

152 KB · 220 KB

Page size

50.4 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Missing meta description
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://essex.gov.uk
Final URL
https://www.essex.gov.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
187 ms
HTML size
50.4 KB
Redirect chain
https://essex.gov.uk → https://www.essex.gov.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does essex.gov.uk use?
essex.gov.uk is built with Drupal, Nginx.
Is essex.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. essex.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Dec 5, 2026.
Who hosts essex.gov.uk?
Hosting provider information for essex.gov.uk is not available yet.
What is essex.gov.uk's SEO score?
essex.gov.uk scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is essex.gov.uk's overall website score?
essex.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.