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Close Brothers Group — website check
Banking group,, founded 1878, based in London. Close Brothers Group’s website is www.closebrothers.com; we did not detect a known CMS or shop platform. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.
70
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
63
Email & domain
55
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 23 Oct 2026
About the brand
Founded1878
CountryUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersLondon
IndustryFinancial services · Financial sector
Official websitewww.closebrothers.com
Facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Built with
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
Advertising & pixelsGoogle Marketing Platform (DV360/CM360)
Session replay & heatmapsCrazy Egg
CSS frameworksBootstrap
Marketing automation & CRMSalesforce Account Engagement (Pardot)
Security & bot protectionImperva (Incapsula)
Web fontsAdobe FontsFont AwesomeGoogle Fonts
Hosting & delivery
Network (AS)Imperva
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateGlobalSign nv-sa · valid until 2026-12-20
First response3,294 ms
Homepage weight449 KB
IPv6yes
Email & domain
Mail providerMimecast
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=reject
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesApple (domain verification), Cisco Webex, DocuSign, GitLab, GlobalSign, Google Search Console, Jamf, Miro
SEO & social
Title20 characters
Meta descriptionno
Canonicalyes
Structured datano
Language versions0
Open Graphyes
AI crawlers & robots
AI crawlers blockednone
llms.txtno
ads.txtno
security.txtno
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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