Website Review: timeshighereducation.com
Generated on October 08 2026 03:45 AM
The score is 73/100
SEO Content
Title
Times Higher Education home | Times Higher Education (THE)
Length : 58
Great, your title tag's length is between 40 and 70 characters. Title tag length between 50 and 70 characters is optimal for SEO.
Description
Provides global higher education coverage. Find world university rankings, news, opinions, features and book reviews.
Length : 117
Great, your meta description tag's length is between 90 and 160 characters. A description tag of 155 to 160 characters is optimal.
Keywords
Not good (but low priority). We haven't found a meta keywords tag on your page. You can add a meta keywords tag to the page's <head>.
Og Meta Properties
Good, your page takes advantage of Open Graph Properties. Open Graph properties can help with indexing.
| Property | Content |
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| site_name | Times Higher Education (THE) |
| type | article |
| url | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/ |
| title | Home |
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 1 | 2 | 14 | 21 | 4 | 0 |
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- [H2] Company
- [H2] Legal
- [H3] University of Colorado Denver to open branch campus in India
- [H3] Labour unprepared for universities going bust, says Tory peer
- [H3] Procrastination ‘biggest issue’ harming students’ performance
- [H3] Disadvantaged ‘gain more from degrees’ than better-off peers
- [H3] Best universities in Italy 2027
- [H3] Best universities in France 2027
- [H3] Best universities in Japan 2027
- [H3] Best universities in Turkey 2027
- [H3] Why a laboratory is more than a room full of equipment
- [H3] Advice on launching co-created humanities modules
- [H3] The Sisyphus trap: surviving plummeting funding success rates
- [H3] Campus Talks: Why universities need to start taking microaggressions seriously
- [H3] ‘Great teaching does not mean more work. It means better choices’
- [H3] Five design principles for meaningful online global learning
- [H4] World University Rankings 2027
- [H4] News
- [H4] Rankings
- [H4] Campus
- [H4] Events
- [H4] Students
- [H4] Jobs
- [H4] Data
- [H4] Solutions
- [H4] Our Partners
- [H4] Inside Higher Ed
- [H4] BMI Global Ed
- [H4] dataHE
- [H4] Poets&Quants
- [H4] Education World Forum
- [H4] Latest news
- [H4] Latest rankings
- [H4] Study abroad
- [H4] Latest jobs
- [H4] Looking for the next step in your career?
- [H4] Latest resources
- [H5] Subscribe: your source of the latest news and analysis from across academia. Subscribe today to enjoy full, unrestricted digital access to Times Higher Education content
- [H5] Our solutions: we can become an extension of your team and advise practical strategies for optimisation and advancement.
- [H5] Participate in THE’s Impact Ratings 2026: Take part by subscribing to THE’s Sustainability Impact Network
- [H5] Rankings membership: enhance rankings participation with exclusive access to branding assets, training workshops and a network of experts.
Images
We found 47 images on this web page.
6 image alt attributes were missing. Please add alt text to all images to help search engines better understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 2%
This page's ratio of text to HTML code is below 20 percent, this means that your website probably needs more text content in order to do well in search engines. Note: This may also result from a false reading due to your server blocking external scripts from accessing the home page.
Iframe
Awesome, there are no Iframes found on this page.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Good. Your links look SEO friendly and are easy to crawl!
Underscores in the URLs
Great! No underscores found in your URLs.
