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mcdaniel.edu

McDaniel College | Liberal Arts College in Maryland

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

McDaniel College is a small liberal arts college located in Westminster, MD. This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

McDaniel College is a small liberal arts college located in Westminster, MD. It offers undergraduate programs in more than 40 majors and graduate programs in biology, business administration, computer science, data analytics, education, health sciences, and psychology.

Top issues to fix

6 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.

  • 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.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

249 ms

90

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.

McDaniel College is a small liberal arts college located in Westminster, MD. It offers undergraduate programs in more than 40 majors and graduate programs in biology, business administration, computer science, data analytics, education, health sciences, and psychology.

Meta tags

Title
McDaniel College | Liberal Arts College in Maryland
Description
McDaniel College is a small liberal arts college located in Westminster, MD. It offers undergraduate programs in more than 40 majors and graduate programs in biology, business administration, computer science, data analytics, education, health sciences, and psychology.
Canonical
https://www.mcdaniel.edu/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

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
Let's Encrypt
Subject
ceo.mcdaniel.edu
Valid from
Aug 10, 2026
Valid to
Nov 8, 2026
Days until expiry
75
SAN domains
ceo.mcdaniel.edu, firststop.mcdaniel.edu, mcdaniel.edu, ose.mcdaniel.edu, president.mcdaniel.edu, www.mcdaniel.edu

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • 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 6 · H3 3

Links

61 internal · 10 external · 0 broken

Images

9 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

31 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

735 KB · 0 B

Page size

139 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://mcdaniel.edu
Final URL
https://www.mcdaniel.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
247 ms
HTML size
139 KB
Redirect chain
https://mcdaniel.edu → https://www.mcdaniel.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does mcdaniel.edu use?
mcdaniel.edu is built with Drupal, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, Nginx.
Is mcdaniel.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. mcdaniel.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 8, 2026.
Who hosts mcdaniel.edu?
Hosting provider information for mcdaniel.edu is not available yet.
What is mcdaniel.edu's SEO score?
mcdaniel.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is mcdaniel.edu's overall website score?
mcdaniel.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.