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Travel & hotelswww.whitbread.co.uk

Whitbread — website check

Multinational hotel, coffee shop and restaurant company, founded 1742, based in Dunstable. Whitbread’s website (www.whitbread.co.uk) runs on Rank Math. It is delivered through Akamai. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.

Logo: Whitbread plc · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
76
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.

100
Security
80
Speed & delivery
63
Email & domain
64
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026

About the brand

Founded1742
CountryUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersDunstable
IndustryHospitality industry
Official websitewww.whitbread.co.uk
In our catalogue from WhitbreadBeefeaterBrewers FayrePremier Inn

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

Built with

CMSRank MathWordPress
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
CDNAkamaicdnjs
Website buildersGutenberg blocks
JavaScript librariescore-jsjQueryjQuery MigrateSlickSwiper
Web serversLiteSpeed
Security & bot protectionAkamai Bot Manager
Web fontsGoogle Fonts
VideoYouTube embed

Hosting & delivery

Network (AS)Akamai
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateDigiCert Inc · valid until 2027-04-10
First response533 ms
Homepage weight165 KB
IPv6no

Email & domain

Mail providerProofpoint
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=reject
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesMicrosoft 365

SEO & social

Title20 characters
Meta description129 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataArticle, Corporation, Organization, Person, SearchAction, WebPage
Language versions0
Open Graphno
Social profiles linkedLinkedin, X, Youtube

AI crawlers & robots

AI crawlers blockednone
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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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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