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commonapp.org

Apply to college with Common App

Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 11:00 PM · 6 views

84

Overall score

Great

Summary

Common App streamlines college applications for over 1,000 schools, saving time, tracking deadlines, and supporting students, counselors, and recommenders. This website uses Gatsby behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

Common App streamlines college applications for over 1,000 schools, saving time, tracking deadlines, and supporting students, counselors, and recommenders.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

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

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • 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.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

80

Performance

394 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+8 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
84
SEO
70
Security
90
Performance
80
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Common App streamlines college applications for over 1,000 schools, saving time, tracking deadlines, and supporting students, counselors, and recommenders.

Meta tags

Title
Apply to college with Common App
Description
Common App streamlines college applications for over 1,000 schools, saving time, tracking deadlines, and supporting students, counselors, and recommenders.
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
Robots meta
Manifest
https://www.commonapp.org/manifest.webmanifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Apply to college with Common App
og:description
Common App streamlines college applications for over 1,000 schools, saving time, tracking deadlines, and supporting students, counselors, and recommenders.
og:type
og:url
https://www.commonapp.org/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Apply to college with Common App
twitter:description
Common App streamlines college applications for over 1,000 schools, saving time, tracking deadlines, and supporting students, counselors, and recommenders.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Amazon
Subject
www.commonapp.org
Valid from
Sep 23, 2025
Valid to
Oct 22, 2026
Days until expiry
81
SAN domains
www.commonapp.org, commonapp.org

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 2 · H2 5 · H3 14

Links

44 internal · 7 external · 20 broken

Images

37 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

27 scripts · 0 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

8.3 KB · 449 KB

Page size

528 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Missing canonical link
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • 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://commonapp.org
Final URL
https://www.commonapp.org/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/1.1
Response time
384 ms
HTML size
528 KB
Redirect chain
https://commonapp.org → https://www.commonapp.org/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does commonapp.org use?
commonapp.org is built with Gatsby.
Is commonapp.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. commonapp.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Oct 22, 2026.
Who hosts commonapp.org?
Hosting provider information for commonapp.org is not available yet.
What is commonapp.org's SEO score?
commonapp.org scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is commonapp.org's overall website score?
commonapp.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 84/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has commonapp.org's score changed over time?
commonapp.org's overall score has improved by 8 points (from 76 to 84) since Jul 26, 2026.