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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/news/
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/business
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
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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.
Good
Technology
How well designed and built the website is.
This website is ranked #6 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.
Social media
1,539 Tweets reference this website
115 Delicious bookmarks
28 Digged pages
Public Opinion
29% Happy
61% Neutral
11% Sad
- We found 1,539 Tweets about this website on Twitter.
- 28.5% of Tweets about this website were positive and 10.5% were negative. The remainder were neutral.
- Generally, people's comments about this website are indifferent.
- There are 28 articles on Digg relating to this website.
- This website has been bookmarked 115 times on Delicious.
Most Digged Pages
| Page URL | Digg Page | Diggs | Status | Category |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2008/august/cell-techonology | http://digg.com/d3YMTz | 101 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
| http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/ringtone.html | http://digg.com/d3jvs | 38 | upcoming | news in Technology / Tech Industry News |
| http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/ringtone.html | http://digg.com/d3523j | 25 | upcoming | news in Technology / Software |
| http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/show_map.pl?mode=full_extent&layer=plates&layer=background&layer=newquakes&x=17&y=11 | http://digg.com/d3Owh | 17 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/050829nano.html | http://digg.com/d3L28 | 13 | upcoming | news in Science / General Sciences |
Images
- Most images (68.0%) don't have defined sizes.
Non Explicitly Sized Images
W3C compliance
- A total of 9 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/home | ERROR | 248 | 195 | end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | ERROR | 248 | 81 | Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 248 and a |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | ERROR | 253 | 6 | Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 248 and div |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | ERROR | 366 | 7 | Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 128 and body |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | ERROR | 367 | 7 | Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 120 and html |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/home | ERROR | 367 | 7 | Premature end of data in tag html line 4 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | ERROR | 220 | 80 | xmlParseEntityRef: no name |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | ERROR | 220 | 80 | xmlParseEntityRef: no name |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | ERROR | 220 | 80 | xmlParseEntityRef: no name |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/research | 3 | 3 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Invalid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | 0 | 0 | XHTML 1.0 Strict | Valid |
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
60m absolute accessibility alumni and assessment audio backs bedlam boss bulletin business commercialisation computer conferences consultancy courses current departments development discount donors enquiries events exchange exercise graduate incubation industry international jobs latest library links mature media menu national new news phd postgraduate professional profiles prospectus quick recruitment redevelopment research s scheme scholarship sfa short skip staff student students studying support survey thumbs training undergraduate units university up video visiting voice what's
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
Popularity
8,717th Most popular website in the world
This website recently saw a slight increase in popularity.
- This is the 8,717th most popular website in the world. Over the past 3 months, it has experienced a slight increase in popularity.
Incoming links
5,040pages link to this website
298pages link to this website
- About 5,338 other pages were found linking to this website (5,040 links from Google, out of 5,338). The website is reasonably well linked to, although there is room for improvement.
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.
Links
- Some (0.9%) of links in this site could be defined better.
- 2 links are missing link descriptive text.
Recommendations
- Links should describe what they link to for the benefit of both screenreader software and search engine spiders. It is possible that you have applied a link to an image and are relying on the user having a visual browser.
- Note that it is possible to change the text a link points to without changing the appearance of the link. For example, 'Read more' could be a valid link, if you add a description into the 'title' attribute to the tag.
Visual Interest
- On average there are 7.4 unique images per page.
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/news/ | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | Unfiltered | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | Unfiltered |
Titles
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately.
Page Titles Tag Cloud
and business edinburgh events home industry news research studying university
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/news/ | News and events home | News and events | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | Business home | Business and industry | |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | Studying at Edinburgh | Studying at Edinburgh |
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 | 2010-03-05 |
| 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/news/ | description | The University of Edinburgh news and events |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | keywords | news,events,calendar,press,media,PR |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | author | Steven Ross |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | copyright | Copyright (c) The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | date | 2010-03-12 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | uepagerank | 0 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | robots | noodp,noydir |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/ | mssmarttagspreventparsing | true |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | description | Business and industry links at the University including research commercialisation, business incubation, recruitment and consultancy |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | keywords | business, industry, incubation, commercialisation, recruitment, accommodation, technopole, science, park, conferences, accommodation |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | publisher | The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | author | Ailsa Vamplew |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | copyright | Copyright (c) The University of Edinburgh |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | date | 2008-03-25 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | uepagerank | 0 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | robots | noodp,noydir |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | 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 | 2009-11-04 |
| 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 |
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/news/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/business | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
Printability
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
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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