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lancaster.ac.uk

Home - Lancaster University

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 9:00 PM · 16 views

87

Overall score

Great

Summary

Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. This website uses Apache. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. A top 10 UK university, we are also highly ranked in international league tables such as the QS World Rankings.

Top issues to fix

8 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-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

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

  • 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.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

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

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

70

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

320 ms

85

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall
87
SEO
70
Security
85
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. A top 10 UK university, we are also highly ranked in international league tables such as the QS World Rankings.

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Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Home - Lancaster University
Description
Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. A top 10 UK university, we are also highly ranked in international league tables such as the QS World Rankings.
Canonical
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Home - Lancaster University
og:description
Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. A top 10 UK university, we are also highly ranked in international league tables such as the QS World Rankings.
og:type
—
og:url
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Home - Lancaster University
twitter:description
Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. A top 10 UK university, we are also highly ranked in international league tables such as the QS World Rankings.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

jQueryApache

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
Let's Encrypt
Subject
www.lancaster.ac.uk
Valid from
Jun 8, 2026
Valid to
Sep 6, 2026
Days until expiry
35
SAN domains
lancaster.ac.uk, lancs.ac.uk, www.lancaster.ac.uk, www.lancs.ac.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 2 · H2 10 · H3 6

Links

163 internal · 23 external · 20 broken

Images

18 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

17 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

6.7 KB · 0 B

Page size

112 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
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • robots.txt not found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

Requested URL
https://lancaster.ac.uk
Final URL
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/1.1
Response time
318 ms
HTML size
112 KB
Redirect chain
https://lancaster.ac.uk → https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does lancaster.ac.uk use?
lancaster.ac.uk is built with jQuery, Apache.
Is lancaster.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. lancaster.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 6, 2026.
Who hosts lancaster.ac.uk?
Hosting provider information for lancaster.ac.uk is not available yet.
What is lancaster.ac.uk's SEO score?
lancaster.ac.uk scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is lancaster.ac.uk's overall website score?
lancaster.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has lancaster.ac.uk's score changed over time?
lancaster.ac.uk's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 88 to 87) since Jul 25, 2026.