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Bard College

Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 10:00 AM · 8 views

86

Overall score

Great

Summary

Bard College is a four-year liberal arts and sciences college 90 miles north of New York City. This website uses PHP behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Bard College is a four-year liberal arts and sciences college 90 miles north of New York City. The undergraduate program in upstate New York excels in scholarship, the arts, and civic engagement.

Top issues to fix

7 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.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

  • 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.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.74 s

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
86
SEO
70
Security
90
Performance
90
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Bard College is a four-year liberal arts and sciences college 90 miles north of New York City. The undergraduate program in upstate New York excels in scholarship, the arts, and civic engagement.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Bard College
Description
Bard College is a four-year liberal arts and sciences college 90 miles north of New York City. The undergraduate program in upstate New York excels in scholarship, the arts, and civic engagement.
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=5
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Bard College
og:description
Bard College is a four-year liberal arts and sciences college 90 miles north of New York City. The undergraduate program in upstate New York excels in scholarship, the arts, and civic engagement.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.bard.edu/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Bard College
twitter:description
Bard College is a four-year liberal arts and sciences college 90 miles north of New York City. The undergraduate program in upstate New York excels in scholarship, the arts, and civic engagement.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
www.bard.edu
Valid from
Jul 20, 2026
Valid to
Oct 18, 2026
Days until expiry
77
SAN domains
www.bard.edu

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 14 · H3 6

Links

67 internal · 25 external · 20 broken

Images

27 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

27 scripts · 24 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.3 KB · 0 B

Page size

54.6 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
  • Missing canonical link
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://bard.edu
Final URL
https://www.bard.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.74 s
HTML size
54.6 KB
Redirect chain
https://bard.edu → https://www.bard.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does bard.edu use?
bard.edu is built with PHP, jQuery, Google Analytics.
Is bard.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. bard.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 18, 2026.
Who hosts bard.edu?
Hosting provider information for bard.edu is not available yet.
What is bard.edu's SEO score?
bard.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is bard.edu's overall website score?
bard.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has bard.edu's score changed over time?
bard.edu's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 87 to 86) since Jul 26, 2026.