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Blocks all crawlers by default in robots.txt (User-agent: *). Checked Sep 2026. A recent check saw a policy file missing; awaiting confirmation.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 robots.txt appeared
- Sep 2026 * added to robots.txt
- Sep 2026 * removed from robots.txt
- Sep 2026 robots.txt removed
- Aug 2026 *: Blocked (was Allowed)
- Aug 2026 *: Allowed (was Blocked)
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| cte | #6 | 8,300 |
| boston college | #5 | 7,100 |
| harvard square | #5 | 5,200 |
| bts members | #5 | 4,700 |
| boston university tuition | #1 | 4,500 |
| boston university fitness and recreation center | #1 | 4,500 |
| bu library | #1 | 4,500 |
| boston university questrom | #1 | 4,100 |
| boston university cost | #1 | 3,400 |
| thanksgiving | #41 | 3,200 |
| boston university law | #1 | 3,000 |
| henry m goldman | #1 | 3,000 |
| henry goldman dental | #1 | 3,000 |
| how did california fire start | #1 | 2,800 |
| boston university admissions address | #1 | 2,500 |
| hippocratic oath | #5 | 2,300 |
| farsi | #5 | 2,300 |
| examsoft | #7 | 2,300 |
| boston university massachusetts | #1 | 2,200 |
| what started the california fire | #2 | 2,200 |
| olympus scanner | #4 | 2,200 |
| socioeconomic standing | #3 | 2,200 |
| mo us state abbreviation | #5 | 2,100 |
| food open near me open now | #70 | 2,100 |
| boston university job openings | #1 | 2,000 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
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Audience
- 77% desktop
- 23% phone
United States
India
Canada
United Kingdom
Italy
China
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
8.77 / 10 · ranked #884 of all domains
18,762 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
813,200 est. monthly organic visits (US)
295,729 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 3.1 MB · 49 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
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depaul.edu 15 shared
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Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- Boston University
- Founded: 1869
- Sector: higher education
- Country: United States
From Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on BOSTONU-AS (128.197.236.4)
- DNS: bu.edu
- Email: Cisco Secure Email
- Email security: no SPF record, no DMARC record
- SSL: Amazon Trust Services, RSA 2048, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 2,008, 847 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| insights.bu.edu | 41 |
| paralegalonline.bu.edu | 35 |
| digital.bu.edu | 34 |
| give.bu.edu | 34 |
| crem.bu.edu | 33 |
| financialplanningonline.bu.edu | 32 |
| genealogyonline.bu.edu | 32 |
| onlineprofundraising.bu.edu | 32 |
| questrom.bu.edu | 32 |
| socialwork.bu.edu | 32 |
| cpr.bu.edu | 31 |
| givingday.bu.edu | 30 |
| discoverlaw.bu.edu | 29 |
| questromweb.bu.edu | 28 |
| combeyond.bu.edu | 27 |
| questromworld.bu.edu | 27 |
| givingtuesday.bu.edu | 26 |
| bucfaprograms.bu.edu | 25 |
| crowdfunding.bu.edu | 25 |
| bumetprograms.bu.edu | 24 |
| cs-web.bu.edu | 24 |
| met.bu.edu | 24 |
| sites.bu.edu | 24 |
| www.bu.edu | 24 |
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