What technology does rice.edu use?

rice.edu is built with jQuery, Nginx.

Is rice.edu secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. rice.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Certainly, valid until Aug 17, 2026.

Hosting provider information for rice.edu is not available yet.

What is rice.edu's SEO score?

rice.edu scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is rice.edu's overall website score?

rice.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 78/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has rice.edu's score changed over time?

rice.edu's overall score has improved by 4 points (from 74 to 78) since Jul 24, 2026.

rice.edu

Rice University

Last scanned Jul 31, 2026, 7:00 PM · 7 views

Overall score

Fair

Summary

Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. This website uses Nginx behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (50/100) and performance excellent (90/100). 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.

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.
TLS certificate expires in 17 days
Security
Renew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEO
Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
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.

SEO

4 issue(s) found

Performance

1.63 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+4 overall since Jul 24, 2026

Overall: 78
SEO: 75
Security: 50
Performance: 90
Accessibility: 100

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.

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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.

jQuery Nginx

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: Fastly
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: Certainly
Subject: *.rice.edu
Valid from: Jul 18, 2026
Valid to: Aug 17, 2026
Days until expiry: 17
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

26 internal · 85 external · 20 broken

Images

24 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

27 scripts · 8 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

31.5 KB · 61.2 KB

Page size

153 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

Scan details

Requested URL: https://rice.edu
Final URL: https://www.rice.edu/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.63 s
HTML size: 153 KB
Redirect chain: https://rice.edu → https://www.rice.edu/

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