dal.ca
Dalhousie University
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 5:00 AM · 13 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
With campuses located in Halifax and Truro, NS, Dalhousie is a research-intensive university offering over 300 degrees in 13 diverse faculties. This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No structured data (JSON-LD) found.
With campuses located in Halifax and Truro, NS, Dalhousie is a research-intensive university offering over 300 degrees in 13 diverse faculties.
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
304 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 90
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 85
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
With campuses located in Halifax and Truro, NS, Dalhousie is a research-intensive university offering over 300 degrees in 13 diverse faculties.
Meta tags
- Title
- Dalhousie University
- Description
- With campuses located in Halifax and Truro, NS, Dalhousie is a research-intensive university offering over 300 degrees in 13 diverse faculties.
- Canonical
- https://www.dal.ca/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- 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
- DigiCert Inc
- Subject
- www.dal.ca
- Valid from
- Apr 16, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 31, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 91
- SAN domains
- www.dal.ca, cdn.dal.ca, medicine.dal.ca, libraries.dal.ca, athletics.dal.ca, studentlife.dal.ca
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 14 · H3 4
Links
211 internal · 18 external · 20 broken
Images
15 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
5 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
625 B · 0 B
Page size
148 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- 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://dal.ca
- Final URL
- https://www.dal.ca/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 301 ms
- HTML size
- 148 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://dal.ca → https://www.dal.ca/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does dal.ca use?
- dal.ca is built with Nginx.
- Is dal.ca secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. dal.ca uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Oct 31, 2026.
- Who hosts dal.ca?
- Hosting provider information for dal.ca is not available yet.
- What is dal.ca's SEO score?
- dal.ca scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is dal.ca's overall website score?
- dal.ca has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has dal.ca's score changed over time?
- dal.ca's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 93 to 90) since Jul 25, 2026.
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