wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Great
Top issues to fix
9 issues found · 2 high priority
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
SecurityAdd HSTS so browsers always use HTTPS — this closes the protocol-downgrade attack window.
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.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Missing canonical link
SEOAdd <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
Summary
The University of Wisconsin is a top-ranked research institution located in Madison, Wisconsin, providing exceptional education opportunities to undergraduates, graduate and professional students. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores fair (65/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
SEO
4 issue(s) found
Performance
752 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
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 Wisconsin–Madison
- Description
- The University of Wisconsin is a top-ranked research institution located in Madison, Wisconsin, providing exceptional education opportunities to undergraduates, graduate and professional students.
- Canonical
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- CloudFront
- IP address
- 18.239.111.66
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Amazon
- Subject
- www.wisc.edu
- Valid from
- Jan 28, 2026
- Valid to
- Feb 25, 2027
- Days until expiry
- 222
- SAN domains
- www.wisc.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsMissing
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 2 · H2 13 · H3 11
Links
18 internal · 56 external · 3 broken
Images
13 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
17 scripts · 4 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
35.9 KB · 125 KB
Page size
73.4 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- Missing canonical link
- Multiple H1 headings found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://wisc.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.wisc.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 751 ms
- HTML size
- 73.4 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://wisc.edu → https://www.wisc.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does wisc.edu use?
- wisc.edu is built with Google Analytics.
- Is wisc.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. wisc.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Amazon, valid until Feb 25, 2027.
- Who hosts wisc.edu?
- wisc.edu is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
- What is wisc.edu's SEO score?
- wisc.edu scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is wisc.edu's overall website score?
- wisc.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 85/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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