What technology does brown.edu use?

brown.edu is built with Drupal, jQuery.

Is brown.edu secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. brown.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Sep 25, 2026.

Hosting provider information for brown.edu is not available yet.

What is brown.edu's SEO score?

brown.edu scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is brown.edu's overall website score?

brown.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

brown.edu

Brown University

Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM · 1 view

Overall score

Great

Top issues to fix

7 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.
Slow estimated load (14.8s)
Performance
Use a CDN, enable caching/compression, and cut render-blocking assets — every extra second costs conversions.
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.
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.

Summary

Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of students drives academic excellence. This website uses Drupal behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

Performance

14.76 s

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.

Facebook Instagram X (Twitter)YouTube

Contact

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

Phone: 4018631000

Meta tags

Title: Brown University
Description: Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of students drives academic excellence.
Canonical: https://www.brown.edu/
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest: https://www.brown.edu/themes/custom/brown/static/site.webmanifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Drupal jQuery

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: Cloudflare
IP address: —
ASN: —

DNS records

Type	Value
A	—
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	—
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: Google Trust Services
Subject: www.brown.edu
Valid from: Jun 27, 2026
Valid to: Sep 25, 2026
Days until expiry: 66
SAN domains: www.brown.edu

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 13 · H3 33

Links

51 internal · 31 external · 20 broken

Images

13 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

4 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

423 B · 0 B

Page size

181 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 structured data (JSON-LD) found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://brown.edu
Final URL: https://www.brown.edu/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 14.75 s
HTML size: 181 KB
Redirect chain: https://brown.edu → https://www.brown.edu/

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