bu.edu
Homepage | Boston University
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 3 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
Summary
Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world. This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is good (75/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: No H1 heading found.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
608 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
2 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- titleix@bu.edu
Meta tags
- Title
- Homepage | Boston University
- Description
- Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
- Canonical
- https://www.bu.edu/homepage-alt/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 3.175.86.31
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, 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
- www.bu.edu
- Valid from
- Feb 17, 2026
- Valid to
- Feb 17, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 214
- SAN domains
- www.bu.edu, bu.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 0 · H3 4
Links
68 internal · 13 external · 0 broken
Images
10 total · 3 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
28 scripts · 9 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
309 KB · 1.6 MB
Page size
137 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 174
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
- 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://bu.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.bu.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 606 ms
- HTML size
- 137 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://bu.edu → https://www.bu.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does bu.edu use?
- bu.edu is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is bu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. bu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Feb 17, 2027.
- Who hosts bu.edu?
- bu.edu is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- What is bu.edu's SEO score?
- bu.edu scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is bu.edu's overall website score?
- bu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is bu.edu hiring?
- bu.edu has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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