wpi.edu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 8:25 AM · 3 views
Overall score
Fair
Summary
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university founded in 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts. This website uses Nginx hosted on AWS behind Fastly CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is good (75/100). Security scores poor (40/100) and performance good (80/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university founded in 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Enrollment: ~7,000 students. Student-to-faculty ratio 14:1. 91% outcomes rate within 6 months. ~$100M annual research expenditures.
- United States
- Hosted on AWS
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 3 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.
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
More than 20% of images are missing alt text
AccessibilityAdd alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).
SEO
2 issue(s) found
Performance
2.78 s
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
2 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university founded in 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Enrollment: ~7,000 students. Student-to-faculty ratio 14:1. 91% outcomes rate within 6 months. ~$100M annual research expenditures.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Phone
- 508-831-5000
Meta tags
- Title
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
- Description
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university founded in 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Enrollment: ~7,000 students. Student-to-faculty ratio 14:1. 91% outcomes rate within 6 months. ~$100M annual research expenditures.
- Canonical
- https://www.wpi.edu/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- Manifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Internet2
- Subject
- www.wpi.edu
- Valid from
- Oct 3, 2025
- Valid to
- Nov 3, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 101
- SAN domains
- www.wpi.edu, m.wpi.edu, scheduling.wpi.edu, web.wpi.edu, wpi.edu, www.cs.wpi.edu
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityMissing
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyMissing
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 0 · H2 9 · H3 0
Links
80 internal · 22 external · 0 broken
Images
45 total · 22 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
12 scripts · 5 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
412 KB · 577 KB
Page size
252 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 43
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- -1
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No H1 heading found
Accessibility issues
- More than 20% of images are missing alt text
- No H1 heading found
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://wpi.edu
- Final URL
- https://www.wpi.edu/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 2.78 s
- HTML size
- 252 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://wpi.edu → https://www.wpi.edu/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does wpi.edu use?
- wpi.edu is built with Drupal, jQuery, Nginx.
- Is wpi.edu secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. wpi.edu uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Internet2, valid until Nov 3, 2026.
- Who hosts wpi.edu?
- wpi.edu is hosted on AWS, behind Fastly CDN.
- What is wpi.edu's SEO score?
- wpi.edu scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is wpi.edu's overall website score?
- wpi.edu has an overall SiteGraph score of 71/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
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