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grinnell.edu

Grinnell College | Grinnell College

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:18 AM

81

Overall score

Great

Summary

Grinnell College, a private liberal arts college in Iowa founded in 1846, provides individually advised learning for intellectually engaged students to produce graduates who are prepared to navigate the world’s complex… This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Grinnell College, a private liberal arts college in Iowa founded in 1846, provides individually advised learning for intellectually engaged students to produce graduates who are prepared to navigate the world’s complexities and responsibly contribute to the common good.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 2 high priority

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

    Security

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

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

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

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • Missing OpenGraph tags

    SEO

    Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

80

Performance

2.21 s

80

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

Grinnell College, a private liberal arts college in Iowa founded in 1846, provides individually advised learning for intellectually engaged students to produce graduates who are prepared to navigate the world’s complexities and responsibly contribute to the common good.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Grinnell College | Grinnell College
Description
Grinnell College, a private liberal arts college in Iowa founded in 1846, provides individually advised learning for intellectually engaged students to produce graduates who are prepared to navigate the world’s complexities and responsibly contribute to the common good.
Canonical
https://www.grinnell.edu/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest
https://www.grinnell.edu/themes/custom/grinnell_theme/assets/favicon/site.webmanifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

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
InCommon, LLC
Subject
grinnell.edu
Valid from
May 4, 2026
Valid to
Nov 18, 2026
Days until expiry
115
SAN domains
grinnell.edu, www.grinnell.edu

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 9 · H3 6

Links

86 internal · 22 external · 0 broken

Images

12 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

32 scripts · 4 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

134 KB · 419 KB

Page size

59.7 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://grinnell.edu
Final URL
https://www.grinnell.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
2.21 s
HTML size
59.7 KB
Redirect chain
https://grinnell.edu → https://www.grinnell.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does grinnell.edu use?
grinnell.edu is built with Drupal, jQuery, Nginx.
Is grinnell.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. grinnell.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by InCommon, LLC, valid until Nov 18, 2026.
Who hosts grinnell.edu?
Hosting provider information for grinnell.edu is not available yet.
What is grinnell.edu's SEO score?
grinnell.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is grinnell.edu's overall website score?
grinnell.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.