What technology does smu.ca use?

smu.ca is built with Bootstrap, Apache.

Is smu.ca secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. smu.ca uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by SSL Corporation, valid until Aug 26, 2026.

Hosting provider information for smu.ca is not available yet.

What is smu.ca's SEO score?

smu.ca scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).

What is smu.ca's overall website score?

smu.ca has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

smu.ca

Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 11:49 AM

Overall score

Great

Summary

Saint Mary's offers a range of undergraduate, graduate and professional development programs and conducts research with local, regional and global impact. This website uses Apache. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores poor (45/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

Saint Mary's offers a range of undergraduate, graduate and professional development programs and conducts research with local, regional and global impact.

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 28 days
Security
Renew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
Security
Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
2 cookies 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.
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

2 issue(s) found

Performance

2.70 s

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

Saint Mary's offers a range of undergraduate, graduate and professional development programs and conducts research with local, regional and global impact.

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Contact

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

Email: info@smu.ca service.centre@smu.ca

Meta tags

Title: Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Description: Saint Mary's offers a range of undergraduate, graduate and professional development programs and conducts research with local, regional and global impact.
Canonical: https://www.smu.ca/
Language: en
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
Robots meta
Manifest: https://www.smu.ca/favicons/site.webmanifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Bootstrap Apache

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: —
IP address: 16.54.189.166
ASN: —

DNS records

Type	Value
A	16.54.189.166 16.54.15.189
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	smuca-lb01-production.terminalfour.net
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: SSL Corporation
Subject: *.smu.ca
Valid from: Aug 26, 2025
Valid to: Aug 26, 2026
Days until expiry: 28
SAN domains: *.smu.ca, smu.ca

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 5 · H3 3

Links

110 internal · 25 external · 16 broken

Images

16 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

8 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.1 KB · 46.8 KB

Page size

104 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://smu.ca
Final URL: https://www.smu.ca/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 2.70 s
HTML size: 104 KB
Redirect chain: https://smu.ca → http://www.smu.ca/ → https://www.smu.ca/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does smu.ca use?: smu.ca is built with Bootstrap, Apache.
Is smu.ca secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. smu.ca uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by SSL Corporation, valid until Aug 26, 2026.
Who hosts smu.ca?: Hosting provider information for smu.ca is not available yet.
What is smu.ca's SEO score?: smu.ca scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is smu.ca's overall website score?: smu.ca has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.