ucl.ac.uk
Welcome to UCL | University College London
Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM
Overall score
Excellent
Top issues to fix
4 issues found
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEOTrim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
No structured data (JSON-LD) found
SEOAdd JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.
sitemap.xml not found
SEOPublish an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt to speed up page discovery.
Summary
Two centuries ago, our founders had a vision: to open higher education to all. This website uses jQuery hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. 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.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
195 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
- Phone
- +442076792000
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
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Cloudflare
- CDN provider
- Cloudflare
- IP address
- 104.18.21.219
- ASN
- AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
DNS records
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| A |
|
| AAAA |
|
| MX | — |
| TXT | — |
| NS | — |
| CAA | — |
| CNAME |
|
| IPv6 support | Yes |
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
- 119
- 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 26 · H3 23
Links
91 internal · 14 external · 0 broken
Images
30 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
34 scripts · 36 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
3.8 KB · 23.7 KB
Page size
119 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 138
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
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://ucl.ac.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 193 ms
- HTML size
- 119 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?
- ucl.ac.uk is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
- What is ucl.ac.uk's SEO score?
- ucl.ac.uk scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is ucl.ac.uk's overall website score?
- ucl.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 92/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is ucl.ac.uk hiring?
- ucl.ac.uk has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.
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