lancs.ac.uk
Home - Lancaster University
Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 7:00 PM · 12 views
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
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Multiple H1 headings found
SEOKeep a single H1 per page and demote the others to H2/H3.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+2 more issues — details in the sections below.
SEO
5 issue(s) found
Performance
322 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
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.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Phone
- +44-1524-65201
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
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
- 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://lancs.ac.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/1.1
- Response time
- 320 ms
- HTML size
- 112 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://lancs.ac.uk → https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does lancs.ac.uk use?
- lancs.ac.uk is built with jQuery, Apache.
- Is lancs.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. lancs.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Sep 6, 2026.
- Who hosts lancs.ac.uk?
- Hosting provider information for lancs.ac.uk is not available yet.
- What is lancs.ac.uk's SEO score?
- lancs.ac.uk scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
- What is lancs.ac.uk's overall website score?
- lancs.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Has lancs.ac.uk's score changed over time?
- lancs.ac.uk's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 88 to 87) since Jul 25, 2026.
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