What technology does sd.gov use?

We did not detect any specific technologies for sd.gov in the latest scan.

Is sd.gov secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. sd.gov uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 14, 2026.

sd.gov is hosted on SERVICENOW-WAVE - SERVICENOW, INC., US.

What is sd.gov's SEO score?

sd.gov scored 50/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is sd.gov's overall website score?

sd.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 76/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

sd.gov has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.

sd.gov

South Dakota Official State Homepage - Citizen Services

Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 10:25 AM · 1 view

Overall score

Fair

Summary

This website is hosted on SERVICENOW-WAVE - SERVICENOW, INC., US. SEO is fair (50/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

United States

Hosted on SERVICENOW-WAVE - SERVICENOW, INC., US

Top issues to fix

9 issues found · 3 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 meta description
SEO
Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
No H1 heading found
SEO
Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
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.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

7 issue(s) found

Performance

859 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 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.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Source: https://www.sd.gov/contact

Meta tags

Title: South Dakota Official State Homepage - Citizen Services
Description
Canonical
Language: en
Charset
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: SERVICENOW-WAVE - SERVICENOW, INC., US
CDN provider: —
IP address: 149.96.189.146
ASN: AS397182 (SERVICENOW-WAVE - SERVICENOW, INC., US)

DNS records

Type	Value
A	149.96.189.146
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	sdcsm.servicenowservices.com
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.2
Issuer: Let's Encrypt
Subject: www.sd.gov
Valid from: Jun 16, 2026
Valid to: Sep 14, 2026
Days until expiry: 50
SAN domains: b2b.sd.gov, gunrange.sd.gov, news.sd.gov, rabenefits.sd.gov, www.sd.gov

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 6 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 4 · H3 0

Links

0 internal · 0 external · 0 broken

Images

0 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

72 scripts · 6 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

138 KB · 785 KB

Page size

950 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

Missing meta description
Missing canonical link
No H1 heading found
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
Missing OpenGraph tags
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Careers

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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://sd.gov
Final URL: https://www.sd.gov/cs
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 840 ms
HTML size: 950 KB
Redirect chain: https://sd.gov → https://www.sd.gov/ → https://www.sd.gov/cs

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does sd.gov use?: We did not detect any specific technologies for sd.gov in the latest scan.
Is sd.gov secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. sd.gov uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 14, 2026.
Who hosts sd.gov?: sd.gov is hosted on SERVICENOW-WAVE - SERVICENOW, INC., US.
What is sd.gov's SEO score?: sd.gov scored 50/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is sd.gov's overall website score?: sd.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 76/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is sd.gov hiring?: sd.gov has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.