uws.ac.uk
UWS | University of the West of Scotland
Last scanned Jul 27, 2026, 3:43 PM
Overall score
Great
Summary
Career-focused teaching. This website uses Google Analytics hosted on Azure. SEO is good (80/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (90/100) and performance excellent (90/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.
Career-focused teaching. World-leading research. An international outlook. And a far-sighted approach to technology and innovation. For the ultimate student and business experience, look to UWS.
- United States
- Hosted on Azure
Top issues to fix
5 issues found · 1 high priority
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
SecurityAdd a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.
1 cookie without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
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.
Missing OpenGraph tags
SEOAdd og:title/og:description/og:image so shared links render a proper preview card.
SEO
3 issue(s) found
Performance
302 ms
Security
HTTPS & header checks
Accessibility
0 issue(s) found
Organization
Company details published in this site's own structured data.
Career-focused teaching. World-leading research. An international outlook. And a far-sighted approach to technology and innovation. For the ultimate student and business experience, look to UWS.
Contact
Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.
Meta tags
- Title
- UWS | University of the West of Scotland
- Description
- Career-focused teaching. World-leading research. An international outlook. And a far-sighted approach to technology and innovation. For the ultimate student and business experience, look to UWS.
- Canonical
- https://www.uws.ac.uk/
- Language
- en
- Charset
- utf-8
- Viewport
- width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- Robots meta
- Manifest
- https://www.uws.ac.uk/manifest.json
Technologies
Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.
Hosting & CDN
- Hosting provider
- Azure
- CDN provider
- —
- IP address
- 13.107.213.48
- ASN
- AS8075 (MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, 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.uws.ac.uk
- Valid from
- Oct 30, 2025
- Valid to
- Oct 30, 2026
- Days until expiry
- 95
- SAN domains
- www.uws.ac.uk, uws.ac.uk
Security headers
- Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
- Content-Security-PolicyMissing
- X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
- X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
- Referrer-PolicyEnabled
- Permissions-PolicyMissing
Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed
Content & assets
Headings
H1 1 · H2 9 · H3 34
Links
72 internal · 12 external · 0 broken
Images
19 total · 0 missing alt
Scripts / Styles
37 scripts · 7 stylesheets
JS / CSS size
648 KB · 519 KB
Page size
188 KB
Robots.txt & Sitemap
- robots.txt
- Found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Found
- URLs in sitemap
- 1257
SEO issues
- Meta description longer than 160 characters
- No structured data (JSON-LD) found
- Missing OpenGraph tags
Accessibility issues
No accessibility issues detected.
Careers
Scan details
- Requested URL
- https://uws.ac.uk
- Final URL
- https://www.uws.ac.uk/
- HTTP status
- 200
- HTTP version
- HTTP/2
- Response time
- 299 ms
- HTML size
- 188 KB
- Redirect chain
- https://uws.ac.uk → https://www.uws.ac.uk/
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Frequently asked questions
- What technology does uws.ac.uk use?
- uws.ac.uk is built with jQuery, Google Analytics.
- Is uws.ac.uk secure (HTTPS)?
- Yes. uws.ac.uk uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Sectigo Limited, valid until Oct 30, 2026.
- Who hosts uws.ac.uk?
- uws.ac.uk is hosted on Azure.
- What is uws.ac.uk's SEO score?
- uws.ac.uk scored 80/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (great).
- What is uws.ac.uk's overall website score?
- uws.ac.uk has an overall SiteGraph score of 89/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
- Is uws.ac.uk hiring?
- Yes. uws.ac.uk has 15 open roles listed on their careers page.
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OpenGraph
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