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Report for www.derby.ac.uk

Report Summary

This test was run at 5:49:57 pm on Sunday 29th August 2010

This test was run 5 days ago.

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Key points

  • The website is not W3C compliant (more)
  • All of this website uses Google Analytics v2 to monitor visitor behaviour (more)
  • All pages were found to use page titles appropriately (more)

Summary

8.2

Excellent

Overall

Summary score for this website.


8.6

Excellent

Accessibility

How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.

8.6

Excellent

Experience

How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.

6.5

Good

Marketing

How well marketed, and popular the website is.

7.0

Good

Technology

How well designed and built the website is.

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Test Detail

Very Bad

W3C compliance

  • A total of 119 errors and 21 warnings were found on the 5 pages tested.
  • No pages are W3C compliant. Because there are errors in the code, some web browsers may not be able to read this website correctly and it may not always display correctly.
  • This website was validated as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • The table below shows the first 100 errors only.

Recommendations

  • Resolve the validation errors that are listed in the table below. These errors are preventing this website from being fully W3C compliant.

W3C Validation Errors

DocumentTypeLineColumnMessage
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR89150end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR92133end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR126209end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR18918general entity "taosRs" not defined and no default entity
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR18924reference to entity "taosRs" for which no system identifier could be generated
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR19118general entity "taosRsargs" not defined and no default entity
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR19128reference to entity "taosRsargs" for which no system identifier could be generated
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR19840reference to entity "taosRsargs" for which no system identifier could be generated
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR20212general entity "taosRsCache" not defined and no default entity
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR20223reference to entity "taosRsCache" for which no system identifier could be generated
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR371226there is no attribute "AUTOCOMPLETE"
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR3745end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR374302end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR65332character ";" not allowed in attribute specification list
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR65332element "list_of_divs.length" undefined
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6839end tag for "list_of_divs.length" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6936end tag for element "div" which is not open
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR9511XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 92 and form
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR979XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 89 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR998XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: form line 79 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR126> 80XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 126 and a
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR126> 80XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 126 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR1679XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR16710XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR18923XML Parsing Error: EntityRef: expecting ';'
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR19017XML Parsing Error: StartTag: invalid element name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR19127XML Parsing Error: EntityRef: expecting ';'
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR19717XML Parsing Error: StartTag: invalid element name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR19839XML Parsing Error: EntityRef: expecting ';'
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR20222XML Parsing Error: EntityRef: expecting ';'
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR3777XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 374 and form
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR38610XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 374 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR4219XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: form line 366 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR642> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR642> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR65331XML Parsing Error: error parsing attribute name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR65331XML Parsing Error: attributes construct error
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR65331XML Parsing Error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag list_of_divs.length line 653
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6947XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 53 and body
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6957XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 53 and html
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6957XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag div line 51
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6957XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag div line 47
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6957XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag body line 46
http://www.derby.ac.uk/ERROR6957XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag html line 3
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR78150end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR81133end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR18347there is no attribute "tw:count"
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR18367there is no attribute "tw:via"
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR18389there is no attribute "tw:related"
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR257128end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR39932character ";" not allowed in attribute specification list
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR39932element "list_of_divs.length" undefined
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR4299end tag for "list_of_divs.length" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR8411XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 81 and form
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR869XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 78 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR888XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: form line 68 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR258> 80XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 257 and p
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR258> 80XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: p line 257 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR388> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR388> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR39931XML Parsing Error: error parsing attribute name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR39931XML Parsing Error: attributes construct error
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR39931XML Parsing Error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag list_of_divs.length line 399
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR4337XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 42 and body
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR4347XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 40 and html
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR4347XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag div line 36
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR4347XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag body line 35
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsERROR4347XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag html line 3
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR80150end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR83133end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR38832character ";" not allowed in attribute specification list
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR38832element "list_of_divs.length" undefined
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR4189end tag for "list_of_divs.length" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR8611XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 83 and form
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR889XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 80 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR908XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: form line 70 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR377> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR377> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR38831XML Parsing Error: error parsing attribute name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR38831XML Parsing Error: attributes construct error
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR38831XML Parsing Error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag list_of_divs.length line 388
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR4227XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 42 and body
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR4237XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 38 and html
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR4237XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag body line 37
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineERROR4237XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag html line 3
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR78150end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR81133end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR42632character ";" not allowed in attribute specification list
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR42632element "list_of_divs.length" undefined
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR4569end tag for "list_of_divs.length" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR8411XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 81 and form
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR869XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 78 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR888XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: form line 68 and div
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR415> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR415> 80XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR42631XML Parsing Error: error parsing attribute name
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR42631XML Parsing Error: attributes construct error
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR42631XML Parsing Error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag list_of_divs.length line 426
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateERROR4607XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 40 and body

