psu.edu
The Pennsylvania State University
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
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.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
Summary
Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. This website uses Next.js hosted on AWS behind Vercel CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance good (75/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
1.61 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- admissions@psu.edu
- Phone
- 18148654700
Meta tags
- Title
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Description
- Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.
- Canonical
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- all
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
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| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS |
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| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
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| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- www.psu.edu
- Valid from
- Apr 15, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 29, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 103
- SAN domains
- www.psu.edu, staging.www.psu.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 11 · H3 8
Links
87 internal · 42 external · 0 broken
Images
9 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
61 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.2 MB · 134 KB
Page size
285 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 335
SEO issues
- Missing canonical link
- robots.txt not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://psu.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.psu.edu:443/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.61 s
- HTML size
- 285 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://psu.edu → https://www.psu.edu:443/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does psu.edu use?
- psu.edu is built with Next.js, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel.
- Is psu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. psu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Oct 29, 2026.
- Who hosts psu.edu?
- psu.edu is hosted on AWS, behind Vercel CDN.
- What is psu.edu's SEO score?
- psu.edu scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is psu.edu's overall website score?
- psu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
OpenGraph & Twitter Card
OpenGraph
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