northeastern.edu
Home - Northeastern University
Last scanned Jul 31, 2026, 8:00 PM · 19 views
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. SEO is excellent (90/100) 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.
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.
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.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
272 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
1 issue(s) found
Score history
+1 overall since Jul 24, 2026
- Overall
- 92
- SEO
- 90
- Security
- 90
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 85
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.
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
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 1.3
- Issuer
- Internet2
- Subject
- www.northeastern.edu
- Valid from
- Mar 6, 2026
- Valid to
- Apr 6, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 249
- 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 · 20 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
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://northeastern.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.northeastern.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 267 ms
- HTML size
- 245 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://northeastern.edu → https://www.northeastern.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does northeastern.edu use?
- northeastern.edu is built with React, WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is northeastern.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. northeastern.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Apr 6, 2027.
- Who hosts northeastern.edu?
- Hosting provider information for northeastern.edu is not available yet.
- What is northeastern.edu's SEO score?
- northeastern.edu scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is northeastern.edu's overall website score?
- northeastern.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has northeastern.edu's score changed over time?
- northeastern.edu's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 91 to 92) since Jul 24, 2026.
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