Media, music & gameswww.bbc.co.uk
BBC — website check
British public service broadcaster, founded 1927, based in London. BBC’s website is www.bbc.co.uk; we did not detect a known CMS or shop platform. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.
91
Brand Web Indexout of 100
Share of 26 technical checks the site passes: security, speed, email and SEO. A measurement of the website — not a popularity ranking.
100
Security
60
Speed & delivery
88
Email & domain
100
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026
About the brand
Founded1927
CountryUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersLondon
IndustryJournalism · Broadcasting
Part ofDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Official websitewww.bbc.co.uk
Facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Hosting & delivery
ServerBBC-GTM
Network (AS)Fastly
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateGlobalSign nv-sa · valid until 2027-01-24
First response6,736 ms
Homepage weight615 KB
IPv6yes
Email & domain
Mail providerOther
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=reject
BIMIyes
DNSSECno
CAAyes
Verified servicesAdobe (Admin Console), Apple (domain verification), Atlassian Cloud, DocuSign, Dropbox, GlobalSign, Google Search Console, Jamf
SEO & social
Title10 characters
Meta description144 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataCollectionPage, ItemList, NewsMediaOrganization
Language versions2
Open Graphyes
AI crawlers & robots
AI crawlers blockedGPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web, Google-Extended, CCBot
llms.txtno
ads.txtyes
security.txtyes
Checklist
Security
- HTTPS by default
- HSTS header
- TLS 1.3
- Content-Security-Policy
- X-Content-Type-Options
- Referrer-Policy
Speed & delivery
- HTTP/3
- IPv6
- First response under 1.5 s
- Homepage under 1.5 MB
Email & domain
- SPF record
- DMARC record
- DMARC enforced (quarantine / reject)
- BIMI logo record
- DNSSEC
- CAA record
SEO & markup
- Title tag 10–70 characters
- Meta description
- Canonical link
- Exactly one H1
- Structured data (JSON-LD)
- Open Graph title and image
- All images have alt text
- XML sitemap
- robots.txt
- security.txt
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Data from our own crawler: homepage, DNS, TLS and robots.txt of each brand’s official website. coolbrands.uk.com is an independent catalogue. It is not affiliated with Superbrands (UK) Ltd or the CoolBrands® awards programme, and does not publish their results.
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