ucsc.edu
UC Santa Cruz – A world-class public research institution comprised of ten residential college communities nestled in the redwood forests and meadows overlooking central California's Monterey Bay.
Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:40 AM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
8 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing meta description
SEOAdd a ~150-character meta description to control your search-result snippet and lift click-through rate.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
Summary
This website uses WordPress hosted on Fastly behind Fastly CDN. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Title longer than 60 characters.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
252 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Meta tags
- Title
- UC Santa Cruz – A world-class public research institution comprised of ten residential college communities nestled in the redwood forests and meadows overlooking central California's Monterey Bay.
- Description
- Canonical
- https://www.ucsc.edu/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- max-image-preview:large
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
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| AAAA |
|
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- www.ucsc.edu
- Valid from
- Jul 5, 2026
- Valid to
- Oct 3, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 73
- SAN domains
- www.ucsc.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 3
Links
19 internal · 39 external · 1 broken
Images
7 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
13 scripts · 8 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
255 KB · 468 KB
Page size
196 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 15
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Title longer than 60 characters
- Missing meta description
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- Missing OpenGraph tags
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://ucsc.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.ucsc.edu
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 248 ms
- HTML size
- 196 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://ucsc.edu → https://www.ucsc.edu
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does ucsc.edu use?
- ucsc.edu is built with WordPress, Nginx.
- Is ucsc.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. ucsc.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 3, 2026.
- Who hosts ucsc.edu?
- ucsc.edu is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is ucsc.edu's SEO score?
- ucsc.edu scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is ucsc.edu's overall website score?
- ucsc.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is ucsc.edu hiring?
- ucsc.edu has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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