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Home - Lancaster University

Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 6:25 PM · 2 views

88

Overall score

Great

Summary

Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. This website uses Apache hosted on JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (90/100). 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.

United Kingdom
Hosted on JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB

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-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.

80

SEO

3 issue(s) found

90

Performance

324 ms

85

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

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.

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.

Hosting & CDN

CDN provider
IP address
148.88.65.80
ASN
AS786 (JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 148.88.65.80
AAAA
  • 2001:630:80:2ff::80:1
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
  • wwW.lancs.ac.uk
IPv6 supportYes

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
42
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 · 0 broken

Images

18 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

17 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

365 KB · 337 KB

Page size

111 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
54
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
4812

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Careers

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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://lancs.ac.uk
Final URL
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/1.1
Response time
322 ms
HTML size
111 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?
lancs.ac.uk is hosted on JANET - Jisc Services Limited, GB.
What is lancs.ac.uk's SEO score?
lancs.ac.uk scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is lancs.ac.uk's overall website score?
lancs.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 88/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is lancs.ac.uk hiring?
lancs.ac.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.