northwestern.edu

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northwestern.edu is ranked #2,662 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), down 24 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses jQuery and Google Tag Manager. It is served by Apache.

Global rank

#2,662

▲ 11 this week

Domain age

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Registration date unavailable

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

80/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#2,662 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: #2,565.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

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Domain registration

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

Technology stack

JavaScript libraries

jQuery

Analytics

Google Tag Manager

Web servers

Apache

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.

80/100

https://www.northwestern.edu/

Northwestern University

Northwestern is one of the country’s leading private research and teaching universities, located in Evanston, IL. Our highly collaborative environment provides our diverse students and faculty with exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth.

14 passed · 9 warnings · 0 failed

Content

✓Title23 characters
!Meta description261 characters — aim for 50–170
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings19 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 35 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 997 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.northwestern.edu/
✓robots.txtFound
!XML sitemapNot found
✓Language attributeen
!Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata

Social sharing

!Open Graph2 of 3 key tags set
!Twitter / X cardMissing

Technical

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

Security headers

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

Server response

Final URL: https://www.northwestern.edu/
HTTP status: 200
Server: Apache
Response time: 31 ms (first byte 30 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 87 KB
Compression: gzip

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