hfea.gov.uk

HFEA: UK fertility regulator

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

85

Overall score

Great

Summary

We are the UK's independent regulator of fertility treatment and research using human embryos. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on Azure. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

We are the UK's independent regulator of fertility treatment and research using human embryos.

United States

Hosted on Azure

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Security
Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
Security
Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
3 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
Security
Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

90

SEO

2 issue(s) found

75

Performance

286 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 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 independent regulator of fertility treatment and research using human embryos.

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Contact

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

Email: enquiriesteam@hfea.gov.uk foirequest@hfea.gov.uk press.office@hfea.gov.uk whistleblowing@hfea.gov.uk
Phone: +442072918226 +447771981920 +442072918200

Source: https://www.hfea.gov.uk/contact-us

Meta tags

Title: HFEA: UK fertility regulator
Description: We are the UK's independent regulator of fertility treatment and research using human embryos.
Canonical
Language: en-GB
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

jQuery Google Analytics

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: Azure
CDN provider: —
IP address: 13.79.38.229
ASN: AS8075 (MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US)

DNS records

Type	Value
A	13.79.38.229
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	ifqlive-website.azurewebsites.net
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: GlobalSign nv-sa
Subject: *.hfea.gov.uk
Valid from: Oct 21, 2025
Valid to: Nov 22, 2026
Days until expiry: 89
SAN domains: *.hfea.gov.uk, hfea.gov.uk

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
Content-Security-PolicyMissing
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
Referrer-PolicyMissing
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 5 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 11 · H3 4

Links

60 internal · 6 external · 0 broken

Images

3 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

22 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.3 MB · 321 KB

Page size

55.2 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Not found
Disallow rules: 0
sitemap.xml: Found
URLs in sitemap: -1

SEO issues

Missing canonical link
robots.txt not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://hfea.gov.uk
Final URL: https://www.hfea.gov.uk/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 285 ms
HTML size: 55.2 KB
Redirect chain: https://hfea.gov.uk → https://www.hfea.gov.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does hfea.gov.uk use?: hfea.gov.uk is built with jQuery, Google Analytics.
Is hfea.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. hfea.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Nov 22, 2026.
Who hosts hfea.gov.uk?: hfea.gov.uk is hosted on Azure.
What is hfea.gov.uk's SEO score?: hfea.gov.uk scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is hfea.gov.uk's overall website score?: hfea.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.