Bournemouth.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
89% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.20 s
File size
77.00 kB
Words
775
Media files
16
Number of links
179 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Bournemouth University
The length of the page title is perfect. (215 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to Bournemouth University. Explore the degrees that make our graduates globally employable and learn about the international impact of our research.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (986 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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: Ireland
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 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

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 775 words. That's ok.
25.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 17.55 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 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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...Poster 4- 1080x1080 -_.jpg?itok=3ysD-OzYNo alt attribute providedIllustrated image of a group holding a mobile phone that says: 'A safe space to connect, make friends and celebrate'
...bournemouth/assets/images/footer-map.jpgMap showing the locations of our Talbot Campus and Lansdowne Campus. Lansdowne is based close to the town centre and beach, while Talbot is further inland, about 2 miles from Lansdowne.
...h/assets/images/footer/footer-logo-1.pngBU rises 15 places in the the Young University Rankings 2022
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Undergraduate courses starting this September
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 28 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 Undergraduate courses starting this September
H2 More+
H2 Course search
H2 Search form
H2 News
H2 Events
H2 Contact us
H3 Open Days
H3 Explore our stunning coastal location
H3 BU celebrates success at the Whatuni Student Choice Awards
H3 Accommodation
H3 Postgraduate study
H3 Explore our research
H3 Take our virtual tour
H3 Study reveals different phases of evolution during ice age
H3 The Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic archaeological site
H3 Bournemouth lecturers building the team behind England’s Commonwealth Games efforts
H3 “A sense of belonging for all”: Eurovision Song Contest provides safety and shared identity for LGBTQI+ communities
H3 Undergraduate Open Day
H3 Parent, carer and supporter webinar series: Confirmation and Clearing
H3 Design & Engineering Open Day
H3 UCAS Discovery Bournemouth 2025
H3 Our story
H3 Our story Duplicate text
H3 About
H3 Quick links
H3 Information for:
H3 Our Awards
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 19 external links on this page.
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https://staffintranet.bournemo...External Subdomain Staff
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https://evision.bournemouth.ac...External Subdomain myHub
https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Bournemouth University
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/students/services-campusServices on campus
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/about/news-events/news?field_...Subdomain Read more news
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/about/news-events/eventsSubdomain View all events
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/events/parent-carer-supporter...Parent, carer and supporter webinar series: Confirmation and Clearing
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/events/ucas-discovery-bournem...UCAS Discovery Bournemouth 2025
/why-bu/learn-changeSubdomain Find out more
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/about/bu2025-our-vision-value...Vision
/about/working-buText duplicate Jobs
/about/news-events/newsNews
/about/news-events/eventsEvents
/about/governanceText duplicate Governance
/about/our-peoplePeople
/researchText duplicate Research
/about/welcome-bu/rankings-awardsAwards
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/students/help-advice/importan...Subdomain Safeguarding
https://evision.bournemouth.ac...External Subdomain Text duplicate myHub
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/coursesText duplicate Courses
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/news/2022-02-15/bu-rises-15-p...Subdomain IMG-ALT BU rises 15 places in the the Young University Rankings 2022
/news/2022-12-20/bu-retains-ec...Subdomain IMG-ALT BU celebrates eco award
/news/2019-05-07/athena-swan-s...Subdomain IMG-ALT Athena Swan Success
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https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/bournemout...External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/bour...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/b...External Subdomain YouTube
http://www.weibo.com/signup/si...External Subdomain Weibo
https://www.snapchat.com/add/b...External Subdomain Snapchat
https://www.tiktok.com/@bourne...External Subdomain TikTok

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.20 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,185 referring domains.
This page has 111,849 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 848 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
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# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
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Crawl-delay: 10
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Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
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Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
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Disallow: /themes/
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Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
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Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
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Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
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Disallow: /?q=admin/
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www.bournemouth.ac.uk
Bournemouth University
Welcome to Bournemouth University. Explore the degrees that make our graduates globally employable and learn about the international impact of our research.

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