What technology does shef.ac.uk use?

shef.ac.uk is built with Drupal.

Is shef.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. shef.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Dec 2, 2026.

Who hosts shef.ac.uk?

Hosting provider information for shef.ac.uk is not available yet.

What is shef.ac.uk's SEO score?

shef.ac.uk scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).

What is shef.ac.uk's overall website score?

shef.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 94/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

Has shef.ac.uk's score changed over time?

shef.ac.uk's overall score has declined by 1 point (from 95 to 94) since Jul 25, 2026.

shef.ac.uk

Home | The University of Sheffield

Last scanned Aug 1, 2026, 8:00 AM · 16 views

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

A world-class university – a unique student experience. This website uses Drupal. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: No structured data (JSON-LD) found.

A world-class university – a unique student experience. Sheffield is a research university in the Russell Group with a global reputation for excellence.

Top issues to fix

4 issues found

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.

SEO

3 issue(s) found

100

Performance

416 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-1 overall since Jul 25, 2026

Overall: 94
SEO: 80
Security: 100
Performance: 100
Accessibility: 100

Organization

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

A world-class university – a unique student experience. Sheffield is a research university in the Russell Group with a global reputation for excellence.

Instagram

Meta tags

Title: Home | The University of Sheffield
Description: A world-class university – a unique student experience. Sheffield is a research university in the Russell Group with a global reputation for excellence.
Canonical: https://sheffield.ac.uk/
Language: en
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Drupal

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: —
CDN provider: —
IP address: —
ASN: —

DNS records

Type	Value
A	—
AAAA	—
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	—
IPv6 support	No

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: Sectigo Limited
Subject: *.sheffield.ac.uk
Valid from: May 18, 2026
Valid to: Dec 2, 2026
Days until expiry: 123
SAN domains: *.sheffield.ac.uk, sheffield.ac.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 0 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 9 · H3 16

Links

138 internal · 11 external · 20 broken

Images

31 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

6 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

3.0 KB · 502 B

Page size

107 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Not found
Disallow rules: 0
sitemap.xml: Not found
URLs in sitemap: 0

SEO issues

No structured data (JSON-LD) found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://shef.ac.uk
Final URL: https://sheffield.ac.uk/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/1.1
Response time: 414 ms
HTML size: 107 KB
Redirect chain: https://shef.ac.uk → https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ → https://sheffield.ac.uk/

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