Mmu.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
98% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.43 s
File size
105.10 kB
Words
603
Media files
26
Number of links
77 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Manchester Metropolitan University - Homepage
The length of the page title is perfect. (431 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (718 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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

NameValue
descriptionAll about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
robotsindex, follow
EditorialGroupHome Page
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
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summaryAll about Manchester Metropolitan - an outstanding, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
imagehttps://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-04/Manchester%20Met_horizontal_black.png
color-schemelight dark
apple-mobile-web-app-titleMMU
pin:mediahttps://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/open_graph_image/public/2023-04/Manchester%20Met_horizontal_black.png?h=f2503db1&itok=hUWvjr3T
pin:urlhttps://www.mmu.ac.uk/manchester-metropolitan-university-homepage
pin:descriptionAll about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:descriptionAll about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
twitter:titleManchester Metropolitan University - Homepage
twitter:image:altManchester Met logo
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og:site_nameManchester Metropolitan University
og:urlhttps://www.mmu.ac.uk/
og:titleManchester Metropolitan University - Homepage
og:descriptionAll about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
og:imagehttps://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/open_graph_image/public/2023-04/Manchester%20Met_horizontal_black.png?h=f2503db1&itok=hUWvjr3T
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og:image:width1200
og:image:height630
og:updated_time2025-06-19T08:17:27+01:00
og:image:altManchester Met logo
og:localeen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 33.5 words is high.
This page contains 603 words. That's ok.
23.7% of the text are stop words.
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, viewport-fit=cover" 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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Three students huddled together and smiling towards the camera outside a university building
...d campaign hp banner_1.png?itok=aNfBOgG-No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64Teaching Excellence Framework 2023 gold logo
data:[...] Base64National Student Survey logo
data:[...] Base64Students looking at a phone
data:[...] Base64A postgraduate student working on creative designs in a campus studio
data:[...] Base64Dr Sarah Butler with her award certificate
data:[...] Base64Dr Sarah Butler with her award certificate
data:[...] Base64Image of young girl and elderly woman smiling at each other
data:[...] Base64Image of young girl and elderly woman smiling at each other
data:[...] Base64Substance being examined in a lab
data:[...] Base64Substance being examined in a lab
data:[...] Base64Royal Television Society
data:[...] Base64Royal Television Society
data:[...] Base64Alan Dempsey at WIP event
data:[...] Base64Alan Dempsey at WIP event
data:[...] Base64Image showing DJ in Manchester
data:[...] Base64Image showing DJ in Manchester
data:[...] Base64A pharmacist checking medicines
data:[...] Base64A pharmacist checking medicines
data:[...] Base64Headshot of Sarah Ajayi
data:[...] Base64Headshot of Sarah Ajayi

