Postgraduate.degrees.ed.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
64% 
Page quality
44% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
12% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.23 s
File size
27.60 kB
Words
352
Media files
4
Number of links
54 internal / 35 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Degree finder
The page title is too short. (124 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Postgraduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh. Taught and professional masters programmes and doctoral research opportunities. Full time, part time and flexible study options available.
The meta description is too long: 1181 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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
keywordspostgrad,pg,postgraduate,graduate,study,degree,search,finder,masters,phd,list,subjects,programme,course,taught,research,doctoral,edinburgh
descriptionPostgraduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh. Taught and professional masters programmes and doctoral research opportunities. Full time, part time and flexible study options available.
langen
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.
There are only 352 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 36 words is high.
21.3% 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 7 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
/assets/50dc570a/edgel/images/logo.pngThe University of Edinburgh home
/images/banner.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/brand.pngEdinburgh: Extraordinary futures await.
...70a/edgel/images/footer-affiliations.pngUniversity affiliations

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Browse degrees by subject area
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Browse degrees by subject area
H2 Search the degree finder
H2 Search the degree finder Duplicate text
H2 Browse degrees by type
H2 Browse degrees by school
H2 About our degrees
H2 Terms and conditions
H3 The University of Edinburgh
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.
There are too many external links (35) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studyingExternal Subdomain Study
https://www.ed.ac.uk/globalExternal Subdomain Global
https://www.ed.ac.uk/visitExternal Subdomain Visit
https://www.ed.ac.uk/researchExternal Subdomain Research
https://www.ed.ac.uk/newsExternal Subdomain News
https://www.ed.ac.uk/aboutExternal Subdomain About
https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumniExternal Subdomain Alumni
https://www.ed.ac.uk/localExternal Subdomain Local
https://www.ed.ac.uk/staffExternal Subdomain Staff
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studentsExternal Subdomain Students
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
/index.php?r=site/index&editio...IMG-ALT Edinburgh: Extraordinary futures await.
https://edin.ac/study-pg-2025External Postgraduate study
/index.php?r=site/index&editio...Degree finder
https://www.ed.ac.uk/External Subdomain Home
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studyingExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Study
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Postgraduate study
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/...External Subdomain Contact us
/index.php?r=site/taught&editi...A-Z of taught programmes
/index.php?r=site/research&edi...A-Z of research programmes
/index.php?r=site/online&editi...A-Z of online programmes
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...6 Archaeology
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...18 Architecture and Landscape Architecture
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...12 Art and Design
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...24 Biological, Biomedical and Life Sciences
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...22 Business, Management and Finance
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...3 Celtic and Scottish Studies
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...4 Chemistry
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...6 Classics
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...7 Clinical Psychology
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...24 Computing and Informatics
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...7 Counselling and Psychotherapy
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...2 Data Science
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...1 Dentistry
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...10 Earth, Environmental and Ecological Sciences
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...3 Economics
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...14 Education
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...20 Engineering
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...8 English
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...5 Film and Intermediality
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...3 Geography
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...2 Health
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...12 History
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...6 History of Art
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...26 Interdisciplinary Studies
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...8 International Development
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...32 Languages, Countries and Cultures
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...25 Law
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...8 Linguistics
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...18 Mathematics and Statistics
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...66 Medicine
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...8 Music
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...3 Nursing
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...5 Philosophy
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...8 Physics and Astronomy
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...5 Politics
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...9 Psychology
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...3 Science, Technology and Innovation
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...3 Social Anthropology
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...7 Social Policy
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...4 Social Work
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...5 Sociology
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...7 Sport
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...10 Sustainability
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...18 Theology and Religious Studies
/index.php?r=site/bySubject&ed...18 Veterinary Medicine
/index.php?r=site/taught&editi...Text duplicate A-Z of taught programmes
/index.php?r=site/research&edi...Text duplicate A-Z of research programmes
/index.php?r=site/online&editi...Text duplicate A-Z of online programmes
http://www.edin.ac/pgdf-studyExternal Subdomain Studying with us
http://www.edin.ac/termsExternal Subdomain All information published according to our terms and conditions
https://edin.ac/privacy-applic...External Privacy statement for applicants
https://edin.ac/termsExternal Terms and conditions of admission
https://edin.ac/admissions-pol...External Admissions policies and procedures
https://edin.ac/study-pg-impro...External Help improve our services
A-TITLE Get paid to provide feedback
https://edin.ac/study-pg-contactExternal Text duplicate Contact us
https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/web...External Subdomain Terms & conditions
https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/web...External Subdomain Privacy & cookies
https://www.ed.ac.uk/universit...External Subdomain Complaints procedure
https://www.ed.ac.uk/sustainab...External Subdomain Modern slavery
https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/web...External Subdomain 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
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

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://postgraduate.degrees.ed.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.23 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (28 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
dateFri, 29 Nov 2024 21:16:12 GMT
serverApache
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie125 Characters
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 44 referring domains.
This page has 969 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 33 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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