diff --git a/external_resources/api.py b/external_resources/api.py
index a37670cb1..e7bedb299 100644
--- a/external_resources/api.py
+++ b/external_resources/api.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 from external_resources.constants import (
     RESOURCE_BROKEN_STATUS_END,
     RESOURCE_BROKEN_STATUS_START,
+    USER_AGENT_STRING,
+    USER_AGENT_TIMEOUT,
 )
 from external_resources.exceptions import CheckFailedError
 from websites.models import WebsiteContent
@@ -26,15 +28,10 @@ def is_url_broken(url: str) -> tuple[bool, Optional[int]]:
         response = requests.head(
             url,
             allow_redirects=True,
-            timeout=30,
+            timeout=USER_AGENT_TIMEOUT,
             headers={
                 "Accept": "*/*",
-                "User-Agent": (
-                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
-                    "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
-                    "Chrome/114.0.0.0 "
-                    "Safari/537.36"
-                ),
+                "User-Agent": USER_AGENT_STRING,
             },
         )
     except Exception as ex:
diff --git a/external_resources/constants.py b/external_resources/constants.py
index 0f72673d6..ad5bdac2d 100644
--- a/external_resources/constants.py
+++ b/external_resources/constants.py
@@ -25,3 +25,18 @@
 # constants for Celery task
 EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_TASK_RATE_LIMIT = "100/s"
 EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_TASK_PRIORITY = 4  # Lowest priority from range (0 - 4)
+
+# constants for user agent
+USER_AGENT_STRING = (
+    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
+    "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
+    "Chrome/114.0.0.0 "
+    "Safari/537.36"
+)
+
+USER_AGENT_TIMEOUT = 30
+
+# metadata fields
+METADATA_IS_BROKEN = "is_broken"
+METADATA_URL_STATUS_CODE = "url_status_code"
+METADATA_BACKUP_URL_STATUS_CODE = "backup_url_status_code"
diff --git a/external_resources/tasks.py b/external_resources/tasks.py
index b9cdfefac..87e435215 100644
--- a/external_resources/tasks.py
+++ b/external_resources/tasks.py
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 from external_resources.constants import (
     EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_TASK_PRIORITY,
     EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_TASK_RATE_LIMIT,
+    METADATA_BACKUP_URL_STATUS_CODE,
+    METADATA_IS_BROKEN,
+    METADATA_URL_STATUS_CODE,
     RESOURCE_UNCHECKED_STATUSES,
 )
 from external_resources.exceptions import CheckFailedError
@@ -58,6 +61,10 @@ def check_external_resources(resources: list[int]):
             log.debug(ex)
             state.status = ExternalResourceState.Status.CHECK_FAILED
         else:
+            # Update the metadata of the resource with the status codes
+            resource.metadata[METADATA_URL_STATUS_CODE] = url_status
+            resource.metadata[METADATA_BACKUP_URL_STATUS_CODE] = backup_url_status
+            resource.save()
             # Status and flag should be updated if codes are not in ignored cases
             if (
                 url_status not in RESOURCE_UNCHECKED_STATUSES
@@ -73,8 +80,8 @@ def check_external_resources(resources: list[int]):
                     # Either external_url or backup_url is valid.
                     state.status = ExternalResourceState.Status.VALID
 
-                if resource.metadata.get("is_broken") != is_broken:
-                    resource.metadata["is_broken"] = is_broken
+                if resource.metadata.get(METADATA_IS_BROKEN) != is_broken:
+                    resource.metadata[METADATA_IS_BROKEN] = is_broken
                     resource.save()
         finally:
             state.last_checked = timezone.now()