usc.edu
University of Southern California
Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 13 views
Overall score
Great
Summary
USC is one of the world's leading research universities. This website uses WordPress behind Fastly CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.
USC is one of the world's leading research universities. At USC, the human spirit is cultivated through learning, research and creativity.
Top issues to fix
6 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
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.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
20 broken links on the page
SEOFix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
10 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Score history
-3 overall since Jul 18, 2026
- Overall
- 88
- SEO
- 90
- Security
- 75
- Performance
- 90
- Accessibility
- 100
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- University of Southern California
- Description
- USC is one of the world's leading research universities. At USC, the human spirit is cultivated through learning, research and creativity.
- Canonical
- https://www.usc.edu/
- Language
- en-US
- Charset
- UTF-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width
- Robots meta
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Manifest
- https://usc.edu/wp-content/themes/usc-communications-2023/favicon/site.webmanifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
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
- Let's Encrypt
- Subject
- about.usc.edu
- Valid from
- Jun 16, 2026
- Valid to
- Sep 14, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 46
- SAN domains
- about.usc.edu, emergency.usc.edu, usc.edu, visit.usc.edu, www.usc.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 7 · H3 7
Links
59 internal · 93 external · 20 broken
Images
19 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
39 scripts · 6 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
75.4 KB · 13.0 KB
Page size
303 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
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://usc.edu
- Final URL
- https://usc.edu
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 4 ms
- HTML size
- 303 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://usc.edu
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does usc.edu use?
- usc.edu is built with WordPress, jQuery, Google Analytics, Nginx.
- Is usc.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. usc.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 14, 2026.
- Who hosts usc.edu?
- Hosting provider information for usc.edu is not available yet.
- What is usc.edu's SEO score?
- usc.edu scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is usc.edu's overall website score?
- usc.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has usc.edu's score changed over time?
- usc.edu's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 91 to 88) since Jul 18, 2026.
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