gao.gov
U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 12:33 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 1 high priority
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
TLS certificate expires in 30 days
SecurityRenew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
6 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
Summary
GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
1.57 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- contact@gao.gov
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 23.54.81.136
- ASN
- AS20940 (AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- www.gao.gov
- Valid from
- May 22, 2026
- Valid to
- Aug 20, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 30
- 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
71 internal · 9 external · 6 broken
Images
42 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
17 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
3.5 KB · 7.9 KB
Page size
129 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 50
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Careers
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://gao.gov
- Final URL
- https://www.gao.gov/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.57 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, Google Analytics.
- Is gao.gov secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. gao.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Aug 20, 2026.
- Who hosts gao.gov?
- gao.gov is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL.
- What is gao.gov's SEO score?
- gao.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is gao.gov's overall website score?
- gao.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is gao.gov hiring?
- Yes. gao.gov has 4 open roles listed on their careers page.
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