northwestern.edu
Northwestern University
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 9 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
Northwestern is one of the country’s leading private research and teaching universities, located in Evanston, IL. This website uses Apache. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Northwestern is one of the country’s leading private research and teaching universities, located in Evanston, IL. Our highly collaborative environment provides our diverse students and faculty with exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
555 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+2 overall since Jul 18, 2026
- Overall
- 86
- SEO
- 75
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Northwestern is one of the country’s leading private research and teaching universities, located in Evanston, IL. Our highly collaborative environment provides our diverse students and faculty with exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Meta tags
- Title
- Northwestern University
- Description
- Northwestern is one of the country’s leading private research and teaching universities, located in Evanston, IL. Our highly collaborative environment provides our diverse students and faculty with exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Canonical
- https://www.northwestern.edu/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- 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
- Internet2
- Subject
- it.northwestern.edu
- Valid from
- Mar 3, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 18, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 51
- SAN domains
- it.northwestern.edu, admindash.northwestern.edu, adminplan.crown.northwestern.edu, adminplan.northwestern.edu, admissions.northwestern.edu, artscircle.northwestern.edu, biology.northwestern.edu, blockmuseum.northwestern.edu, buffett.northwestern.edu, buffettinstitute.northwestern.edu, caesar.northwestern.edu, canvaspost.northwestern.edu, chicagofinancialaid.northwestern.edu, common.northwestern.edu, common.qatar.northwestern.edu, corporate.northwestern.edu, edgs.northwestern.edu, edtraineval.northwestern.edu, elp.northwestern.edu, enrollment.northwestern.edu, facilities.research.northwestern.edu, fig.northwestern.edu, ibnam.northwestern.edu, ipd.northwestern.edu, ipr.northwestern.edu, isita.buffett.northwestern.edu, isita.northwestern.edu, keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu, library.northwestern.edu, m.library.northwestern.edu, my.qatar.northwestern.edu, nemmers.northwestern.edu, northwestern.edu, nuwrite.at.northwestern.edu, nuwrite.northwestern.edu, perform.northwestern.edu, policies.northwestern.edu, policy.northwestern.edu, qatar.northwestern.edu, quantum.northwestern.edu, registrar.northwestern.edu, renu.northwestern.edu, researchanalytics.northwestern.edu, researchintegrity.northwestern.edu, researchstaffsurvey.northwestern.edu, sciencecafe.northwestern.edu, sqi.northwestern.edu, tgs-postdocs.northwestern.edu, tgs.northwestern.edu, ugadm.northwestern.edu, undergradaid.northwestern.edu, www.adminplan.northwestern.edu, www.admissions.northwestern.edu, www.artscircle.northwestern.edu, www.biology.northwestern.edu, www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu, www.buffett.northwestern.edu, www.buffettinstitute.northwestern.edu, www.caesar.northwestern.edu, www.canvaspost.northwestern.edu, www.chicagofinancialaid.northwestern.edu, www.corporate.northwestern.edu, www.crs.northwestern.edu, www.edgs.northwestern.edu, www.edtraineval.northwestern.edu, www.elp.northwestern.edu, www.enrollment.northwestern.edu, www.facilities.research.northwestern.edu, www.fig.northwestern.edu, www.ibnam.northwestern.edu, www.ipd.northwestern.edu, www.ipr.northwestern.edu, www.isita.northwestern.edu, www.it.northwestern.edu, www.library.northwestern.edu, www.nemmers.northwestern.edu, www.northwestern.edu, www.nuwrite.northwestern.edu, www.perform.northwestern.edu, www.policies.northwestern.edu, www.policy.northwestern.edu, www.qatar.northwestern.edu, www.quantum.northwestern.edu, www.registrar.northwestern.edu, www.renu.northwestern.edu, www.researchanalytics.northwestern.edu, www.researchintegrity.northwestern.edu, www.researchstaffsurvey.northwestern.edu, www.sciencecafe.northwestern.edu, www.sqi.northwestern.edu, www.tgs-postdocs.northwestern.edu, www.tgs.northwestern.edu, www.ugadm.northwestern.edu, www.undergradaid.northwestern.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 19 · H3 21
Links
74 internal · 50 external · 20 broken
Images
35 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
10 scripts · 3 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.4 KB · 0 B
Page size
82.8 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
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://northwestern.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.northwestern.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 554 ms
- HTML size
- 82.8 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://northwestern.edu → https://www.northwestern.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does northwestern.edu use?
- northwestern.edu is built with jQuery, Google Analytics, Apache.
- Is northwestern.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. northwestern.edu uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Sep 18, 2026.
- Who hosts northwestern.edu?
- Hosting provider information for northwestern.edu is not available yet.
- What is northwestern.edu's SEO score?
- northwestern.edu scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is northwestern.edu's overall website score?
- northwestern.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has northwestern.edu's score changed over time?
- northwestern.edu's overall score has improved by 2 points (from 84 to 86) since Jul 18, 2026.
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