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The Pennsylvania State University | Penn State

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 12:00 PM · 9 views

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. This website uses Next.js behind Vercel CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.

Top issues to fix

7 issues found · 1 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

+1 more issue — details in the sections below.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

789 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+4 overall since Jul 18, 2026

Overall
89
SEO
85
Security
75
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
The Pennsylvania State University | Penn State
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

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The Pennsylvania State University | Penn State
og:description
Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.
og:type
website
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary
twitter:title
The Pennsylvania State University | Penn State
twitter:description
Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Vercel
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

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
92
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 12 · H3 8

Links

87 internal · 42 external · 20 broken

Images

9 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

45 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

64.4 KB · 76.7 KB

Page size

285 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Missing canonical link
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml 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
784 ms
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.
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?
Hosting provider information for psu.edu is not available yet.
What is psu.edu's SEO score?
psu.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is psu.edu's overall website score?
psu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has psu.edu's score changed over time?
psu.edu's overall score has improved by 4 points (from 85 to 89) since Jul 18, 2026.