Website report

Screenshot of www.manchester.ac.uk
6.9
13,147th highest website

Report

Overview

Accessibility8.0

How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.

Experience5.9

How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.

Marketing3.2

How well marketed, and popular the website is.

Technology5.9

How well designed and built the website is.

Key points

  • No pages appear to link to this website, making it extremely hard to find (more)
  • All pages use tables for layout (more)
  • The website is not fully W3C compliant (more)

Facebook page0.0

Help

Facebook logo

This website does not appear to be associated with a Facebook page.

  • This website did not contain a link to Facebook.

Semantic HTML0.0

Help

  • All of the tested pages appear to use semantic HTML. It is widely regarded that use of presentational elements like <font> and <marquee> should be avoided in favour of CSS and JavaScript alternatives.
  • All of the tested pages of this site appear to use tables for layout. This is very bad, as using tables for layout is not necessary and they should only contain tabular data.

Popularity0.0

Help

  • This website has not yet been ranked by Alexa.

Meta tags2.0

Help

  • All pages include at least some metadata, but no 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.

Meta Tags (name attribute)

Page URLNameContent
www.manchester.ac.uk/google-site-verificationmXE4vnhUI4f3BpCWtUdb7j4iZyfCKB_NygLfPUTSd1M

Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)

Page URLNameContent
www.manchester.ac.uk/Content-Typetext/html;charset=iso-8859-1
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../bysubjectContent-Typetext/html;charset=iso-8859-1
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../prospectusContent-Typetext/html;charset=iso-8859-1
www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/newsContent-Typetext/html;charset=iso-8859-1
www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/prospectusContent-Typetext/html;charset=iso-8859-1

Facebook sharing3.9

Help

The pages of this website have
214Facebook logo likes

The pages of this website have been shared on Facebook
862 times

  • The 5 pages tested have been liked and shared on Facebook a total of 1,076 times.
  • The shared pages have been commented on a total of 388 times.

URL Information

W3C compliance4.0

Help

  • A total of 8 errors and 2 warnings were found on the 5 pages tested.
  • The majority (60.0%) 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 is XHTML 1.0 Strict

W3C Validation Errors

DocumentTypeLineColumnMessage
www.manchester.ac.uk/ERROR80413there is no attribute "src"
www.manchester.ac.uk/ERROR804110there is no attribute "width"
www.manchester.ac.uk/ERROR804121there is no attribute "height"
www.manchester.ac.uk/ERROR804137there is no attribute "frameborder"
www.manchester.ac.uk/ERROR804147there is no attribute "style"
www.manchester.ac.uk/ERROR804163element "iframe" undefined
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../prospectusERROR16493there is no attribute "target"
www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/prospectusERROR19163there is no attribute "target"
www.manchester.ac.uk/WARNINGCharacter Encoding mismatch!
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../bysubjectWARNINGCharacter Encoding mismatch!

W3C Testing Results

PageErrorsWarningsDoctypeValid
www.manchester.ac.uk/61XHTML 1.0 StrictInvalid
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../bysubject01XHTML 1.0 StrictValid
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../prospectus10XHTML 1.0 StrictInvalid
www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news00XHTML 1.0 StrictValid
www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/prospectus10XHTML 1.0 StrictInvalid

Visual Interest4.1

Help

  • 4 pages on this website have a low text-to-image ratio.
  • On average there are 2.2 unique images per page.
  • 40.0% of pages do not contain a single unique image.

Boring webpages

Social media5.7

Help

Twitter Logo
Delicious Logo

66 Delicious bookmarks

Digg Logo

0 Digged pages

Public Opinion

A chart showing 31% of tweets relating to this website are good and 9% are bad

31% Happy

60% Neutral

9% Sad

  • We found 1,102 Tweets about this website on Twitter.
  • 31.1% of Tweets about this website were positive and 8.5% 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 66 times on Delicious.

Images6.5

Help

  • Most images (59.0%) don't have defined sizes.

Non Explicitly Sized Images

Printability8.0

Help

  • The majority 80.0% of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).

URL format8.8

Help

  • A significant proportion (20.0%) of web addresses (URLs) are less than ideal.
  • One URL is particularly hard to type or remember.
  • One URL is too long.

Links9.0

Help

  • Some (3.0%) of links in this site could be defined better.
  • 9 links use duplicate text to point to different pages.

Duplicate link text

Analytics10.0

Help

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

Alternative text10.0

Help

  • 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 content10.0

Help

  • 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

Titles10.0

Help

  • All pages were found to use page titles appropriately.

Page title detail

URLPage titleIssue
www.manchester.ac.uk/The University of Manchester
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../bysubjectSubject areas (The University of Manchester)
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../prospectusOrder a prospectus (The University of Manchester)
www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/newsNews (The University of Manchester)
www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/prospectusOrder a prospectus (The University of Manchester)

Headings10.0

Help

  • 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 detail

URLHeadingLevel
www.manchester.ac.uk/The University of ManchesterH1
www.manchester.ac.uk/£50m boost for graphene researchH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/Welcome weekH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/NewsH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/Download a prospectusH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/CoursesH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/Quick linksH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/Undergraduate open dayH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/Undergraduate coursesH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/What's onH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../bysubjectSubject areas and related research programmes for 2011 entryH1
www.manchester.ac.uk/.../prospectusOrder a prospectusH1
www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/newsNewsH1
www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/newsUniversity newsH2
www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/prospectusOrder a prospectusH1

Feeds10.0

Help

RSS Logo

All feeds are valid

This website's feed is updated once a day

  • One feed was found on the 5 pages tested. This is good as it allows search engines and visitors to follow updates to this website.
  • The one feed found is 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 roughly once every day.

Feeds on this website

Feed URLTypeValidItemsLast UpdateFound on
www.manchester.ac.uk/rss/RSSYes3003/10/11http://www.manchester.ac.uk/

Duplicate content10.0

Help

  • This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://manchester.ac.uk to http://www.manchester.ac.uk. This is ideal.

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