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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.26 s
File size
188.10 kB
Words
912
Media files
27
Number of links
103 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Royal Agricultural University: Growing Futures since 1845
The length of the page title is perfect. (516 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
At RAU, we will provide you with the courses, skills and knowledge to grasp all the opportunities ahead.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (637 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.rau.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.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: 4 October 2024 A dairy farmer from Wales who has previously been named...
The average number of words per sentence of 26.8 words is high.
This page contains 912 words. That's ok.
31.6% 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.
14 paragraphs were found on this page.
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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

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.../inline-images/armed-forces-covenant.pngArmed Forces Covenant
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...g-learning-provider-of-the-year-2019.pngEnterprising Learning Provider of the Year 2019
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...nline-images/Inclusive-Employer-Logo.jpgInclusivity Works logo
...s/TEF-2023-Silver-logo-plus-words-01.jpgTeaching Excellence Framework Silver logo
/sites/default/files/inline-images/ioee.pngInstitute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs
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/themes/rau/img/social-youtube.pngYoutube
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/themes/rau/img/social-instagram.pngInstagram
/themes/rau/img/social-tiktok.pngtiktok

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Growing futures since 1845
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Growing futures since 1845
H2 Secondary Menu
H2 Title Course search
H2 Student stories
H2 Undergraduate study
H2 Postgraduate study
H2 Foundation degrees
H2 International students
H2 Why RAU?
H2 Our research
H2 Book an open day
H2 Got a question?
H2 Prospectus
H2 Latest news
H2 Footer menu
H2 Sub Footer Menu
H3 Welsh dairy farmer named as first ever RAU Alumnus of the Year
H3 Welsh dairy farmer named as first ever RAU Alumnus of the Year Duplicate text
H3 Royal Agricultural University comes top again for knowledge exchange and working with industry
H3 University agrees pioneering partnership to help India's farmers
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
6 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 18 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/courses/foundation-degreesNo Text
/student-life/international-st...No Text
/about-rau/why-rauRead why the RAU is a great place to study
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/about-rau/news-and-events/eve...Text duplicate Welsh dairy farmer named as first ever RAU Alumnus of the Year
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/courses/semester-datesText duplicate Semester dates
/contact-us/find-usFind us
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/cookie-policyCookies
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/freedom-of-informationFOI
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A-TITLE Facebook
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A-TITLE YouTube
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A-TITLE LinkedIn
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A-TITLE Tiktok
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.rau.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 (188 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,235 referring domains.
This page has 173,700 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 827 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
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# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
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# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
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Disallow: /sites/default/files/RAU%20Generic%20Marking%20Criteria.pdf

#User area
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#Pages
Disallow: /node/

#Search results
Disallow: *?search=
Disallow: */search/node?keys=

#Filters

#Media
Disallow: *.mp4
Disallow: *.zip

Sitemap: https://www.rau.ac.uk/sitemap.xml

#24-04-2024 - merged in drupal defaults
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Allow: /core/*.css?
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www.rau.ac.uk
Royal Agricultural University: Growing Futures since 1845
At RAU, we will provide you with the courses, skills and knowledge to grasp all the opportunities ahead.

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RAU68%Check
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Growing futures62%Check
futures61%Check
Growing futures 184560%Check
University56%Check
Agricultural University55%Check
Royal Agricultural University55%Check
Agricultural52%Check
Royal52%Check
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