ssa.gov
The United States Social Security Administration
Last scanned Jul 22, 2026, 8:14 PM
Overall score
Fair
Summary
Official website of the U.S. This website uses Drupal hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is good (75/100). Security scores poor (35/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
- United States
- Hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL
Top issues to fix
9 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.
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.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
2.83 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
2 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
Meta tags
- Title
- The United States Social Security Administration
- Description
- Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
- Canonical
- https://www.ssa.gov/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- index, follow
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 23.55.244.168
- ASN
- AS20940 (AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA |
|
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- DigiCert Inc
- Subject
- www.ssa.gov
- Valid from
- Sep 24, 2025
- Valid to
- Oct 20, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 89
- SAN domains
- www.ssa.gov, beta.ssa.gov, wwwtest.ssa.gov
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 6 · H3 2
Links
83 internal · 12 external · 18 broken
Images
30 total · 9 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
23 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
311 KB · 1.5 KB
Page size
365 B
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://ssa.gov
- Final URL
- https://www.ssa.gov/
- HTTP status
- 403
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.83 s
- HTML size
- 365 B
- Redirect chain
- https://ssa.gov → https://www.ssa.gov/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does ssa.gov use?
- ssa.gov is built with Drupal, Google Analytics.
- Is ssa.gov secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. ssa.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Oct 20, 2026.
- Who hosts ssa.gov?
- ssa.gov is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL.
- What is ssa.gov's SEO score?
- ssa.gov scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is ssa.gov's overall website score?
- ssa.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 67/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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