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brookings.edu

Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 8 views

82

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

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add 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

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

+3 more issues — details in the sections below.

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

32 ms

65

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

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

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
og: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.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.brookings.edu/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

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.