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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
69% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
38% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.27 s
File size
89.40 kB
Words
556
Media files
2
Number of links
111 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | University of Bristol
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)
Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England., Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England.
The meta description is too long: 2182 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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 meta tags: english
Server location: United States of America
There are different language information within the page markup.
One or more of the specified languages are not ISO standard (en, en-us, de, etc.)
The following language is defined by HTML: english
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
languageEnglish
descriptionOfficial university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England., Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England.
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twitter:descriptionOfficial university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England., Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 556 words. That's ok.
26.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 17.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 11 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
...-project/2.5.6/images/logos/uob-logo.svgUniversity of Bristol logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Postgraduate applications are open
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Postgraduate applications are open
H1 Find a course
H2 Open events and virtual visits
H2 A university for a progressive city
H2 For Bristol
H2 Discover our city
H2 Think Big at Bristol
H2 Key Statistics
H2 Rethinking migration and movement
H2 News
H2 Internationally acclaimed artists commissioned to create permanent artwork for University’s new campus
H2 “Brilliant” University professors scoop major palaeontology prizes
H2 Bristol researcher awarded Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal 2025
H2 Bristol researchers to shape UK’s research after panel appointments
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to main content
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to global navigation
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to search toggle
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to site navigation
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/Subdomain Home
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/Subdomain Study at Bristol
/study/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate
/study/undergraduate/search/Subdomain All undergraduate courses
/study/undergraduate/visitsSubdomain Open Days and Visits
/students/new/Subdomain New undergraduate students
/study/postgraduate/Subdomain Postgraduate
/study/postgraduate/search/Subdomain All postgraduate courses
/study/postgraduate/visits-ope...Subdomain Text duplicate Open Days and Visits
/students/new/Subdomain New postgraduate students
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/Subdomain Text duplicate Study at Bristol
/international/Subdomain International Students
/accommodation/Subdomain Accommodation
https://www.bristolsu.org.uk/External Subdomain Students' Union
/university/Subdomain About
/faculties/Subdomain Schools & faculties
/research/Subdomain Research
/business/Subdomain Business & partnerships
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/Subdomain News
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/Subdomain People
https://bristol.ac.uk/IMG-ALT University of Bristol logo
A-TITLE Return to homepage
/students/Subdomain Current students
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/Subdomain Current staff
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/Subdomain Alumni
/study/postgraduate/search/Find your programme
/study/postgraduate/visits-ope...Postgraduate open day Book your place at our postgraduate open day on Wednesday 12 March 2025.
/study/undergraduate/visits/Undergraduate events Discover our events and tours for prospective undergraduate students.
/study/undergraduate/visits/to...Campus tours Join current students for a tour around the Clifton campus.
/university/for-bristol/For Bristol We serve and work with the wider community of Bristol to benefit us all.
https://bristol.ac.uk/city/Discover our city Bristol is famous for its independent spirit, thriving art scene and alternative culture. See for yourself.
/international/fees-finance/sc...Think Big at Bristol We’ve invested up to £6 million in Think Big scholarships to help international students come to Bristol in 2025.
/news/2024/june/university-of-...QS World University Rankings 2025
/university/rankings-reputation/Subdomain QS World University Rankings 2025 (UK)
/news/2024/march/bristol-gradu...Subdomain High Fliers Research 2024
/news/2022/may/ref-2021.htmlSubdomain Times Higher Education REF 2021 quality ratings
/campaigns/migration/Read more about our migration research
/news/2024/december/tqec-wood-...Internationally acclaimed artists commissioned to create permanent artwork for University’s new campus 19 December 2024
/news/2024/december/university...“Brilliant” University professors scoop major palaeontology prizes 19 December 2024
/news/2024/december/wcib-medal...Bristol researcher awarded Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal 2025 18 December 2024
/news/2024/december/bristol-re...Bristol researchers to shape UK’s research after panel appointments 18 December 2024
https://bristol.ac.uk/news/All news
/feedback/?/site-assets/respon...Nofollow Subdomain Feedback
/contacting-people/Subdomain Contact
/students/new/Subdomain New students
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Current students
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Current staff
/connect/Subdomain Connect
https://twitter.com/bristoluniExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/brist...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/Univer...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.tiktok.com/@offici...External Subdomain TikTok
https://www.instagram.com/univ...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/Subdomain Text duplicate Study at Bristol
/study/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate study
/study/postgraduate/Subdomain Postgraduate study
/international/Subdomain International students
