irs.gov
Internal Revenue Service | An official website of the United States government
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 12:00 PM · 9 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
Pay your taxes. This website uses jQuery. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Pay your taxes. Get your refund status. Find IRS forms and answers to tax questions. We help you understand and meet your federal tax responsibilities.
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
TLS certificate expires in 25 days
SecurityRenew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
536 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 18, 2026
- Overall
- 90
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 90
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Pay your taxes. Get your refund status. Find IRS forms and answers to tax questions. We help you understand and meet your federal tax responsibilities.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Internal Revenue Service | An official website of the United States government
- Description
- Pay your taxes. Get your refund status. Find IRS forms and answers to tax questions. We help you understand and meet your federal tax responsibilities.
- Canonical
- https://www.irs.gov/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- index, follow
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- www.irs.gov
- Valid from
- May 26, 2026
- Valid to
- Aug 24, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 25
- SAN domains
- apps.irs.gov, efile.irs.gov, eitc.irs.gov, forms.irs.gov, freefile.irs.gov, idverify.irs.gov, search.irs.gov, services.irs.gov, stayexempt.irs.gov, www.eitc.irs.gov, www.idverify.irs.gov, www.irs.gov, www.stayexempt.irs.gov
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 3 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 22 · H3 47
Links
120 internal · 26 external · 20 broken
Images
17 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
11 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
5.6 KB · 3.8 KB
Page size
135 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
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://irs.gov
- Final URL
- https://www.irs.gov/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 534 ms
- HTML size
- 135 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://irs.gov → https://www.irs.gov/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does irs.gov use?
- irs.gov is built with jQuery.
- Is irs.gov secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. irs.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Aug 24, 2026.
- Who hosts irs.gov?
- Hosting provider information for irs.gov is not available yet.
- What is irs.gov's SEO score?
- irs.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is irs.gov's overall website score?
- irs.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has irs.gov's score changed over time?
- irs.gov's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 93 to 90) since Jul 18, 2026.
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