Free self-check

Website self-check: HTTPS, mobile tag and copyright year

These are the same three quick checks we used in our sample of 141 UK small-business homepages. Enter your homepage address, paste the page's source code, and see how your site compares. It runs entirely in your browser: what you paste is not uploaded or stored.

This is a quick self-check, not a full audit. It looks at three things on one page and cannot see speed, security, search ranking or how the site looks on a phone.

1. Get your page source

On a computer, open your homepage, right-click and choose "View page source". Select all, copy, and paste it below.

What the checks mean

  • HTTPS: this tool only checks that your address starts with https://. The certificate itself can still be expired or wrong, so also look for the padlock in your browser's address bar and click it to confirm there is no warning.
  • Viewport tag: a meta name="viewport" tag tells phones to fit the page to the screen. Having it does not guarantee the site looks good on a phone; missing it usually means a tiny, zoomed-out page.
  • Copyright year: a footer that says 2021 can look abandoned even if the business is thriving. We look for the latest year near the end of the page. No year at all is not a fault, just a missed chance to show the site is current.

The sample is small, non-random and covers London and Manchester only, so treat the comparison as a rough guide. Method and the open data are on the study page.

Want it fixed, or want to know the cost?

See what a website costs over 1 and 3 years with our free website cost calculator or the UK website costs by trade guide.

Published by Millwards Digital (millwards.shop), a web-design studio, so we have an interest in the topic. Written with AI assistance.