Is wgu.edu secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. wgu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Certainly, valid until Aug 29, 2026.

Hosting provider information for wgu.edu is not available yet.

What is wgu.edu's SEO score?

wgu.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is wgu.edu's overall website score?

wgu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has wgu.edu's score changed over time?

wgu.edu's overall score has declined by 2 points (from 84 to 82) since Jul 25, 2026.

wgu.edu

Western Governors University – Online College

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 9:00 AM · 10 views

Overall score

Great

Summary

Western Governors University is an online university where you can earn an affordable, accredited, career-focused college degree at an accelerated pace. This website uses Apache behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is fair (70/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.

Western Governors University is an online university where you can earn an affordable, accredited, career-focused college degree at an accelerated pace.

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 2 high priority

Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Over half of images are missing alt text
Accessibility
Add alt attributes to images — screen readers depend on them, and they help image SEO.
TLS certificate expires in 28 days
Security
Renew soon or enable auto-renewal to avoid a browser-warning outage.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEO
Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
robots.txt not found
SEO
Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

Performance

14 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

-2 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall: 82
SEO: 85
Security: 80
Performance: 90
Accessibility: 70

Organization

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

Western Governors University is an online university where you can earn an affordable, accredited, career-focused college degree at an accelerated pace.

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Contact

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

Phone: 866.225.5948

Meta tags

Title: Western Governors University – Online College
Description: Western Governors University is an online university where you can earn an affordable, accredited, career-focused college degree at an accelerated pace.
Canonical: https://www.wgu.edu
Language: en
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest: https://www.wgu.edu/etc.clientlibs/wgu/clientlibs/clientlib-site/resources/images/favicons/site.webmanifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Apache

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: Certainly
Subject: *.wgu.edu
Valid from: Jul 30, 2026
Valid to: Aug 29, 2026
Days until expiry: 28
SAN domains: *.wgu.edu, wgu.edu

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 2 · H2 30 · H3 25

Links

248 internal · 12 external · 20 broken

Images

45 total · 40 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

12 scripts · 4 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

4.4 KB · 0 B

Page size

415 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Not found
Disallow rules: 0
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

Multiple H1 headings found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://wgu.edu
Final URL: https://www.wgu.edu/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 6 ms
HTML size: 415 KB
Redirect chain: https://wgu.edu → https://www.wgu.edu/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does wgu.edu use?: wgu.edu is built with Apache.
Is wgu.edu secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. wgu.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Certainly, valid until Aug 29, 2026.
Who hosts wgu.edu?: Hosting provider information for wgu.edu is not available yet.
What is wgu.edu's SEO score?: wgu.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is wgu.edu's overall website score?: wgu.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 82/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has wgu.edu's score changed over time?: wgu.edu's overall score has declined by 2 points (from 84 to 82) since Jul 25, 2026.