SEO report for www.uea.ac.uk
https://www.uea.ac.uk/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:23 GMT
Fix these first
- Meta descriptionhigh
No meta description – Google will pick text from the page.
Fix: Write a 140–155 character description that answers the searcher's question and invites the click.
- 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
- JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
- Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
Fix: Fix or remove links that return errors, and update links that redirect.
- Render-blocking resourceshigh
1 blocking script(s) and 11 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- H1 headingcritical
“Book your Open Day”
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- Open Graph & social cardsmedium
Open Graph title or image missing.
Fix: Add og:title, og:description, og:image (1200×630 PNG/JPG, absolute URL) and twitter:card=summary_large_image.
- Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
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 uea.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 found at https://www.uea.ac.uk/sitemap.xml with over 4,339 URLs (we read the first 1 MB).
Declared in robots.txt.
This page is listed in it.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-11-01.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://www.uea.ac.uk
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
1 redirect before the page loaded.
https://uea.ac.uk/ → https://www.uea.ac.uk/
A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
uea.ac.uk redirects to www.uea.ac.uk.
Search snippet & sharing 50%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“The University of East Anglia | UEA”
About 314px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✗
Meta descriptionhigh
No meta description – Google will pick text from the page.
Fix: Write a 140–155 character description that answers the searcher's question and invites the click.
- ✗
Faviconlow
No favicon linked.
Fix: Add a square favicon at least 48×48px.
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en"
Content quality 63%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- !
Word countmedium
389 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.
Fix: Add genuinely useful content: key service pages usually need 400+ words to answer what customers ask.
- ✓
Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 60 (plain English), about 14 words per sentence.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
3 of 3 title keywords appear in the main content.
- !
H1 headingcritical
“Book your Open Day”
The H1 shares no keywords with the title.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- !
Heading structuremedium
19 headings for 389 words – a lot for the amount of text.
1 skipped level(s), e.g. H2 → H4.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✗
Text-to-code ratiolow
1% 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
1 heading(s) phrased as questions, e.g. “Why study at the University of East Anglia?”.
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 about and contact; missing privacy.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
Structured data 0%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✗
JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
Links 63%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
37 internal and 16 external links.
- ✓
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
- ✗
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
Broken: /search/courses?primaryCategory%5B0%5D=Undergraduate (403), /search/courses?primaryCategory%5B0%5D=Postgraduate (403), /search/courses?primaryCategory%5B0%5D=PhD%20or%20other%20doctorate (403), /search/courses?primaryCategory%5B0%5D=Short%20Course (403), /study/postgraduate-january-courses (403).
1 link(s) point to a redirect – link to the final address instead.
Fix: Fix or remove links that return errors, and update links that redirect.
Performance 38%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- !
Server response (TTFB)high
1678 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
Fix: Use page caching or a CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) so HTML is served from the edge.
- !
HTML sizemedium
209 kB of HTML.
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with gzip.
- ✗
Render-blocking resourceshigh
1 blocking script(s) and 11 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- ✗
Scripts & third partiesmedium
37 script tag(s); files loaded from 1 other domain(s): googletagmanager.com.
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
- ✗
Imagesmedium
7 image(s).
3 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
4 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.
4 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: private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.
- ✓
HTTP/3low
Server advertises HTTP/3 (faster on mobile networks).
Security 88%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✓
HSTSmedium
HSTS: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains
- !
Security headerslow
Present: CSP, nosniff, clickjacking protection.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
- ✗
Server fingerprintlow
X-Powered-By reveals “Next.js”.
Fix: Remove X-Powered-By so attackers can't see your software versions.
Mobile & accessibility 100%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 7 images have alt text.
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✓
Tap-to-contactmedium
One-tap contact: phone.
Local SEO 33%
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
A UK phone number is shown.
A UK postcode is shown.
- ✗
Map & directionslow
No map or directions link.
Fix: Add a Google Maps directions link so customers can find you.