ncsu.edu
NC State University
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
Summary
Discover North Carolina State University, a leading public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina. This website uses WordPress hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
266 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Phone
- 919.515.2011
Meta tags
- Title
- NC State University
- Description
- Discover North Carolina State University, a leading public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Canonical
- https://www.ncsu.edu/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
- https://cdn.ncsu.edu/brand-assets/favicons/manifest.webmanifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 18.172.78.30
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA |
|
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS |
|
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- www.ncsu.edu
- Valid from
- Jul 13, 2026
- Valid to
- Jan 26, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 192
- SAN domains
- www.ncsu.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 2 · H2 18 · H3 11
Links
26 internal · 54 external · 1 broken
Images
21 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
48 scripts · 14 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
726 KB · 23.9 KB
Page size
2.4 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.
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://ncsu.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.ncsu.edu/
- HTTP status
- 202
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 266 ms
- HTML size
- 2.4 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://ncsu.edu → https://www.ncsu.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does ncsu.edu use?
- ncsu.edu is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel.
- Is ncsu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. ncsu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 26, 2027.
- Who hosts ncsu.edu?
- ncsu.edu is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- What is ncsu.edu's SEO score?
- ncsu.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is ncsu.edu's overall website score?
- ncsu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is ncsu.edu hiring?
- ncsu.edu has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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