Ctl.ox.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
100% 
External factors
63% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.26 s
File size
142.90 kB
Words
411
Media files
6
Number of links
76 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Centre for Teaching and Learning
The length of the page title is perfect. (369 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ctl.ox.ac.uk/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
GeneratorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
theme-color#44687d
msapplication-TileImagesites/all/themes/custom/oxtheme/images/favicons/university_of_oxford/mstile-150x150.png
langen
twitter:cardsummary
og:url/home
og:titleHome
og:image/sites/all/themes/custom/oxtheme/images/brandmark/4x/oxlogo-rect-noborder.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 411 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
18.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ges/brandmark/svg/oxlogo-rect-border.svgOxford University
...ges/brandmark/svg/oxlogo-rect-border.svgOxford University
...ts_by_ian_wallman_2663.jpg?itok=COmrxS0d""
...te_keyline_transparent.png?itok=DMgWDhz0Centre for Teaching and Learning logoCentre for Teaching and Learning logo, transparent, white keyline
...stom/oxtheme/images/logo/mosaic-logo.pngOxford Mosaic logo
...oxtheme/images/logo/it-services-logo.pngIT Services logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Quick links
H2 Events
H2 News
H2 CONTACT US
H2 QUICK LINKS
H2 ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
4 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Oxford University
http://www.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Oxford University
http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissionsExternal Subdomain ADMISSIONS
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions
http://www.ox.ac.uk/researchExternal Subdomain RESEARCH
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/research
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-e...External Subdomain NEWS & EVENTS
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events
http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutExternal Subdomain ABOUT
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/about
http://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain Staff Gateway
A-TITLE http://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.ox.ac.uk/studentsExternal Subdomain Oxford Students
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/students
http://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain Alumni
A-TITLE http://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/saml_loginSubdomain No Text
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/No Text
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/Centre for Teaching and Learning
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/No Text
http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissionsExternal Subdomain Text duplicate ADMISSIONS
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions
http://www.ox.ac.uk/researchExternal Subdomain Text duplicate RESEARCH
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/research
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-e...External Subdomain Text duplicate NEWS & EVENTS
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events
http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutExternal Subdomain Text duplicate ABOUT
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/about
http://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Staff Gateway
A-TITLE http://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.ox.ac.uk/studentsExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Oxford Students
A-TITLE http://www.ox.ac.uk/students
http://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni
A-TITLE http://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/saml_loginSubdomain No Text
/teaching-in-2024-25Teaching in 2024-25
/helpdesk-serviceHelpdesk service available
/resources-hubResources
/digital-educationDigital education
/accessibility-teachingAccessible teaching and learning resources
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/aiAI and academic practice
/online-coursesOxford-specific online courses
/student-transition-support-re...Student academic transition: resources for teaching staff
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/toolkitsInclusive teaching toolkits
/oxford-teaching-ideasOxford Teaching Ideas
/projects-reports-hubProjects & reports
/academic-skills-development-p...Academic Skills Development Project
/diversity-of-student-experien...Diversity of Student Experience Research Project
/student-experience-internship...Student Experience Internship Scheme
/what-matters-to-students-projectWhat Matters to Students Public Policy Challenge Project
/project-reportsReports and briefing papers
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/eventsEvents
/event/academic-skills-provisionAcademic skills provision event
/view-programme-academic-skill...View programme: Academic skills provision knowledge exchange forum
/event/drop-in-sessionsDrop-in Canvas help sessions
/event/online-sessions-in-digi...Online sessions - Getting more out of Oxford's digital education tools
/developing-academic-skills-wo...Workshop series - Developing Academic Skills 2024-25
