service.gov.uk

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service.gov.uk is ranked #666 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026). The domain was registered on Mar 7, 2013, 13 years, 7 months ago, through Jisc Services Limited, and is paid up until Mar 7, 2028. It is served through Fastly by Nginx.

Global rank

#666

– this week

Domain age

13 years

since Mar 7, 2013

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

91/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#666 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #649.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where service.gov.uk sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Mar 7, 2013 (13 years, 7 months ago)
Expires: Mar 7, 2028
Registrar: Jisc Services Limited
Name servers: ns-1080.awsdns-07.org, ns-117.awsdns-14.com, ns-1983.awsdns-55.co.uk, ns-831.awsdns-39.net, ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com
DNSSEC: Not signed

From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.

Technology stack

CDN

Fastly

Web servers

Nginx

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

91/100

https://www.gov.uk/

Welcome to GOV.UK

GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.

19 passed · 4 warnings · 0 failed

Content

✓Title17 characters
✓Meta description68 characters
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings13 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 4 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 817 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.gov.uk/
!robots.txtNot found
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen
!Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata

Social sharing

!Open Graph1 of 3 key tags set
!Twitter / X cardMissing

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
✓Referrer-PolicySet

Server response

Final URL: https://www.gov.uk/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 539 ms (first byte 537 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 84 KB
Compression: br

Sites ranked near service.gov.uk

Rank	Website	Registered	Built with
#661	loc.gov	1997	Cloudflare, jQuery, Font Awesome
#662	hostgator.com.br	2005	Next.js, React, Cloudflare
#663	sharethrough.com	2008	—
#664	meta.com	1991	—
#665	telephony.goog	2017	—
#667	dailymail.com	1996	Akamai
#668	nike.com	1995	Next.js, React, Akamai
#669	intercom.io	2011	Next.js, React, Vercel
#670	ks-cdn.com	2013	—
#671	2gis.com	2004	Nginx, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel

Questions about service.gov.uk

How popular is service.gov.uk?

service.gov.uk is #666 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is service.gov.uk?

service.gov.uk was registered on Mar 7, 2013, which makes the domain 13 years, 7 months old.

What is service.gov.uk built with?

We detected Fastly and Nginx on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of service.gov.uk?

Jisc Services Limited, according to the registry's RDAP record.