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gchq.gov.uk

Welcome to GCHQ | GCHQ

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM · 1 view

92

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

We are the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. This website uses Drupal behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

We are the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. Our mission is to help keep the country safe.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

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

  • 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.

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

    Accessibility

    Add alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).

  • 1 broken link on the page

    SEO

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

90

SEO

2 issue(s) found

100

Performance

546 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

85

Accessibility

1 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.

We are the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. Our mission is to help keep the country safe.

Meta tags

Title
Welcome to GCHQ | GCHQ
Description
We are the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. Our mission is to help keep the country safe.
Canonical
https://www.gchq.gov.uk/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Welcome to GCHQ
og:description
We are the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. Our mission is to help keep the country safe.
og:type
og:url
https://www.gchq.gov.uk/node/3

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Welcome to GCHQ
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
www.gchq.gov.uk
Valid from
Aug 20, 2026
Valid to
Nov 18, 2026
Days until expiry
84
SAN domains
www.gchq.gov.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 13 · H3 8

Links

49 internal · 22 external · 1 broken

Images

29 total · 9 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

8 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.3 KB · 350 B

Page size

109 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

Scan details

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

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does gchq.gov.uk use?
gchq.gov.uk is built with Vue.js, Drupal, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is gchq.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. gchq.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 18, 2026.
Who hosts gchq.gov.uk?
Hosting provider information for gchq.gov.uk is not available yet.
What is gchq.gov.uk's SEO score?
gchq.gov.uk scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is gchq.gov.uk's overall website score?
gchq.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.