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understandingwar.org

Home | Institute for the Study of War

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 2:25 AM · 1 view

95

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization that advances an informed understanding of military affairs. This website uses WordPress hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100).

ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization that advances an informed understanding of military affairs.

United States
Hosted on Cloudflare

Top issues to fix

2 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.

  • 2 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

100

SEO

0 issue(s) found

90

Performance

256 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization that advances an informed understanding of military affairs.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
Home | Institute for the Study of War
Description
ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization that advances an informed understanding of military affairs.
Canonical
https://understandingwar.org/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Home
og:description
ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization that advances an informed understanding of military affairs.
og:type
website
og:url
https://understandingwar.org/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Cloudflare
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
141.193.213.21
ASN
AS209242 (CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 141.193.213.21
  • 141.193.213.20
AAAA
MX
  • understandingwar-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
  • alt2.us.email.fireeyecloud.com
  • alt1.us.email.fireeyecloud.com
  • alt3.us.email.fireeyecloud.com
  • primary.us.email.fireeyecloud.com
TXT
  • google-site-verification=9uDfa2b2-0vgnl9Pq-lZZ_chDq_LKxaNBd3H5__0FN8
  • 7721CB4A0F
  • v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.constantcontact.com include:_spf.fireeyecloud.com -all
NS
  • ashton.ns.cloudflare.com
  • maisie.ns.cloudflare.com
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Google Trust Services
Subject
understandingwar.org
Valid from
Jun 25, 2026
Valid to
Sep 23, 2026
Days until expiry
59
SAN domains
understandingwar.org

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 15 · H3 19

Links

69 internal · 18 external · 2 broken

Images

52 total · 2 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

55 scripts · 9 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

92.7 KB · 138 KB

Page size

376 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
5
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

No SEO issues detected.

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Careers

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This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://understandingwar.org
Final URL
https://understandingwar.org
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
249 ms
HTML size
376 KB
Redirect chain
https://understandingwar.org

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does understandingwar.org use?
understandingwar.org is built with WordPress, jQuery.
Is understandingwar.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. understandingwar.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 23, 2026.
Who hosts understandingwar.org?
understandingwar.org is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
What is understandingwar.org's SEO score?
understandingwar.org scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is understandingwar.org's overall website score?
understandingwar.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 95/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is understandingwar.org hiring?
understandingwar.org has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.