herts.ac.uk | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.50 s

File size

84.40 kB

Words

401

Media files

14

Number of links

48 internal / 18 external

Meta specifications 80% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

University of Hertfordshire

The length of the page title is perfect. (236 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The University of Hertfordshire offers a wide range of Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional and Short courses. One of the top 200 universities in the world under 50 years old.

The meta description is too long: 1109 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://www.herts.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

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

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

(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.

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
apple-mobile-web-app-capable	yes
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
dcterms.title	University of Hertfordshire
dcterms.creator	University of Hertfordshire
dcterms.created	2013-04-17T01:04:08+01:00
dcterms.modified	2024-03-25T12:19:24+00:00
dcterms.issued	2023-11-07T10:21:01+00:00
dcterms.format	HTML
dcterms.identifier	https://www.herts.ac.uk
Title	University of Hertfordshire
Description	The University of Hertfordshire offers a wide range of Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional and Short courses. One of the top 200 universities in the world under 50 years old.
Author	University of Hertfordshire
Keywords	university, uk, hatfield, hertfordshire, degree, undergraduate, postgraduate, distance learning, online degree, professional courses, short courses, masters, PhD
Landing.Pod.Title	University of Hertfordshire
Alternative.Landing.Pod.Title	University of Hertfordshire
Landing.Pod.Link.Text	Read more about University of Hertfordshire
Alternative.Landing.Pod.Link.Text	Read more about University of Hertfordshire
Google.Index	yes
Site.Google.Satisfaction.Survey	Empty
Canonical.URL	https://www.herts.ac.uk
OG.Image	Empty
Landing.Subpage.Slider.Image	435
Landing.Subpage.Slider.Title	University of Hertfordshire
Landing.Subpage.Slider.Text	Empty
Quote.Asset	Empty
Clearing.Mode	no
utility.nav.asset	["223485","223486"]
social.nav.twitter	https://twitter.com/intent/follow?source=followbutton&variant=1.0&screen_name=uniofherts
social.nav.facebook	https://www.facebook.com/uniofherts
social.nav.linkedin	https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-hertfordshire
social.nav.youtube	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClNSRsYQKCn0QqCa219Cqhg?sub_confirmation=1
social.nav.instagram	https://www.instagram.com/uniofherts/
social.nav.tiktok	https://www.tiktok.com/@uniofherts
social.nav.threads	https://www.threads.net/@uniofherts
column1.heading	I want to
column1.links	["325067","224098","224101","101913"]
column2.heading	Go to
column2.links	["223493","224107","224108","254356"]
contact.telephone	+44 (0)1707 284000
contact.email	Empty
contact.related.links	["391205","9458","62171"]
location.map	259841
location.link	9462
small.print.links	["30103","22572","180717","158326","43780"]
choose.search.collection	global-search
Header.Links	223484
Header.Logo	216788
Footer.Links	223489
Footer.Logos	223498
Footer.Gecko.Form	<script class="gecko-form__content" src="https://app.geckoform.com/gecko-embed/form.js?uuid=FOEU0428m1zq7F4W" id="gecko-form-embed-script"></script>
Breadcrumbs.Settings	Yes
Course.Finder.Settings	No
Course.Finder.Text	Search for a Course...
Page.Template.Settings	lhs_page
Chat.Bot.Settings	off
Banner.On.Off	no
Banner.Image	Empty
Banner.Image.Mobile	Empty
Banner.Image.Only	no
Banner.Image.Alt.Text	Empty
Banner.overlay.use	yes
Banner.overlay.text1	Empty
Banner.overlay.text1.colour	#fff
Banner.overlay.text2	Empty
Banner.overlay.text2.colour	#fff
Banner.Use.Video	No
Banner.Video.Source	Empty
Banner.Video.Poster	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Text.Colour	#FFFFFF
Banner.CTA.Btn.Text	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Text.Mobile	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Link	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Anchor	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Form.Intro	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Gecko.Embed	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Text.2	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Text.2.Mobile	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Link.2	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Anchor.2	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Form.Intro.2	Empty
Banner.CTA.Btn.Gecko.Embed.2	Empty
Banner.Bg.Colour	banner--white
application-name	University of Hertfordshire
msapplication-TileColor	#FFFFFF
msapplication-TileImage	https://www.herts.ac.uk/images/web-team/favicons/mstile-144x144.png
msapplication-square70x70logo	https://www.herts.ac.uk/images/web-team/favicons/mstile-70x70.png
msapplication-square150x150logo	https://www.herts.ac.uk/images/web-team/favicons/mstile-150x150.png
msapplication-wide310x150logo	https://www.herts.ac.uk/images/web-team/favicons/mstile-310x150.png
msapplication-square310x310logo	https://www.herts.ac.uk/images/web-team/favicons/mstile-310x310.png
article:published_time	2023-11-07T10:21:01+00:00
article:modified_time	2024-03-25T12:19:24+00:00
article:section	{ENTER SECTION NAME HERE}
article:tag	Empty
lang	en
twitter:card	summary
twitter:site	@{ENTER TWITTER USERNAME HERE}
twitter:title	University of Hertfordshire
twitter:description	Empty
twitter:image	Empty
og:title	University of Hertfordshire
og:type	website
og:url	https://www.herts.ac.uk
og:image	Empty
og:description	Empty
og:site_name	University of Hertfordshire
X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge,chrome=1
charset	utf-8

Page quality 67% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.

