aast.edu

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After conducting a thorough safety and legitimacy analysis, aast.edu receives a trust score of 63/100, which places it in the "Likely Safe" category. This score is calculated by evaluating multiple factors including SSL certificate validity, domain registration history, email authentication protocols, security header configuration, and blacklist status across major threat intelligence databases. The analysis identified several positive trust signals: a valid HTTPS connection protecting data in transit, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) email authentication preventing email spoofing, DMARC email authentication with a quarantine policy, DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) providing cryptographic email verification, and DNSSEC providing authenticated DNS responses. Areas of concern include: the absence of a Content-Security-Policy header, which leaves the site more vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, no X-Frame-Options header, which could allow the site to be embedded in malicious iframes (clickjacking), missing Referrer-Policy, potentially leaking URL information to third parties, and the domain's WHOIS information is hidden behind a privacy service, making it harder to verify the owner's identity. While these issues don't necessarily indicate malicious intent, they represent areas where the website's security posture could be improved. We checked aast.edu against 8 major blacklist databases including Google Safe Browsing, Phishtank, Urlhaus, Openphish, Dnsfilter, Spamhaus Dbl, Surbl, and Virustotal. The domain passed all 8 checks with a clean status, meaning it has not been flagged for phishing, malware distribution, spam, or other malicious activities by any of the tested threat intelligence providers.

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Our technology detection engine scanned aast.edu and identified 6 distinct technologies across 6 categories. This analysis is performed by examining HTTP response headers, HTML source code patterns, JavaScript library fingerprints, CSS framework signatures, and DNS records. CSS Framework: Bootstrap — provides the styling and responsive layout system for aast.edu. Advertising: Meta Pixel — handles advertising pixel tracking and conversion measurement for aast.edu. Video: YouTube Embed — provides video hosting and playback for aast.edu. JavaScript Library: jQuery — provides utility functions and DOM manipulation for aast.edu. Icon Set: Font Awesome — provides additional functionality for aast.edu. Performance: WP Rocket — optimizes page loading speed and performance for aast.edu. We also extracted the following tracking identifiers: Meta (Facebook) Pixel ID 139431910221475. These IDs can be used to identify other websites operated by the same organization.

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aast.edu delivers its homepage in 4337ms (server response time), which is considered slow by industry standards. The total page weight is 249 KB, and we detected 446 resource requests loading assets from 18 third-party domains. A high number of third-party domains can significantly impact page load time due to additional DNS lookups and TLS handshakes required for each domain. The website uses Gzip compression for text-based assets, achieving an estimated 60.0% reduction in transfer size. This reduces bandwidth usage and improves page load times, especially for visitors on slower connections. Asset minification status: 1 out of 18 CSS files and 19 out of 50 JavaScript files are minified. Minifying the remaining 48 unminified file(s) could further reduce page weight by 10-30% for those assets. Minification is a best practice that reduces download sizes without affecting functionality. From an environmental perspective, each page view of aast.edu produces approximately 0.12g of CO₂, earning a carbon rating of A. This places the website among the cleanest on the web, demonstrating efficient use of server resources and optimized content delivery. For reference, the average web page produces about 0.5g of CO₂ per page view. The page weight of 249 KB is the primary factor in this calculation. Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is not available for aast.edu. This typically means the site doesn't have enough real-world Chrome user traffic to generate statistically significant field data, or the domain is not included in the CrUX dataset. Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are important Google ranking factors that measure real user experience.

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aast.edu resolves to the IPv4 address 196.219.60.10, but does not support IPv6. IPv6 adoption is increasingly important as IPv4 address space becomes exhausted, and some ISPs and regions are transitioning to IPv6-only connectivity. The domain has 1 A record(s) configured. The domain name system is managed by 4 name servers: ns1-09.azure-dns.com, ns2-09.azure-dns.net, ns3-09.azure-dns.org, and ns4-09.azure-dns.info. Having 4 name servers provides good redundancy — if one fails, the others can continue serving DNS queries. The choice of name servers often indicates the DNS hosting provider or CDN service being used. Email for aast.edu is handled by Microsoft 365 with 1 MX records configured: aast-edu.mail.protection.outlook.com. Multiple MX records provide failover redundancy — if the primary mail server is unavailable, email will be routed to the next available server. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is configured, which specifies which mail servers are authorized to send email on behalf of this domain. This helps prevent email spoofing and improves email deliverability. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is configured with a quarantine policy — a moderate setting, directing unauthorized emails to spam/junk folders. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is configured, adding a cryptographic signature to outgoing emails that receiving servers can verify to confirm the email hasn't been tampered with in transit. DNSSEC is enabled for aast.edu, providing an additional layer of security by cryptographically signing DNS records. This prevents DNS cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks that could redirect visitors to malicious websites. Our subdomain enumeration scan discovered 7 active subdomains for aast.edu: app.aast.edu, community.aast.edu, docs.aast.edu, smtp.aast.edu, support.aast.edu, webmail.aast.edu, and www.aast.edu. Active subdomains can reveal the organization's infrastructure, including development environments, API endpoints, and third-party service integrations.

