HSBC — website check
British multinational bank, founded 1865, based in 8 Canada Square. HSBC’s website (www.hsbc.co.uk) runs on Adobe Experience Manager. It is delivered through Amazon CloudFront. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.
Share of 26 technical checks the site passes: security, speed, email and SEO. A measurement of the website — not a popularity ranking.
About the brand
Facts: Wikidata (CC0).
UK footprint
Listed as “HSBC”.
Store counts compiled from public map listings, October 2026. Listings are grouped by the name they carry; a company’s own store count can differ.
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Hosting & delivery
Email & domain
SEO & social
AI crawlers & robots
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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| Coutts | www.coutts.com | Adobe Experience Manager | 100 | 60 | 75 | 91 | 85 |
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| Virgin Money UK | uk.virginmoney.com | — | 100 | 40 | 75 | 100 | 85 |
| 3i | www.3i.com | — | 100 | 80 | 75 | 73 | 82 |
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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