Is japan-forward.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. japan-forward.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Mar 8, 2027.

Who hosts japan-forward.com?

Hosting provider information for japan-forward.com is not available yet.

What is japan-forward.com's SEO score?

japan-forward.com scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).

What is japan-forward.com's overall website score?

japan-forward.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has japan-forward.com's score changed over time?

japan-forward.com's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 87 to 86) since Jul 26, 2026.

japan-forward.com

JAPAN Forward - REAL ISSUES, REAL VOICES, REAL JAPAN.

Last scanned Aug 3, 2026, 10:00 PM · 20 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

Japan Forward is an English-language news and opinion website created by The Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan’s leading newspapers, to deliver Japanese voices to the world. This website uses WordPress. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Japan Forward is an English-language news and opinion website created by The Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan’s leading newspapers, to deliver Japanese voices to the world.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 1 high priority

Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
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.
sitemap.xml not found
SEO
Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
1 broken link on the page
SEO
Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

SEO

2 issue(s) found

Performance

509 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall: 86
SEO: 90
Security: 75
Performance: 80
Accessibility: 100

Organization

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

Japan Forward is an English-language news and opinion website created by The Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan’s leading newspapers, to deliver Japanese voices to the world.

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Meta tags

Title: JAPAN Forward - REAL ISSUES, REAL VOICES, REAL JAPAN.
Description: Japan Forward is an English-language news and opinion website created by The Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan’s leading newspapers, to deliver Japanese voices to the world.
Canonical: https://japan-forward.com/
Language: en-US
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta: max-image-preview:large
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

WordPress WooCommerce Bootstrap jQuery Google Analytics Google Ads Meta Pixel Apache

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: —
IP address: 32.197.140.253
ASN: —

DNS records

Type	Value
A	32.197.140.253 100.60.50.167
AAAA	—
MX	alt3.aspmx.l.google.com alt2.aspmx.l.google.com alt4.aspmx.l.google.com aspmx.l.google.com alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
TXT	google-site-verification=6H-alAdauiBDTl4sdMG_Di-k__H0kKNdENtB-szi53s google-site-verification=m5atZ3DspiEh0DalSlc_6VR7mkgSNjcYJslyzN0lxTU v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.google.com ~all
NS	ns-920.awsdns-51.net ns-1902.awsdns-45.co.uk ns-212.awsdns-26.com ns-1355.awsdns-41.org
CAA	—
CNAME	—
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: Amazon
Subject: japan-forward.com
Valid from: Feb 7, 2026
Valid to: Mar 8, 2027
Days until expiry: 217
SAN domains: japan-forward.com, *.japan-forward.com, *.japan2earth.com, japan2earth.com

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
Content-Security-PolicyMissing
X-Frame-OptionsMissing
X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
Referrer-PolicyEnabled
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 0 · H3 0

Links

101 internal · 8 external · 1 broken

Images

111 total · 2 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

45 scripts · 13 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

855 KB · 787 KB

Page size

338 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Found
Disallow rules: 16
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

Meta description longer than 160 characters
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://japan-forward.com
Final URL: https://japan-forward.com
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 503 ms
HTML size: 338 KB
Redirect chain: https://japan-forward.com

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