Careers.manchester.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
63% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
90% 
External factors
63% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
13.40 kB
Words
452
Media files
9
Number of links
36 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Careers Service (The University of Manchester)
The length of the page title is perfect. (426 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)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype XHTML 1.0 Strict is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
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langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 452 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
40% 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.
5 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 18.86 words is good.
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 9 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
...uk/includes/images/core/university-1.pngThe University of Manchester logo
/MGT-Web-Carousel.png Red background with orange diagonal lines. Image features a student in a white shirt holding a phone to their ear. Text reads: Manchester Graduate Talent, Graduate internships in and around the University
/CV-Support-Web-Carousel.pngPurple background with blue diagonal lines. Image features a student stood smiling with their hands in pockets. Text reads: CV Support, On demand resources to make your CV stand out
/Part-Time-Jobs-Web-Carousels---Student.pngRed background with orange diagonal lines. Image features a smiling student. Text reads: Search and apply for vacancies on CareerConnect.
...-&-Interviews-Web-Carousel---Student.pngOrange background with red diagonal lines. Image features a smiling student. Text reads: Applications & Interviews. CVs, cover letters, interviews and more
.../includes/images/icons/icon-facebook.pngFacebook iconVisit our Facebook account
...k/includes/images/icons/icon-youtube.pngYouTube iconWatch our YouTube videos
...includes/images/icons/icon-wordpress.pngWordPress iconRead our WordPress blogs
...includes/images/icons/icon-instagram.pngInstagram iconFollow us on Instagram

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Careers Service
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Careers Service
H1 Empty heading
H1 Empty heading
H1 Empty heading
H1 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 Welcome to The University of Manchester Careers Service
H3 Getting started
H3 Equality and Diversity
H3 Drop-in and talk to us
H3 Skills employers look for
H3 Jobs and experience
H3 Considering further study
H3 Final year students
H3 Support for Masters and PhD students
H3 Working in the UK as an international student
H3 Graduate support
H3 About the Careers Service
H3 For recruiters
H4 Current opportunities
H4 The Careers Service offers support and advice throughout your time at The University of Manchester.
H4 Contact us
H4 Find us
H4 Connect with us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to navigation
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Anchor Skip to footer
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT The University of Manchester logo
/Home
/options/Explore options
/findjobs/Jobs / experience
/whichcareer/Which career
/applicationsinterviews/Applications / interviews
/appointments/Appointments
/events/Events
https://www.careerconnect.manc...External CareerConnect
/study/Further study and funding
/international/International
/graduates/For graduates
https://www.employers.manchest...External Subdomain For recruiters
/findjobs/graduatejobs/mgt/Apply today
/applicationsinterviews/cv/Start here
/findjobs/parttime/Start now
/applicationsinterviews/Learn more
https://www.careerconnect.manc...External Text duplicate CareerConnect
/aboutus/contact/Student and graduate enquiries
/aboutus/aboutcareerconnect/CareerConnect account support
/appointments/Text duplicate Appointments
/events/Events: On campus and online
https://www.instagram.com/uomc...New window External Subdomain Whats on: Follow us on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/c/manc...New window External Subdomain Catch up with events and content on YouTube
/options/idontknow/Find out more
/options/equality/Text duplicate Find out more
/appointments/dropin/Text duplicate Find out more
/options/skills/Text duplicate Find out more
/findjobs/Text duplicate Find out more
/study/Text duplicate Find out more
/final/Text duplicate Find out more
/postgraduates/Text duplicate Find out more
/international/Text duplicate Find out more
/graduates/Text duplicate Find out more
/aboutus/Text duplicate Find out more
http://www.employers.mancheste...External Subdomain Text duplicate Find out more
/aboutus/Subdomain Getting in touch
/aboutusCareers Service, The University of Manchester
/services/socialmedia/facebook/New window Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook icon
https://www.youtube.com/c/manc...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube icon
https://manunicareersblog.word...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT WordPress icon
https://www.instagram.com/uomc...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram icon
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/d...External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/a...External Subdomain Data Protection
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/c...External Subdomain Copyright notice
/accessibility-statement/Web Accessibility
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/a...External Subdomain Freedom of information
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/a...External Subdomain Charitable status

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.careers.manchester.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)
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 22 May 2025 13:49:39 GMT
serverApache
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
cache-controlno-cache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubdomains;
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' *.manchester.ac.uk
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length4033
content-typetext/html
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 21 referring domains.
This page only has 79 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 18 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /authentication/
Disallow: /_bodyclass/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /_parameters/
Disallow: /testin/
Disallow: /xml/

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Careers77%Check
Careers Service72%Check
Manchester68%Check
Service66%Check
University58%Check
support46%Check
Student46%Check
Find us44%Check
contact us44%Check
students43%Check
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