yale.edu

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yale.edu is ranked #1,139 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 31 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses jQuery, Drupal, Font Awesome and Google Analytics. It is served through Fastly and Pantheon by Nginx.

Global rank

#1,139

▲ 18 this week

Domain age

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Registration date unavailable

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

89/100

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Popularity rank

#1,139 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: #1,034.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

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

Domain registration

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

Technology stack

JavaScript libraries

jQuery

CMS & site builders

Drupal 7

UI frameworks & fonts

Analytics

CDN

Hosting

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.yale.edu/

Yale University

Since its founding in 1701, Yale University has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.

18 passed · 5 warnings · 0 failed

Content

✓Title15 characters
!Meta description195 characters — aim for 50–170
!H1 heading2 H1 headings — use one
✓Subheadings12 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 13 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 714 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.yale.edu/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen
✓Structured dataMicrodata

Social sharing

!Open Graph2 of 3 key tags set
✓Twitter / X cardsummary

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.yale.edu/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 3.41 s (first byte 3.41 s, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 94 KB
Compression: gzip

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Questions about yale.edu

How popular is yale.edu?

yale.edu is #1,139 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

What is yale.edu built with?

We detected jQuery, Drupal, Font Awesome, Google Analytics, Fastly, Pantheon and Nginx on its homepage.