rice.edu

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rice.edu is ranked #4,675 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 314 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses Drupal, Font Awesome and Amplitude. It is served through Fastly and jsDelivr by Nginx.

Global rank

#4,675

▲ 35 this week

Domain age

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Registration date unavailable

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

91/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#4,675 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: #4,029.

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

CMS & site builders

Drupal 10

UI frameworks & fonts

Analytics

CDN

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.

91/100

https://www.rice.edu/

Rice University

Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston’s next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow’s thinking.

19 passed · 4 warnings · 0 failed

Content

✓Title15 characters
✓Meta description158 characters
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings13 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 15 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 854 words

Indexing

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

Social sharing

✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
!Twitter / X cardMissing

Technical

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

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
!Content-Security-PolicyNot set
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://www.rice.edu/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 20 ms (first byte 15 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 155 KB
Compression: br

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Questions about rice.edu

How popular is rice.edu?

rice.edu is #4,675 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

What is rice.edu built with?

We detected Drupal, Font Awesome, Amplitude, Fastly, jsDelivr and Nginx on its homepage.