rice.edu
Rice University
Last scanned Jul 24, 2026, 6:27 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Fair
Summary
Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. This website uses Nginx hosted on Fastly behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (50/100) and performance fair (65/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston’s next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow’s thinking.
- United States
- Hosted on Fastly
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.
TLS certificate expires in 24 days
SecurityRenew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
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.
5 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
1.73 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston’s next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow’s thinking.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Phone
- 713-348-0000
Meta tags
- Title
- Rice University
- Description
- Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston’s next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow’s thinking.
- Canonical
- https://www.rice.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
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Certainly
- Subject
- *.rice.edu
- Valid from
- Jul 18, 2026
- Valid to
- Aug 17, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 24
- SAN domains
- *.rice.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 13 · H3 15
Links
27 internal · 93 external · 5 broken
Images
26 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
46 scripts · 10 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
1.2 MB · 688 KB
Page size
154 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 31
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 75
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://rice.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.rice.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 1.73 s
- HTML size
- 154 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://rice.edu → https://www.rice.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does rice.edu use?
- rice.edu is built with jQuery, Meta Pixel, Nginx.
- Is rice.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. rice.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Certainly, valid until Aug 17, 2026.
- Who hosts rice.edu?
- rice.edu is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is rice.edu's SEO score?
- rice.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is rice.edu's overall website score?
- rice.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 74/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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