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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
36% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.29 s
File size
86.40 kB
Words
494
Media files
2
Number of links
109 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | University of Bristol
The length of the page title is perfect. (288 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England., Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England.
The meta description is too long: 2181 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
Language defined in meta tags: english
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
There are different language information within the page markup.
One or more of the specified languages are not ISO standard (en, en-us, de, etc.)
The following language is defined by HTML: english
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
languageEnglish
descriptionOfficial university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England., Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England.
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msapplication-config/assets/responsive-web-project/2.6.5/favicons/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
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twitter:descriptionOfficial university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England., Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England.
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twitter:titleHomepage | University of Bristol
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og:titleHomepage | University of Bristol
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 494 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.7% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...-project/2.6.5/images/logos/uob-logo.svgUniversity of Bristol logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Find a course
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Find a course
H2 Open events and virtual visits
H2 A university for a progressive city
H2 For Bristol
H2 Discover our city
H2 A place for collaboration
H2 Key Statistics
H2 Clearing 2025
H2 News
H2 New genetic analysis predicts risk of adult obesity from childhood
H2 Bristol professor elected as Fellow of the British Academy
H2 Popular historian and broadcaster receives honorary degree
H2 UK’s most powerful supercomputer launches in Bristol
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to main content
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to global navigation
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to search toggle
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Skip to site navigation
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/Subdomain Home
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/Subdomain Study at Bristol
/study/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate
/study/undergraduate/search/Subdomain All undergraduate courses
/study/undergraduate/visitsSubdomain Open days and visits
/students/new/Subdomain New undergraduate students
/study/postgraduate/Subdomain Postgraduate
/study/postgraduate/search/Subdomain All postgraduate programmes
/study/postgraduate/visits-ope...Subdomain Text duplicate Open days and visits
/students/new/Subdomain New postgraduate students
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/Subdomain Text duplicate Study at Bristol
/international/Subdomain International students
/accommodation/Subdomain Accommodation
https://www.bristolsu.org.uk/External Subdomain Students' Union
/university/Subdomain About
/faculties/Subdomain Schools & faculties
/research/Subdomain Research
/business/Subdomain Business & partnerships
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/Subdomain News
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/Subdomain People
https://bristol.ac.uk/IMG-ALT University of Bristol logo
A-TITLE Return to homepage
/students/Subdomain Current students
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/Subdomain Current staff
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/Subdomain Alumni
/study/undergraduate/visits/op...Undergraduate open days Our next undergraduate open day will take place on Saturday 1 November 2025.
/study/postgraduate/visits-ope...Postgraduate online events Explore our upcoming student life webinars.
/university/for-bristol/For Bristol We serve and work with the wider community of Bristol to benefit us all.
https://bristol.ac.uk/city/Discover our city Bristol is famous for its independent spirit, thriving art scene and alternative culture. See for yourself.
/temple-quarter-enterprise-cam...A place for collaboration Discover our Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, opening 2026.
/news/2025/june/qs-rankings-20...Subdomain QS World University Rankings 2026
A-TITLE Bristol climbs three places in QS World University Rankings
/university/rankings-reputation/Subdomain QS World University Rankings 2026 (UK)
/news/2024/march/bristol-gradu...Subdomain High Fliers Research 2024
/news/2022/may/ref-2021.htmlSubdomain Times Higher Education REF 2021 quality ratings
https://bristol.ac.uk/clearing/Explore our undergraduate course vacancies and guidance
/news/2025/july/new-genetic-an...New genetic analysis predicts risk of adult obesity from childhood 21 July 2025
/news/2025/july/leon-tikly-bri...Bristol professor elected as Fellow of the British Academy 18 July 2025
/news/2025/july/david-olusoga-...Popular historian and broadcaster receives honorary degree 18 July 2025
/news/2025/july/isambard-launc...UK’s most powerful supercomputer launches in Bristol 17 July 2025
https://bristol.ac.uk/news/All news
/feedback/?/Nofollow Subdomain Feedback
/contacting-people/Subdomain Contact
/students/new/Subdomain New students
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Current students
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Current staff
/connect/Subdomain Connect
https://twitter.com/bristoluniExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/brist...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/Univer...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.tiktok.com/@offici...External Subdomain TikTok
https://www.instagram.com/univ...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/Subdomain Text duplicate Study at Bristol
/study/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate study
/study/postgraduate/Subdomain Postgraduate study
/international/Subdomain Text duplicate International students
/accommodation/Subdomain Text duplicate Accommodation
/library/Subdomain Library
https://www.bristolsu.org.uk/External Subdomain Text duplicate Students' Union
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/sport/Subdomain Sport, exercise and health
