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qaa.ac.uk

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

Last scanned Aug 24, 2026, 1:23 PM

92

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

We safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education wherever it is delivered around the world. This website uses Google Analytics. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

We safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education wherever it is delivered around the world. We check that students get the higher education they are entitled to expect.

Top issues to fix

4 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.

  • 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.

  • Missing OpenGraph tags

    SEO

    Add og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.

80

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

533 ms

90

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.

We safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education wherever it is delivered around the world. We check that students get the higher education they are entitled to expect.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
Description
We safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education wherever it is delivered around the world. We check that students get the higher education they are entitled to expect.
Canonical
https://www.qaa.ac.uk
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/ResourcePackages/QAA/assets/dist/favicon/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
og:description
og:type
og:url

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
IP address
51.132.14.91
ASN

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 51.132.14.91
AAAA
MX
TXT
NS
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
GoDaddy.com, Inc.
Subject
*.qaa.ac.uk
Valid from
Nov 5, 2025
Valid to
Oct 27, 2026
Days until expiry
62
SAN domains
*.qaa.ac.uk, qaa.ac.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 2 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 16 · H3 3

Links

148 internal · 15 external · 0 broken

Images

22 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

26 scripts · 4 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

223 KB · 176 KB

Page size

113 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
4
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
-1

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Scan details

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

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does qaa.ac.uk use?
qaa.ac.uk is built with jQuery, Google Analytics, Google Ads.
Is qaa.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. qaa.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by GoDaddy.com, Inc., valid until Oct 27, 2026.
Who hosts qaa.ac.uk?
Hosting provider information for qaa.ac.uk is not available yet.
What is qaa.ac.uk's SEO score?
qaa.ac.uk scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
What is qaa.ac.uk's overall website score?
qaa.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.