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Mercer University | A Best Value Among National Universities

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:47 AM

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online. This website uses WordPress behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.

Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online.

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 X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

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

  • 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.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

951 ms

75

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.

Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Mercer University | A Best Value Among National Universities
Description
Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online.
Canonical
https://www.mercer.edu/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, shrink-to-fit=no
Robots meta
Manifest
https://www.mercer.edu/site.webmanifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Mercer University | A Best Value Among National Universities
og:description
Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.mercer.edu/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Mercer University | A Best Value Among National Universities
twitter:description
Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online.

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
writershub.mercer.edu
Valid from
Jul 7, 2026
Valid to
Oct 5, 2026
Days until expiry
68
SAN domains
writershub.mercer.edu, www.coretexts.org, www.mercer.edu, www.wmub.tv

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 2 · H2 36 · H3 16

Links

63 internal · 62 external · 20 broken

Images

45 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

24 scripts · 11 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

42.4 KB · 45.5 KB

Page size

270 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://mercer.edu
Final URL
https://www.mercer.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
946 ms
HTML size
270 KB
Redirect chain
https://mercer.edu → https://www.mercer.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does mercer.edu use?
mercer.edu is built with WordPress, jQuery, Nginx.
Is mercer.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. mercer.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 5, 2026.
Who hosts mercer.edu?
Hosting provider information for mercer.edu is not available yet.
What is mercer.edu's SEO score?
mercer.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is mercer.edu's overall website score?
mercer.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.