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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
93
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
0
PASS
6
INFO
1

Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data

Checks
7
6 PASS
A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Info::
Canonical target returns 200
Info::
Canonical points to a different domain
Canonical URL Configured
Page URL https://surrey.ac.uk Canonical https://www.surrey.ac.uk/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A
Meta Tags
Title: 20 chars
PASS
Title: 20 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: University of Surrey
Warning::
Title is only 20 characters — consider expanding
Info::
Title and H1 are identical
Consider differentiating — the title is for search results, the H1 is for the page.
Title

"University of Surrey"

20 characters Too short
Title: University of Surrey
H1: University of Surrey
Match: Similar ✓
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)

Consider differentiating — the title is for search results, the H1 is for the page.

Why this matters

Title and H1 match exactly — internally consistent but misses an opportunity to optimize each for its audience (Title for SERP CTR, H1 for on-page).

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Title and H1 don't have to be identical — and often shouldn't be. The Title competes for SERP click-through (lead with keyword + value prop), while the H1 confirms to the visitor they're on the right page (more conversational is fine). Differentiating gains both surfaces.

Source: Google Search Central / on-page SEO

A
Content Depth
1019 words, Very Difficult
PASS
1019 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 1019 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 4%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 19)
1019 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 19

Text-to-HTML Ratio

4% text 96% HTML

7 KB / 164 KB

Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.

Why this matters

Informational: ratio of visible text bytes to total HTML bytes. Very low ratios suggest excessive markup overhead.

A+
Image SEO
15 images, 12 descriptive filenames
PASS
15 images, 12 descriptive filenames
Info::
3 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
12 descriptive
0 hash-based
3 generic
15 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
.generic✓1
.generic✓1
.generic✓1

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

A+
Schema Markup Audit
Per-type completeness vs Schema.org requirements + rich-result eligibility
PASS

No structured data detected

Without JSON-LD or microdata, this page can't qualify for any of Google's rich result formats. Even basic Organization or WebSite schema is a quick win.

Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
INFO
0 hreflang tags

No hreflang tags detected.

Hreflang tags are only needed for multilingual or multi-regional sites.

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