What technology does science.gov use?

science.gov is built with Google Analytics, Apache.

Is science.gov secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. science.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Oct 1, 2026.

Who hosts science.gov?

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

What is science.gov's SEO score?

science.gov scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is science.gov's overall website score?

science.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

science.gov

Science.gov

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM

Overall score

Great

Summary

Science.gov is a gateway to government science information provided by U.S. This website uses Apache. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

Science.gov is a gateway to government science information provided by U.S. Government science agencies, including research and development results.

Top issues to fix

8 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.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
Security
Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
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.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

538 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.

Science.gov is a gateway to government science information provided by U.S. Government science agencies, including research and development results.

Meta tags

Title: Science.gov
Description: Science.gov is a gateway to government science information provided by U.S. Government science agencies, including research and development results.
Canonical
Language: en
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Google Analytics Apache

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: Sectigo Limited
Subject: *.science.gov
Valid from: Mar 17, 2026
Valid to: Oct 1, 2026
Days until expiry: 64
SAN domains: *.science.gov, science.gov

Security headers

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

Compression: none · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 1 · H3 0

Links

8 internal · 14 external · 20 broken

Images

17 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

4 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.9 KB · 0 B

Page size

8.3 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Not found
Disallow rules: 0
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

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

Scan details

Requested URL: https://science.gov
Final URL: https://www.science.gov/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 538 ms
HTML size: 8.3 KB
Redirect chain: https://science.gov → https://www.science.gov/

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