firstnews.co.uk
Award-winning news for children | First News | Try at home and at school
Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:23 PM
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
First News is the UK’s only newspaper for young people. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
First News
First News is the UK’s only newspaper for young people. It’s a weekly newspaper aimed at 7 to 14-year-olds that aims to get kids talking about the news.
- London
Top issues to fix
4 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
1 broken link on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
557 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
First News
First News is the UK’s only newspaper for young people. It’s a weekly newspaper aimed at 7 to 14-year-olds that aims to get kids talking about the news.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Address
- London
Meta tags
- Title
- Award-winning news for children | First News | Try at home and at school
- Description
- Trusted, age-appropriate news for children. First News builds media literacy and critical thinking for confident, informed young people.
- Canonical
- https://www.firstnews.co.uk/
- Language
- en-GB
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- 104.20.33.182
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA |
|
| MX | — |
| TXT |
|
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- firstnews.co.uk
- Valid from
- Jul 21, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 19, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 54
- SAN domains
- firstnews.co.uk, *.firstnews.co.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- 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 4 · H3 12
Links
11 internal · 20 external · 1 broken
Images
15 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
72 scripts · 14 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
157 KB · 453 KB
Page size
148 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 4
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://firstnews.co.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.firstnews.co.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 554 ms
- HTML size
- 148 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://firstnews.co.uk → https://www.firstnews.co.uk/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does firstnews.co.uk use?
- firstnews.co.uk is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Cloudflare Analytics.
- Is firstnews.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. firstnews.co.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 19, 2026.
- Who hosts firstnews.co.uk?
- Hosting provider information for firstnews.co.uk is not available yet.
- What is firstnews.co.uk's SEO score?
- firstnews.co.uk scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is firstnews.co.uk's overall website score?
- firstnews.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates firstnews.co.uk?
- firstnews.co.uk is operated by First News. First News is the UK’s only newspaper for young people. It’s a weekly newspaper aimed at 7 to 14-year-olds that aims to get kids talking about the news.
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