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

73

Overall score

Fair

Summary

The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. This website uses Cloudflare Analytics behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (50/100) and performance fair (70/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

    Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.

  • 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.

  • Sluggish estimated load (3.2s)

    Performance

    Target under 3 seconds: enable compression and serve static assets from a CDN.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

70

Performance

3.16 s

50

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 24, 2026

Overall
73
SEO
75
Security
50
Performance
70
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.

Meta tags

Title
Home - www.caltech.edu
Description
The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Caltech Homepage
og:description
The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.caltech.edu/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
Caltech Homepage
twitter:description
The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.

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
Internet2
Subject
oscweb.caltech.edu
Valid from
Nov 3, 2025
Valid to
Dec 4, 2026
Days until expiry
126
SAN domains
oscweb.caltech.edu, *.oscweb-test.caltech.edu, *.oscweb.caltech.edu, *.staging.caltech.edu, *.test.caltech.edu, caltech.edu, caltech.info, caltech.net, caltech.org, emergency.caltech.edu, foundations.caltech.edu, images.divisions-test.caltech.edu, images.divisions.caltech.edu, images.sites-test.caltech.edu, images.sites.caltech.edu, images.test.caltech.edu, images.www.caltech.edu, main.caltech.edu, main.test.caltech.edu, media.caltech.edu, mockwww.caltech.edu, mockwww.test.caltech.edu, mr.caltech.edu, news.caltech.edu, nobel.caltech.edu, oscweb-test.caltech.edu, staging.caltech.edu, test.caltech.edu, today.caltech.edu, www-prod.caltech.edu, www-scratch.caltech.edu, www.caltech.edu, www.caltech.info, www.caltech.net, www.caltech.org, www.test.caltech.edu

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
  • Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyEnabled

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 7 · H3 9

Links

51 internal · 124 external · 20 broken

Images

122 total · 1 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

18 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.9 KB · 0 B

Page size

406 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • 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://caltech.edu
Final URL
https://www.caltech.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
3.15 s
HTML size
406 KB
Redirect chain
https://caltech.edu → https://www.caltech.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does caltech.edu use?
caltech.edu is built with jQuery, Cloudflare Analytics.
Is caltech.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. caltech.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Dec 4, 2026.
Who hosts caltech.edu?
Hosting provider information for caltech.edu is not available yet.
What is caltech.edu's SEO score?
caltech.edu scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is caltech.edu's overall website score?
caltech.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 73/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has caltech.edu's score changed over time?
caltech.edu's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 74 to 73) since Jul 24, 2026.