cahss.ed.ac.uk | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.06 s

File size

51.70 kB

Words

341

Media files

9

Number of links

61 internal / 15 external

Meta specifications 61% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 880 pixels long. Optimize title

There are word repetitions in the page title.

Meta Title

Meta description

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With 11 schools, over 4000 staff and 80 research units we offer unique Edinburgh-based study experiences and top-rated teaching across a diverse discipline range. Discover our innovative research themes and strategies, new joiner benefits and job opportunities.

The meta description is too long: 1618 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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No parameters were found in the URL.

No session ID was found in the URL.

The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
description	With 11 schools, over 4000 staff and 80 research units we offer unique Edinburgh-based study experiences and top-rated teaching across a diverse discipline range. Discover our innovative research themes and strategies, new joiner benefits and job opportunities.
robots	follow
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
lang	en
og:site_name	The University of Edinburgh
og:url	https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/node/539
og:title	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
og:description	With 11 schools, over 4000 staff and 80 research units we offer unique Edinburgh-based study experiences and top-rated teaching across a diverse discipline range. Discover our innovative research themes and strategies, new joiner benefits and job opportunities.
og:image	https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/og_default_images/uoe-logo-centred-black.png
og:image:width	200px
og:image:height	200px
charset	utf-8

Page quality 69% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

There are only 341 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

27.6% 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 20.75 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

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1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

Additional markup

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No additional page markup was found.

HTTPS

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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
/themes/upstream/wpp_theme/images/logo.png	The University of Edinburgh home
...ial-sciences-edinburgh.png?itok=SJD9Dzjv	No alt attribute provided
...burgh-0511_chris_close.jpg?itok=DwoLHJAL	About the college
...esearch-efi-front-view.jpg?itok=VVffF3Xv	News
...eorge-square-edinburgh.jpg?itok=XcYqQsAj	Study with us
...t-information_img_5484.jpg?itok=LnVOdAmz	Information and guidance for current students
...ahss-research_img_2989.jpg?itok=uI8ss_B_	Our research and impact
...f-information_img_1199.jpg?itok=2h-ns8IL	Information for College staff
...wpp_theme/images/footer-affiliations.png	University affiliations

Page structure 79% achieved

H1 heading

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There is no H1 heading specified.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H2	Subsite menu
H2	Subsite mobile menu
H2	Breadcrumb
H2	User account menu
H3	About the college
H3	News and events
H3	Applying to study
H3	Information for current students
H3	Our research and impact
H3	Information for College staff
H3	The University of Edinburgh