In-page links
We found a total of 71 links including 0 link(s) to files
| Anchor | Type | Juice |
|---|---|---|
| Home | Internal | Passing Juice |
| News | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Rankings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Jobs | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Students | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Events | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Campus | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Solutions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Search | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Latest | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Opinion | Internal | Passing Juice |
| In-depth | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Newsletters | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Podcasts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| World University Rankings 2027 | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Rankings by subject | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Sustainability Impact Ratings 2026 | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Interdisciplinary Science Rankings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Arab Rankings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Asia Rankings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Latin America University Rankings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| News | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About THE rankings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Find a job | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Jobs alerts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Careers advice | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Post a job | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Best universities | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Business education | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Events/ festivals | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Counsellor resources | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Upcoming events | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Partner with us | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Awards | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Key topics in HE | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Spotlight guides | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Career advice | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Podcasts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| University partners | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Green skills | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Data and insights | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Consultancy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Hiring solutions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Advertising | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Institutional subscriptions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Student recruitment | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Campus+ | Internal | Passing Juice |
| See all | Internal | Passing Juice |
| News | Internal | Passing Juice |
| - | Internal | Passing Juice |
| See all | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Research management | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Teaching and learning | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Early career research | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Equity, diversity and inclusion | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Digital transformation | Internal | Passing Juice |
| FAQs | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Subscribe | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Contact us | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About us | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Media Centre | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Work for THE | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Write for THE | Internal | Passing Juice |
| THE Connect | Internal | Passing Juice |
| University Directory | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Terms & conditions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Privacy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Cookie policy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Modern slavery statement | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Accessibility statement | Internal | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
Keywords Consistency
| Keyword | Content | Title | Keywords | Description | Headings |
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| rankings | 23 |  |
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| education | 15 | |
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| university | 14 | |
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| higher | 14 | |
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| news | 13 | |
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Usability
Url
Domain : timeshighereducation.com
Length : 24
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Great. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
Email Privacy
Great no email address was found in plain text!
Deprecated HTML
Great! We haven't found deprecated HTML tags in your HTML.
Speed Tips
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Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal. |
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Great, your website has few CSS files. |
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This website has an excessive amount of Javascript files (more than 6). |
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Awesome, your website takes advantage of GZIP compression for SEO optimization. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Apple Icon |
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Meta Viewport Tag |
Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
| https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sitemap.xml |
| https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sitemap-types-node-ranking_dataset.xml |
| https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/sitemapindex.xml |
| https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/sitemap.xml |
| https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/sitemap.xml |
| https://www.timeshighereducation.com/googlenews.xml |
| https://www.timeshighereducation.com/sitemaps/index/sitemap.xml |
Robots.txt
http://timeshighereducation.com/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Great, your website uses an analytics script.
Google Analytics |
AI Search Readiness
AI Crawlers
AI search crawlers are allowed, so the site can be shown and cited in AI answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity).
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OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search | AI search |
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ChatGPT-User | ChatGPT (user requests) | AI search |
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Claude-SearchBot | Claude search | AI search |
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Claude-User | Claude (user requests) | AI search |
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PerplexityBot | Perplexity | AI search |
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GPTBot | OpenAI training | AI training |
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ClaudeBot | Anthropic training | AI training |
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Google-Extended | Google Gemini training | AI training |
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Applebot-Extended | Apple AI training | AI training |
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CCBot | Common Crawl | AI training |
Blocking AI training crawlers is a common choice and doesn't affect the score. Only the AI search crawlers count.
Structured Data
The homepage describes itself with schema.org structured data, which helps search engines and AI tools understand it: WebSite, Organization, ImageObject
Canonical Tag
The homepage has a canonical tag, which tells search engines which URL is the main version of the page.
llms.txt
No llms.txt file. It's an emerging convention: a short Markdown summary of the site for AI tools. Optional, so it doesn't affect the score.
Security
HTTPS
The site loads over HTTPS, so connections are encrypted. Browsers and search engines expect this.
HSTS
No Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) header. It tells browsers to always use HTTPS, which protects visitors from being downgraded to an insecure connection.
Security Headers
0 of 5 common security headers found. At least 2 are needed to pass.
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Domain Info
timeshighereducation.com was registered on 10 Oct 2006 with CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. and expires on 10 Oct 2027. It accepts email and has both SPF and DMARC records. The Wayback Machine first archived it in February 2011.
Registration
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. |
| Registered | 10 Oct 2006 (19 years ago) |
| Expires | 10 Oct 2027 |
| Last changed | 6 Oct 2026 |
| Nameservers | ns-1349.awsdns-40.org, ns-1697.awsdns-20.co.uk, ns-196.awsdns-24.com, ns-707.awsdns-24.net |
| DNSSEC | Not signed |
Hosting
| IPv4 address | 108.132.183.228, 52.31.68.153, 52.51.213.48 |
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IPv6 support |
Email Security
Mail servers: eu-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com, eu-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
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SPF record |
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DMARC record (policy: quarantine) |
Archive History
The Wayback Machine has snapshots of this site from 136 different months, from February 2011 to October 2026. View snapshots
PageSpeed Insights
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