W3C Testing Results

PageErrorsWarningsDoctypeValid
http://www.derby.ac.uk/4413XHTML 1.0 TransitionalInvalid
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-students242XHTML 1.0 TransitionalInvalid
http://www.derby.ac.uk/online172XHTML 1.0 TransitionalInvalid
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduate172XHTML 1.0 TransitionalInvalid
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-life172XHTML 1.0 TransitionalInvalid

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Very Bad

Social media

Twitter Logo
Delicious Logo

20 Delicious bookmarks

Digg Logo

0 Digged pages

Public Opinion

A chart showing 35% of tweets relating to this website are good and 6% are bad

35% Happy

60% Neutral

6% Sad

  • We found 542 Tweets about this website on Twitter.
  • 34.5% of Tweets about this website were positive and 5.5% were negative. The remainder were neutral.
  • Generally, people's comments about this website are indifferent.
  • There are 0 articles on Digg relating to this website.
  • This website has been bookmarked 20 times on Delicious.

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Bad

Popularity

94,997th Most popular website in the world

This website recently saw a slight decrease in popularity.

  • This is the 94,997th most popular website in the world. Over the past 3 months, it has experienced a slight decrease in popularity.

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Meta tags

Your Search Listing

This is how this website will look in Google search listings:

University of Derby - Midlands University, Campus & Distance learning, Professional Development

Welcome to the University of Derby, an East Midlands university based in the UK offering a variety of undergraduate, postgraduate and part time university courses. Search our University course list.

www.derby.ac.uk/

  • All pages include at least some metadata, but only 60.0% of pages have a description meta tag. Including meta data is important as search engines use it to determine the content of a website's pages. The description meta data is what appears in the website's Google search result.

Recommendations

  • Make sure that all the website's pages include a meta description as a minimum.

Meta Tags (name attribute)

Page URLNameContent
http://www.derby.ac.uk/google-site-verificationUAjeQWIv1j7WXkQZyK8FFdr574wHMJdiPVTRhiOBke0
http://www.derby.ac.uk/keywordsmidlands university, university in Great Britain, university in UK, university course list, college degree, universities, online degree, courses, degrees, international students, university of Derby, Derby, masters degrees, masters, part time, postgraduate.
http://www.derby.ac.uk/descriptionWelcome to the University of Derby, an East Midlands university based in the UK offering a variety of undergraduate, postgraduate and part time university courses. Search our University course list.
http://www.derby.ac.uk/author
http://www.derby.ac.uk/robotsall
http://www.derby.ac.uk/last-modifiedFri, 27 Aug 2010 16:48:24 GMT
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsauthor
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsrobotsall
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentslast-modifiedFri, 27 Aug 2010 16:36:38 GMT
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlinekeywordsa degree from online, distance learning degree, distance learning course, distance learning courses, a degree online, course from home, studies online, online bachelor degree, online degree program, master degree online, online accredited degree programme, psychology degree online
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlinedescriptionStudy an online degree and choose when and where you want to carry out your distance learning. Choose from online diplomas and foundation degrees to MBAs.
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineauthor
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlinerobotsall
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlinelast-modifiedMon, 21 Jun 2010 07:27:16 GMT
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateauthor
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduaterobotsall
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduatelast-modifiedMon, 16 Aug 2010 08:09:51 GMT
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-lifekeywordssocial life
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-lifedescriptionMore about student life at Derby University, including videos and photos.
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-lifeauthor
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-liferobotsall
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-lifelast-modifiedSun, 07 Feb 2010 14:08:35 GMT

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Good

Visual Interest

  • 1 pages on this website have a low text-to-image ratio.
  • On average there are 6.4 unique images per page.
  • 20.0% of pages do not contain a single unique image.

Recommendations

  • Add more images to the text heavy pages of this website. Images can help break up content heavy pages of your website.

