legislation.gov.uk
Legislation.gov.uk
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 2 views
Overall score
Fair
Top issues to fix
13 issues found · 4 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Slow estimated load (7.6s)
PerformanceUse a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
+7 more issues — details in the sections below.
Summary
The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present. This website uses jQuery hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (55/100) and accessibility is good (80/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
SEO
7 issue(s) found
Performance
7.63 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
2 issue(s) found
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Legislation.gov.uk
- Description
- The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present. This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives, and the Office of the King's Printer for Scotland.
- Canonical
- Language
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=0.1, user-scalable=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 13.225.5.87
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- www.legislation.gov.uk
- Valid from
- Jan 9, 2026
- Valid to
- Feb 6, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 200
- SAN domains
- www.legislation.gov.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0
Links
0 internal · 0 external · 0 broken
Images
0 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
5 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
0 B · 0 B
Page size
2.0 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 H1 heading found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- Missing OpenGraph tags
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
- Missing <html lang> attribute
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://legislation.gov.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk:443/
- HTTP status
- 202
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 7.63 s
- HTML size
- 2.0 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://legislation.gov.uk → https://www.legislation.gov.uk:443/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does legislation.gov.uk use?
- legislation.gov.uk is built with jQuery.
- Is legislation.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. legislation.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Feb 6, 2027.
- Who hosts legislation.gov.uk?
- legislation.gov.uk is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- What is legislation.gov.uk's SEO score?
- legislation.gov.uk scored 55/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is legislation.gov.uk's overall website score?
- legislation.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 69/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is legislation.gov.uk hiring?
- legislation.gov.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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