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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
78% 
External factors
30% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.37 s
File size
31.00 kB
Words
222
Media files
2
Number of links
12 internal / 39 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Professors and professorship: origins and history
The length of the page title is perfect. (436 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://professors.leeds.ac.uk/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
copyrightCopyright (c)2025 Professors and professorship: origins and history. All Rights Reserved.
robotsmax-image-preview:large
msapplication-TileImagehttps://professors.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/toolkit-wordpress-theme/assets/favicons/ms-icon-144x144.png
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
theme-color#ffffff
langen-gb
X-UA-Compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 222 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 31.5 words is high.
36.5% 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.
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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...-wordpress-theme/assets/img/uol-logo.pngUniversity of Leeds logo
...t/uploads/sites/32/2017/06/srhe-logo.pngLogo for the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 University links
H2 What is a Professor?
H2 History of Professorship
H2 How has professorship evolved over the centuries?
H2 About this website
H2 Site information
H3 For staff
H3 For students
H3 Faculties
H3 Other
H3 Follow us
H3 Logo for the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 too many external links (39) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://professors.leeds.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain For Staff
https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/f...External Subdomain Services A-Z
https://ses.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Student Education Service
https://minerva.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Minerva
https://it.leeds.ac.uk/mobileappsExternal Subdomain Mobile app
https://students.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain For Students
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures
https://biologicalsciences.lee...External Subdomain Faculty of Biological Sciences
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Faculty of Business
https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Faculty of Environment
https://medicinehealth.leeds.a...External Subdomain Faculty of Medicine and Health
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Faculty of Social Sciences
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/lifelo...External Subdomain Lifelong Learning Centre
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/langua...External Subdomain Language Centre
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/staffazExternal Subdomain Staff A-Z
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/campusmapExternal Subdomain Campus map
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/univer...External Subdomain Jobs
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/alumniExternal Subdomain Alumni
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/contactExternal Subdomain Contacts
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain Library
https://it.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain IT
https://mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain VideoLeeds
https://www.luu.org.uk/External Subdomain Leeds University Union
https://www.facebook.com/unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/univer...External Subdomain Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/univer...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/u...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://instagram.com/universi...External Instagram
https://medium.com/university-...External Medium
https://www.weibo.com/leedsuni...External Subdomain Weibo
https://theconversation.com/in...External The Conversation
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/rss/newsExternal Subdomain RSS news feed
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Leeds logo
A-TITLE University of Leeds home page
https://professors.leeds.ac.uk/Subdomain Professors and professorship: origins and history
https://professors.leeds.ac.uk/Subdomain Home
/what-is-a-professor/Subdomain What is a Professor?
/what-is-a-professor/when-did-...Subdomain History
/what-is-a-professor/how-has-p...Subdomain Evolution
/what-is-a-professor/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
More
/what-is-a-professor/when-did-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
/what-is-a-professor/how-has-p...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
http://www.education.leeds.ac....External Subdomain Professor Linda Evans
https://www.srhe.ac.uk/External Subdomain Society for Research into Higher Education
https://www.srhe.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Logo for the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/termsa...External Subdomain Terms and conditions
/copyright/Subdomain Copyright
/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
/privacy/Subdomain Privacy
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/foiExternal Subdomain Freedom of Information

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://professors.leeds.ac.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 slow (1.37 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 12 May 2025 15:21:17 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
link<https://professors.leeds.ac.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheablebot
cache-controlmax-age=10800, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 7
x-cache-groupbot
permissions-policygeolocation=(), midi=(), sync-xhr=(), microphone=(), camera=(), magnetometer=(), gyroscope=(), fullscreen=(self), payment=()
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray93eae7aa2824b831-CDG
content-encodingbr
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 10 referring domains.
This page only has 10 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 9 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-login.php
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