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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 7:00 PM · 12 views

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. This website uses WordPress behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina regularly ranks as the best value for academic quality in U.S. public higher education.

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.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

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

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

247 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+3 overall since Jul 18, 2026

Overall
89
SEO
85
Security
75
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina regularly ranks as the best value for academic quality in U.S. public higher education.

Meta tags

Title
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Description
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina regularly ranks as the best value for academic quality in U.S. public higher education.
Canonical
https://www.unc.edu/
Language
en-US
Charset
UTF-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Manifest
https://www.unc.edu/wp-content/themes/unc/assets/images/favicon/manifest.json?v=jwLzlQrBRl

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
og:description
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina regularly ranks as the best value for academic quality in U.S. public higher education.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.unc.edu/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
unc.edu
Valid from
Jul 24, 2026
Valid to
Oct 22, 2026
Days until expiry
84
SAN domains
unc.edu, www.unc.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 9 · H3 10

Links

61 internal · 34 external · 20 broken

Images

16 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

36 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

33.0 KB · 15.2 KB

Page size

128 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
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://unc.edu
Final URL
https://www.unc.edu/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
245 ms
HTML size
128 KB
Redirect chain
https://unc.edu → https://www.unc.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does unc.edu use?
unc.edu is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Nginx.
Is unc.edu secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. unc.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 22, 2026.
Who hosts unc.edu?
Hosting provider information for unc.edu is not available yet.
What is unc.edu's SEO score?
unc.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is unc.edu's overall website score?
unc.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has unc.edu's score changed over time?
unc.edu's overall score has improved by 3 points (from 86 to 89) since Jul 18, 2026.