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reading.ac.uk

University of Reading

Last scanned Jul 25, 2026, 12:25 PM · 4 views

90

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Discover the University of Reading, a global university that enjoys a world-class reputation for teaching, research and enterprise. This website uses Apache hosted on Azure. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Missing canonical link.

Discover the University of Reading, a global university that enjoys a world-class reputation for teaching, research and enterprise.

United States
Hosted on Azure

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 canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

  • 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.

  • Missing OpenGraph tags

    SEO

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

75

SEO

4 issue(s) found

100

Performance

156 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.

Discover the University of Reading, a global university that enjoys a world-class reputation for teaching, research and enterprise.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
University of Reading
Description
Discover the University of Reading, a global university that enjoys a world-class reputation for teaching, research and enterprise.
Canonical
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width
Robots meta
Manifest

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
Azure
CDN provider
IP address
74.177.228.14
ASN
AS8075 (MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 74.177.228.14
AAAA
MX
  • reading-ac-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
NS
  • ns12.ja.net
  • ns10.ja.net
  • ns11.ja.net
CAA
CNAME
IPv6 supportNo

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Sectigo Limited
Subject
www.reading.ac.uk
Valid from
Mar 25, 2026
Valid to
Oct 9, 2026
Days until expiry
76
SAN domains
www.reading.ac.uk, rdg.ac.uk, reading.ac.uk, www.rdg.ac.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: none · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 5 · H2 4 · H3 14

Links

235 internal · 12 external · 0 broken

Images

25 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

15 scripts · 8 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

394 KB · 289 KB

Page size

158 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
27
sitemap.xml
Found
URLs in sitemap
52

SEO issues

  • Missing canonical link
  • Multiple H1 headings found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • Missing OpenGraph tags

Accessibility issues

No accessibility issues detected.

Careers

View careers page

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://reading.ac.uk
Final URL
https://reading.ac.uk
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
153 ms
HTML size
158 KB
Redirect chain
https://reading.ac.uk

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does reading.ac.uk use?
reading.ac.uk is built with jQuery, Apache.
Is reading.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. reading.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Oct 9, 2026.
Who hosts reading.ac.uk?
reading.ac.uk is hosted on Azure.
What is reading.ac.uk's SEO score?
reading.ac.uk scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is reading.ac.uk's overall website score?
reading.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is reading.ac.uk hiring?
reading.ac.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.