What technology does uwc.ac.za use?

uwc.ac.za is built with PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery.

Is uwc.ac.za secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. uwc.ac.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 15, 2026.

Hosting provider information for uwc.ac.za is not available yet.

What is uwc.ac.za's SEO score?

uwc.ac.za scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).

What is uwc.ac.za's overall website score?

uwc.ac.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

uwc.ac.za

Home | UWC

Last scanned Jul 26, 2026, 5:18 AM

Overall score

Great

Summary

The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. This website uses PHP. SEO is fair (70/100) and accessibility is excellent (90/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to respon...

Top issues to fix

5 issues found · 1 high priority

No H1 heading found
SEO
Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Meta description longer than 160 characters
SEO
Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
Missing canonical link
SEO
Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.
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.

SEO

5 issue(s) found

Performance

1.60 s

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

Accessibility

1 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.

X (Twitter)Facebook Instagram

Contact

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

Email: info@uwc.ac.za
Phone: +27219592911

Meta tags

Title: Home | UWC
Description: The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to respon...
Canonical
Language: en
Charset: UTF-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Robots meta
Manifest: https://uwc-za.b-cdn.net/img/icons/site.webmanifest?v=202607

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

PHP Bootstrap jQuery

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: Let's Encrypt
Subject: www.uwc.ac.za
Valid from: Jul 17, 2026
Valid to: Oct 15, 2026
Days until expiry: 80
SAN domains: www.uwc.ac.za

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 3 · H3 5

Links

229 internal · 10 external · 0 broken

Images

26 total · 0 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

11 scripts · 2 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

18.6 KB · 158 KB

Page size

84.2 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
Missing canonical link
No H1 heading found
robots.txt not found
sitemap.xml not found

Scan details

Requested URL: https://uwc.ac.za
Final URL: https://www.uwc.ac.za/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 1.59 s
HTML size: 84.2 KB
Redirect chain: https://uwc.ac.za → https://www.uwc.ac.za/

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Frequently asked questions

What technology does uwc.ac.za use?: uwc.ac.za is built with PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery.
Is uwc.ac.za secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. uwc.ac.za uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 15, 2026.
Who hosts uwc.ac.za?: Hosting provider information for uwc.ac.za is not available yet.
What is uwc.ac.za's SEO score?: uwc.ac.za scored 70/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is uwc.ac.za's overall website score?: uwc.ac.za has an overall SiteGraph score of 87/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.