There are only 401 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

24.9% 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 18 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

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

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

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

Image SEO

This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...ysource_files/herts-logo.svg?h=987654321	Herts Logo
...image/0019/364402/uhprospectus-594-1.jpg	How to apply
...mage/0011/373934/Live-on-campus-card.jpg	Find out more
...ets/image/0007/390553/big-DSC06259-8.jpg	Book now
...ssets/image/0018/390033/FOI-Book-now.jpg	Girl in VR set for the Festival of Ideas
.../389929/Hamid-Ibrahim_Disney_hompage.jpg	Hamid Ibrahim - Homepage Carousel
...age/0011/392078/Wendy-Wills-Carousel.jpg	Professor Wendy Wills
...funding-from-the-office-for-students.jpg	Funding from the Office for Students
...ge/0004/392080/RTS-documentary-award.jpg	Picture of Irene D’Aleo and Minh Thuan Le. Francesco Di Ilio
...s/image/0018/391131/DSC06259-720x450.jpg	No alt attribute provided
...ge/0005/297014/clearing-call-200x200.png	Clearing hotline icon
...297013/clearing-apply-online-200x200.png	Apply online icon
...ts/image/0011/259841/herts-uni-map-1.png	Location map

Page structure 95% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Undergraduate Open Day Saturday 27 April

The H1 heading is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

Some headings do not have any content.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Undergraduate Open Day Saturday 27 April
H2	Empty heading
H2	Book your tickets for the free Festival of Ideas event
H2	Herts alumnus launches new African sci-fi series on Disney+
H2	Make school meals free and adopt a whole system approach to tackle UK’s obesity problem
H2	Herts to launch eight new degree apprenticeships after securing £1.25m in funding
H2	Wheelchair basketball documentary wins Royal Television Society student award
H2	Upcoming events
H2	24 April 2024 Postgrad Study Live Chat
H2	27 April 2024 Undergrad Open Day
H2	17 - 18 May 2024 Festival of Ideas
H2	Blockbuster repertoire of classic film music comes to Herts on May 1218 April 2024
H2	University of Hertfordshire-led team awarded more than half a million to research faith-based mental health programme for young Muslim women17 April 2024
H2	British sporting greats including Dame Liz Nicholl DBE to discuss breaking barriers in women’s sport at University of Hertfordshire’s Festival of Ideas16 April 2024
H2	Apply through Clearing
H2	Apply online through Clearing
H2	I want to
H2	Go to
H2	Contact us
H2	Location
H3	Apply for September
H3	Live on campus
H3	Postgrad Study Live Chat

