What technology does ifs.org.uk use?

ifs.org.uk is built with Drupal.

Is ifs.org.uk secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. ifs.org.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Oct 31, 2026.

Who hosts ifs.org.uk?

Hosting provider information for ifs.org.uk is not available yet.

What is ifs.org.uk's SEO score?

ifs.org.uk scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is ifs.org.uk's overall website score?

ifs.org.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 83/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has ifs.org.uk's score changed over time?

ifs.org.uk's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 84 to 83) since Jul 26, 2026.

ifs.org.uk

IFS | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Last scanned Aug 3, 2026, 10:00 AM · 10 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

IFS is the UK’s leading independent economics research institute. This website uses Drupal behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

IFS is the UK’s leading independent economics research institute. We analyse and inform economic and policy decisions with academic rigour and absolute independence.

Top issues to fix

8 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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

174 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall: 83
SEO: 65
Security: 80
Performance: 100
Accessibility: 90

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

IFS is the UK’s leading independent economics research institute. We analyse and inform economic and policy decisions with academic rigour and absolute independence.

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Meta tags

Title: IFS | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Description: IFS is the UK’s leading independent economics research institute. We analyse and inform economic and policy decisions with academic rigour and absolute independence.
Canonical: https://ifs.org.uk/
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest: https://ifs.org.uk/themes/custom/ifs/assets/favicon/manifest.json

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Drupal

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: ifs.org.uk
Valid from: Aug 2, 2026
Valid to: Oct 31, 2026
Days until expiry: 89
SAN domains: ifs.org.uk, *.ifs.org.uk

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
Content-Security-PolicyMissing
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyMissing
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 13 · H3 33

Links

94 internal · 11 external · 20 broken

Images

42 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

8 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

4.6 KB · 0 B

Page size

181 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
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://ifs.org.uk
Final URL: https://ifs.org.uk
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 171 ms
HTML size: 181 KB
Redirect chain: https://ifs.org.uk

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