bc.edu
Home - Boston College
Last scanned Jul 24, 2026, 8:25 PM · 1 view
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 Google Analytics hosted on Fastly. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). 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.
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd 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
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
1.54 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
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.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Fastly
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 151.101.67.10
- ASN
- AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
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
- 224
- 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 · 15 external · 2 broken
Images
14 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
35 scripts · 9 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
885 KB · 1.6 MB
Page size
76.6 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 1
- 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
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- No H1 heading found
Careers
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://bc.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.bc.edu
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.53 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, Google Analytics, 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?
- bc.edu is hosted on Fastly.
- What is bc.edu's SEO score?
- bc.edu scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is bc.edu's overall website score?
- bc.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 80/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is bc.edu hiring?
- bc.edu has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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