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Media, music & gameswww.dcthomson.co.uk

D. C. Thomson — website check

Scottish publishing and television production company, founded 1905. D. C. Thomson’s website (www.dcthomson.co.uk) runs on HubSpot CMS. It is delivered through Cloudflare. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.

85
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.

89
Security
100
Speed & delivery
63
Email & domain
91
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026

About the brand

Founded1905
CountryUnited Kingdom
IndustryPublishing
Official websitewww.dcthomson.co.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

Built with

CMSHubSpot CMSWordPress
Cookie consent (CMP)OneTrust
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
CDNCloudflare
JavaScript librariesSwiper
Security & bot protectionCloudflare Bot Management

Hosting & delivery

Servercloudflare
Network (AS)Cloudflare
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateLet's Encrypt · valid until 2027-01-13
First response1,164 ms
Homepage weight133 KB
IPv6yes

Email & domain

Mail providerMicrosoft 365
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=quarantine
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesAnthropic, Apple (domain verification), Atlassian Cloud, Canva, Figma, Google Search Console, Microsoft 365, Miro

SEO & social

Title50 characters
Meta description134 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataOrganization, WebPage
Language versions0
Open Graphyes
Social profiles linkedFacebook, Instagram, Linkedin, X

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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