/accommodation/Subdomain Text duplicate Accommodation
/library/Subdomain Library
https://www.bristolsu.org.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Students' Union
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/sport/Subdomain Sport, exercise and health
/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
https://research-information.b...External Subdomain Find a researcher
/research/faculties.htmlSubdomain Faculty research
/research/impact-stories/Subdomain Impact of our research
/research/assessment/Subdomain Research quality and assessment
/research/engagement.htmlSubdomain Engaging with the public
/university/Subdomain About the University
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/maps/Subdomain Maps and travel
/university/visit/Subdomain Tours and visits
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/events/Subdomain Events
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...External Subdomain The University on film
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/city/Subdomain Explore the city of Bristol
/university/governance/univers...Subdomain Board of Trustees
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/Subdomain Support the University
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/Subdomain Alumni and friends
/alumni/give-back/Subdomain Donate
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/Subdomain Jobs
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/Subdomain Working at Bristol
/jobs/find/Subdomain Job listing
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/Subdomain A-Z of the University
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/0Subdomain #
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/aSubdomain A
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/bSubdomain B
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/cSubdomain C
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/dSubdomain D
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/eSubdomain E
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/fSubdomain F
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/gSubdomain G
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/hSubdomain H
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/iSubdomain I
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/jSubdomain J
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/kSubdomain K
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/lSubdomain L
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/mSubdomain M
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/nSubdomain N
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/oSubdomain O
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/pSubdomain P
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/qSubdomain Q
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/rSubdomain R
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/sSubdomain S
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/tSubdomain T
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/uSubdomain U
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/vSubdomain V
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/wSubdomain W
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/xSubdomain X
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/ySubdomain Y
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/zSubdomain Z
/index/fullSubdomain See all
/style-guides/web/policies/Subdomain Site and legal
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/help/Subdomain Help
/style-guides/web/policies/leg...Subdomain Terms and conditions
/style-guides/web/policies/web...Subdomain Accessibility statements
/style-guides/web/policies/leg...Subdomain Privacy and cookie policy
/media-library/sites/secretary...Subdomain Modern Slavery statement
/style-guides/web/policies/leg...Anchor Copyright © 2024 University of Bristol.
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Back to top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://bristol.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.27 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (89 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateSun, 22 Dec 2024 11:02:57 GMT
serverApache
last-modifiedFri, 20 Dec 2024 10:04:41 GMT
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accept-rangesbytes
content-length91551
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
connectionclose
set-cookie82 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 27,371 referring domains.
This page has 6,611,726 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 17,317 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /comment
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /esu/unitprogcat/
Disallow: /eopro/
Disallow: /feedback/
Disallow: /fluff/
Disallow: /imagelib/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /news/news-results.html
Disallow: /news/news-search.html?
Disallow: /news/2001/clearing.html
Disallow: /oenology
Disallow: /prospectus/postgraduate/2013/
Disallow: /prospectus/postgraduate/2014/
Disallow: /prospectus/undergraduate/2014/
Disallow: /slink/
Disallow: /sso/login
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /webcam/sport/archive/
Disallow: /biology/people/person/
Disallow: /composites/media/ICCM17/
Disallow: /composites/media/icons/
Disallow: /composites/media/icshm/
Disallow: /Control_Panel/
Disallow: /Depts/CAS/
Disallow: /depts/CAS/
Disallow: /geography/people/person/
Disallow: /history/customs/resources/
Disallow: /history/customs/datasets/
Disallow: /is/cgi-bin/
Disallow: /is/comment
Disallow: /research/funding/salary_costing/
Disallow: /study/postgraduate/search/research_interests
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Disallow: /study/undergraduate/search/search_results
Disallow: /media-library/sites/alspac/migrated/documents/
Disallow: /it-services/advice/operatingsystems/mac/archive
Disallow: /it-services/applications/collaboration/office/outlook/
Disallow: /it-sysdev/out-of-service/
Disallow: /it-sysdev/maintenance/
# AFAIK only Googlebot understands these
Disallow: /*/comment$
Disallow: /*/comment?url
Disallow: /*/feedback$
Disallow: /*/news-results.html
Disallow: /*/news-search.html?
Disallow: /*/safe/
# Added by Dave, 2024-05-20 [Master Incident: 216543, DSI-2731: DDOS type traffic to UPC]
User-agent: ClaudeBot
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university68%Check
Postgraduate62%Check
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Research54%Check
Open54%Check
postgraduate courses54%Check
World University52%Check
Postgraduate open day51%Check
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