aku.edu

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After conducting a thorough safety and legitimacy analysis, aku.edu receives a trust score of 66/100, 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 none policy, and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) providing cryptographic email verification. Areas of concern include: missing Referrer-Policy, potentially leaking URL information to third parties, the domain's WHOIS information is hidden behind a privacy service, making it harder to verify the owner's identity, and DNSSEC is not enabled, leaving DNS queries vulnerable to spoofing attacks. While these issues don't necessarily indicate malicious intent, they represent areas where the website's security posture could be improved. We checked aku.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 aku.edu and identified 8 distinct technologies across 7 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 aku.edu. Analytics: Google Analytics 4 — tracks visitor behavior and provides traffic insights for aku.edu. Advertising: Meta Pixel and Twitter Pixel — handles advertising pixel tracking and conversion measurement for aku.edu. Fonts: Google Fonts — delivers web fonts for typography for aku.edu. Video: YouTube Embed — provides video hosting and playback for aku.edu. JavaScript Library: jQuery (version 2.2.2.) — provides utility functions and DOM manipulation for aku.edu. Icon Set: Font Awesome — provides additional functionality for aku.edu. We also extracted the following tracking identifiers: Google Analytics 4 Measurement ID G-WEJ14K8472 and Meta (Facebook) Pixel ID 1263223104051259. These IDs can be used to identify other websites operated by the same organization.

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aku.edu delivers its homepage in 24926ms (server response time), which is considered slow by industry standards. The total page weight is 169 KB, and we detected 292 resource requests loading assets from 14 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. No compression is currently enabled on aku.edu. Enabling Brotli or Gzip compression could reduce page size by 60-80% for text-based assets (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), significantly improving load times and reducing bandwidth costs. This is one of the simplest and most impactful performance optimizations available. Asset minification status: 2 out of 20 CSS files and 0 out of 15 JavaScript files are minified. Minifying the remaining 33 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 aku.edu produces approximately 0.08g 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 169 KB is the primary factor in this calculation. Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is not available for aku.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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aku.edu resolves to the IPv4 address 52.156.198.57, 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 3 name servers: ns1.lnhi.net, ns2.lnhi.net, and ns3.lnhi.net. Having 3 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 aku.edu is handled by Microsoft 365 with 1 MX records configured: aku-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 none policy — a monitoring-only setting that doesn't enforce any action on unauthorized emails. 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 not enabled for aku.edu. While not critical for most websites, DNSSEC adds an important security layer by ensuring DNS responses haven't been tampered with during transit. Enabling DNSSEC is recommended for domains handling sensitive data or financial transactions. Our subdomain enumeration scan discovered 5 active subdomains for aku.edu: ftp.aku.edu, mail.aku.edu, portal.aku.edu, webmail.aku.edu, and www.aku.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 aku.edu contains 888 words of visible text content. This is a moderate amount of content. The page is structured with 0 H2 headings, 0 H3 headings, 0 H4 headings, 3 H5, and 0 H6 headings. The page includes 19 images. 11 images (58%) 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 42% of images have proper alt text — we recommend adding descriptive alt attributes to all images. The link structure consists of 169 internal links pointing to other pages on the same domain and 26 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 15 external JavaScript files, 20 CSS stylesheets, and 1 iframes on the page. The site implements the following web standards and features: XML Sitemap (helps search engines discover all pages). Notable missing features: robots.txt and Schema.org structured data. Adding these could improve search engine discoverability and rich result eligibility. The website has social media presence across 4 platforms: Facebook (@AKUGlobal), Twitter (@akuglobal), Instagram (@akuglobal), and Youtube (@UCO-pBwoHl40sZFtRhKI-Blw). 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 aku.edu is good at 23 characters: "The Aga Khan University". The length is acceptable, though it may be slightly truncated in some search result displays. No meta description is configured for aku.edu. This is a critical SEO oversight — without a meta description, Google will auto-generate a snippet from page content, which may not accurately represent the page or entice users to click. Adding a unique, compelling meta description of 120-155 characters is strongly recommended. The canonical url is correctly set to https://www.aku.edu:443/pages/home.aspx, preventing duplicate content issues and a favicon is configured. Open Graph meta tags are configured with 4/4 recommended fields: OG title ("The Aga Khan University..."), OG description, OG image (social sharing thumbnail), OG type (website). 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.

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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 aku.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: ga4_id: G-WEJ14K8472, meta_pixel_id: 1263223104051259.