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Meta information
74% 
Page quality
82% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
28% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.66 s
File size
121.50 kB
Words
1081
Media files
36
Number of links
165 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Complete University Guide - University Rankings, Guides and Courses
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 634 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
We help students around the world research degree courses and universities. Independent UK university league tables and rankings, overall and by subject.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (961 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
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: 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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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descriptionWe help students around the world research degree courses and universities. Independent UK university league tables and rankings, overall and by subject.
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langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1081 words. That's ok.
26.6% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, maximum-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 22 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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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...p-connect.com/cug-cont/images/img_px.gifGirl researching Clearing questions
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Your future, your choice
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 54 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 Your future, your choice
H2 University league tables
H2 The shortcut to your shortlist
H2 Clearing and results day
H2 University rankings
H2 What's new
H2 Popular subject areas
H2 Most popular
H2 We're here to help
H3 League tables
H3 Popular subject league tables
H3 Regional League tables
H3 Subject search
H3 Popular subjects
H3 University search
H3 Popular universities
H3 Course search
H3 Popular undergraduate courses
H3 Open days search
H3 Upcoming open days
H3 Article search
H3 Popular topics
H3 Popular articles
H3 Looking for Clearing advice?
H3 Get advice for each part of your journey
H3 Behind the numbers: Exploring how our league...
H3 Five reasons why university league tables...
H3 How to use the league tables
H3 Top 10 unis for Continuation 2025
H3 Top 10 unis for Facilities Spend 2025
H3 Top 10 unis for Student Satisfaction 2025
H3 Law
H3 Medicine
H3 Economics
H3 Computer Science
H3 Psychology
H3 Accounting & Finance
H3 Business & Management Studies
H3 Architecture
H3 Biological Sciences
H3 Find a course
H3 Find a university
H3 Find an open day
H3 YOUR UCAS POINTS 0
H3 Subscribe to our newsletter
H4 Hidden Gems in Clearing 2024
H4 Clearing and results day FAQs
H4 How university rankings can help you through...
H4 What to do after results day: A guide to...
H4 UK university league tables – hidden gems...
H4 Hidden Gems in Clearing 2024 Duplicate text
H4 UK university league tables – hidden gems... Duplicate text
H4 Clearing success stories 2024
H4 Top 10 universities for Computer Science in...
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.
21 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/coursesCourses
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/open-days/search/university-o...University of Glasgow
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/open-days/search/arts-univers...Arts University Plymouth
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/clearing/parentsClearing advice for parents
/clearing/teachersClearing advice for teachers
/article/search/league-tablesLeague tables
/student-advice/before-you-startGetting ready for uni
/student-advice/offers/ucas-extraWhat is UCAS Extra?
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/student-advice/final-choice/c...Clearing success stories
/student-advice/where-to-study...What's a university open day
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/log-inSIGN IN
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/article/search/clearingCLEARING
/article/search/clearing-for-s...CLEARING FOR STUDENTS
/student-advice/final-choice/c...Subdomain No Text
/article/search/clearingText duplicate CLEARING
/article/search/results-dayRESULTS DAY
/article/search/undergraduateUNDERGRADUATE
/student-advice/final-choice/h...Subdomain No Text
/student-advice/final-choice/w...Subdomain No Text
/student-advice/where-to-study...Subdomain No Text
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/student-advice/blog/top-10-un...Subdomain No Text
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/subject-guide/medicineSubdomain No Text
/subject-guide/economicsSubdomain No Text
/subject-guide/computer-scienceSubdomain No Text
/subject-guide/psychologySubdomain No Text
/subject-guide/accounting-and-...Subdomain No Text
/subject-guide/business-and-ma...Subdomain No Text
/subject-guide/architectureSubdomain No Text
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/universitiesNo Text
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/open-daysNo Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.66 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (122 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 5,375 referring domains.
This page has 102,023 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,320 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
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The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /*qualification=m
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /enquiry
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /universities*?
Disallow: /clearing/courses/*?

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We help students around the world research degree courses and universities. Independent UK university league tables and rankings, overall and by subject.

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