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usf.edu

Since opening for classes in 1960, USF has developed into one of the nation's major public research universities.

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AboutUs report for usf.edu
Unclaimed. No owner has verified domain control for this profile yet. Crawler and archive evidence remain visible, and official facts should be submitted through review.
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The 74/100 report has outstanding findings. Review their evidence and scope; a technical issue or review hold does not by itself establish fraud.
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Report summary

Urgent owner action

Resolve high-priority trust, verification, or visibility issues before treating this profile as launch-ready.

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Report score

74/100

Owner action needed

Launch state

Search eligible

Eligible for launch indexing

Owner status

Claimable

No owner has verified domain control for this profile yet. Crawler and archive evidence remain visible, and official facts should be submitted through review.

Search visibility

Indexable public profile

This crawler-backed profile passed the public publication gate.

Can I trust this site?

Sourced website trust answer

Website report: review outstanding findings

The 74/100 report has outstanding findings. Review their evidence and scope; a technical issue or review hold does not by itself establish fraud.

Facts, not verdicts. AboutUs shows sourced signals and the next owner action; it is not a scam label.

Evidence basis

Authority not scored yet · Clear

Source freshness: 94 days old

Trust signals

1 need attention

Live website checks are useful, but at least one public trust signal needs follow-up before stronger promotion.

Freshness

94 days old

Refresh recommended

Ownership

Unclaimed

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Authority and safety snapshot

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

This report combines public evidence source, live checks, freshness, and ownership status so readers can evaluate the website without treating the score as a popularity rank.

Authority —ClearCoverage shown; confidence not calibrated

Authority basis: Strong profile signal; Legacy AboutUs archive import; crawler quality is 87/100. No authority score is published yet from report-derived and stored evidence inputs. External evidence used: Tranco rank, Open PageRank, DMARC, MX. Missing external inputs: RDAP age, Threat feed.
Safety band: Clear · Safety 90/100; 1 live trust signal need review. Model band: Clear. New or unclaimed status is not treated as unsafe by itself.

Evidence used now

Score source

Shared v2 model

The report uses the same stored-input model as the profile and directory. Its score, band, reasons and coverage come from that model together.

Score basis

High-priority action cap

High-priority findings below are holding this score down. Resolving them raises it.

Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

3 records

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: www.usf.edu.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

www.usf.edu

HTTPS request for usf.edu ended at www.usf.edu. This host is within the profile domain. This records the response destination, not an HTML canonical declaration or a configuration diagnosis.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

Welcome to the University of South Florida | Tampa, St. Petersburg, FL

The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa and St. Petersburg.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headersmissing

0/3 present

Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Breach historygood

No breaches on record

Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.

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What should improve before this profile becomes a stronger launch or owner asset.

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The last stored crawl or profile update was 94 days ago.
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Owner roadmap

The recommended path from public report to verified owner value.

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Trust checks

Current public signals checked for this report.

DNSgood

3 records

The domain resolves through public DNS.

Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup

HTTPSgood

Reachable

The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: www.usf.edu.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

HTTPS destinationunknown

www.usf.edu

HTTPS request for usf.edu ended at www.usf.edu. This host is within the profile domain. This records the response destination, not an HTML canonical declaration or a configuration diagnosis.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Page metadatagood

Welcome to the University of South Florida | Tampa, St. Petersburg, FL

The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa and St. Petersburg.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Security headersmissing

0/3 present

Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.

Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response

Breach historygood

No breaches on record

Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.

Source: Have I Been Pwned

usf.edu

Urgent owner action

Website report: review outstanding findings

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

Trust checks

Report findings

Owner roadmap

Urgent owner action

Website report: review outstanding findings

Authority and safety signals are useful with limits

Trust checks

Report findings

Owner roadmap

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