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Welcome to UCL | University College London

Last scanned Jul 29, 2026, 2:00 PM · 8 views

90

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

Two centuries ago, our founders had a vision: to open higher education to all. This website uses jQuery behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is good (75/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

Two centuries ago, our founders had a vision: to open higher education to all. Today, we are a world top-ten university in the heart of London, with a thriving community from over 150 countries.

Top issues to fix

6 issues found

  • Missing X-Frame-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.

  • 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

191 ms

90

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Score history

-2 overall since Jul 18, 2026

Overall
90
SEO
75
Security
90
Performance
100
Accessibility
100

Organization

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

Two centuries ago, our founders had a vision: to open higher education to all. Today, we are a world top-ten university in the heart of London, with a thriving community from over 150 countries.

Contact

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

Meta tags

Title
Welcome to UCL | University College London
Description
Two centuries ago, our founders had a vision: to open higher education to all. Today, we are a world top-ten university in the heart of London, with a thriving community from over 150 countries.
Canonical
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/home/welcome-ucl
Language
en
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Robots meta
Manifest
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/themes/custom/indigo/favicons/site.webmanifest

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
Welcome to UCL
og:description
Two centuries ago, our founders had a vision: to open higher education to all. Today, we are a world top-ten university in the heart of London, with a thriving community from over 150 countries.
og:type
Homepage
og:url
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/home/welcome-ucl

Twitter Card

twitter:card
summary_large_image
twitter:title
Welcome to UCL | University College London
twitter:description
Two centuries ago, our founders had a vision: to open higher education to all. Today, we are a world top-ten university in the heart of London, with a thriving community from over 150 countries.

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
CDN provider
Cloudflare
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.ucl.ac.uk
Valid from
Nov 14, 2025
Valid to
Nov 14, 2026
Days until expiry
108
SAN domains
www.ucl.ac.uk, ucl.ac.uk

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 24 · H3 17

Links

90 internal · 14 external · 20 broken

Images

30 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

33 scripts · 36 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

2.2 KB · 0 B

Page size

118 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://ucl.ac.uk
Final URL
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
189 ms
HTML size
118 KB
Redirect chain
https://ucl.ac.uk → https://www.ucl.ac.uk/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does ucl.ac.uk use?
ucl.ac.uk is built with jQuery.
Is ucl.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. ucl.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Nov 14, 2026.
Who hosts ucl.ac.uk?
Hosting provider information for ucl.ac.uk is not available yet.
What is ucl.ac.uk's SEO score?
ucl.ac.uk scored 75/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is ucl.ac.uk's overall website score?
ucl.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 90/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Has ucl.ac.uk's score changed over time?
ucl.ac.uk's overall score has declined by 2 points (from 92 to 90) since Jul 18, 2026.