metro.co.uk
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:37 AM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
4 issues found · 2 high priority
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.
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.
Summary
Metro is a free daily newspaper published in tabloid format in the United Kingdom by DMG Media. This website uses WordPress hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance fair (65/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
1.06 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Metro
Metro is a free daily newspaper published in tabloid format in the United Kingdom by DMG Media. It is distributed from Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) mornings on trains, buses, stations, and other places such as cafes, workplaces, and street vending boxes.
- Founded
- Mar 16, 1999
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Address
- Northcliffe House, 9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY, GB
Meta tags
- Title
- Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
- Description
- Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
- Canonical
- https://metro.co.uk/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- noarchive
- Manifest
- https://metro.co.uk/manifest.json
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 192.0.66.24
- ASN
- AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA | — |
| MX |
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| TXT | — |
| NS |
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| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- metro.co.uk
- Valid from
- Jul 1, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 29, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 70
- SAN domains
- metro.co.uk, www.metro.co.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 23 · H3 114
Links
279 internal · 22 external · 0 broken
Images
145 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
43 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.2 MB · 102 KB
Page size
588 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 14
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Emily Bashforth
£120,000 GBP
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://metro.co.uk
- Final URL
- https://metro.co.uk
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.04 s
- HTML size
- 588 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://metro.co.uk
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does metro.co.uk use?
- metro.co.uk is built with WordPress, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is metro.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. metro.co.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 29, 2026.
- Who hosts metro.co.uk?
- metro.co.uk is hosted on AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US.
- What is metro.co.uk's SEO score?
- metro.co.uk scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is metro.co.uk's overall website score?
- metro.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates metro.co.uk?
- metro.co.uk is operated by Metro. Metro is a free daily newspaper published in tabloid format in the United Kingdom by DMG Media. It is distributed from Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) mornings on trains, buses, stations, and other places such as cafes, workplaces, and street vending boxes.
- What products does metro.co.uk offer?
- metro.co.uk offers Emily Bashforth.
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