Hull.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.28 s
File size
57.10 kB
Words
248
Media files
3
Number of links
19 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Study with us | University of Hull
The length of the page title is perfect. (290 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
For nearly 100 years, we’ve been teaching people to think differently. Study at a University with a progressive history and up-to-the-minute facilities.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (905 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@UniOfHull
twitter:titleStudy with us
twitter:descriptionFor nearly 100 years, we’ve been teaching people to think differently. Study at a University with a progressive history and up-to-the-minute facilities.
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og:titleStudy with us
og:urlhttps://www.hull.ac.uk/
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionFor nearly 100 years, we’ve been teaching people to think differently. Study at a University with a progressive history and up-to-the-minute facilities.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 248 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 54 words is high.
27.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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" 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 6 tags for 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
...emplates/header/images/new/uoh-white.svgThe University of Hull
...emplates/header/images/new/uoh-white.svgThe University of Hull
Video URLWidthHeight
...brary/placeholders/homepageportraits.mp41440810

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Thinking about your future?So are we.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Thinking about your future?So are we.
H1 Defying convention to break new ground
H2 menu
H2 search
H2 Latest research
H2 Search for a course and start your journey
H2 Our research has an impact globally, every single day. Join us in tackling the big issues and help us shape a fairer, brighter and carbon neutral future for all.
H2 Latest news
H2 Upcoming events
H3 Marine scientists respond to SOS from our coastline
H3 A stellar line up of Colliderfest events on campus
H3 Drivers, causes and impacts of the 2023 Sikkim flood in India
H3 Or select a study type to find out more
H3 Partnership promotes Yorkshire as a powerhouse for regional growth
H3 Marine scientists respond to SOS from our coastline Duplicate text
H3 Hull academic leads panel in shaping Education Studies
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 3 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.hull.ac.uk/IMG-ALT The University of Hull
/choose-hull/study-at-hull/vis...Subdomain Book an Open Day
/choose-hull/student-lifeWhy Hull?
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...More research
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...Marine scientists respond to SOS from our coastline
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...A stellar line up of Colliderfest events on campus
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...Drivers, causes and impacts of the 2023 Sikkim flood in India
/search/coursesSee all courses
/study/undergraduateUndergraduate
/study/postgraduate/next-stepPostgraduate Taught
/study/postgraduate/researchPostgraduate Research
/study/postgraduate/research/s...PhD Scholarships
https://online.hull.ac.uk/External Subdomain Online courses
https://www.hull.ac.uk/about-usFind out more
https://www.hull.ac.uk/researchText duplicate Find out more
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...See all
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...Partnership promotes Yorkshire as a powerhouse for regional growth
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...Text duplicate Marine scientists respond to SOS from our coastline
/work-with-us/more/media-centr...Hull academic leads panel in shaping Education Studies
https://tef2023.officeforstude...External Subdomain 2023 Outcomes
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of...External Subdomain numbeo.com
https://www.hull.ac.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT The University of Hull

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.hull.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.28 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (57 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateSun, 20 Apr 2025 14:01:51 GMT
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x-version-no80
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x-origin-serverbackend-coordinator
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x-grace72h
x-backend-ttl3600.000
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
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x-varnish-authenticationskip
x-age1124
cache-controlno-cache
accept-rangesbytes
content-length12539
x-server-namez-uni-hull-CACHE1
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
x-geoip-country-codeDE
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 7,984 referring domains.
This page has 1,064,995 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,590 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *

Allow: /
Allow: /editor-assets/images/*
Allow: /editor-assets/docs/*
Allow: /assets/editor/image-library/*
Allow: */images/*
Allow: */img/*
Allow: */docs/*
Allow: *.css
Allow: *.js

Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /search/*
Disallow: /search/*?*
Disallow: /special/thank-you
Disallow: /special/thank-you-*
Disallow: /assets/*
Disallow: /beta/*
Disallow: /ucas/*
Disallow: /site-elements/img/test-images/*
Disallow: /website-assets/*
Disallow: /test/*
Disallow: /app_code/
Disallow: /image-library/*

User-agent: Googlebot

Allow: /assets/developer/css/*.css

sitemap: https://www.hull.ac.uk/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.hull.ac.uk/page-sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.hull.ac.uk/video-sitemap.xml

Search preview

www.hull.ac.uk
Study with us | University of Hull
For nearly 100 years, we’ve been teaching people to think differently. Study at a University with a progressive history and up-to-the-minute facilities.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Hull65%Check
study62%Check
University59%Check
future54%Check
Thinking50%Check
New Thinking49%Check
Teaching46%Check
year46%Check
new44%Check
research43%Check

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