/event/empowering-oxford-educa...Workshop - Empowering Oxford Educators
/teaching-programmesTeaching programmes
/preparation-for-learning-and-...Preparation for Learning and Teaching at Oxford
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/cmaltCMALT Programme at Oxford
/certified-practitioner-of-lea...Certified Practitioner of Learning Development programme
/communities-hubEducation communities
/academic-skills-special-inter...Academic Skills Special Interest Group
/all-oxford-ltsAll Oxford LTs (Learning Technologists)
/digital-education-technologie...Digital Education Technologies User Group
/inclusive-teaching-special-in...Inclusive Teaching Special Interest Group
/consultancy-serviceConsultancy services
/embedding-digital-educationEmbedding digital education
/integrating-academic-skillsIntegrating academic skills
/redesigning-assessment(Re)designing summative assessments
/celebrating-teachingCelebrating teaching
/teaching-and-learning-symposiumTeaching and Learning Symposium
/vice-chancellors-education-aw...Vice-Chancellor's Education Awards
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/about-usAbout us
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/teamOur team
/stay-informedSign up to stay informed
/join-our-teamJoin our team
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/newsNews
/vice-chancellors-education-aw...Subdomain NEW! Vice-Chancellor's Awards now open
/event/academic-skills-develop...New window Subdomain Sign up for Academic Skills Provision Knowledge Exchange Forum on Tue 14 Jan
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/cmaltSubdomain Apply for CMALT Programme at Oxford by Wed 15 Jan
/ai-teaching-and-learning-expl...Subdomain View projects supported by AI Teaching and Learning Exploratory Fund
/event/drop-in-sessionsSubdomain Find out about our online drop-in Canvas help sessions
/consultancy-serviceSubdomain Express interest in our 2024-25 consultancy services
/digital-educationSubdomain View our digital education guidance, resources, and online sessions
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/eventsSubdomain View all our upcoming events
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/aiSubdomain View our AI resources
/helpdesk-serviceNew window Subdomain Find out about our Digital Education Service Desk
/canvas-oxfordSubdomain Learn more about Canvas
/stay-informedSubdomain Sign up to stay informed about our activities
/stay-informedNo Text
/stay-informedNo Text
/stay-informedNew window STAY INFORMED
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/eventsSubdomain View events list
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/newsSubdomain Read more news
https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/about-usNew window Subdomain Text duplicate About us
/consultancy-serviceNew window Subdomain Text duplicate Consultancy services
/teaching-programmesNew window Subdomain Text duplicate Teaching programmes
/networks-and-eventsNew window Subdomain Text duplicate Celebrating teaching
/stay-informedNew window Subdomain Text duplicate Sign up to stay informed
https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/info...External Subdomain Jobs
https://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/w...External Subdomain HR Self-Service login
https://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/t...External Subdomain Professional development
https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain Access guide
http://maps.ox.ac.uk/External Subdomain Searchable map
https://outlook.office.com/owa/External Subdomain Nexus email login
https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/fac...External Subdomain Term dates
https://oxfordmosaic.web.ox.ac...External Subdomain Cookies statement
/picture-creditsSubdomain Picture credits
http://www.ox.ac.uk/legalExternal Subdomain Legal
/accessibility-statement-for-t...Subdomain Accessibility statement
http://www.ox.ac.uk/privacy-po...External Subdomain Privacy statement
/canvas-accessibilitySubdomain Canvas accessibility statement
http://oxfordmosaic.web.ox.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain powered by oxford mosaic
IMG-ALT Oxford Mosaic logo
/sitelist.htmlList of site pages

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ctl.ox.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.26 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (143 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-drupal-cacheMISS
etag"1734721375-0"
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
link</node/666571>; rel="shortlink",<https://www.ctl.ox.ac.uk/home>; rel="canonical"
last-modifiedFri, 20 Dec 2024 19:02:55 GMT
x-request-idv-05168766-bf05-11ef-b13f-9375143a55e5
x-ah-environmentprod
x-cache-hits1
x-age695
accept-rangesbytes
x-akamai-transformed9 - 0 pmb=mRUM,1
content-encodinggzip
cache-controlpublic, max-age=60
expiresWed, 25 Dec 2024 09:46:12 GMT
dateWed, 25 Dec 2024 09:45:12 GMT
content-length35685
varyAccept-Encoding
server-timingcdn-cache; desc=REVALIDATE
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 21 referring domains.
This page only has 28 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 20 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

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Learning54%Check
Centre54%Check
Learning Resources44%Check
News and Events44%Check
Inclusive teaching44%Check
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