Is itis.gov secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. itis.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Oct 16, 2026.

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

What is itis.gov's SEO score?

itis.gov scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is itis.gov's overall website score?

itis.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

itis.gov

ITIS.gov | Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 1:49 PM

Overall score

Great

Summary

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov) partners with specialists from around the world to assemble scientific names and their taxonomic relationships and distributes that data openly through pub… This website uses jQuery. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov) partners with specialists from around the world to assemble scientific names and their taxonomic relationships and distributes that data openly through publicly available software. The ITIS mission is to communicate a comprehensive taxonomy of global species that enables biodiversity information to be discovered, indexed, and connected across all human endeavors. ITIS is made up of 11 active MOU partners committed to improving and continually updating scientific and common names of all seven Kingdoms of Life (Archaea, Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia).

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 1 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 X-Content-Type-Options header
Security
Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEO
Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

6 issue(s) found

100

Performance

976 ms

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.

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov) partners with specialists from around the world to assemble scientific names and their taxonomic relationships and distributes that data openly through publicly available software. The ITIS mission is to communicate a comprehensive taxonomy of global species that enables biodiversity information to be discovered, indexed, and connected across all human endeavors. ITIS is made up of 11 active MOU partners committed to improving and continually updating scientific and common names of all seven Kingdoms of Life (Archaea, Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia).

Meta tags

Title: ITIS.gov | Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Description: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov) partners with specialists from around the world to assemble scientific names and their taxonomic relationships and distributes that data openly through publicly available software. The ITIS mission is to communicate a comprehensive taxonomy of global species that enables biodiversity information to be discovered, indexed, and connected across all human endeavors. ITIS is made up of 11 active MOU partners committed to improving and continually updating scientific and common names of all seven Kingdoms of Life (Archaea, Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia).
Canonical
Language: en-US
Charset: ISO-8859-1
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

jQuery

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: Internet2
Subject: itis.gov
Valid from: Sep 15, 2025
Valid to: Oct 16, 2026
Days until expiry: 79
SAN domains: itis.gov, lsid-beta.itis.gov, lsid.itis.gov, www-beta.itis.gov, www.itis.gov, www.lsid-beta.itis.gov

Security headers

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

Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 0 · H3 0

Links

33 internal · 4 external · 20 broken

Images

7 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

9 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

3.5 KB · 0 B

Page size

23.8 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
Missing canonical link
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
Missing OpenGraph tags
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://itis.gov
Final URL: https://itis.gov
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 976 ms
HTML size: 23.8 KB
Redirect chain: https://itis.gov

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does itis.gov use?: itis.gov is built with jQuery.
Is itis.gov secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. itis.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Oct 16, 2026.
Who hosts itis.gov?: Hosting provider information for itis.gov is not available yet.
What is itis.gov's SEO score?: itis.gov scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is itis.gov's overall website score?: itis.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Top issues to fix

Organization

Meta tags

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

Technologies

Hosting & CDN

DNS records

TLS / SSL certificate

Security headers

Content & assets

Robots.txt & Sitemap

SEO issues

Accessibility issues

Scan details

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