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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.36 s
File size
267.00 kB
Words
818
Media files
19
Number of links
136 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University of Hertfordshire
The length of the page title is perfect. (236 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The University of Hertfordshire offers a wide range of Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional and Short courses. One of the top 200 universities in the world under 50 years old.
The meta description is too long: 1109 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.herts.ac.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 37.67 words is high.
This page contains 818 words. That's ok.
24.6% 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.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Undergrad Open Day Saturday 23 November
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 49 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Undergrad Open Day Saturday 23 November
H2 Book your free ticket
H2 Apply through Clearing
H2 University of Hertfordshire’s national league table success continues
H2 University of Hertfordshire’s new, £100m, state-of-the-art, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science opens
H2 Herts astrophysicist helps uncover 10,000 black hole jets including biggest ever seen, 7.5 billion light years away
H2 Herts’ research partnerships and impact on local growth recognised in latest Knowledge Exchange Framework
H2 Herts researchers take a step closer to developing robots able to “act on intuition”
H2 Upcoming events
H2 7 November 2024 Chancellor's Lecture
H2 23 November 2024 Undergrad Open Day
H2 23 November 2024 Postgrad Open Day
H2 Herts launches pop-up play café to promote healthy digital use18 October 2024
H2 ‘Inflexible thinking style’ behind why some people won’t accept vaccines, says new research 21 October 2024
H2 Herts joins pioneering work researching scattering amplitudes 16 October 2024
H2 Apply through Clearing Duplicate text
H2 Apply online through Clearing
H2 I want to
H2 Go to
H2 Contact us
H2 Location
H3 Postgraduate Open Day
H3 Live on campus
H3 Funding your studies
H5 Courses
H5 Get ready to apply
H5 Studying at Herts
H5 Life at Herts
H5 Accommodation
H5 Support and wellbeing
H5 International
H5 Activity
H5 Community
H5 Impact
H5 Apprenticeships and skills
H5 Recruit our students
H5 Growth and productivity
H5 Quick links
H5 About us
H5 Our people
H5 Quick links Duplicate text
H5 Instagram
H5 Tiktok
H5 Facebook
H5 Threads
H5 X (Twitter)
H5 LinkedIn
H5 YouTube
H6 Search everything:
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
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/study/how-to-applySubdomain Application guide
/study/fees-and-fundingSubdomain Fees and funding
/study/fees-and-funding/financ...Subdomain Scholarships and grants
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/study/term-and-semester-datesSubdomain Term and semester dates
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/for-business/skills/psqmSubdomain Primary Science Quality Mark
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/for-business/recruit-our-stud...Subdomain Access recruitment support
/for-business/recruit-our-stud...Subdomain Events for employers
/for-business/recruit-our-stud...Subdomain Text duplicate Frequently asked questions
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/for-business/growth/business-...Subdomain Business incubation
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/for-business/research-and-ins...Subdomain Research and insights
/for-business/facilities-hireSubdomain Facilities hire
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/for-business/get-in-touchSubdomain Get in touch
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/about-us/our-leadership-strat...Subdomain Leadership and strategy
/about-us/news-and-events/newsSubdomain News
/about-us/news-and-events/eventsSubdomain Text duplicate Events
/contact-usSubdomain Find / contact us
/staff/jobs-at-hertsSubdomain Jobs at Herts
/about-us/supporting-our-studentsSubdomain Supporting our students
/about-us/equality-diversity-a...Subdomain Equality, diversity and inclusion
/about-us/environment-and-sust...Subdomain Environment and sustainability
https://www.herts.ac.uk/alumniSubdomain Alumni
/study/schools-of-studySubdomain Schools of study
/about-us/support-usSubdomain Give to Herts
/about-us/campus-investmentSubdomain Campus investment
/about-us/legalSubdomain Legal information
/?external-uuid=41db0e3e-beca-...Student login
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https://www.instagram.com/unio...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.tiktok.com/@uniofh...New window External Subdomain Tiktok
https://www.facebook.com/uniof...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.threads.net/@uniof...New window External Subdomain Threads
https://x.com/uniofhertsNew window External X (Twitter)
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https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
/study/open-days-and-events/un...Subdomain Book now
/courses/undergraduate-coursesSubdomain Undergrad courses
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IMG-ALT apply online
https://www.herts.ac.uk/clearingSubdomain Find out more before you apply
IMG-ALT click to call
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/study/open-days-and-events/po...Subdomain Text duplicate Book now
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/life/student-accommodation/li...Subdomain Live on campus
/life/student-accommodation/li...Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
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/study/fees-and-fundingSubdomain Funding your studies
/study/fees-and-fundingSubdomain Text duplicate Learn more
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/about-us/news-and-events/news...New window Subdomain Discover more
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/about-us/news-and-events/news...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Discover more
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/about-us/news-and-events/news...Subdomain Herts joins pioneering work researching scattering amplitudes 16 October 2024
https://www.herts.ac.uk/Anchor Apply online
IMG-ALT Apply online icon
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/study/our-prospectusesSubdomain View a Prospectus
/staff/jobs-at-hertsSubdomain Find a job at the University
/about-us/legal/complaints-policySubdomain Request a review or make a complaint
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https://www.studentrecord.hert...External Subdomain Your student record
/bayfordburySubdomain Bayfordbury
/about-us/our-leadership-strat...Subdomain Transparency information
/contact-us/contact-usSubdomain Text duplicate Contact us
/contact-us/where-to-find-usSubdomain Where to find us
/contact-us/parkingSubdomain Parking
/contact-us/where-to-find-us/c...Subdomain IMG-ALT Location map
https://www.facebook.com/uniof...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/unio...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Instagram
https://twitter.com/intent/fol...New window External Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.tiktok.com/@uniofh...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Tiktok
https://www.threads.net/@uniof...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Threads
/about-us/legalSubdomain Legal information and terms of use
/about-us/legal/privacySubdomain Online privacy policy
/about-us/legal/criminal-finan...Subdomain Criminal Finances Act 2017
/about-us/legal/modern-slavery...Subdomain Modern Slavery Act 2015
/about-us/legal/accessibility-...Subdomain Accessibility statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.herts.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The page response time is excellent with 0.36 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (267 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This page has 199,924 backlinks.
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