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Media, music & gamesmetro.co.uk
Metro — website check
British free daily newspaper, founded 1999. Metro’s website (metro.co.uk) runs on Jetpack. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.
67
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.
67
Security
40
Speed & delivery
63
Email & domain
82
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026
Built with
AnalyticsGoogle Analytics 4
Cookie consent (CMP)IAB TCF v2 API
Web serversnginx
CAPTCHAGoogle reCAPTCHA
Web fontsGoogle Fonts
Hosting & delivery
Servernginx
Network (AS)Automattic (WordPress.com)
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateLet's Encrypt · valid until 2026-11-30
First response6,810 ms
Homepage weight585 KB
IPv6no
Email & domain
Mail providerMicrosoft 365
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=reject
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesAdobe (Admin Console), Anthropic, Atlassian Cloud, Dropbox, Figma, Google Search Console, Microsoft 365, Stripe
SEO & social
Title57 characters
Meta description57 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataOrganization, PostalAddress, VideoObject, WebSite
Language versions0
Open Graphyes
Social profiles linkedFacebook, Instagram, Tiktok, X
AI crawlers & robots
AI crawlers blockedGPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web
llms.txtno
ads.txtyes
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
More media, music & games brands All
| Brand | Website | Platform | Security | Speed & delivery | Email & domain | SEO & markup | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBC | www.bbc.co.uk | — | 100 | 60 | 88 | 100 | 91 |
| D. C. Thomson | www.dcthomson.co.uk | HubSpot CMS | 89 | 100 | 63 | 91 | 85 |
| London Review of Books | www.lrb.co.uk | — | 100 | 40 | 75 | 91 | 82 |
| Time Out | www.timeout.com | — | 100 | 80 | 75 | 73 | 82 |
| Classic FM | www.classicfm.com | — | 89 | 20 | 75 | 100 | 79 |
| LBC | www.lbc.co.uk | — | 100 | 20 | 75 | 91 | 79 |
| Smooth Radio | www.smoothradio.com | — | 89 | 20 | 75 | 100 | 79 |
| Capital | www.capitalfm.com | — | 89 | 20 | 63 | 100 | 76 |
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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