Nibbler SEO audit for www.ucu.org.uk
Summary
Overall9.1
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility10.0
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience9.6
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing8.0
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology9.1
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 22:58 on 28 Mar 2024 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear. (read more)
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version. (read more)
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS. (read more)
Meta tags2.0
- All pages include at least some metadata, but no pages have a description meta tag. The description meta data is important as it appears on Google's search result pages.
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear.
Pages with no meta description
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 , user-scalable=yes |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | twitter:site | @ucu |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | twitter:title | Home |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | twitter:description | UCU is the largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and academic-related staff working in further and higher education throughout the UK. |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | twitter:image | https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/7850/Default-page-preview/Image/website-ogimg-placeholder.png |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | generator | Goss iCM - Intelligent Content Management |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 , user-scalable=yes |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | twitter:site | @ucu |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | twitter:title | Privacy & cookies |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | twitter:description | |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | twitter:image | https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/7850/Default-page-preview/Image/website-ogimg-placeholder.png |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | generator | Goss iCM - Intelligent Content Management |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 , user-scalable=yes |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | twitter:site | @ucu |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | twitter:title | About this site |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | twitter:description | Information for visitors on using the UCU website |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | twitter:image | https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/7850/Default-page-preview/Image/website-ogimg-placeholder.png |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | generator | Goss iCM - Intelligent Content Management |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 , user-scalable=yes |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | twitter:site | @ucu |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | twitter:title | Sitemap |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | twitter:description | UCU website sitemap |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | twitter:image | https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/7850/Default-page-preview/Image/website-ogimg-placeholder.png |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | generator | Goss iCM - Intelligent Content Management |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 , user-scalable=yes |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | twitter:site | @ucu |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | twitter:title | Key UCU contacts |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | twitter:description | The key contacts for UCU members and those wishing to contact UCU are listed below. |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | twitter:image | https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/8551/Contact-us/image/contactus.png |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | generator | Goss iCM - Intelligent Content Management |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | Content-Style-Type | text/css |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | Content-Script-Type | text/javascript |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | Content-Style-Type | text/css |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | Content-Script-Type | text/javascript |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | Content-Style-Type | text/css |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | Content-Script-Type | text/javascript |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | Content-Style-Type | text/css |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | Content-Script-Type | text/javascript |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | Content-Style-Type | text/css |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | Content-Script-Type | text/javascript |
Amount of content8.2
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 827 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| www.ucu.org.uk/ | 980 | 125 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/privacy | 16811 | 2723 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/.../About-this-site | 4944 | 803 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/article/.../Sitemap | 1625 | 140 |
| www.ucu.org.uk/contacts | 2396 | 344 |
Server behaviour8.4
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- This website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on the URLs. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalise for.
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://ucu.org.uk to http://www.ucu.org.uk. This is ideal.
Images9.3
37% of images have a clearly defined size
15 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (63.0%) don't have defined sizes using width and height attributes in the HTML. These attributes are optional, but strongly recommended as they help the browser arrange the page more quickly.
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
Non Explicitly Sized Images
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
- 15 images are being stretched in the browser.
- The width and height you specify in an image tag should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use the CSS width and height properties.
Stretched Images
- The width and height you specify in an image tag should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use the CSS width and height properties.
Internal links9.9
- One link uses text that is too long. Links should describe what they link to briefly. Linking a long block of text usually indicates an attempt to trick search engines into ranking those keywords highly (a strategy which does not work). Long linked blocks of text are also harder for people to scan.
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
Overly long link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.ucu.org.uk/.../Halfons-resignation-another-nail-in-the-coffin-for-Sunak-says-UCU Halfon's resignation "another nail in the coffin" for Sunak, says UCU Responding to the resignation of the minister for skills, apprenticeships and higher education Robert Halfon MP, UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: www.ucu.org.uk/
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
- 2 links have no text describing their destination. Links on a page should describe their destination for the benefit of both screen readers and search engine spiders.
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Empty link text
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Google Tag Manager
- Every page in this website is using Google Tag Manager. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
Page titles10.0
100% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately. Page titles appear in search results and at the top of the browser's window when visiting the site. Appropriate page titles are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
Page titles
| Page title | Notes |
| UCU - Home | OK |
| UCU - Privacy & cookies | OK |
| UCU - About this site | OK |
| UCU - Sitemap | OK |
| UCU - Key UCU contacts | OK |
Headings10.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarise the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
Page headings detail
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
URL format10.0
Every URL is well written
- This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.
Freshness10.0
Last updated March 12, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2024. This is good because visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more often.
- To find this information we used the last modified dates reported by this website's server in addition to looking for dates written on each page.
All dates found
Twitteri
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- There was a problem checking the Twitter accounts associated with this website.
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