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The Scotsman — website check

British national daily newspaper, founded 1817, based in Edinburgh. The Scotsman’s website is www.scotsman.com; we did not detect a known CMS or shop platform. It is delivered through Cloudflare. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.

73
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
40
Speed & delivery
63
Email & domain
82
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026

About the brand

Founded1817
CountryUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersEdinburgh
Official websitewww.scotsman.com

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

Built with

AnalyticsComscoreUniversal Analytics (legacy)
Cookie consent (CMP)SourcepointIAB TCF v2 API
Advertising & pixelsGoogle Marketing Platform (DV360/CM360)Google Publisher Tag (Ad Manager)Magnite (Rubicon)Taboola
CDNCloudflare
Security & bot protectionCloudflare Bot Management

Hosting & delivery

Servercloudflare
Network (AS)Google Cloud
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateLet's Encrypt · valid until 2027-01-16
First response9,455 ms
Homepage weight485 KB
IPv6no

Email & domain

Mail providerGoogle Workspace
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=quarantine
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesMeta Business (domain verification), Google Search Console

SEO & social

Title26 characters
Meta description92 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataNewsMediaOrganization, WebPage
Language versions1
Open Graphno
Social profiles linkedFacebook, Instagram, Linkedin, X

AI crawlers & robots

AI crawlers blockednone
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

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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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