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Media, music & gamesthehistorypress.co.uk

The History Press — website check

British publishing house, founded 2007, based in Cheltenham. The History Press’s website (thehistorypress.co.uk) runs on WooCommerce. It is delivered through Cloudflare. DMARC is published but only monitors — spoofed mail is not blocked.

61
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.

78
Security
60
Speed & delivery
38
Email & domain
64
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026

About the brand

Founded2007
CountryUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersCheltenham
Official websitethehistorypress.co.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

Built with

E-commerce platformsWooCommerce
CMSJetpackWordPressYoast SEO
AnalyticsGoogle Analytics 4
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
Advertising & pixelsMeta Pixel
CDNCloudflarejsDelivr
Website buildersGutenberg blocks
CSS frameworksBootstrap
JavaScript librariescore-jsjQueryjQuery MigratejQuery UISlick
Hosting platformsKinsta
Security & bot protectionCloudflare Bot Management
Web fontsFont Awesome

Hosting & delivery

Servercloudflare
Network (AS)Cloudflare
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateGoogle Trust Services · valid until 2027-01-11
First response9,337 ms
Homepage weight290 KB
IPv6yes

Email & domain

Mail providerMicrosoft 365
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=none
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesMeta Business (domain verification), Google Search Console, OpenAI

SEO & social

Title17 characters
Meta description161 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataBreadcrumbList, ListItem, Organization, ReadAction, SearchAction, WebPage
Language versions0
Open Graphno
Social profiles linkedFacebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tiktok, X

AI crawlers & robots

AI crawlers blockedanthropic-ai, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended
llms.txtyes
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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