What technology does history.gov use?

history.gov is built with Drupal, Bootstrap, jQuery, Google Analytics.

Is history.gov secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. history.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Entrust Limited, valid until Oct 31, 2026.

Who hosts history.gov?

Hosting provider information for history.gov is not available yet.

What is history.gov's SEO score?

history.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is history.gov's overall website score?

history.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

history.gov

National Archives | Home

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:21 PM · 1 view

Overall score

Great

Summary

This website uses Drupal behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEO
Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
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.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

Performance

1.05 s

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.

Contact

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

Phone: 1-866-272-6272

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Drupal Bootstrap jQuery Google Analytics

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: CloudFront
IP address: —
ASN: —

DNS records

Type	Value
A	—
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	—
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: Entrust Limited
Subject: archives.gov
Valid from: Sep 30, 2025
Valid to: Oct 31, 2026
Days until expiry: 68
SAN domains: archives.gov, nara.gov, www.archives.gov, www.nara.gov

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 13 · H3 0

Links

62 internal · 10 external · 0 broken

Images

1 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

53 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

137 KB · 17.2 KB

Page size

28.7 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

Missing meta description
Missing canonical link
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://history.gov
Final URL: https://www.archives.gov/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.05 s
HTML size: 28.7 KB
Redirect chain: https://history.gov → https://historyhub.history.gov/ → https://www.archives.gov/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does history.gov use?: history.gov is built with Drupal, Bootstrap, jQuery, Google Analytics.
Is history.gov secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. history.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Entrust Limited, valid until Oct 31, 2026.
Who hosts history.gov?: Hosting provider information for history.gov is not available yet.
What is history.gov's SEO score?: history.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is history.gov's overall website score?: history.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.