Link structure 81% achieved

Internal links

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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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 15 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://www.ed.ac.uk/	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT The University of Edinburgh home
https://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-d...	External Subdomain	Schools & departments
https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk/	External Subdomain	MyEd
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/node/539		Home
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/about-us		About the College
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/about-us	Text duplicate	About the College
/about-us/introduction		Introduction to our College
/about-us/staff-contacts		Our people
/about-us/history-structure		Schools, centres and institutes
/about-us/intranet		Intranet
/news-and-events		News and events
/news-and-events	Text duplicate	News and events
/news-events/news		College news
/news-events/lectures		Public lectures and events
/research-ke	Subdomain	Research
/current-and-prospective-students		Students
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/staff		Staff
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/node/539	Text duplicate	Home
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/about-us	Text duplicate	About the College
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/about-us	Text duplicate	About the College
/about-us/introduction	Text duplicate	Introduction to our College
/about-us/staff-contacts	Text duplicate	Our people
/about-us/staff-contacts/by-sc...		Staff by School
/about-us/staff-contacts/colle...		Contact us
/about-us/history-structure	Text duplicate	Schools, centres and institutes
/about-us/intranet	Text duplicate	Intranet
/news-and-events	Text duplicate	News and events
/news-and-events	Text duplicate	News and events
/news-events/news	Text duplicate	College news
/news-events/lectures	Text duplicate	Public lectures and events
/news-events/lectures/arbuthno...		Arbuthnott Lectures
/news-events/lectures/fennell-...		Fennell Lectures and Forums
/news-events/lectures/fulbright		Fulbright Lectures
/news-events/lectures/gifford-...		Gifford Lectures
/news-events/lectures/inaugura...		Inaugural lectures
/news-events/lectures/munro-le...		Munro Lectures
/news-events/lectures/northern...		Northern Scholars Lectures
/news-events/lectures/research...		Research seminars and events
/research-ke	Subdomain Text duplicate	Research
/current-and-prospective-students	Text duplicate	Students
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/staff	Text duplicate	Staff
https://www.ed.ac.uk/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Home
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/		College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/about-us		Find out more about the College
/about-us/staff-contacts		Contacts
/news-events/news/current-news...	Subdomain	Struggling pet owners feel pain of hard choices
/news-events/news/current-news...	Subdomain	Graduate show set to sparkle at art festival exhibition
/news-events/news/current-news...	Subdomain	Higher energy costs impact poorer households
/news-events/news	Subdomain Text duplicate	College news
/news-events/lectures	Subdomain	Lectures and events
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/students	Subdomain	Applying to study
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/students	Subdomain	IMG-ALT Study with us
/taught-students	Subdomain	Taught students
/research-students	Subdomain	Research students
/international-and-study-abroad	Subdomain	International and study abroad students
/research-ke/research-support	Subdomain	Strategy and support
/research-ke/research-structure	Subdomain	CAHSS research office
/research-ke/research-structur...	Subdomain	Research teams across the College
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/staff	Subdomain	IMG-ALT Information for College staff
https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/staff	Subdomain Text duplicate	Information for College staff
/new-joiners	Subdomain	New Joiner Hub
https://uoe.sharepoint.com/sit...	External Subdomain	Access the College Intranet (EASE login)
/news-events/lectures	Subdomain	Our lectures and events
/about-us/staff-contacts/colle...	Text duplicate	Contact us
https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/web...	External Subdomain	Terms & conditions
https://edin.ac/privacy-inform...	External	Privacy & cookies
https://www.ed.ac.uk/universit...	External Subdomain	Complaints procedure
https://www.ed.ac.uk/sustainab...	External Subdomain	Modern slavery
https://edin.ac/accessibility-...	External	Website accessibility
https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/web...	External Subdomain	Freedom of information publication scheme
https://www.ed.ac.uk/data-prot...	External Subdomain	Data protection / Records Management
https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/mis...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT University affiliations
https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk/	External Subdomain	MyEd login
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/re...	External	Recognised body
/user/login?destination=/node/539		CMS login

Server configuration 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://cahss.ed.ac.uk/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is excellent with 0.06 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (52 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
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content-encoding	gzip
content-language	en
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content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
etag	W/"1742481957"
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modified	Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:45:57 GMT
server	nginx
strict-transport-security	max-age=300
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-drupal-cache	HIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	UNCACHEABLE (poor cacheability)
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostname	styx-fe3fe4-c-77dd8df749-smv5m
x-styx-req-id	f0944b43-0642-11f0-a56a-ca4c8d53309e
date	Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:10:59 GMT
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x-cache	HIT, HIT
x-cache-hits	7, 0
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vary	Accept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
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accept-ranges	bytes
via	1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length	9799
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 56% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page has only a few links from other websites.

This page only has backlinks from 19 referring domains.

This page only has 103 backlinks.

This page only has few backlinks from 11 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# 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: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
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: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# 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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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With 11 schools, over 4000 staff and 80 research units we offer unique Edinburgh-based study experiences and top-rated teaching across a diverse discipline range. Discover our innovative research themes and strategies, new joiner benefits and job opportunities.

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Keyword	Result	Recheck
College	58%	Check
Research	54%	Check
Staff	54%	Check
Edinburgh	54%	Check
study	52%	Check
New	52%	Check
News and Events	50%	Check
New Joiner	49%	Check
Humanities	48%	Check
Social	48%	Check
Sciences	48%	Check
Social Sciences	48%	Check
Humanities Social Sciences	48%	Check
art	48%	Check
CAHSS	48%	Check
Arts	46%	Check
Schools	46%	Check
Information	46%	Check
offer	46%	Check
teaching	46%	Check
range	46%	Check
Joiner	46%	Check
menu	43%	Check
Subsite	43%	Check
student	42%	Check

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Page structure 79% achieved

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Link structure 81% achieved

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Server configuration 100% achieved

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External factors 56% achieved

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