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Home - Northeastern University

Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 4:25 PM · 1 view

93

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world. This website uses WordPress hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL. SEO is excellent (95/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.

United States
Hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL

Top issues to fix

3 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.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

    Accessibility

    Add alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).

95

SEO

1 issue(s) found

100

Performance

283 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

85

Accessibility

1 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.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Home - Northeastern University
Description
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.
Canonical
https://www.northeastern.edu/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest
https://brand.northeastern.edu/global/assets/favicon/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Home
og:description
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.northeastern.edu/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

CDN provider
IP address
23.212.253.171
ASN
AS20940 (AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 23.212.253.171
  • 23.212.253.131
AAAA
  • 2600:140f:1e00::1737:f4d9
  • 2600:140f:1e00::1737:f4d0
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
  • northeastern.edu.edgekey.net
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Internet2
Subject
www.northeastern.edu
Valid from
Mar 6, 2026
Valid to
Apr 6, 2027
Days until expiry
255
SAN domains
www.northeastern.edu, neu.edu, northeastern.edu, www.neu.edu

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 5 · H3 0

Links

17 internal · 77 external · 0 broken

Images

15 total · 4 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

92 scripts · 22 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

80.4 KB · 55.6 KB

Page size

245 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

  • robots.txt not found

Accessibility issues

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

Scan details

Requested URL
https://neu.edu
Final URL
https://www.northeastern.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
278 ms
HTML size
245 KB
Redirect chain
https://neu.edu → https://www.northeastern.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does neu.edu use?
neu.edu is built with React, WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
Is neu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. neu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Apr 6, 2027.
Who hosts neu.edu?
neu.edu is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL.
What is neu.edu's SEO score?
neu.edu scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is neu.edu's overall website score?
neu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 93/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.