niu.edu
Northern Illinois University | Your Future. Our Focus.
Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 10:25 AM · 4 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
An education at NIU is more than just an academic degree. This website uses jQuery hosted on NIU - Northern Illinois University, US. SEO is excellent (95/100) 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.
- United States
- Hosted on NIU - Northern Illinois University, US
Top issues to fix
5 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.
3 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
1 issue(s) found
Performance
741 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
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.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
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
- NIU - Northern Illinois University, US
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 131.156.223.14
- ASN
- AS11417 (NIU - Northern Illinois University, US)
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
- 104
- 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 · 3 broken
Images
13 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
30 scripts · 7 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
232 KB · 110 KB
Page size
106 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 10
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 622
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
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://niu.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.niu.edu/index.shtml
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 739 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?
- niu.edu is hosted on NIU - Northern Illinois University, US.
- What is niu.edu's SEO score?
- niu.edu scored 95/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is niu.edu's overall website score?
- niu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, 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.
- Is niu.edu hiring?
- niu.edu has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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