ndsu.edu
NDSU - North Dakota State University
Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 5:00 AM · 9 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
North Dakota State University is a student-focused, land-grant, research university — an economic engine that educates students, conducts primary research, creates new knowledge and advances technology. This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
North Dakota State University is a student-focused, land-grant, research university — an economic engine that educates students, conducts primary research, creates new knowledge and advances technology. The university provides affordable access to an excellent education at a top-ranked research institution.
Top issues to fix
6 issues found
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
16 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-1 overall since Jul 26, 2026
- Overall
- 91
- SEO
- 70
- Security
- 100
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
North Dakota State University is a student-focused, land-grant, research university — an economic engine that educates students, conducts primary research, creates new knowledge and advances technology. The university provides affordable access to an excellent education at a top-ranked research institution.
Meta tags
- Title
- NDSU - North Dakota State University
- Description
- North Dakota State University is a student-focused, land-grant, research university — an economic engine that educates students, conducts primary research, creates new knowledge and advances technology. The university provides affordable access to an excellent education at a top-ranked research institution.
- Canonical
- https://www.ndsu.edu/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://www.ndsu.edu/sites/default/files/favicon/ndsu-favicon/site.webmanifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- —
- CDN provider
- Fastly
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A | — |
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- ndsu.edu
- Valid from
- Jun 26, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 24, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 53
- SAN domains
- ndsu.edu, test.implem-fe4.ps-pantheon.com, www-devel.ndsu.edu, www.ndsu.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyEnabled
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 19 · H3 13
Links
69 internal · 10 external · 20 broken
Images
12 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
8 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
2.5 KB · 0 B
Page size
87.4 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://ndsu.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.ndsu.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 15 ms
- HTML size
- 87.4 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://ndsu.edu → https://www.ndsu.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does ndsu.edu use?
- ndsu.edu is built with Drupal, Nginx.
- Is ndsu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. ndsu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 24, 2026.
- Who hosts ndsu.edu?
- Hosting provider information for ndsu.edu is not available yet.
- What is ndsu.edu's SEO score?
- ndsu.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is ndsu.edu's overall website score?
- ndsu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has ndsu.edu's score changed over time?
- ndsu.edu's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 92 to 91) since Jul 26, 2026.
OpenGraph & Twitter Card
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