Is vub.be secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. vub.be uses TLS 1.2 with a certificate issued by Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA, valid until Feb 7, 2027.

Hosting provider information for vub.be is not available yet.

What is vub.be's SEO score?

vub.be scored 90/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).

What is vub.be's overall website score?

vub.be has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

vub.be

Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:18 AM

Overall score

Great

Summary

Studeer aan de VUB en bouw mee aan een duurzame toekomst voor onze volgende generaties. This website uses Drupal behind Fastly CDN. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

Studeer aan de VUB en bouw mee aan een duurzame toekomst voor onze volgende generaties

Top issues to fix

6 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Security
Add HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
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.
Sluggish estimated load (3.2s)
Performance
Target under 3 seconds: enable compression and serve static assets from a CDN.

SEO

2 issue(s) found

Performance

3.18 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.

Studeer aan de VUB en bouw mee aan een duurzame toekomst voor onze volgende generaties

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Contact

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

Email: info@vub.be

Meta tags

Title: Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Description: Studeer aan de VUB en bouw mee aan een duurzame toekomst voor onze volgende generaties
Canonical: https://www.vub.be/nl
Language: nl
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=5, user-scalable=yes
Robots meta: index, follow
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Drupal

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 1.2
Issuer: Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA
Subject: *.vub.be
Valid from: Jul 23, 2026
Valid to: Feb 7, 2027
Days until expiry: 195
SAN domains: *.vub.be, vub.be

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
Content-Security-PolicyMissing
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyEnabled
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 11 · H3 18

Links

276 internal · 39 external · 0 broken

Images

26 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

5 scripts · 4 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

5.4 KB · 0 B

Page size

282 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://vub.be
Final URL: https://www.vub.be/nl
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 3.18 s
HTML size: 282 KB
Redirect chain: https://vub.be → https://www.vub.be// → https://www.vub.be/ → https://www.vub.be/nl

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