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.

Hosting provider information for hw.ac.uk is not available yet.

What is hw.ac.uk's SEO score?

hw.ac.uk scored 90/100 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 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has hw.ac.uk's score changed over time?

hw.ac.uk's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 89 to 90) since Jul 25, 2026.

hw.ac.uk

Home | Heriot-Watt University

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 11:00 PM · 7 views

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Heriot-Watt is a specialist university in Edinburgh with a global presence. SEO is excellent (90/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (80/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: robots.txt not found.

Heriot-Watt is a specialist university in Edinburgh with a global presence. We create world renowned, innovative research and highly employable graduates.

Top issues to fix

5 issues found · 1 high priority

Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Security
Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Security
Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
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.
20 broken links on the page
SEO
Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

SEO

2 issue(s) found

Performance

75 ms

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

+1 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall: 90
SEO: 90
Security: 80
Performance: 90
Accessibility: 100

Organization

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

Heriot-Watt is a specialist university in Edinburgh with a global presence. We create world renowned, innovative research and highly employable graduates.

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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_6e3934ef-3696-42da-893c-19c2069757ff/static/manifest.webmanifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

No technologies detected.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: —
IP address: —
ASN: —

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: 141
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 · 20 broken

Images

27 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

13 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

295 KB · 61.7 KB

Page size

510 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://hw.ac.uk
Final URL: https://hw.ac.uk
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 65 ms
HTML size: 510 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?: Hosting provider information for hw.ac.uk is not available yet.
What is hw.ac.uk's SEO score?: hw.ac.uk scored 90/100 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 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has hw.ac.uk's score changed over time?: hw.ac.uk's overall score has improved by 1 point (from 89 to 90) since Jul 25, 2026.