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King's College London

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 5:00 PM · 9 views

89

Overall score

Great

Summary

King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. This website uses jQuery. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

King’s College London

King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.

Top issues to fix

8 issues found

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Multiple H1 headings found

    SEO

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

  • Missing OpenGraph tags

    SEO

    Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

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

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

75

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

630 ms

85

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

0 overall since Jul 21, 2026

Overall
89
SEO
75
Security
85
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

King’s College London

King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
King's College London
Description
King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.
Canonical
https://www.kcl.ac.uk
Language
en-GB
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

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
kcl.ac.uk
Valid from
Jun 26, 2026
Valid to
Jan 10, 2027
Days until expiry
165
SAN domains
kcl.ac.uk, www.kcl.ac.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 4 · H2 3 · H3 13

Links

84 internal · 13 external · 20 broken

Images

14 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

10 scripts · 1 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

725 B · 3.0 KB

Page size

87.7 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

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

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://kcl.ac.uk
Final URL
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
629 ms
HTML size
87.7 KB
Redirect chain
https://kcl.ac.uk → http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ → https://www.kcl.ac.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does kcl.ac.uk use?
kcl.ac.uk is built with jQuery.
Is kcl.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. kcl.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Jan 10, 2027.
Who hosts kcl.ac.uk?
Hosting provider information for kcl.ac.uk is not available yet.
What is kcl.ac.uk's SEO score?
kcl.ac.uk scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is kcl.ac.uk's overall website score?
kcl.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates kcl.ac.uk?
kcl.ac.uk is operated by King’s College London. King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.
Has kcl.ac.uk's score changed over time?
kcl.ac.uk's overall score has stayed steady at 89/100 since Jul 21, 2026.