thesun.co.uk
Verifying Device
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 12:13 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Fair
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
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-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
Summary
This website uses Nginx hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (55/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.
SEO
6 issue(s) found
Performance
1.15 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Verifying Device
- Description
- Canonical
- Language
- en
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- initial-scale=1,width=device-width,maximum-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 13.227.249.72
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- *.nukcdn.com
- Valid from
- Jan 6, 2026
- Valid to
- Feb 4, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 198
- SAN domains
- *.nukcdn.com, iframe.thesun.co.uk, www.thesun.co.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 0
Links
0 internal · 0 external · 0 broken
Images
0 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
2 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
166 KB · 638 B
Page size
1.3 MB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 102
- 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
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Products & pricing
Product and pricing information published in this site's own structured data.
Products
£64 GBP
Careers
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://thesun.co.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.thesun.co.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.12 s
- HTML size
- 1.3 MB
- Redirect chain
- https://thesun.co.uk → https://www.thesun.co.uk/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does thesun.co.uk use?
- thesun.co.uk is built with Nginx.
- Is thesun.co.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. thesun.co.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Feb 4, 2027.
- Who hosts thesun.co.uk?
- thesun.co.uk is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- What is thesun.co.uk's SEO score?
- thesun.co.uk scored 55/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is thesun.co.uk's overall website score?
- thesun.co.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 75/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What products does thesun.co.uk offer?
- thesun.co.uk offers Products.
- Is thesun.co.uk hiring?
- thesun.co.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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