nsf.gov
NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 4:00 PM · 12 views
Overall score
Excellent
Summary
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. This website uses Apache behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No structured data (JSON-LD) found.
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Top issues to fix
6 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.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
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.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
364 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
+2 overall since Jul 21, 2026
- Overall
- 92
- SEO
- 80
- Security
- 90
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Phone
- (703)292-5111
Meta tags
- Title
- NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
- Description
- NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
- Canonical
- https://www.nsf.gov/
- 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
- CloudFront
- 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
- Amazon
- Subject
- *.nsf.gov
- Valid from
- May 29, 2026
- Valid to
- Dec 12, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 136
- SAN domains
- *.nsf.gov
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 10 · H3 7
Links
83 internal · 12 external · 20 broken
Images
26 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
16 scripts · 2 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
2.7 KB · 0 B
Page size
73.5 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- 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://nsf.gov
- Final URL
- https://www.nsf.gov/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 363 ms
- HTML size
- 73.5 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://nsf.gov → https://www.nsf.gov/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does nsf.gov use?
- nsf.gov is built with Drupal, Apache.
- Is nsf.gov secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. nsf.gov uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Dec 12, 2026.
- Who hosts nsf.gov?
- Hosting provider information for nsf.gov is not available yet.
- What is nsf.gov's SEO score?
- nsf.gov scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is nsf.gov's overall website score?
- nsf.gov has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has nsf.gov's score changed over time?
- nsf.gov's overall score has improved by 2 points (from 90 to 92) since Jul 21, 2026.
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