defensenews.com
Defense News, Covering the politics, business and technology of defense | Defense News
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 9:00 AM · 8 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
Defense News is a global website and magazine about the politics, business and technology of defense, serving senior military and industry decision-makers. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
Defense News
Defense News is a global website and magazine about the politics, business and technology of defense, serving senior military and industry decision-makers.
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
1.12 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 79
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 80
- Accessibility
- 90
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Defense News
Defense News is a global website and magazine about the politics, business and technology of defense, serving senior military and industry decision-makers.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- Defense News, Covering the politics, business and technology of defense | Defense News
- Description
- Defense News is a global website and magazine about the politics, business and technology of defense, serving senior military and industry decision-makers.
- Canonical
- https://www.defensenews.com/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.00, maximum-scale=1.5, minimum-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- index, follow
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
No technologies detected.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- —
- 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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- archetype.web.arc-cdn.net
- Valid from
- Jul 9, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 7, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 66
- SAN domains
- archetype.web.arc-cdn.net, beta.airforcetimes.com, beta.c4isrnet.com, www.airforcetimes.com, www.armytimes.com, www.c4isrnet.com, www.cheddar.com, www.defensenews.com, www.federaltimes.com, www.marinecorpstimes.com, www.militarytimes.com, www.navytimes.com
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 4 · H3 3
Links
95 internal · 16 external · 20 broken
Images
26 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
13 scripts · 5 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
213 KB · 52.9 KB
Page size
509 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://defensenews.com
- Final URL
- https://www.defensenews.com:443/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.11 s
- HTML size
- 509 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://defensenews.com → https://www.defensenews.com:443/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does defensenews.com use?
- We did not detect any specific technologies for defensenews.com in the latest scan.
- Is defensenews.com secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. defensenews.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 7, 2026.
- Who hosts defensenews.com?
- Hosting provider information for defensenews.com is not available yet.
- What is defensenews.com's SEO score?
- defensenews.com scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is defensenews.com's overall website score?
- defensenews.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 79/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates defensenews.com?
- defensenews.com is operated by Defense News. Defense News is a global website and magazine about the politics, business and technology of defense, serving senior military and industry decision-makers.
- Has defensenews.com's score changed over time?
- defensenews.com's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 82 to 79) since Jul 25, 2026.
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