niu.edu
Northern Illinois University | Your Future. Our Focus.
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 12:00 PM · 8 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
An education at NIU is more than just an academic degree. This website uses jQuery. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Northern Illinois University
An education at NIU is more than just an academic degree. NIU opens the doors to career success, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Find out how to apply today.
Top issues to fix
7 issues found · 1 high priority
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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
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.
+1 more issue — details in the sections below.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
763 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 25, 2026
- Overall
- 89
- SEO
- 85
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Northern Illinois University
An education at NIU is more than just an academic degree. NIU opens the doors to career success, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Find out how to apply today.
Meta tags
- Title
- Northern Illinois University | Your Future. Our Focus.
- Description
- An education at NIU is more than just an academic degree. NIU opens the doors to career success, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Find out how to apply today.
- Canonical
- https://www.niu.edu/index.shtml
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
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
- *.niu.edu
- Valid from
- Oct 15, 2025
- Valid to
- Nov 6, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 97
- SAN domains
- *.niu.edu, niu.edu, www.ccwe.niu.edu, www.cedu.niu.edu, www.cgs.niu.edu, www.chhs.niu.edu, www.cob.niu.edu, www.engl.niu.edu, www.hr.niu.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 8 · H3 1
Links
47 internal · 37 external · 20 broken
Images
13 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
30 scripts · 7 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
8.6 KB · 5.7 KB
Page size
106 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
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://niu.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.niu.edu/index.shtml
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 761 ms
- HTML size
- 106 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://niu.edu → https://www.niu.edu/ → https://www.niu.edu/index.shtml
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does niu.edu use?
- niu.edu is built with Bootstrap, jQuery.
- Is niu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. niu.edu uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Nov 6, 2026.
- Who hosts niu.edu?
- Hosting provider information for niu.edu is not available yet.
- What is niu.edu's SEO score?
- niu.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is niu.edu's overall website score?
- niu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- What company operates niu.edu?
- niu.edu is operated by Northern Illinois University. An education at NIU is more than just an academic degree. NIU opens the doors to career success, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Find out how to apply today.
- Has niu.edu's score changed over time?
- niu.edu's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 92 to 89) since Jul 25, 2026.
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