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The Spectator — website check
British weekly magazine, founded 1828, based in London. The Spectator’s website (spectator.com) runs on Jetpack. 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.
44
Security
100
Speed & delivery
38
Email & domain
73
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026
About the brand
Facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Built with
Cookie consent (CMP)SourcepointIAB TCF v2 API
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
Advertising & pixelsAmazon Publisher ServicesGoogle Marketing Platform (DV360/CM360)Google Publisher Tag (Ad Manager)Magnite (Rubicon)
Session replay & heatmapsHotjar
Website buildersGutenberg blocks
Web frameworksReact
Web serversnginx
Web fontsAdobe Fonts
PaymentsStripe
Hosting & delivery
Servernginx
Network (AS)Automattic (WordPress.com)
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateLet's Encrypt · valid until 2027-01-20
First response895 ms
Homepage weight293 KB
IPv6yes
Email & domain
Mail providerMicrosoft 365
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=none
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesGoogle Search Console, Microsoft 365
SEO & social
Title13 characters
Meta description100 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataBreadcrumbList, ListItem, Organization, Person, ReadAction, SearchAction
Language versions3
Open Graphyes
Social profiles linkedYoutube
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
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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