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food.gov.uk

Food Standards Agency - GOV.UK

Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 6:25 PM · 5 views

96

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

We are responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. 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 (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

We are responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also responsible for labelling policy in Wales and Northern Ireland, and for nutrition policy in Northern Ireland. FSA is a non-ministerial department, supported by 6 agencies and public bodies .

United States
Hosted on Fastly

Top issues to fix

1 issue found

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

95

SEO

1 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.52 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

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Organization

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

We are responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also responsible for labelling policy in Wales and Northern Ireland, and for nutrition policy in Northern Ireland. FSA is a non-ministerial department, supported by 6 agencies and public bodies .

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Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
Food Standards Agency - GOV.UK
Description
We are responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also responsible for labelling policy in Wales and Northern Ireland, and for nutrition policy in Northern Ireland. FSA is a non-ministerial department, supported by 6 agencies and public bodies .
Canonical
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/food-standards-agency
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
max-image-preview:none
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Food Standards Agency
og:description
We are responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also responsible for labelling policy in Wales and Northern Ireland, and for nutrition policy in Northern Ireland. FSA is a non-ministerial department, supported by 6 agencies and public bodies .
og:type
article
og:url
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/food-standards-agency

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
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twitter:description
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Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Nginx

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Fastly
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
151.101.192.144
ASN
AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 151.101.192.144
  • 151.101.64.144
  • 151.101.0.144
  • 151.101.128.144
AAAA
  • 2a04:4e42:400::144
  • 2a04:4e42:600::144
  • 2a04:4e42:200::144
  • 2a04:4e42::144
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME
  • www-cdn.production.govuk.service.gov.uk
IPv6 supportYes

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
156
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 17 · H3 20

Links

94 internal · 22 external · 0 broken

Images

25 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

7 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

190 KB · 286 KB

Page size

130 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

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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://food.gov.uk
Final URL
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/food-standards-agency
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.52 s
HTML size
130 KB
Redirect chain
https://food.gov.uk → https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/food-standards-agency

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does food.gov.uk use?
food.gov.uk is built with Nginx.
Is food.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. food.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
Who hosts food.gov.uk?
food.gov.uk is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
What is food.gov.uk's SEO score?
food.gov.uk scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is food.gov.uk's overall website score?
food.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 96/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is food.gov.uk hiring?
food.gov.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.