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The homepage of aast.edu contains 1,675 words of visible text content. This is a substantial amount of content that provides good opportunities for search engine indexing. The page is structured with 8 H2 headings, 37 H3 headings, 27 H4 headings, 10 H5, and 1 H6 headings. The page includes 80 images. 33 images (41%) are missing alt text attributes, which is a significant concern for both accessibility and SEO. Screen readers rely on alt text to describe images to visually impaired users, and search engines use alt text to understand image content. Only 59% of images have proper alt text — we recommend adding descriptive alt attributes to all images. The link structure consists of 212 internal links pointing to other pages on the same domain and 29 external links pointing to third-party websites. The high number of internal links suggests a well-interconnected site structure, which helps search engines discover and crawl all pages efficiently. There are 50 external JavaScript files, 18 CSS stylesheets, and 0 iframes on the page. The site implements the following web standards and features: XML Sitemap (helps search engines discover all pages) and Schema.org structured data (ContactPoint, EducationalOccupationalProgram, EducationalOrganization, GeoCoordinates, ListItem, Offer, OfferCatalog, PostalAddress, SearchAction, SiteNavigationElement, and WebPage). Notable missing features: robots.txt. Adding these could improve search engine discoverability and rich result eligibility. We detected the following payment methods accepted on aast.edu: Visa and Discover. Offering multiple payment options including credit cards and digital wallets improves customer trust and can increase conversion rates. The website has social media presence across 3 platforms: Facebook (@AAST.Officialpage), Twitter (@aastmteg), and Instagram (@aast_arab.academy). An active social media presence is a positive trust indicator and helps build brand awareness and customer engagement.

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The title tag for aast.edu is good at 66 characters: "Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport - AASTMT". The length is acceptable, though it may be slightly truncated in some search result displays. The meta description is 212 characters (slightly long): "AASTMT is one of the specialized organizations of the League of Arab States. We are a regional educational organization ...". Google typically displays up to 155-160 characters of the meta description in search results. A compelling meta description with a clear call-to-action can significantly improve click-through rates from search results. The canonical url is correctly set to https://aast.edu/en/, preventing duplicate content issues, the page language is declared as en, the meta robots directive is set to index, follow, and a favicon is configured. Open Graph meta tags are configured with 3/4 recommended fields: OG title ("Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport - ..."), OG description, OG image (social sharing thumbnail), These tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms that support the Open Graph protocol. A Twitter Card of type summary_large_image is configured, which controls how links appear when shared on Twitter/X. The "summary_large_image" type displays a large image preview, which typically generates higher engagement rates than the basic card type. The site implements Schema.org structured data with the following types: ContactPoint, EducationalOccupationalProgram, EducationalOrganization, GeoCoordinates, ListItem, Offer, OfferCatalog, PostalAddress, SearchAction, SiteNavigationElement, and WebPage. Structured data helps search engines understand the page content and can enable rich results (featured snippets, knowledge panels, star ratings) in Google search results, which can significantly increase click-through rates. The meta keywords tag contains 20 terms including aast, arab academy, maritime transport, aast, and academic cooperation. Note: Google has officially confirmed that it does not use the meta keywords tag as a ranking signal. However, some other search engines (Bing, Yandex) may still reference it.

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Related domain discovery works by finding other websites that share the same IP address, Google Tag Manager container ID, Google Analytics property, or advertising pixel IDs with aast.edu. This data becomes available after batch-crawling the domain database — individual domain lookups cannot populate this section. We extracted the following tracking IDs that can be used for cross-referencing: meta_pixel_id: 139431910221475.