SEO report for www.brookes.ac.uk
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:26 GMT
Fix these first
- LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
Fix: Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD with address or areaServed, telephone, geo, opening hours and url.
Also fixes: Entity clarity
- Render-blocking resourceshigh
2 blocking script(s) and 1 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- Imagesmedium
17 image(s).
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- HSTSmedium
No Strict-Transport-Security header.
Fix: Add Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains.
- Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
- Meta descriptionhigh
191 characters, ~1176px of ~990px.
Fix: Write a 140–155 character description that answers the searcher's question and invites the click.
Real-world speed Google PageSpeed
Loading Core Web Vitals from Google… this can take up to 30 seconds.
Authority & backlinks
Looking up which websites link to brookes.ac.uk…
Indexing & crawling 100%
Can search engines reach, read and index this page?
- ✓
Status codecritical
The page returned HTTP 200.
- ✓
Indexablecritical
No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.
- ✓
robots.txthigh
robots.txt found.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
- ✓
XML sitemaphigh
Sitemap index found at https://www.brookes.ac.uk/sitemap.xml listing 6 sitemaps.
Declared in robots.txt.
No lastmod dates – add accurate ones so search engines know what changed.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://www.brookes.ac.uk
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
1 redirect before the page loaded.
https://brookes.ac.uk/ → https://www.brookes.ac.uk/
A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
brookes.ac.uk redirects to www.brookes.ac.uk.
Search snippet & sharing 88%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“With you every step of the way - Oxford Brookes University”
About 522px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- !
Meta descriptionhigh
191 characters, ~1176px of ~990px.
Long – Google will probably truncate it.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
Fix: Write a 140–155 character description that answers the searcher's question and invites the click.
- ✓
Faviconlow
Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en"
Content quality 83%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
544 words of main content (inside <main>).
Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.
- !
Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 41 (fairly difficult), about 15 words per sentence.
Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
5 of 5 title keywords appear in the main content.
- ✓
H1 headingcritical
“With you every step of the way”
- !
Heading structuremedium
30 headings for 544 words – a lot for the amount of text.
Levels are in order.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- !
Text-to-code ratiolow
7% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.
AI search readiness 50%
Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?
- ✓
AI crawler accesshigh
Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.
- ✓
Snippet controlshigh
No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.
- ✗
llms.txtlow
No /llms.txt file. It's an optional, emerging convention – few AI tools are confirmed to read it yet, so this is low priority.
Fix: Optionally add /llms.txt: a short Markdown summary of who you are with links to your key pages.
- ✗
Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- ✗
Entity clarityhigh
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- ✗
Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- ✓
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to all three: about, contact and privacy.
Structured data 100%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
1 JSON-LD block(s): CollegeOrUniversity, ImageObject.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Links 100%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
102 internal and 13 external links.
- ✓
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
- ✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.
Performance 60%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
779 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
- ✓
HTML sizemedium
74 kB of HTML.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with gzip.
- ✗
Render-blocking resourceshigh
2 blocking script(s) and 1 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- !
Scripts & third partiesmedium
22 script tag(s); files loaded from 4 other domain(s): kit.fontawesome.com, web.cmp.usercentrics.eu, googletagmanager.com, ajax.googleapis.com.
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
- ✗
Imagesmedium
17 image(s).
17 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
14 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.
0 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- ✓
Cachinglow
Cache-Control: public, max-age=395,no-cache
- i
HTTP/3low
Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.
Security 83%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✗
HSTSmedium
No Strict-Transport-Security header.
Fix: Add Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains.
- ✓
Security headerslow
Present: CSP, nosniff, Referrer-Policy, clickjacking protection.
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 83%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 17 images have alt text.
- ✓
Form labelsmedium
All 3 form fields are labelled.
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✗
Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
Local SEO 50%
Signals that help you appear in Google Maps and 'near me' searches.
- ✗
LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
Fix: Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD with address or areaServed, telephone, geo, opening hours and url.
- ✓
Contact details on pagemedium
No phone number found.
A UK postcode is shown.
- ✓
Map & directionslow
Links to or embeds a map.