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heraldscotland.com

Scotland News, Politics, Sport, Events and Comment - The Herald

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 9:00 AM · 9 views

92

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Scottish news across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling and Perth plus, insight, analysis and opinion for Scotland and beyond. This website uses Meta Pixel. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Scottish news across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling and Perth plus, insight, analysis and opinion for Scotland and beyond.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • Missing OpenGraph tags

    SEO

    Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.

  • 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.

80

SEO

4 issue(s) found

90

Performance

963 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+4 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall
92
SEO
80
Security
100
Performance
90
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Scottish news across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling and Perth plus, insight, analysis and opinion for Scotland and beyond.

Meta tags

Title
Scotland News, Politics, Sport, Events and Comment - The Herald
Description
Scottish news across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling and Perth plus, insight, analysis and opinion for Scotland and beyond.
Canonical
https://www.heraldscotland.com/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=1
Robots meta
max-image-preview:large
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

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
DigiCert Inc
Subject
www.heraldscotland.com
Valid from
Jun 12, 2026
Valid to
Dec 12, 2026
Days until expiry
133
SAN domains
www.heraldscotland.com

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 40 · H3 13

Links

142 internal · 15 external · 20 broken

Images

72 total · 2 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

39 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

187 KB · 449 B

Page size

364 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Title longer than 60 characters
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://heraldscotland.com
Final URL
https://www.heraldscotland.com
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
956 ms
HTML size
364 KB
Redirect chain
https://heraldscotland.com → https://www.heraldscotland.com

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does heraldscotland.com use?
heraldscotland.com is built with jQuery, Google Ads, Meta Pixel.
Is heraldscotland.com secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. heraldscotland.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Dec 12, 2026.
Who hosts heraldscotland.com?
Hosting provider information for heraldscotland.com is not available yet.
What is heraldscotland.com's SEO score?
heraldscotland.com scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is heraldscotland.com's overall website score?
heraldscotland.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has heraldscotland.com's score changed over time?
heraldscotland.com's overall score has improved by 4 points (from 88 to 92) since Jul 25, 2026.