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 This is Manchester Met
H2 We set the gold standard
H2 Outstanding for student experience
H2 Find a student experience as unique as you
H2 What's new at Manchester Met
H2 Research
H2 Get in touch with Manchester Metropolitan University
H2 Quick Links
H2 Connect with us
H3 Undergraduate subjects
H3 Postgraduate subjects
H3 Northern Writers’ Awards success
H3 ‘A generational crisis’: new report unveils UK is more age segregated than ever before
H3 Prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prize awarded to University collaboration
H3 National award success for animated film
H3 Printing the future: Manchester Met and United Utilities lead the charge on 3D printing in the water…
H3 Manchester’s musical heritage celebrated in conference hosted at Manchester Met
H3 Patients should have a more active role in the prescription and research of medicines, report shows
H3 Designs inspired by West African market women scoop Gold at Graduate Fashion Week
H3 Research missions
H3 Research impact stories
H3 Protecting hopeful futures for transgender people
H3 UI Tweaks
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://www.mmu.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/No Text
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/clearingClearing 2025
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/studyOpen and close the Study menu
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/studyStudy
/study/undergraduateUndergraduate
/study/postgraduatePostgraduate
/study/internationalInternational
/study/apprenticeshipsApprenticeships
/study/accommodationAccommodation
/contact/course-enquiry/Course enquiry
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/clearingSubdomain Clearing
/internationalOpen and close the International menu
/internationalText duplicate International
A-TITLE Join over 30,000 students
/study/internationalStudy in the UK
/study/international/study-abroadStudy abroad
/international/partnershipsInternational partnerships
/study/international/contactContact International Office
/business-servicesOpen and close the Business and employers menu
/business-servicesBusiness and employers
/business-services/innovationInnovation
/business-services/talent-recr...Talent
/business-services/leadership-...Growth
/business-services/conferences...Business spaces
/business-services/contactContact Business Services
A-TITLE Phone numbers and emails for business services
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/researchOpen and close the Research menu
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/researchResearch
/research/missionsMissions
/research/our-impactImpact
/research/our-peopleOur community
/research/research-study/Subdomain Research study
/research/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Research and Innovation
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/about-usOpen and close the About us menu
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/about-usAbout us
/about-us/our-storyOur story
/about-us/leadership-strategyLeadership and strategy
/about-us/structure/Subdomain Faculties, institutes and Professional Services
/about-us/history/Subdomain History
https://manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/j...External Subdomain Jobs
/about-us/term-datesTerm dates
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/searchSearch
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/alumniAlumni
/student-life/Subdomain Current students
https://mmuintranet.mmu.ac.uk/External Subdomain Staff
/about-us/contactContact us
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/Anchor Close menu
/this-is-manchester-metSubdomain Find out more
/study/why-manchester-met/outs...We set the gold standard
IMG-ALT Teaching Excellence Framework 2023 gold logo
/study/why-manchester-met/stud...Outstanding for student experience
IMG-ALT National Student Survey logo
/study/courses/aView all courses
/study/undergraduate/subjectView subjects
/study/postgraduate/subjectText duplicate View subjects
/news-and-events/news/story/no...Northern Writers’ Awards success News Fri, 27/06/2025 - 10:46
IMG-ALT Dr Sarah Butler with her award certificate
/news-and-events/news/story/ge...‘A generational crisis’: new report unveils UK is more age segregated than ever before News Thu, 26/06/2025 - 09:58
IMG-ALT Image of young girl and elderly woman smiling at each other
/news-and-events/news/story/pr...Prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prize awarded to University collaboration News Wed, 25/06/2025 - 10:51
IMG-ALT Substance being examined in a lab
/news-and-events/news/story/na...National award success for animated film News Tue, 24/06/2025 - 11:48
IMG-ALT Royal Television Society
/news-and-events/news/story/pr...Printing the future: Manchester Met and United Utilities lead the charge on 3D printing in the water… News Tue, 24/06/2025 - 10:34
IMG-ALT Alan Dempsey at WIP event
/news-and-events/news/story/ma...Manchester’s musical heritage celebrated in conference hosted at Manchester Met News Mon, 23/06/2025 - 15:27
IMG-ALT Image showing DJ in Manchester
/news-and-events/news/story/pa...Patients should have a more active role in the prescription and research of medicines, report shows News Mon, 23/06/2025 - 15:18
IMG-ALT A pharmacist checking medicines
/news-and-events/news/story/de...Designs inspired by West African market women scoop Gold at Graduate Fashion Week News Mon, 23/06/2025 - 11:00
IMG-ALT Headshot of Sarah Ajayi
/news-and-events/Subdomain See more news
/research/missionsText duplicate Find out more
/research/our-impact/research-...Read our impact stories
/research/our-impact/case-stud...Text duplicate Find out more
/about-us/contactText duplicate Contact us
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/clearingText duplicate Clearing 2025
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/studyText duplicate Study
/internationalText duplicate International
/business-servicesText duplicate Business and employers
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/researchText duplicate Research
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/about-usText duplicate About us
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/searchText duplicate Search
/legal/policies-regulations-le...Policies, regulations and legal notices
/legal/website-terms-use/cooki...Cookies
/legal/website-terms-useWebsite terms of use
/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/foi/Subdomain Freedom of information
/legal-and-policiesSubdomain Anchor Governance of the University
/legal/modern-slavery-and-huma...Subdomain Modern slavery
https://manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobsExternal Subdomain Working at Manchester Met
https://www.facebook.com/manme...External Subdomain Manchester Metropolitan University on Facebook
https://x.com/ManMetUniExternal Manchester Metropolitan University on X
https://www.youtube.com/@ManMe...External Subdomain Manchester Metropolitan University on YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Manchester Metropolitan University on LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/manm...External Subdomain Manchester Metropolitan University on Instagram
https://www.tiktok.com/@manmetuniExternal Subdomain Manchester Metropolitan University on TikTok
https://www.threads.net/@manme...External Subdomain Manchester Metropolitan University on Threads

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mmu.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 of 0.43 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (105 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 01 Jul 2025 06:49:39 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-encodingbr
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cache-controlmax-age=10800, public
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedTue, 01 Jul 2025 05:16:46 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
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purge-cache-tagsMISS
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
cf-cache-statusHIT
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
servercloudflare
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,071 referring domains.
This page has 833,675 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 881 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
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: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

Disallow: /drupal_dev/
Disallow: /hidden/
Disallow: /index.php/drupal_dev/
Disallow: /index.php/hidden/

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www.mmu.ac.uk
Manchester Metropolitan University - Homepage
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

Most important keywords

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university68%Check
Manchester Metropolitan University67%Check
Metropolitan University66%Check
Manchester Metropolitan66%Check
student58%Check
age57%Check
one50%Check
student experience50%Check
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