nidirect.gov.uk
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Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 6:00 AM · 9 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
nidirect is the official government website for Northern Ireland citizens. This website uses Drupal. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
nidirect is the official government website for Northern Ireland citizens. nidirect brings together lots of information from government departments and agencies, written in language that is easy to understand.
Top issues to fix
6 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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
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.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
270 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 90
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 90
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
nidirect is the official government website for Northern Ireland citizens. nidirect brings together lots of information from government departments and agencies, written in language that is easy to understand.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Home
- Description
- nidirect is the official government website for Northern Ireland citizens. nidirect brings together lots of information from government departments and agencies, written in language that is easy to understand.
- Canonical
- https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/themes/custom/nicsdru_nidirect_theme/images/favicons/site.webmanifest
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
- nidirect.gov.uk
- Valid from
- Jul 29, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 27, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 86
- SAN domains
- nidirect.gov.uk, www.nidirect.gov.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 12 · H3 26
Links
56 internal · 141 external · 20 broken
Images
7 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
10 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
8.3 KB · 0 B
Page size
94.7 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
- 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://nidirect.gov.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 269 ms
- HTML size
- 94.7 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://nidirect.gov.uk → https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does nidirect.gov.uk use?
- nidirect.gov.uk is built with Drupal, jQuery.
- Is nidirect.gov.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. nidirect.gov.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 27, 2026.
- Who hosts nidirect.gov.uk?
- Hosting provider information for nidirect.gov.uk is not available yet.
- What is nidirect.gov.uk's SEO score?
- nidirect.gov.uk scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is nidirect.gov.uk's overall website score?
- nidirect.gov.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has nidirect.gov.uk's score changed over time?
- nidirect.gov.uk's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 93 to 90) since Jul 26, 2026.
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