What powers 
defra.gov.uk?
Last seen Sep 2026 · 77 technologies across 28 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't name any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Catch-all rules (User-agent: *) restrict some paths for every crawler, AI or not. Checked Oct 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Oct 2026 robots.txt appeared
- Oct 2026 * added to robots.txt
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 66% desktop
- 28% phone
- 6% tablet
United Kingdom
India
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.08 / 10 · ranked #6,144 of all domains
3,919 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.4 s |
| INP | 200 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (United Kingdom)
- Weight: 0.7 MB · 45 requests
- WordPress theme: hello-elementor (child: laqm) · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
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Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- LAQM (Joint Nature Conservation Committee on Wikidata)
- Founded: 1990
- Country: United Kingdom
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jun 2001 (25 years) via British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, renews Jun 2027
- Hosted on Fastly (151.101.0.144)
- DNS: Amazon Route 53
- Email: Microsoft 365
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC reject, MTA-STS
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, RSA 2048, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 10,035, 156 hosts
- Verified with: Apple Business, Atlassian, Microsoft 365
DNS records as swept Oct 2026, certificate as seen Oct 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| laqm.defra.gov.uk | 17 |
| smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk | 17 |
| jncc.defra.gov.uk | 14 |
| uk-air.defra.gov.uk | 13 |
| planthealthportal.defra.gov.uk | 12 |
| poultryregistration.defra.gov.uk | 12 |
| edomero.defra.gov.uk | 10 |
| oifdata.defra.gov.uk | 10 |
| randd.defra.gov.uk | 10 |
| sciencesearch.defra.gov.uk | 10 |
| magic.defra.gov.uk | 9 |
| preferences.mailshot.defra.gov.uk | 9 |
| cap-payments.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| consult.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| disinfectants.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| ehmipeach.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| profile.trade.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| vmd.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| www.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| www.vmd.defra.gov.uk | 8 |
| apha.defra.gov.uk | 7 |
| calculate-direct-payment-reductions.defra.gov.uk | 7 |
| chalaramap.fera.defra.gov.uk | 7 |
| check-what-sfi-actions-you-can-get-paid-to-do.defra.gov.uk | 7 |
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Recent changes
- dropped Cloudflare Bot Management Jun 2026
- dropped Twitter Apr 2026
- detected Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) Dec 2025