harvard.edu

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harvard.edu is ranked #310 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 9 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses jQuery, WordPress and Google Tag Manager. It is served by Nginx.

Global rank

#310

▲ 8 this week

Domain age

—

Registration date unavailable

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

89/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#310 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #290.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where harvard.edu sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

The registry for .edu does not publish registration data over RDAP.

Technology stack

JavaScript libraries

CMS & site builders

Analytics

Web servers

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

89/100

https://www.harvard.edu/

Harvard University

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

18 passed · 5 warnings · 0 failed

Content

✓Title18 characters
✓Meta description138 characters
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings25 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 27 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 2,537 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.harvard.edu/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen-US
✓Structured dataWebPage

Social sharing

✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
✓Twitter / X cardsummary_large_image

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

!Strict-Transport-SecurityNot set
!Content-Security-PolicyNot set
!Clickjacking protectionNot set
!X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://www.harvard.edu/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 45 ms (first byte 29 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 182 KB
Compression: br

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