Website reputation report

rhul.ac.uk

Last checked 1 day ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

rhul.ac.uk is currently classified in the Education category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. Recurring page-metadata topics include royal holloway, awarded, university.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

65/100Safety Score
70%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History0 Infrastructure92 Website Security95 Security Hygiene70 Transparency44 Reputation50 Operational Stability85
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about rhul.ac.uk

Updated Sep 30, 2026

The latest scan examined 0 public pages on rhul.ac.uk. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its homepage, the site says: Royal Holloway, University of London is a research-intensive university proud of our distinctive history and driven by social purpose.

Observed page title: Royal Holloway, University of London.

Registrar and domain history

A reliable creation date was not returned by the registration lookup. The report leaves domain age unverified rather than guessing.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 1000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Jan 28, 2027.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 65/100. Evidence Confidence: 70%. These measure different things.

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on rhul.ac.uk

6 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

royal hollowayTitle, H1, Meta description6 sampled pages
awardedTitle, Meta description3 sampled pages
universityTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
at royalMeta description3 sampled pages
professorTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
prestigiousTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
0/100

Evidence is unavailable.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
92/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
70/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
44/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
85/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-09-29T06:26:15+00:00
HTML bytes submitted49,161
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-09-30T00:00:09+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,017

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 7 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts7
Inline scripts9
Embedded frames1
External script hosts2

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainrhul.ac.uk
RegistrarUnavailable
RegisteredUnavailable
Domain ageUnavailable
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesUnavailable
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address20.90.134.23
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/
Endpoint20.90.134.23
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface16 records · 2 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals3 security headers · 2 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size49,161 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observed2
Script resources7 · 2 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks1 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=GB, organizationName=Sectigo Limited, commonName=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36
Valid fromJul 14, 2026
Valid untilJan 28, 2027
Certificate names*.rhul.ac.uk · rhul.ac.uk

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A20.90.134.23TTL —
NSegm-1.rhul.ac.ukTTL —
NSegm-2.rhul.ac.ukTTL —
MX0 rhul-ac-uk.mail.protection.outlook.comTTL —
TXT" "AppID=00000000480743EC\"\"TTL —
TXT" "MR8ByF2/ZDIRIxSknXy8UFaZEPmOrgYW3aWo7q83gFdGvvuqyWzKdgssyIPSdNYwVSCHc5MLZL/YZJwxcBPJ3g==\"\"TTL —
TXT" "MS=ms33027244\"\"TTL —
TXT" "MS=ms54842110\"\"TTL —
TXT" "MS=ms77172626\"\"TTL —
TXT" "v=msv1" "t=C5A49485-0B05-4C44-B667-CDC45699B184\"\"TTL —
TXT7D2QLH2C98VKHT106JTEV0AZ72PFW6247Y5RUCBXYTTL —
TXT7EBF187F-E84E-4221-B1FB-B887948919D6TTL —
TXTfnv2fbwG+wnTFiFZ2vPM3wGKdxnF6t6MQVTs4tq25jufq1ipAOe1WsduMqyBwpn//NuwFxZksN7f44wQKGVh4g==TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Fam1ZhE1GZETNH40v_4OURhVmNPVUnBDqsa0TkfO29UTTL —
TXTsmartsheet-site-validation=YSdQytWqQTtBjOBOePmzADfeOAYxRxoZTTL —
TXTv=spf1 ip4:134.219.208.107 ip4:134.219.208.150 ip4:134.219.210.251 ip4:134.219.208.108 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:wpm.flywire.com include:amazonses.com include:spf-eu.exlibrisgroup.com include:sendgrid.net" " ip4:134.219.203.24 ip4:89.167.234.245 ip4:89.167.234.247 ip4:54.195.228.99 ip4:52.31.29.196 ip4:168.245.38.168 ip4:134.219.108.241 ip4:134.219.56.4 ip4:134.219.128.55 ~allTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCPolicy record observed, not fully validated

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

3 observed
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=2592000
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff
x-frame-optionspresent SameOrigin

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation
Cookies observed2
Missing Secure0
Missing HttpOnly0
Missing SameSite1

Only cookie attribute counts are retained. Cookie names and values are never stored. These observations are not proof of compromise and do not independently change the Safety Score.

Detected stack

Technologies

Google Tag Manager 96% Tailwind CSS 72%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis could not be completed or no eligible script files were sampled. No clean result is implied.

About this website

What the site says about itself

About us

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleRoyal Holloway, University of London
First headingRoyal Holloway, University of London
DescriptionRoyal Holloway, University of London is a research-intensive university proud of our distinctive history and driven by social purpose.
Canonical URLhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/
Final URLhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen-GB
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/academic-awarded-for-her-outstanding-contribution-to-occupational-therapy/About page detectedhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en-GB100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing secure100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing httponly100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts include subdomains100% evidence confidence
16100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts preload100% evidence confidence
2592000100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

1 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
rapid-shield-arc-759

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of rhul.ac.uk
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about rhul.ac.uk

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Is rhul.ac.uk safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 65/100 with 70% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on rhul.ac.uk?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was rhul.ac.uk registered?

The registry lookup did not provide a reliable creation date in this scan.

Did rhul.ac.uk have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.