/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
https://research-information.b...External Subdomain Find a researcher
/research/faculties.htmlSubdomain Faculty research
/research/impact-stories/Subdomain Impact of our research
/research/assessment/Subdomain Research quality and assessment
/research/engagement.htmlSubdomain Engaging with the public
/university/Subdomain About the University
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/maps/Subdomain Maps and travel
/university/visit/Subdomain Tours and visits
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/events/Subdomain Events
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...External Subdomain The University on film
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/city/Subdomain Explore the city of Bristol
/university/governance/univers...Subdomain Board of Trustees
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/Subdomain Support the University
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/Subdomain Alumni and friends
/alumni/give-back/Subdomain Donate
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/Subdomain Jobs
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/Subdomain Working at Bristol
/jobs/find/Subdomain Job listing
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/Subdomain A-Z of the University
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/0Subdomain #
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/aSubdomain A
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/bSubdomain B
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/cSubdomain C
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/dSubdomain D
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/eSubdomain E
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/fSubdomain F
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/gSubdomain G
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/hSubdomain H
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/iSubdomain I
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/jSubdomain J
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/kSubdomain K
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/lSubdomain L
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/mSubdomain M
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/nSubdomain N
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/oSubdomain O
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/pSubdomain P
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/qSubdomain Q
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/rSubdomain R
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/sSubdomain S
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/tSubdomain T
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/uSubdomain U
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/vSubdomain V
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/wSubdomain W
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/xSubdomain X
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/ySubdomain Y
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/zSubdomain Z
/index/fullSubdomain See all
/style-guides/web/policies/Subdomain Site and legal
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/help/Subdomain Help
/style-guides/web/policies/leg...Subdomain Terms and conditions
/style-guides/web/policies/web...Subdomain Accessibility statements
/style-guides/web/policies/leg...Subdomain Privacy and cookie policy
/media-library/sites/secretary...Subdomain Modern Slavery statement
/style-guides/web/policies/leg...Anchor Copyright © 2025 University of Bristol.
https://bristol.ac.uk/Nofollow Anchor Back to top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://bristol.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.29 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (86 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateTue, 22 Jul 2025 11:14:49 GMT
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last-modifiedMon, 21 Jul 2025 11:04:08 GMT
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accept-rangesbytes
content-length88483
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
connectionclose
set-cookie82 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 620 referring domains.
This page has 2,174 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 282 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /comment
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /esu/unitprogcat/
Disallow: /unit-programme-catalogue
Disallow: /eopro/
Disallow: /feedback/
Disallow: /fluff/
Disallow: /imagelib/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /news/news-results.html
Disallow: /news/news-search.html?
Disallow: /news/2001/clearing.html
Disallow: /oenology
Disallow: /prospectus/postgraduate/2013/
Disallow: /prospectus/postgraduate/2014/
Disallow: /prospectus/undergraduate/2014/
Disallow: /slink/
Disallow: /sso/login
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /webcam/sport/archive/
Disallow: /biology/people/person/
Disallow: /composites/media/ICCM17/
Disallow: /composites/media/icons/
Disallow: /composites/media/icshm/
Disallow: /Control_Panel/
Disallow: /Depts/CAS/
Disallow: /depts/CAS/
Disallow: /geography/people/person/
Disallow: /history/customs/resources/
Disallow: /history/customs/datasets/
Disallow: /is/cgi-bin/
Disallow: /is/comment
Disallow: /research/funding/salary_costing/
Disallow: /study/postgraduate/search/research_interests
Disallow: /study/postgraduate/search/search_results
Disallow: /study/undergraduate/search/search_results
Disallow: /media-library/sites/alspac/migrated/documents/
Disallow: /it-services/advice/operatingsystems/mac/archive
Disallow: /it-services/applications/collaboration/office/outlook/
Disallow: /it-sysdev/out-of-service/
Disallow: /it-sysdev/maintenance/
# AFAIK only Googlebot understands these
Disallow: /*/comment$
Disallow: /*/comment?url
Disallow: /*/feedback$
Disallow: /*/news-results.html
Disallow: /*/news-search.html?
Disallow: /*/safe/
# Added by Dave, 2024-05-20 [Master Incident: 216543, DSI-2731: DDOS type traffic to UPC]
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /unit-programme-catalogue
#UPC P2 incident 47754 - block Amazonbot agent
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /unit-programme-catalogue
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /unit-programme-catalogue

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Homepage | University of Bristol
Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England., Official university site with information on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research, teaching, study and departments. Located in Bristol, in the South West of England.

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