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Usability | Digital.gov

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 11:19 AM · 1 view

91

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Usability refers to the measurement of how easily a user can accomplish their goals when using a service. This website uses Drupal hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Usability refers to the measurement of how easily a user can accomplish their goals when using a service. This is usually measured through established research methodologies under the term “usability testing,” which includes success rates and customer satisfaction. Usability is one part of the larger user experience (UX) umbrella. While UX encompasses designing the overall experience of a product, usability focuses on the mechanics of making sure products work as well as possible for the user.

United States
Hosted on AWS

Top issues to fix

3 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.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

85

SEO

2 issue(s) found

90

Performance

264 ms

90

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.

Usability refers to the measurement of how easily a user can accomplish their goals when using a service. This is usually measured through established research methodologies under the term “usability testing,” which includes success rates and customer satisfaction. Usability is one part of the larger user experience (UX) umbrella. While UX encompasses designing the overall experience of a product, usability focuses on the mechanics of making sure products work as well as possible for the user.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Usability | Digital.gov
Description
Usability refers to the measurement of how easily a user can accomplish their goals when using a service. This is usually measured through established research methodologies under the term “usability testing,” which includes success rates and customer satisfaction. Usability is one part of the larger user experience (UX) umbrella. While UX encompasses designing the overall experience of a product, usability focuses on the mechanics of making sure products work as well as possible for the user.
Canonical
https://digital.gov/topics/usability
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
index, follow
Manifest
https://digital.gov/themes/custom/digital_gov/static/digitalgov/img/site.webmanifest?v=3

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Usability
og:description
Usability refers to the measurement of how easily a user can accomplish their goals when using a service. This is usually measured through established research methodologies under the term “usability testing,” which includes success rates and customer satisfaction. Usability is one part of the larger user experience (UX) umbrella. While UX encompasses designing the overall experience of a product, usability focuses on the mechanics of making sure products work as well as possible for the user.
og:type
website
og:url
https://digital.gov/topics/usability

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Usability
twitter:description
Usability refers to the measurement of how easily a user can accomplish their goals when using a service. This is usually measured through established research methodologies under the term “usability testing,” which includes success rates and customer satisfaction. Usability is one part of the larger user experience (UX) umbrella. While UX encompasses designing the overall experience of a product, usability focuses on the mechanics of making sure products work as well as possible for the user.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
AWS
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
3.175.86.33
ASN
AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 3.175.86.33
  • 3.175.86.100
  • 3.175.86.97
  • 3.175.86.28
AAAA
  • 2600:9000:2921:9600:10:2458:55c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:2921:4000:10:2458:55c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:2921:3200:10:2458:55c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:2921:1600:10:2458:55c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:2921:ae00:10:2458:55c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:2921:a000:10:2458:55c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:2921:8000:10:2458:55c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:2921:4200:10:2458:55c0:93a1
MX
TXT
  • v=spf1 include:1962994.spf05.hubspotemail.net ~all
  • google-site-verification=Mi2rwVMxdp3eSbZughKvN0M_dwi6WLxMrRSsnLOWyVI
NS
  • ns-1636.awsdns-12.co.uk
  • ns-917.awsdns-50.net
  • ns-194.awsdns-24.com
  • ns-1112.awsdns-11.org
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
digital.gov
Valid from
Jun 4, 2026
Valid to
Sep 2, 2026
Days until expiry
35
SAN domains
digital.gov

Security headers

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

Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 18 · H3 38

Links

46 internal · 18 external · 0 broken

Images

58 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

5 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

244 KB · 420 KB

Page size

87.5 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
3
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
1553

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

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://usability.gov
Final URL
https://digital.gov/topics/usability/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
263 ms
HTML size
87.5 KB
Redirect chain
https://usability.gov → https://digital.gov/topics/usability/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does usability.gov use?
usability.gov is built with Drupal.
Is usability.gov secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. usability.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 2, 2026.
Who hosts usability.gov?
usability.gov is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
What is usability.gov's SEO score?
usability.gov scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is usability.gov's overall website score?
usability.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is usability.gov hiring?
usability.gov has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.