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manchester.ac.uk

The University of Manchester

Last scanned Jul 21, 2026, 11:46 AM · 3 views

96

Overall score

Excellent

Top issues to fix

2 issues found

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

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

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

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

Summary

The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single-site university and a Russell Group member, known for research excellence and a diverse student community. This website uses Apache hosted on AWS behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (85/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

85

SEO

2 issue(s) found

100

Performance

276 ms

100

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.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
The University of Manchester
Description
The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single-site university and a Russell Group member, known for research excellence and a diverse student community.
Canonical
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The University of Manchester
og:description
The University of Manchester is known for research excellence and a diverse student community.
og:type
article
og:url
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
AWS
CDN provider
CloudFront
IP address
18.172.64.13
ASN
AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 18.172.64.13
  • 18.172.64.129
  • 18.172.64.28
  • 18.172.64.2
AAAA
  • 2600:9000:264a:4600:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:264a:2600:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:264a:5200:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:264a:6c00:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:264a:ca00:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:264a:8400:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:264a:e000:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
  • 2600:9000:264a:4a00:d:3721:c0c0:93a1
MX
TXT
NS
  • ns-681.awsdns-21.net
  • ns-2040.awsdns-63.co.uk
  • ns-1418.awsdns-49.org
  • ns-494.awsdns-61.com
CAA
CNAME
  • duc7h5khrpi4j.cloudfront.net
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Sectigo Limited
Subject
www.manchester.ac.uk
Valid from
Sep 29, 2025
Valid to
Sep 29, 2026
Days until expiry
70
SAN domains
www.manchester.ac.uk, manchester.ac.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 12 · H3 3

Links

132 internal · 13 external · 0 broken

Images

19 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

18 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

208 KB · 110 KB

Page size

68.5 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
9
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • 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://manchester.ac.uk
Final URL
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
275 ms
HTML size
68.5 KB
Redirect chain
https://manchester.ac.uk → https://www.manchester.ac.uk/

Frequently asked questions

What technology does manchester.ac.uk use?
manchester.ac.uk is built with jQuery, Apache.
Is manchester.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. manchester.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Sep 29, 2026.
Who hosts manchester.ac.uk?
manchester.ac.uk is hosted on AWS, behind CloudFront CDN.
What is manchester.ac.uk's SEO score?
manchester.ac.uk scored 85/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is manchester.ac.uk's overall website score?
manchester.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 96/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is manchester.ac.uk hiring?
manchester.ac.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.