brookings.edu
Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. This website uses WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
Top issues to fix
9 issues found · 3 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
32 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 21, 2026
- Overall
- 82
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 65
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
Meta tags
- Title
- Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
- Description
- The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
- Canonical
- https://www.brookings.edu/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
- https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/themes/brookings/assets/images/favicons/site.webmanifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- www.brookings.edu
- Valid from
- Jul 22, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 20, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 83
- SAN domains
- www.brookings.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 8 · H3 4
Links
83 internal · 5 external · 20 broken
Images
45 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
34 scripts · 7 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
9.8 KB · 628 B
Page size
158 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://brookings.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.brookings.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 29 ms
- HTML size
- 158 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://brookings.edu → https://www.brookings.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does brookings.edu use?
- brookings.edu is built with WordPress, Google Analytics.
- Is brookings.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. brookings.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 20, 2026.
- Who hosts brookings.edu?
- Hosting provider information for brookings.edu is not available yet.
- What is brookings.edu's SEO score?
- brookings.edu scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is brookings.edu's overall website score?
- brookings.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has brookings.edu's score changed over time?
- brookings.edu's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 85 to 82) since Jul 21, 2026.
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