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hmrc.gov.uk

HM Revenue & Customs - GOV.UK

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 9:00 PM · 14 views

93

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority, and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services, help families and individuals with targeted financial support and provid… This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority, and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services, help families and individuals with targeted financial support and provide the property valuations that support taxation and benefits. We do this by being impartial and increasingly effective and efficient in our administration. We help the honest majority to get their tax right and make it hard for the dishonest minority to cheat the system. HMRC is a non-ministerial department, supported by 1 public body .

Top issues to fix

4 issues found

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • 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.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.55 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+23 overall since Jul 22, 2026

Overall
93
SEO
85
Security
100
Performance
90
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority, and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services, help families and individuals with targeted financial support and provide the property valuations that support taxation and benefits. We do this by being impartial and increasingly effective and efficient in our administration. We help the honest majority to get their tax right and make it hard for the dishonest minority to cheat the system. HMRC is a non-ministerial department, supported by 1 public body .

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
HM Revenue & Customs - GOV.UK
Description
HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority, and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services, help families and individuals with targeted financial support and provide the property valuations that support taxation and benefits. We do this by being impartial and increasingly effective and efficient in our administration. We help the honest majority to get their tax right and make it hard for the dishonest minority to cheat the system. HMRC is a non-ministerial department, supported by 1 public body .
Canonical
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
max-image-preview:none
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
HM Revenue & Customs
og:description
HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority, and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services, help families and individuals with targeted financial support and provide the property valuations that support taxation and benefits. We do this by being impartial and increasingly effective and efficient in our administration. We help the honest majority to get their tax right and make it hard for the dishonest minority to cheat the system. HMRC is a non-ministerial department, supported by 1 public body .
og:type
article
og:url
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
GlobalSign nv-sa
Subject
www.gov.uk
Valid from
Nov 26, 2025
Valid to
Dec 28, 2026
Days until expiry
152
SAN domains
www.gov.uk, *.businesslink.gov.uk, *.direct.gov.uk, *.publishing.service.gov.uk, *.cabinet-office.gov.uk, assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, service.gov.uk, data.gov.uk, dfid.gov.uk, cabinet-office.gov.uk, api.gov.uk, www.data.gov.uk, gov.uk

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 19 · H3 20

Links

106 internal · 18 external · 20 broken

Images

21 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

7 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

506 B · 0 B

Page size

127 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://hmrc.gov.uk
Final URL
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.55 s
HTML size
127 KB
Redirect chain
https://hmrc.gov.uk → https://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ → http://aka.hmrc.gov.uk/index.htm → https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does hmrc.gov.uk use?
hmrc.gov.uk is built with Nginx.
Is hmrc.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. hmrc.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Dec 28, 2026.
Who hosts hmrc.gov.uk?
Hosting provider information for hmrc.gov.uk is not available yet.
What is hmrc.gov.uk's SEO score?
hmrc.gov.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is hmrc.gov.uk's overall website score?
hmrc.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 93/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has hmrc.gov.uk's score changed over time?
hmrc.gov.uk's overall score has improved by 23 points (from 70 to 93) since Jul 22, 2026.