Is mit.edu secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. mit.edu uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Nov 13, 2026.

Hosting provider information for mit.edu is not available yet.

What is mit.edu's SEO score?

mit.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is mit.edu's overall website score?

mit.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has mit.edu's score changed over time?

mit.edu's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 91 to 90) since Jul 15, 2026.

mit.edu

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 11:00 AM · 14 views

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

This website uses Apache. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (95/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing meta description.

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

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

88 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 15, 2026

Overall: 90
SEO: 70
Security: 95
Performance: 100
Accessibility: 100

Organization

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

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Meta tags

Title: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Description
Canonical: https://tlecms.mit.edu/spotlight/helping-robots-plan-ahead-wednesday
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest: https://web.mit.edu/themes/mit/assets/favicon/manifest.webmanifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Apache

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: —
IP address: —
ASN: —

DNS records

Type	Value
A	—
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	—
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.2
Issuer: DigiCert Inc
Subject: web.mit.edu
Valid from: Apr 29, 2026
Valid to: Nov 13, 2026
Days until expiry: 107
SAN domains: web.mit.edu, alum-dev.mit.edu, alum.mit.edu, climate.mit.edu, commencement.mit.edu, emergency-dev.mit.edu, events-static.mit.edu, giving-dev.mit.edu, giving.mit.edu, hr.mit.edu, img.mit.edu, ist.mit.edu, mit.edu, mit.mit.edu, mitpress.mit.edu, mitpressbookstore.mit.edu, staging-mitpress.mit.edu, swartz-documents.mit.edu, swartz-report.mit.edu, thereader-staging.mitpress.mit.edu, thereader.mitpress.mit.edu, w.mit.edu, w3.mit.edu, web-cert.mit.edu, web-forms.mit.edu, web-staging.mit.edu, web.mit, www-cert.mit.edu, www-mit.mit.edu, www-staging.mit.edu, www.mit, www.mit.edu, www.web.mit.edu, wwww.mit.edu

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 2 · H3 6

Links

16 internal · 22 external · 20 broken

Images

7 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

3 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

341 B · 0 B

Page size

46.8 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

Missing meta description
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://mit.edu
Final URL: https://web.mit.edu/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 88 ms
HTML size: 46.8 KB
Redirect chain: https://mit.edu → https://web.mit.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does mit.edu use?: mit.edu is built with Apache.
Is mit.edu secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. mit.edu uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Nov 13, 2026.
Who hosts mit.edu?: Hosting provider information for mit.edu is not available yet.
What is mit.edu's SEO score?: mit.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is mit.edu's overall website score?: mit.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has mit.edu's score changed over time?: mit.edu's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 91 to 90) since Jul 15, 2026.