Website Review: defensenews.com
Generated on November 06 2026 01:45 AM
The score is 64/100
SEO Content
Title
Defense News - Covering the politics, business and technology of defense | Defense News
Length : 87
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Description
Defense News is a global website and magazine about the politics, business and technology of defense, serving senior military and industry decision-makers.
Length : 155
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Keywords
Not good (but low priority). We haven't found a meta keywords tag on your page. You can add a meta keywords tag to the page's <head> with our free meta tag generator.
Og Meta Properties
Good, your page takes advantage of Open Graph Properties. Open Graph properties can help with indexing.
| Property | Content |
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| locale | en_US |
| type | website |
| title | 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. |
| url | https://www.defensenews.com/ |
| site_name | Defense News |
Headings
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| 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 50 |
- [H1] Defense News
- [H2] Middle Column
- [H2] Most Popular
- [H2] Left Column
- [H2] VIDEOS
- [H3] Shield AI to acquire radar maker Echodyne to bust drones
- [H3] How General Dynamics Is Modernizing Military Communications Security
- [H3] Featured Videos
- [H4] The Pentagon needs more ammo for the Iran war. Small communities are paying the price.
- [H4] Rise of the defense industry innovators | Defense News Weekly Full Episode 11.3.26
- [H4] What could the Humvee of the future look like?
- [H4] High-energy lasers, drones and power: Innovations in defense tech | Business of Defense – Part 1
- [H4] From No Credit to Good Credit — Start Here | Money Minute
- [H4] Big deals in European defense and American fighters | Defense Dollars
- [H4] EOS Defense Systems Prepares to Build Slinger Counter-Drone Systems
- [H4] How Silvus Is Connecting Soldiers and Systems Across the Battlefield
- [H5] Popular military air show permanently pulled from RAF Fairford after suspected terror threat
- [H5] Vector introduces ready-to-go one-way attack drone
- [H5] Air
- [H5] Land
- [H5] Pentagon
- [H5] Naval
- [H5] Space
- [H6] Germany names Army Chief Freuding as next chief of defense
- [H6] MBDA plans to fly ‘fat’ hypersonic interceptor demonstrator before end-2029
- [H6] SPECIAL FEATURES
- [H6] AUSA Annual 2026 Coverage
- [H6] Top 100 Defense Companies 2026
- [H6] Whitepaper: Protecting the Shield
- [H6] Whitepaper: Quantum-Ready Encryption in Hybrid Defense
- [H6] Sponsored Content
- [H6] From No Credit to Good Credit — Start Here | Money Minute
- [H6] Russia is giving its drones bigger antennas to beat Ukrainian jamming
- [H6] US Air Force awards Lockheed Martin $694M hypersonic missile production contract
- [H6] Israel secures procurement of 12 Apache gunships in last-minute maneuver
- [H6] France to go it alone on next-gen combat aircraft after FCAS collapse
- [H6] Estonia weighs buying light jet aircraft to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones
- [H6] ‘Open the hives’ — Why France is turning tank gunners into FPV pilots
- [H6] From tanks to space, Norway and Germany forge ahead with ‘Hansa’ defense pact
- [H6] US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves
- [H6] US Army seeks manufacturers for 155mm howitzer barrels amid boost in demand
- [H6] US Army long-range fires make a splash on the frontline with China
- [H6] US Air Force asks industry for new cruise missile for Ukraine
- [H6] US approves $2.1 billion Patriot missile sale to Ukraine
- [H6] Pentagon tells Europeans to cool their rhetoric on Russia, sources say
- [H6] Hasty US exit from Europe could drive allies away from American arms, RAND says
- [H6] New tactical comms system for US ground troops aims to break network silos
- [H6] Senior US general fired, accused of leaking classified information
- [H6] In Arctic, US Army researchers test camo that could adapt to changing landscapes
- [H6] Pentagon treating military base freezer malfunctions as suspected cyberattack, officials say
- [H6] Saildrone expands its European market reach with manufacturing partner in Norway
- [H6] France tasks Naval Group to develop large oceangoing underwater drone
- [H6] MBDA’s high-speed strike missile to have range ‘far’ exceeding Exocet
- [H6] On American destroyers, avoid a self-inflicted wound in Spain
- [H6] French defense minister kicks off ‘pact’ with industry in rush to field naval drones
- [H6] ‘The West can’t stop me’: Space wars heat up as Russia tails a Ukraine-linked US satellite
- [H6] Europe’s push to reduce US reliance is reshaping the defense space market
- [H6] US Space Force to add 10,000 guardians in next 5 years
- [H6] Space-based ISR launches to grow fourfold in next decade, Novaspace says
- [H6] US Air Force secretary reveals deployment of on-orbit space control weapons
- [H6] More Stories
- [H6] Shield AI to acquire radar maker Echodyne to bust drones
- [H6] Popular military air show permanently pulled from RAF Fairford after suspected terror threat
- [H6] Vector introduces ready-to-go one-way attack drone
- [H6] How General Dynamics Is Modernizing Military Communications Security
- [H6] Germany names Army Chief Freuding as next chief of defense
- [H6] Israeli defense company says this trigger is programmed to shoot drones
- [H6] MBDA plans to fly ‘fat’ hypersonic interceptor demonstrator before end-2029
- [H6] Amid Iran conflict, ‘non-hostile’ deaths of 2 US airmen raise overseas toll
- [H6] Under threat of air strikes, US looks to bolster base infrastructure with 3D printing
- [H6] Rise of the defense industry innovators | Defense News Weekly Full Episode 11.3.26
- [H6] The Pentagon needs more ammo for the Iran war. Small communities are paying the price.
