ifs.org.uk
IFS | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:35 AM
Overall score
Great
Summary
IFS is the UK’s leading independent economics research institute. This website uses Drupal hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) 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.
- United States
- Hosted on Cloudflare
Top issues to fix
7 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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
181 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
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.
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.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Cloudflare
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- 172.66.157.4
- ASN
- AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
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| MX |
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| TXT | — |
| NS |
|
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Subject
- ifs.org.uk
- Valid from
- Jun 4, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 2, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 37
- 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 32
Links
92 internal · 11 external · 20 broken
Images
41 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
8 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
4.6 KB · 0 B
Page size
178 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 34
- 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
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://ifs.org.uk
- Final URL
- https://ifs.org.uk
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 178 ms
- HTML size
- 178 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://ifs.org.uk
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Frequently asked questions
- 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 Sep 2, 2026.
- Who hosts ifs.org.uk?
- ifs.org.uk is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
- What is ifs.org.uk's SEO score?
- ifs.org.uk scored 70/100 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 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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