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A Top 50 Public R1 Research University | George Mason University

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 3:00 PM · 10 views

90

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

This website uses Drupal behind Fastly CDN. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing meta description

    SEO

    Add a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.

  • Title longer than 60 characters

    SEO

    Shorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.

  • 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.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

65

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

467 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+5 overall since Jul 21, 2026

Overall
90
SEO
65
Security
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
A Top 50 Public R1 Research University | George Mason University
Description
Canonical
https://www.gmu.edu/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
max-snippet:150, max-image-preview:standard
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
A Top 50 Public R1 Research University
og:description
George Mason University has become Virginia’s largest, most diverse, and highest-ranked university for innovation by rejecting the traditional university model of exclusivity. We proudly admit every student who is academically ready for our top-tier research environment while achieving graduation rates that surpass the national norm. 
og:type
og:url
https://www.gmu.edu/home

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
A Top 50 Public R1 Research University
twitter:description
George Mason University has become Virginia’s largest, most diverse, and highest-ranked university for innovation by rejecting the traditional university model of exclusivity. We proudly admit every student who is academically ready for our top-tier research environment while achieving graduation rates that surpass the national norm. 

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
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
www.gmu.edu
Valid from
Nov 2, 2025
Valid to
Nov 2, 2026
Days until expiry
96
SAN domains
www.gmu.edu, *.business.gmu.edu, *.gmu.edu, *.preprod.gmu.edu, *.sitemasonry.gmu.edu, ace-stem.cehd.gmu.edu, activity.scar.gmu.edu, adr.science.gmu.edu, amm.mechanical.gmu.edu, archive.spirit.gmu.edu, bep.carterschool.gmu.edu, bmil.bioengineering.gmu.edu, capmm.science.gmu.edu, cbsp.schar.gmu.edu, cddrd.science.gmu.edu, celebration.oscar.gmu.edu, ceosr.science.gmu.edu, cfd.science.gmu.edu, cidr.science.gmu.edu, clab.science.gmu.edu, cll.linguistics.gmu.edu, competition.statistics.gmu.edu, compute.science.gmu.edu, copyright.law.gmu.edu, discover.health.gmu.edu, enrichment.cehd.gmu.edu, equitablemath.cehd.gmu.edu, events.admissions.gmu.edu, fhrl.vse.gmu.edu, formal.complaints.gmu.edu, freespeech.law.gmu.edu, gerontology.socialwork.gmu.edu, ghaharilab.physics.gmu.edu, gmu.edu, grants.schar.gmu.edu, gstem.research.gmu.edu, gutmmap.chhs.gmu.edu, healthscience.mesa.gmu.edu, ia.schar.gmu.edu, icors2024.statistics.gmu.edu, impower.vse.cec.gmu.edu, innovation.law.gmu.edu, jqub.ece.gmu.edu, ldl.linguistics.gmu.edu, leap.cehd.gmu.edu, learninglab.publichealth.gmu.edu, llp.carterschool.gmu.edu, lopezgroup.science.gmu.edu, marcomm.ulife.gmu.edu, marketing.obs.gmu.edu, masonswe.cs.gmu.edu, massappeal.schar.gmu.edu, mathdt.science.gmu.edu, megl.science.gmu.edu, migraine.chhs.gmu.edu, mohebbilab.cec.gmu.edu, mtty.science.gmu.edu, neural.bioengineering.gmu.edu, nonprofitcenter.schar.gmu.edu, palm.linguistics.gmu.edu, peaceengineering.carterschool.gmu.edu, perec.science.gmu.edu, phdstudents.schar.gmu.edu, phon.linguistics.gmu.edu, pla.carterschool.gmu.edu, quell.linguistics.gmu.edu, rcid.carterschool.gmu.edu, research.schar.gmu.edu, rmflab.vse.gmu.edu, rppc.schar.gmu.edu, rprc.vse.gmu.edu, sandbox.its.gmu.edu, sbusit.business.gmu.edu, seor.vse.gmu.edu, sess.science.gmu.edu, shehulab.cs.gmu.edu, smif.business.gmu.edu, soccomplex.science.gmu.edu, spsa.schar.gmu.edu, srif.science.gmu.edu, startalk.cehd.gmu.edu, succeed.ulife.gmu.edu, tanlab.science.gmu.edu, teach.conflictresolution.gmu.edu, tech.obs.gmu.edu, tntlab.carterschool.gmu.edu, transferguide.admissions.gmu.edu, tts.cehd.gmu.edu, ultech.ulife.gmu.edu, voicesforliberty.law.gmu.edu, waterchemlab.vse.gmu.edu, www.abroad.gmu.edu, www.coronavirus.gmu.edu, www.hyltoncenter.com, www.hyltoncenter.org, www.schar.gmu.edu, www.spp.gmu.edu

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
  • 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 1

Links

99 internal · 41 external · 20 broken

Images

14 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

18 scripts · 7 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.9 KB · 752 B

Page size

104 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Title longer than 60 characters
  • Missing meta description
  • 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://gmu.edu
Final URL
https://www.gmu.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
465 ms
HTML size
104 KB
Redirect chain
https://gmu.edu → http://www.gmu.edu/ → https://www.gmu.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does gmu.edu use?
gmu.edu is built with Drupal.
Is gmu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. gmu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Nov 2, 2026.
Who hosts gmu.edu?
Hosting provider information for gmu.edu is not available yet.
What is gmu.edu's SEO score?
gmu.edu scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is gmu.edu's overall website score?
gmu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has gmu.edu's score changed over time?
gmu.edu's overall score has improved by 5 points (from 85 to 90) since Jul 21, 2026.