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Birmingham City University

Last scanned Aug 2, 2026, 11:00 PM · 5 views

93

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Birmingham City University (BCU) is a large and diverse university set in the heart of Birmingham with a focus on practice-based learning. This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is good (85/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Multiple H1 headings found.

Birmingham City University (BCU) is a large and diverse university set in the heart of Birmingham with a focus on practice-based learning.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found

  • 3 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags

    Security

    Set Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

    Keep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

    Publish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

    Accessibility

    Add alt attributes to the remaining images (use alt="" for purely decorative ones).

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

85

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

298 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

85

Accessibility

1 issue(s) found

Score history

+1 overall since Jul 26, 2026

Overall
93
SEO
85
Security
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
85

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Birmingham City University (BCU) is a large and diverse university set in the heart of Birmingham with a focus on practice-based learning.

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Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
Birmingham City University
Description
Birmingham City University (BCU) is a large and diverse university set in the heart of Birmingham with a focus on practice-based learning.
Canonical
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/
Language
en-GB
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
follow, index
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Birmingham City University
og:description
Birmingham City University (BCU) is a large and diverse university set in the heart of Birmingham with a focus on practice-based learning.
og:type
website
og:url
—

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
—
twitter:description
—

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Google Analytics

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
—
CDN provider
—
IP address
—
ASN
—

DNS records

TypeValue
A—
AAAA—
MX—
TXT—
NS—
CAA—
CNAME—
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Sectigo Limited
Subject
*.bcu.ac.uk
Valid from
Sep 23, 2025
Valid to
Sep 23, 2026
Days until expiry
52
SAN domains
*.bcu.ac.uk, bcu.ac.uk

Security headers

  • Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
  • Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
  • X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
  • X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
  • Referrer-PolicyEnabled
  • Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 4 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 3 · H2 18 · H3 10

Links

195 internal · 16 external · 20 broken

Images

13 total · 3 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

12 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

4.3 KB · 106 KB

Page size

231 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Not found
Disallow rules
0
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text

Scan details

Requested URL
https://bcu.ac.uk
Final URL
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
294 ms
HTML size
231 KB
Redirect chain
https://bcu.ac.uk → https://www.bcu.ac.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does bcu.ac.uk use?
bcu.ac.uk is built with Google Analytics.
Is bcu.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. bcu.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Sep 23, 2026.
Who hosts bcu.ac.uk?
Hosting provider information for bcu.ac.uk is not available yet.
What is bcu.ac.uk's SEO score?
bcu.ac.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is bcu.ac.uk's overall website score?
bcu.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 93/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has bcu.ac.uk's score changed over time?
bcu.ac.uk's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 92 to 93) since Jul 26, 2026.