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Home - Boston College

Last scanned Jul 31, 2026, 9:00 PM · 7 views

81

Overall score

Great

Summary

Boston College, the first institution of higher education to operate in the city of Boston, is today among the nation’s foremost universities, a leader in the liberal arts, scientific inquiry, and student formation. This website uses Meta Pixel. SEO is fair (60/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Boston College, the first institution of higher education to operate in the city of Boston, is today among the nation’s foremost universities, a leader in the liberal arts, scientific inquiry, and student formation.

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 2 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add 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

    SEO

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

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • Missing OpenGraph tags

    SEO

    Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

60

SEO

6 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.52 s

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

90

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+1 overall since Jul 24, 2026

Overall
81
SEO
60
Security
90
Performance
90
Accessibility
90

Organization

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

Boston College, the first institution of higher education to operate in the city of Boston, is today among the nation’s foremost universities, a leader in the liberal arts, scientific inquiry, and student formation.

Meta tags

Title
Home - Boston College
Description
Boston College, the first institution of higher education to operate in the city of Boston, is today among the nation’s foremost universities, a leader in the liberal arts, scientific inquiry, and student formation.
Canonical
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web.html
Language
en
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
initial-scale=1.0,width=device-width
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Sectigo Limited
Subject
bc.edu
Valid from
Mar 5, 2026
Valid to
Mar 5, 2027
Days until expiry
217
SAN domains
bc.edu, www.bc.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 0 · H2 7 · H3 6

Links

113 internal · 11 external · 20 broken

Images

13 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

18 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

11.0 KB · 0 B

Page size

76.6 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
  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • No H1 heading found

Scan details

Requested URL
https://bc.edu
Final URL
https://www.bc.edu
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.52 s
HTML size
76.6 KB
Redirect chain
https://bc.edu → https://www.bc.edu

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does bc.edu use?
bc.edu is built with Bootstrap, jQuery, Meta Pixel.
Is bc.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. bc.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Mar 5, 2027.
Who hosts bc.edu?
Hosting provider information for bc.edu is not available yet.
What is bc.edu's SEO score?
bc.edu scored 60/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is bc.edu's overall website score?
bc.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has bc.edu's score changed over time?
bc.edu's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 80 to 81) since Jul 24, 2026.