Officeforstudents.org.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
71.50 kB
Words
509
Media files
2
Number of links
84 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Office for Students
The length of the page title is perfect. (239 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England. We aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.
The meta description is too long: 1462 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
Server location: United States of America
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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descriptionThe Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England. We aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.
dc.titleHome - Office for Students
dc.creatorOffice for Students
dc.publisherOffice for Students
dc.copyright(c) Office for Students
dc.formattext/xhtml
dc.coverageWorldwide
dc.languageen-GB
dc.date2018-01-12
fbs.categoryGeneral
fbs.typePage
fbs.tagEmpty
application-nameOffice for Students
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msapplication-TileImage/dist/themes/ofs/images/favicons/mstile-144x144.png
msapplication-square70x70logo/dist/themes/ofs/images/favicons/mstile-70x70.png
msapplication-square150x150logo/dist/themes/ofs/images/favicons/mstile-150x150.png
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langen
twitter:urlhttps://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/
og:urlhttps://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/
og:typewebsite
X-UA-Compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
This page contains 509 words. That's ok.
31.8% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=1024" 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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
/dist/assets/images/logo.svgOffice for Students
/media/1c3ptfod/warning-wide-banner.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Office for Students
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the Office for Students
H2 Featured
H2 Temporary changes to registration
H2 Discover Uni
H2 Thank you for your feedback
H2 Useful links
H2 Contact us
H2 Connect with us
H3 Evaluating the Teaching Excellence Framework
H3 Update on Freedom of Speech Act
H3 Reforms to OfS registration requirements
H3 Registering with the OfS Registration and registering with the Office for Students.
H3 Quality and standards How we regulate quality and standards
H3 Equality of opportunity Fair access, success and progress
H3 Regulatory resources Resources and guidance
H3 Student choice and flexible learning Improving choices and opportunities for students
H3 Student protection and support Helping students to thrive
H3 Finance and funding Funding allocations and financial sustainability
H3 OfS to resume assessments for new registration, degree awarding powers, and university title applications in August 2025
H3 Regulation, higher education, and further education colleges
H3 How can we support higher education providers to strive for excellence?
H3 Update on Freedom of Speech Act Duplicate text
H3 Promoting equal opportunities
H3 Value for money
H3 Regulatory framework
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/IMG-ALT Office for Students
/contact-us/Contact us
/about/About
/get-involved/Get involved
/Home
/for-students/For students
/for-students/student-outcomes...Student outcomes and employability
/for-students/student-rights-a...Student rights and welfare
/for-students/ofs-and-students/OfS and students
/for-students/teaching-quality...Teaching quality and TEF
/for-students/planning-to-study/Planning to study
/for-students/equal-opportunit...Equal opportunities
/for-students/student-finance/Student finance
/for-providers/For providers
/for-providers/registering-wit...Registering with the OfS
/for-providers/quality-and-sta...Quality and standards
/for-providers/equality-of-opp...Equality of opportunity
/for-providers/regulatory-reso...Regulatory resources
/for-providers/student-choice-...Student choice and flexible learning
/for-providers/student-protect...Student protection and support
/for-providers/finance-and-fun...Finance and funding
/news-blog-and-events/News, blog and events
/news-blog-and-events/press-an...Press and media
/news-blog-and-events/blog/Blog
/news-blog-and-events/events/Events
/publications/Publications
/publications/consultations/Consultations
/data-and-analysis/Data and analysis
/data-and-analysis/official-st...Official statistics
/data-and-analysis/insight-bri...Insight briefs
/deadlines/Deadlines
/about/Find out more
/news-blog-and-events/blog/how...Evaluating the Teaching Excellence Framework What we’ve learned from TEF 2023
A-TITLE Evaluating the Teaching Excellence Framework
/news-blog-and-events/blog/upd...Update on Freedom of Speech Act Key changes to legislation and next steps
A-TITLE Update on Freedom of Speech Act
/consultation-on-reforms-to-of...Reforms to OfS registration requirements Read our proposals
A-TITLE Reforms to OfS registration requirements
/for-providers/registering-wit...Read more about the temporary changes
/for-providers/registering-wit...Registering with the OfS Registration and registering with the Office for Students.
/for-providers/registering-wit...How to register
/for-providers/registering-wit...Registration with the OfS - a guide
/for-providers/quality-and-sta...Quality and standards How we regulate quality and standards
/for-providers/quality-and-sta...How we regulate quality and standards
/for-providers/quality-and-sta...Quality assessment for registered providers
/for-providers/quality-and-sta...TEF 2023 ratings
/for-providers/equality-of-opp...Equality of opportunity Fair access, success and progress
/for-providers/equality-of-opp...Uni Connect
/for-providers/equality-of-opp...Access and participation plans
/for-providers/equality-of-opp...Equality of Opportunity Risk Register
/for-providers/regulatory-reso...Regulatory resources Resources and guidance
/publications/regulatory-frame...Regulatory framework for higher education in England
/for-providers/regulatory-reso...The OfS Register
/for-providers/student-choice-...Student choice and flexible learning Improving choices and opportunities for students
/for-providers/student-choice-...National Student Survey - NSS
/for-providers/student-choice-...Degree apprenticeships
/for-providers/student-choice-...Lifelong Learning Entitlement
/for-providers/student-protect...Student protection and support Helping students to thrive
/for-providers/student-protect...Harassment and sexual misconduct
/for-providers/student-protect...Student mental health
/for-providers/student-protect...Student protection
/for-providers/finance-and-fun...Finance and funding Funding allocations and financial sustainability
/for-providers/finance-and-fun...How we regulate financial sustainability within higher education
/for-providers/finance-and-fun...Recurrent funding
/for-providers/finance-and-fun...Capital funding
https://discoveruni.gov.uk/External Visit Discover Uni
/news-blog-and-events/press-an...OfS to resume assessments for new registration, degree awarding powers, and university title applications in August 2025 13 Mar 2025
/news-blog-and-events/blog/reg...Regulation, higher education, and further education colleges
/news-blog-and-events/blog/blo...Blog post
/news-blog-and-events/blog/how...How can we support higher education providers to strive for excellence?
/news-blog-and-events/blog/blo...Text duplicate Blog post
/news-blog-and-events/blog/upd...Update on Freedom of Speech Act
/news-blog-and-events/blog/blo...Text duplicate Blog post
/for-providers/equality-of-opp...Promoting equal opportunities What is fair access and participation?
A-TITLE Promoting equal opportunities
/for-students/student-finance/...Value for money What is value for money for students?
A-TITLE Value for money
/publications/regulatory-frame...Regulatory framework Guide to the framework of regulation for higher education in England.
A-TITLE Regulatory framework
/careers/Careers
/contact-us/Contact the OfS
/contact-us/how-to-find-us/How to find us
/for-students/ofs-and-students...Complaints
/sign-up-for-email-alertsSubdomain Sign up to our email alerts
https://www.twitter.com/office...New window External Subdomain Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/office...New window External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
https://instagram.com/officefo...New window External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
/ofs-privacy/Privacy
/site-map/Sitemap
/copyright/Copyright
/cookies/Cookies
/procurement/Procurement
/accessibility-statement-for-t...Accessibility statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.31 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (72 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servercloudflare
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 5,521 referring domains.
This page has 258,658 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,871 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Office91%Check
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Student choice66%Check
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OfS54%Check
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