hw.ac.uk
Home | Heriot-Watt University
Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 10:25 PM · 1 view
Overall score
Great
Summary
Heriot-Watt is a specialist university in Edinburgh with a global presence. This website is hosted on AWS. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance good (75/100).
Heriot-Watt is a specialist university in Edinburgh with a global presence. We create world renowned, innovative research and highly employable graduates.
- United States
- Hosted on AWS
Top issues to fix
2 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
SEO
0 issue(s) found
Performance
78 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- icit@hw.ac.uk
Source: https://hw.ac.uk/campuses/orkney
Meta tags
- Title
- Home | Heriot-Watt University
- Description
- Heriot-Watt is a specialist university in Edinburgh with a global presence. We create world renowned, innovative research and highly employable graduates.
- Canonical
- https://www.hw.ac.uk/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width,initial-scale=1
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://hw.ac.uk/_Z8mtzw_2bb9e123-9adb-4078-94f7-88a8f8b1ee33/static/manifest.webmanifest
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
No technologies detected.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- AWS
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 75.2.42.62
- ASN
- AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA | — |
| MX |
|
| TXT | — |
| NS |
|
| CAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| IPv6 support | No |
TLS / SSL certificate
- Version
- TLS 1.3
- Issuer
- Sectigo Limited
- Subject
- www.hw.ac.uk
- Valid from
- Jun 5, 2026
- Valid to
- Dec 20, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 148
- SAN domains
- www.hw.ac.uk, hw.ac.uk, hw.edu.my, www.hw.edu.my
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsMissing
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 11 · H3 19
Links
41 internal · 12 external · 0 broken
Images
27 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
13 scripts · 1 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
2.0 MB · 66.7 KB
Page size
552 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 6
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 6427
SEO issues
No SEO issues detected.
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://hw.ac.uk
- Final URL
- https://hw.ac.uk
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 67 ms
- HTML size
- 552 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://hw.ac.uk
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does hw.ac.uk use?
- We did not detect any specific technologies for hw.ac.uk in the latest scan.
- Is hw.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. hw.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Dec 20, 2026.
- Who hosts hw.ac.uk?
- hw.ac.uk is hosted on AWS.
- What is hw.ac.uk's SEO score?
- hw.ac.uk scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
- What is hw.ac.uk's overall website score?
- hw.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is hw.ac.uk hiring?
- hw.ac.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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