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manchester.ac.uk

The University of Manchester

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 4:00 PM · 14 views

93

Overall score

Excellent

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 behind CloudFront CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

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.

Top issues to fix

5 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.

  • robots.txt not found

    SEO

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

  • sitemap.xml not found

    SEO

    Publish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.

  • 20 broken links on the page

    SEO

    Fix or remove broken links — they waste crawl budget and erode user trust.

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

251 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-3 overall since Jul 21, 2026

Overall
93
SEO
75
Security
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

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.

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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.

jQueryApache

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
—
CDN provider
CloudFront
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
www.manchester.ac.uk
Valid from
Sep 29, 2025
Valid to
Sep 29, 2026
Days until expiry
62
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

131 internal · 13 external · 20 broken

Images

19 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

18 scripts · 5 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

11.0 KB · 1.2 KB

Page size

68.4 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
  • 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://manchester.ac.uk
Final URL
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
250 ms
HTML size
68.4 KB
Redirect chain
https://manchester.ac.uk → https://www.manchester.ac.uk/

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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?
Hosting provider information for manchester.ac.uk is not available yet.
What is manchester.ac.uk's SEO score?
manchester.ac.uk scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is manchester.ac.uk's overall website score?
manchester.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 93/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has manchester.ac.uk's score changed over time?
manchester.ac.uk's overall score has declined by 3 points (from 96 to 93) since Jul 21, 2026.