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usc.edu

University of Southern California

Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM

91

Overall score

Excellent

Top issues to fix

3 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.

Summary

USC is one of the world's leading research universities. This website uses WordPress hosted on Fastly behind Fastly CDN. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (75/100) and performance excellent (90/100).

100

SEO

0 issue(s) found

90

Performance

7 ms

75

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

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Organization

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

FacebookInstagramX (Twitter)YouTube

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

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Academic Excellence in Our DNA
og:description
USC is one of the world's leading research universities. At USC, the human spirit is cultivated through learning, research and creativity.
og:type
website
og:url
https://www.usc.edu/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
—
twitter:description
—

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

WordPressjQueryGoogle AnalyticsNginx

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
Fastly
CDN provider
Fastly
IP address
23.185.0.3
ASN
AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 23.185.0.3
AAAA
  • 2620:12a:8000::3
  • 2620:12a:8001::3
MX
  • mx0b-00164701.pphosted.com
  • mx0a-00164701.pphosted.com
TXT—
NS
  • ns0037.secondary.cloudflare.com
  • ns0163.secondary.cloudflare.com
CAA—
CNAME—
IPv6 supportYes

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
57
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

60 internal · 91 external · 0 broken

Images

22 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

40 scripts · 6 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

387 KB · 903 KB

Page size

239 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
6
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

No SEO issues detected.

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
3 ms
HTML size
239 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?
usc.edu is hosted on Fastly, behind Fastly CDN.
What is usc.edu's SEO score?
usc.edu scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is usc.edu's overall website score?
usc.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 91/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.