thenational.scot
Scotland's News & Independence Debate - The National
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 8:00 AM · 9 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
Scottish news, politics, opinion and culture from Scotland's only pro-independence newspaper. This website uses Meta Pixel. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Missing OpenGraph tags.
Scottish news, politics, opinion and culture from Scotland's only pro-independence newspaper. The National - trusted Scottish journalism.
Top issues to fix
4 issues found
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
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
3 issue(s) found
Performance
683 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+3 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 93
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 100
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Scottish news, politics, opinion and culture from Scotland's only pro-independence newspaper. The National - trusted Scottish journalism.
Meta tags
- Title
- Scotland's News & Independence Debate - The National
- Description
- Scottish news, politics, opinion and culture from Scotland's only pro-independence newspaper. The National - trusted Scottish journalism.
- Canonical
- https://www.thenational.scot/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
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
- DigiCert Inc
- Subject
- www.thenational.scot
- Valid from
- Jun 12, 2026
- Valid to
- Dec 12, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 132
- SAN domains
- www.thenational.scot
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 50 · H3 12
Links
146 internal · 11 external · 20 broken
Images
96 total · 3 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
38 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
186 KB · 51 B
Page size
403 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Missing OpenGraph tags
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://thenational.scot
- Final URL
- https://www.thenational.scot
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 675 ms
- HTML size
- 403 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://thenational.scot → https://www.thenational.scot
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thenational.scot use?
- thenational.scot is built with jQuery, Google Ads, Meta Pixel.
- Is thenational.scot secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thenational.scot uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Dec 12, 2026.
- Who hosts thenational.scot?
- Hosting provider information for thenational.scot is not available yet.
- What is thenational.scot's SEO score?
- thenational.scot scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is thenational.scot's overall website score?
- thenational.scot has an overall SiteGraph score of 93/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has thenational.scot's score changed over time?
- thenational.scot's overall score has improved by 3 points (from 90 to 93) since Jul 26, 2026.
OpenGraph & Twitter Card
OpenGraph
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