ed.ac.uk

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ed.ac.uk is ranked #3,098 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 43 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses Drupal and Google Tag Manager. It is served through cdnjs, Fastly and Pantheon by Nginx.

Global rank

#3,098

▲ 22 this week

Domain age

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Registration date unavailable

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

93/100

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Popularity rank

#3,098 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #3,062.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

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Domain registration

Registration data was not available from the registry.

Technology stack

CMS & site builders

Analytics

CDN

Hosting

Web servers

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

93/100

https://www.ed.ac.uk/

The University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh, influencing the world since 1583. We are one of the UK's top-rated research universities. Located in Scotland's capital city, one of the liveliest and most beautiful cities in the world.

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Content

✓Title27 characters
!Meta description215 characters — aim for 50–170
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings3 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 14 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 494 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.ed.ac.uk/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen
!Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata

Social sharing

✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
!Twitter / X cardMissing

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
✓Referrer-PolicySet

Server response

Final URL: https://www.ed.ac.uk/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 1.52 s (first byte 1.52 s, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 49 KB
Compression: gzip

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Questions about ed.ac.uk

How popular is ed.ac.uk?

ed.ac.uk is #3,098 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

What is ed.ac.uk built with?

We detected Drupal, Google Tag Manager, cdnjs, Fastly, Pantheon and Nginx on its homepage.