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U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 5:00 PM · 9 views

87

Overall score

Great

Summary

GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. This website uses jQuery. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.

GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found · 1 high priority

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • 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.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

70

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.27 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 21, 2026

Overall
87
SEO
70
Security
100
Performance
90
Accessibility
90

Organization

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

GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.

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Meta tags

Title
U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
Description
GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.
Canonical
https://www.gao.gov/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
og:description
GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.
og:type
Website
og:url
https://www.gao.gov/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
twitter:description
GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

jQuery

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
—
CDN provider
—
IP address
—
ASN
—

DNS records

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

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
www.gao.gov
Valid from
Jul 27, 2026
Valid to
Oct 25, 2026
Days until expiry
87
SAN domains
www.gao.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 0 · H2 19 · H3 12

Links

72 internal · 9 external · 20 broken

Images

42 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

9 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

3.4 KB · 8.0 KB

Page size

129 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://gao.gov
Final URL
https://www.gao.gov/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.27 s
HTML size
129 KB
Redirect chain
https://gao.gov → https://www.gao.gov/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does gao.gov use?
gao.gov is built with jQuery.
Is gao.gov secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. gao.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 25, 2026.
Who hosts gao.gov?
Hosting provider information for gao.gov is not available yet.
What is gao.gov's SEO score?
gao.gov scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is gao.gov's overall website score?
gao.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has gao.gov's score changed over time?
gao.gov's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 88 to 87) since Jul 21, 2026.