Link structure 90% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 18 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.herts.ac.uk/		IMG-ALT Herts Logo
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	Study
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	Life
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	Sport
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	Research
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	International
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	For Business
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	Alumni
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	About us
https://www.studynet.herts.ac.uk/	External Subdomain	StudyNet
https://hertshub.herts.ac.uk/	External Subdomain	HertsHub
https://www.facebook.com/uniof...	New window External Subdomain	Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/unio...	New window External Subdomain	Instagram
https://twitter.com/intent/fol...	New window External	Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...	New window External Subdomain	Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/channe...	New window External Subdomain	Youtube
https://www.tiktok.com/@uniofh...	New window External Subdomain	Tiktok
https://www.threads.net/@uniof...	New window External Subdomain	Threads
/study/open-days-and-events/un...	Subdomain	Book now
/courses/undergraduate-courses	Subdomain	Undergrad courses
/study/how-to-apply	Subdomain	IMG-ALT How to apply
/study/how-to-apply	Subdomain	Apply for September
/study/how-to-apply	Subdomain Text duplicate	How to apply
/life/student-accommodation	Subdomain	IMG-ALT Find out more
/life/student-accommodation	Subdomain	Live on campus
/life/student-accommodation	Subdomain Text duplicate	Find out more
/study/open-days-and-events/po...	Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Book now
/study/open-days-and-events/po...	Subdomain	Postgrad Study Live Chat
/study/open-days-and-events/po...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Book now
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	New window Subdomain Text duplicate	Find out more
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	New window Subdomain Text duplicate	Find out more
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	New window Subdomain Text duplicate	Find out more
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	New window Subdomain Text duplicate	Find out more
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	New window Subdomain Text duplicate	Find out more
/study/open-days-and-events/po...	Subdomain	24 April 2024 Postgrad Study Live Chat
/study/open-days-and-events/un...	Subdomain	27 April 2024 Undergrad Open Day
https://www.herts.ac.uk/ideas	Subdomain	17 - 18 May 2024 Festival of Ideas
/about-us/news-and-events/events	Subdomain	Latest events
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	Subdomain	Blockbuster repertoire of classic film music comes to Herts on May 1218 April 2024
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	Subdomain	University of Hertfordshire-led team awarded more than half a million to research faith-based mental health programme for young Muslim women17 April 2024
/about-us/news-and-events/news...	Subdomain	British sporting greats including Dame Liz Nicholl DBE to discuss breaking barriers in women’s sport at University of Hertfordshire’s Festival of Ideas16 Apr...
https://www.herts.ac.uk/	Anchor	Apply online IMG-ALT Apply online icon
/study/how-to-apply	Subdomain	Read the application guide
/study/our-prospectuses	Subdomain	View a Prospectus
/staff/jobs-at-herts	Subdomain	Find a job at the University
/about-us/legal/complaints-policy	Subdomain	Request a review or make a complaint
https://www.residences.herts.a...	External Subdomain	Accommodation booking
https://www.studentrecord.hert...	External Subdomain	Your student record
/bayfordbury	Subdomain	Bayfordbury
/about-us/our-leadership-strat...	Subdomain	Transparency information
/contact-us/contact-us	Subdomain	Contact us
/contact-us/where-to-find-us	Subdomain	Where to find us
/contact-us/parking	Subdomain	Parking
/contact-us/where-to-find-us/c...	Subdomain	IMG-ALT Location map
https://www.facebook.com/uniof...	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/unio...	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Instagram
https://twitter.com/intent/fol...	New window External Text duplicate	Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/channe...	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Youtube
https://www.tiktok.com/@uniofh...	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Tiktok
https://www.threads.net/@uniof...	New window External Subdomain Text duplicate	Threads
/about-us/legal	Subdomain	Legal information and terms of use
/about-us/legal/privacy	Subdomain	Online privacy policy
/about-us/legal/criminal-finan...	Subdomain	Criminal Finances Act 2017
/about-us/legal/modern-slavery...	Subdomain	Modern Slavery Act 2015
/about-us/legal/accessibility-...	Subdomain	Accessibility statement

Server configuration 95% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.herts.ac.uk/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.50 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.

A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (84 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:52:36 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=utf-8
cf-ray	877077482fea2c5a-FRA
cf-cache-status	HIT
age	38789
cache-control	private, max-age=0
expires	Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:21:19 GMT
vary	Accept-Encoding
pragma	cache
x-cdn-cached-at	1713528367
x-cdn-expires-at	1713614767
x-cdn-original-ttl	86400
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-edge-version	1b13888c
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
x-upgrade-enabled	off
server	cloudflare
content-encoding	gzip
alt-svc	h3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Blacklists

(Nice to have)

This website is not classified "for adult only".

Blacklist

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 6,479 referring domains.

This page has 285,679 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 3,974 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Facebook popularity

(Somewhat important)

The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

User-agent: FunnelBack
Allow: /

# Allow JS and CSS for Google
Allow: /*_designs/*.js
Allow: /*_designs/*.css

# Disallow Matrix functionality related items
User-agent: *
Disallow: /_users
Disallow: /*?sq_content_src=
Disallow: /*?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=
Disallow: /*?SQ_PAINT_LAYOUT_NAME=
Disallow: /*_recache
Disallow: /*_nocache
Disallow: /*_edit
Disallow: /*_admin
Disallow: /*_login
Disallow: /*_performance
Disallow: /*squizsandbox
Disallow: /*tim-test-site
Disallow: /*dans-site

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

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www.herts.ac.uk

University of Hertfordshire

The University of Hertfordshire offers a wide range of Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional and Short courses. One of the top 200 universities in the world under 50 years old.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

Keyword	Result	Recheck
University	66%	Check
Hertfordshire	66%	Check
Undergrad	66%	Check
Undergraduate	62%	Check
Herts	58%	Check
April	54%	Check
Open	54%	Check
Day	54%	Check
Postgrad	54%	Check
Open Day	54%	Check
27 April	54%	Check
Saturday	50%	Check
April 2024	48%	Check
Apply	46%	Check
Clearing	46%	Check
courses	46%	Check
postgraduate	46%	Check
Apply online	46%	Check
year	46%	Check
Postgrad Study Live Chat	46%	Check
Live	44%	Check
Festival	44%	Check
Ideas	44%	Check
award	44%	Check
Study	43%	Check

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Herts.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

Meta specifications 80% achieved

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Page quality 67% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 95% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 90% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 95% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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