- [H6] Saildrone expands its European market reach with manufacturing partner in Norway
Images
We found 27 images on this web page.
Awesome, most or all of your images have alt attributes. This helps search engines understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 6%
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 20 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content in order to do well in search engines. Note: This may also result from a false reading due to your server blocking external scripts from accessing the home page.
Iframe
Not ideal - You have Iframes on the web page, this mean that content in an Iframe cannot be indexed.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Good. Your links look SEO friendly and are easy to crawl!
Underscores in the URLs
Great! No underscores found in your URLs.
In-page links
We found a total of 65 links including 0 link(s) to files
SEO Keywords
Keywords Consistency
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| military | 12 | |
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| from | 11 | |
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Usability
Url
Domain : defensenews.com
Length : 15
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Great. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
Email Privacy
Warning! At least one email address has been found in plain text. Consider using an image or a form to hide email from spammers.
Deprecated HTML
Great! We haven't found deprecated HTML tags in your HTML.
Speed Tips
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Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal. |
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Not good, your website has too many CSS files (more than 4). |
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This website has an excessive amount of Javascript files (more than 6). |
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Awesome, your website takes advantage of GZIP compression for SEO optimization. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Apple Icon |
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Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
| https://www.defensenews.com/sitemap_index.xml |
Robots.txt
http://defensenews.com/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Missing
Unverified
AI Search Readiness
AI Crawlers
AI search crawlers are allowed, so the site can be shown and cited in AI answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity).
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OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search | AI search |
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ChatGPT-User | ChatGPT (user requests) | AI search |
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Claude-SearchBot | Claude search | AI search |
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Claude-User | Claude (user requests) | AI search |
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PerplexityBot | Perplexity | AI search |
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GPTBot | OpenAI training | AI training |
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ClaudeBot | Anthropic training | AI training |
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Google-Extended | Google Gemini training | AI training |
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Applebot-Extended | Apple AI training | AI training |
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CCBot | Common Crawl | AI training |
Blocking AI training crawlers is a common choice and doesn't affect the score. Only the AI search crawlers count.
Structured Data
The homepage describes itself with schema.org structured data, which helps search engines and AI tools understand it: CollectionPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, PropertyValueSpecification, Organization, ImageObject, WebPage, Person
Canonical Tag
The homepage has a canonical tag, which tells search engines which URL is the main version of the page.
llms.txt
No llms.txt file. It's an emerging convention: a short Markdown summary of the site for AI tools. Optional, so it doesn't affect the score.
Security
HTTPS
The site loads over HTTPS, so connections are encrypted. Browsers and search engines expect this.
HSTS
No Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) header. It tells browsers to always use HTTPS, which protects visitors from being downgraded to an insecure connection.
Security Headers
0 of 5 common security headers found. At least 2 are needed to pass.
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Domain Info
defensenews.com was registered on 9 Sep 1995 with GoDaddy.com, LLC and expires on 8 Sep 2027. It accepts email and has both SPF and DMARC records.
Registration
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
| Registered | 9 Sep 1995 (31 years ago) |
| Expires | 8 Sep 2027 |
| Last changed | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Nameservers | ns-1491.awsdns-58.org, ns-16.awsdns-02.com, ns-1818.awsdns-35.co.uk, ns-896.awsdns-48.net |
| DNSSEC | Not signed |
Hosting
| IPv4 address | 192.0.66.30 |
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IPv6 support |
Email Security
Mail servers: usb-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com, usb-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com
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DMARC record (policy: quarantine) |
PageSpeed Insights
Device
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