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Good

Trustworthiness

This website scores 90% for Trustworthiness

Trustworthiness excellent

This website scores 88% for Vendor Reliability

Vendor reliability excellent

This website scores 79% for Privacy

Privacy good

This website scores 91% for Child Safety

Child safety excellent

This information may not be reliable, as very few people have submitted testimonies on this website.

See more on this website's WOT Scorecard

  • Users of the Web of Trust submit reviews about websites they visit. These reviews are then used to warn other users of malicous, untrustworthy and adult websites.
  • This website is rated excellent for Trustworthiness.
  • This website is rated excellent for Vendor Reliability.
  • This website is rated good for Privacy.
  • This website is rated excellent for Child Safety.
  • The information WOT holds on this website may not be reliable, as very few people have submitted testimonies on this website yet.

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Good

Analytics

  • Every page in this website is using Google Analytics v2. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.

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Good

Alternative text

  • All images were found to have an appropriate text equivalent. This will help users with visual disabilities use the website and aid legal compliance in many countries.

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Good

Inoffensive content

  • None of the pages tested will be blocked by filtering systems.
  • Filtering systems are used in homes, schools and companies to stop inappropriate content being displayed.

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Good

Titles

  • All pages were found to use page titles appropriately.

Page Titles Tag Cloud

- and campus courses degrees derby development distance learning life midlands new online professional student students study tips undergraduate university

Page title detail

URLPage titleIssue
http://www.derby.ac.uk/University of Derby - Midlands University, Campus & Distance learning, Professional Development
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsTips for new students - University of Derby
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineOnline study: online degrees and distance learning courses - University of Derby
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateUndergraduate courses - University of Derby
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-lifeStudent life - University of Derby

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Headings

  • 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.

Page Headings Tag Cloud

- 30 and around busy buxton campuses choose convenient course courses degrees derby development distance do doesn't don't find flexible forget have home latest learning life mean midlands most new news online order own popular print professional prospectus save september share starting student students study time tips two undergraduate university we what's working you you'll you're your

Page headings detail

URLHeadingLevel
http://www.derby.ac.uk/Distance learning - Courses from home - online degrees - professional developmentH1
http://www.derby.ac.uk/We have two campuses in the midlands: in Buxton and DerbyH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/Starting in SeptemberH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/Starting your course this September?H2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/Latest newsH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/What's onH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/Most popularH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsTips for new studentsH1
http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-studentsPrint, save or shareH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineOnline study: online degrees and distance learning coursesH1
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineOnline study and online degrees - flexible and convenientH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineYou're working, you're busy, how do you find time to study?H2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineA distance learning course doesn't mean you'll be on your ownH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/onlineChoose from around 30 online coursesH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateUndergraduate coursesH1
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateUndergraduate courses at the University of DerbyH2
http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduateDon't forget to order your undergraduate prospectusH3
http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-lifeStudent lifeH1

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Images

  • All images have defined sizes.

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Printability

  • All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).

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Good

Feeds

RSS Logo

All feeds are valid

This website's feed is updated 7 times every week

  • 2 feeds were found on the 5 pages tested. This is good as it allows search engines and visitors to follow updates to this website.
  • All of the 2 feeds tested were found to be valid. This is excellent.
  • All of the feeds tested have been updated in the last month. This is excellent as regular updates to feeds keep subscribers interested in this website.
  • Your syndicated content is updated about 7 times every week.

Feeds on this website

Feed URLTypeValidItemsLast UpdateFound on
http://www.derby.ac.uk/university-of-derby-upcoming-events-and-conferences.xmlRSSYes327/08/10http://www.derby.ac.uk/
http://www.derby.ac.uk/university-of-derby-latest-news.xmlRSSYes1027/08/10http://www.derby.ac.uk/, http://www.derby.ac.uk/, http://www.derby.ac.uk/video/student-life-in-derby/tips-for-new-students, http://www.derby.ac.uk/online, http://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduate, http://www.derby.ac.uk/student-life

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Good

URL format

  • This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.

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Layout

  • None of the tested pages of this site use tables for layout. This is excellent, as using tables for layout is not necessary and they should only contain tabular data. A well built website should use div elements and CSS to create the desired layout.

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Website age

  • The technical age of your website is 2006. This is not the true age of your site, but how old it seems based on the technology behind it.
  • This test does not contribute to the overall score of your website.

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