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shsu.edu

Sam Houston State University

Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 10:00 AM · 12 views

86

Overall score

Great

Summary

Sam Houston State University, located in Texas, empowers students through academic excellence, innovation and real-world experiences that prepare them for success. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Sam Houston State University, located in Texas, empowers students through academic excellence, innovation and real-world experiences that prepare them for success.

Top issues to fix

8 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.

  • 1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

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

  • 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.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

90

Performance

1.05 s

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-3 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
86
SEO
70
Security
90
Performance
90
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Sam Houston State University, located in Texas, empowers students through academic excellence, innovation and real-world experiences that prepare them for success.

Meta tags

Title
Sam Houston State University
Description
Sam Houston State University, located in Texas, empowers students through academic excellence, innovation and real-world experiences that prepare them for success.
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.2
Issuer
GlobalSign nv-sa
Subject
www.shsu.edu
Valid from
Dec 17, 2025
Valid to
Jan 18, 2027
Days until expiry
169
SAN domains
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Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyMissing
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyEnabled

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 9 · H3 11

Links

54 internal · 19 external · 20 broken

Images

11 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

25 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

440 B · 0 B

Page size

215 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
  • Missing canonical link
  • 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://shsu.edu
Final URL
https://www.shsu.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
1.05 s
HTML size
215 KB
Redirect chain
https://shsu.edu → https://www.shsu.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does shsu.edu use?
We did not detect any specific technologies for shsu.edu in the latest scan.
Is shsu.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. shsu.edu uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, valid until Jan 18, 2027.
Who hosts shsu.edu?
Hosting provider information for shsu.edu is not available yet.
What is shsu.edu's SEO score?
shsu.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is shsu.edu's overall website score?
shsu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 86/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has shsu.edu's score changed over time?
shsu.edu's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 89 to 86) since Jul 26, 2026.