Kcl.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
55% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.25 s
File size
88.40 kB
Words
587
Media files
10
Number of links
108 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
King's College London
The length of the page title is perfect. (203 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.
The meta description is too long: 1575 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-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 587 words. That's ok.
22.5% 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.
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 24.6 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Carousel of recent news articles
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
There are 32 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 Carousel of recent news articles
H1 February postgraduate taught open evenings
H1 Could you change the world in 3 minutes?
H1 King's Maths School wins two Sunday Times Awards
H1 Study at King's College London
H2 Make the most of your time at King’s
H2 Research
H2 Discover
H3 Undergraduate
H3 Postgraduate Taught
H3 Postgraduate Research
H3 International
H3 Our vision
H3 Our impact
H3 Collaborate with King’s
H3 Doctoral experience
H3 Latest news
H3 Upcoming events
H3 Visit King’s
H3 King’s & London
H3 King’s Culture
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H4 Inaugural King's MedTech Accelerator completes at the London...
H4 Calorie labels on menus could make eating disorders worse
H4 The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century – Book Talk
H4 Ransom War: How Cyber Crime Became a Threat to National Security
H4 Connect with King’s College London
H5 Study at King’s
H5 Information for
H5 Facilities
H5 Discover King’s
H5 Contact us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 15 external links on this page.
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A-TITLE King’s & London
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A-TITLE King’s Culture
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A-TITLE King’s College London on Facebook
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A-TITLE King’s College London on Twitter
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A-TITLE King’s College London on Instagram
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A-TITLE King’s College London on LinkedIn
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A-TITLE King’s College London on YouTube
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HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.25 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 28,271 referring domains.
This page has 4,239,427 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 18,293 different ip addresses.

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www.kcl.ac.uk
King's College London
King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.

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