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Report for www.ed.ac.uk
Report Summary
Nibbler tested the following pages
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/home
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/research
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/about
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions
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Summary
Excellent
Overall
Summary score for this website.
Excellent
Accessibility
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
Excellent
Experience
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
Good
Marketing
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
Excellent
Technology
How well designed and built the website is.
This website is ranked #100 in Nibbler's top websites!
Test Detail
Feeds
This website has no feed
- No feeds were found on the 5 pages tested. This is bad as search engines and visitors use feeds to follow updates to websites.
Recommendations
- Consider adding an RSS or ATOM feed to this website. If there already is a feed, ensure that it is linked to correctly in the head of the document.
Incoming links
0pages link to this website (as of 2nd Sep) See this on Google*
230,152pages link to this website (as of 2nd Sep) See this on Yahoo*
- About 230,152 other pages were found linking to this website (0 links from Google, out of 230,152).
*The results here were correct at the time of running this report. The live results on Google & Yahoo may have changed.
Social media
117 Delicious bookmarks
0 Digged pages
Public Opinion
27% Happy
65% Neutral
8% Sad
- We found 2,486 Tweets about this website on Twitter.
- 27.3% of Tweets about this website were positive and 8.1% 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 117 times on Delicious.
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.
- Some pages did not define headings correctly. The H1 tag should be used for the most top-level heading, with H2 being used for sub-headings and H3 for further sub-headings and so-on. Not conforming to this convention may confuse visitors.
Page Headings Tag Cloud
access accessibility alumni and annual assessment audio business campus changes city conditions copyright courses day days departments development disclaimer donors doors edinburgh enquiries enterprising events exchange exercise festival fever galleries gce global governance industry international jobs jurisdiction level liability links maps material mature menu museums new news open partnerships people phd policy postgraduate privacy professional profiles prospectus publishing quick research results returning review scheme scholarship schools short site skip spirit students studying support terms through undergraduate units university uploading use video visiting website
Recommendations
- Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content.
Page headings detail
W3C compliance
- A total of 10 errors and 3 warnings were found on the 5 pages tested.
- A large proportion (40.0%) of pages are not 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 Strict
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
| Document | Type | Line | Column | Message |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | ERROR | 220 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | ERROR | 220 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | ERROR | 220 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | ERROR | 184 | 308 | end tag for element "dl" which is not open |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | ERROR | 200 | 303 | end tag for element "dl" which is not open |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | ERROR | 220 | 858 | end tag for element "dl" which is not open |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | ERROR | 184 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 153 and dl |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | ERROR | 200 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 74 and dl |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | ERROR | 220 | > 80 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 67 and dl |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | ERROR | 259 | 8 | XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: html line 12 and div |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | WARNING | 220 | 81 | character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | WARNING | 220 | 197 | character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | WARNING | 220 | 352 | character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data |
W3C Testing Results
| Page | Errors | Warnings | Doctype | Valid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | 3 | 3 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | 7 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
Popularity
9,561st Most popular website in the world
This website recently saw no mentionable change in popularity.
- This is the 9,561st most popular website in the world. Over the past 3 months, it has experienced no mentionable change in popularity.
Printability
- The majority 80.0% of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Recommendations
- Add printable stylesheets for all pages, wherever possible. In most cases, websites can share printable stylesheets over many or all pages, as with screen-based stylesheets.
Visual Interest
- 1 pages on this website have a low text-to-image ratio.
- On average there are 6.8 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.
Boring webpages
| Page | Image:Text Ratio | Unique Images |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | Low | None |
Images
- Some images (21.0%) don't have defined sizes.
Non Explicitly Sized Images
Trustworthiness
Trustworthiness excellent
Vendor reliability excellent
Privacy excellent
Child safety excellent
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 excellent for Privacy.
- This website is rated excellent for Child Safety.
- The information WOT holds on this website is likely to be reliable, as many people have submitted testimonies on this website.
Analytics
- Every page in this website is using Google Analytics v2. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
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.
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.
Filtering Results
| Page URL | Status | Filter Reason |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | Unfiltered |
Titles
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately.
Page Titles Tag Cloud
and conditions edinburgh home research studying terms university use website
Page title detail
| URL | Page title | Issue |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | The University of Edinburgh | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | Research at Edinburgh | Research | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | Home | About the University | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | Studying at Edinburgh | Studying at Edinburgh | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | Website terms and conditions of use | About the University |
Links
- Every link tested appears to be well defined.
- Links contain appropriate descriptive text and don't link repeatedly to separate locations with identical text.
Meta tags
Your Search Listing
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, promoting excellence in teaching and research. Over 600 degree courses. One of the UK's top rated research universities. Located in Scotland's capital city, one of the liveliest and most beautiful cities in Northern Europe.
www.ed.ac.uk/home
- Appropriate metadata is used throughout. All pages were found to include a meta description. This is excellent and means that search engines can determine the content of the website pages easily.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | description | The University of Edinburgh, promoting excellence in teaching and research. Over 600 degree courses. One of the UK's top rated research universities. Located in Scotland's capital city, one of the liveliest and most beautiful cities in Northern Europe. |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | keywords | edinburgh,university,degree,study,studying,research,scotland,uk,course,college,alumni,graduate,postgraduate,PhD,masters,master,grad,post,program,school,undergrad,edinburg,abroad,international,student,ucas,edinboro,britain,england,british |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | author | Steven Ross |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | copyright | Copyright (c) The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | mssmarttagspreventparsing | true |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | verify-v1 | TKRQzzRdQ7f4GD1MzxXBJ5GhA3Dg+YkJ6L2oyfyB21c= |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | description | Research at the University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | keywords | research, postgraduate, jobs, business, industry, commercialisation |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | author | Ailsa Vamplew |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | copyright | Copyright (c) The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | date | 2010-06-28 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | uepagerank | 0 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | robots | noodp,noydir |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | mssmarttagspreventparsing | true |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | description | About the University - schools and departments, campus maps, mission and governance and the city of Edinburgh. |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | keywords | about, schools, departments, campus, maps, people, mission, governance |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | author | Ailsa Vamplew |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | copyright | Copyright (c) The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | date | 2010-03-22 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | uepagerank | 0 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | robots | noodp,noydir |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | mssmarttagspreventparsing | true |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | description | Studying at Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | keywords | studying, edinburgh, postgraduate, undergraduate, visiting, access, courses, short, international, prospectus, distance, part, time, part-time |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | author | Steven Ross |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | copyright | Copyright (c) The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | date | 2010-08-25 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | uepagerank | 0 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | robots | noodp,noydir |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | mssmarttagspreventparsing | true |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | description | Details of the terms and conditions relating to the University of Edinburgh website. |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | keywords | terms, conditions, disclaimer,copyright |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | author | Bryan Martin |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | copyright | Copyright (c) The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | date | 2008-04-21 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | uepagerank | 0 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | robots | noodp,noydir |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | mssmarttagspreventparsing | true |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website-terms-conditions | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
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.
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.
Website age
- The technical age of your website is 1989. 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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