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Meta information
75% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
98.40 kB
Words
462
Media files
14
Number of links
66 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The University of Edinburgh | The University of Edinburgh
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (516 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await. The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities. Our entrepreneurial and cross-disciplinary culture attracts students and staff from across the globe, creating a unique Edinburgh experience. We provide a stimulating working, learning and teaching environment with access to excellent facilities. We attract the world's
The meta description is too long: 2285 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ed.ac.uk/c/home-2020-06
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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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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og:titleThe University of Edinburgh
og:descriptionEdinburgh. Extraordinary futures await. The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities. Our entrepreneurial and cross-disciplinary culture attracts students and staff from across the globe, creating a unique Edinburgh experience. We provide a stimulating working, learning and teaching environment with access to excellent facilities. We attract the world's best, from Nobel Prize winning laureates to future explorers, pioneers and inventors. We offer a range of ways to study, from on-campus taught programmes to online part-time study. We are the largest provider of online distance learning in the Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 462 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 25.29 words is high.
29.4% 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.
8 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)
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 9 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)
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
/sites/all/themes/uoe/assets/logo.pngThe University of Edinburgh home
...e_homepage_graduations.png?itok=HNg8Mfpt3 students smile and talk wearing graduation gowns. E in colour blocks on right
...e/edweb_900_x_400_no_e.jpg?itok=4fkrRBm0aerial shot of Edinburgh
...on_and_ray_interactive.jpg?itok=LrLEKQolNo alt attribute provided
...verick_photo_studios_0.jpg?itok=HN90yIvUPupils monitor the positive effect of their plant wall on co2 levels in their classroom
...out-us-1_old_college_0.jpg?itok=jEHMEuJeA view of Old College quad
...gettyimages-1269867688.jpg?itok=Dsq4GPirNo alt attribute provided
...nails/image/global2017.jpg?itok=RwsGY38_Edinburgh city view
...ic-conversation-circle.png?itok=7uK45UFBMembers of the local community learning Gaelic
...e-facilities-libraries.jpg?itok=BvRZR5jRPhoto of students in a library
...e/edinburgh-city-scene.png?itok=5CFOoNmiEdinburgh City
...e/s2030-our-values-3_0.jpg?itok=vbqQEzAoA group of students in Old College Quad taking a selfie
...dinburgh-international.jpg?itok=IwO9jtmxStudents talking in Business School café
...hemes/uoe/assets/footer-affiliations.pngUniversity affiliations

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Edinburgh Impact
H3 Study with us
H3 Postgraduate Virtual Open Days
H3 Find your undergraduate degree
H3 Find your postgraduate degree
H3 What are our words worth in the digital age?
H3 Getting ready for a data driven future
H3 Latest news
H3 Lifelong wellbeing is research festival focus
H3 Edinburgh Global
H3 Edinburgh Local
H3 Research and teaching
H3 Visit
H3 About us
H3 Connect with us
H3 The University of Edinburgh
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ed.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studyingStudy
https://www.ed.ac.uk/globalGlobal
https://www.ed.ac.uk/visitVisit
https://www.ed.ac.uk/researchResearch
https://www.ed.ac.uk/newsNews
https://www.ed.ac.uk/aboutAbout
https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumniAlumni
https://www.ed.ac.uk/localLocal
https://www.ed.ac.uk/staffStaff
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studentsStudents
/schools-departments/Schools & departments
https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk/External MyEd
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studyingStudy with us
/studying/postgraduate/open-da...Postgraduate Virtual Open Days
/studying/undergraduate/degreesBrowse by subject
/studying/undergraduate/degree...Full A-Z
/impact/our-shared-world/what-...What are our words worth in the digital age?
https://www.ed.ac.uk/impact#EdinburghImpact
A-TITLE Edinburgh Impact
/impact/our-shared-world/getti...Getting ready for a data driven future
https://www.ed.ac.uk/impactText duplicate #EdinburghImpact
A-TITLE Edinburgh Impact
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2023Latest news
/news/2023/exhibition-to-honou...Exhibition to honour lost lives of Ukrainian students
/news/2023/hands-on-artwork-gr...Hands-on artwork grapples with ideas of beauty
/news/2023/huge-ice-losses-fro...Huge losses from Antarctica's ice shelves since 1997
/news/2023/rousing-events-expl...Rousing events explore the joy of sound
/news/2023/lifelong-wellbeing-...Lifelong wellbeing is research festival focus
https://www.ed.ac.uk/eventsEvents at Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk/visitText duplicate Visit
https://www.ed.ac.uk/sportSport at Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk/globalEdinburgh Global
https://global.ed.ac.uk/regionalExternal Regional engagement
/studying/internationalInternational applicants
https://global.ed.ac.uk/communityExternal Global community
/university-of-sanctuaryA University of Sanctuary
https://www.ed.ac.uk/localEdinburgh Local
/local/city-region-dealCity Region Deal
/local/university-cityUniversity facilities in the city
A-TITLE University in the city
/local/projectsCommunity projects
/local/university-city/schoolsOur work with local schools
A-TITLE Working with schools
https://www.ed.ac.uk/researchText duplicate Research
/doctoral-collegeDoctoral College
https://edin.ac/2c41UL2External Teaching Matters
/information-services/library-...Libraries and collections
A-TITLE Library
https://www.ed.ac.uk/visitText duplicate Visit
https://www.ed.ac.uk/mapsCampus maps and access
A-TITLE Maps
https://www.ed.ac.uk/eventsEvents
/visit/open-daysOpen Days
https://www.ed.ac.uk/visit/toursTours
https://www.accom.ed.ac.uk/External Accommodation
https://www.ed.ac.uk/aboutAbout us
https://edin.ac/eu-newsExternal The University and Europe
/about/mission-governanceUniversity governance
/sustainabilitySocial responsibility and sustainability
A-TITLE Sustainability
/equality-diversityEquality and diversity
A-TITLE Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
/studying/undergraduate/access...Access Edinburgh - Widening Participation
A-TITLE Access Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/gaelicGaelic language
A-TITLE Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk/contactsUniversity contacts
/human-resources/jobsWork with us: job vacancies
A-TITLE Jobs
https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumniAlumni and donors
A-TITLE Alumni
/schools-departmentsA-Z: our colleges, schools and units
A-TITLE Schools and departments
/communications-marketing/comm...Press and media
A-TITLE Services for the media
/schools-departments/social-mediaSocial media
A-TITLE Social media directory
/about/website/website-terms-c...Terms & conditions
/about/website/privacyPrivacy & cookies
/university-secretary-group/co...Complaints procedure
/sustainability/modern-slavery...Modern slavery
/about/website/accessibilityWebsite accessibility
/about/website/freedom-informa...Freedom of information publication scheme
/data-protectionData Protection
/about/mission-governance/affi...IMG-ALT University affiliations
https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk/External MyEd login
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/re...External Recognised body
/user/login?destination=node/1...Nofollow CMS login

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ed.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (98 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
expiresThu, 26 Oct 2023 18:58:43 +0000
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 26,396 referring domains.
This page has 3,817,033 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 17,702 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 2628 shares and comments on Facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# 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
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# 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/

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The University of Edinburgh | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await. The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities. Our entrepreneurial and cross-disciplinary culture attracts students and staff from across the globe, creating a unique Edinburgh experience. We provide a stimulating working, learning and teaching environment with access to excellent facilities. We attract the world's

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Edinburgh70%Check
University63%Check
Edinburgh City55%Check
Edinburgh International54%Check
City University51%Check
teaching50%Check
future50%Check
Learning and Teaching50%Check
Students48%Check
facilities48%Check
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