gla.ac.uk is ranked #5,064 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 276 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses Google Tag Manager. It is served by Apache.
Global rank
#5,064
▲ 61 this week
Domain age
—
Registration date unavailable
Technologies
2
detected on the homepage
SEO score
74/100
homepage checks
Popularity rank
#5,064 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: #5,064.
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.
74/100
https://www.gla.ac.uk/
The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. A world top 100 university
The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. A world top 100 university.
The University of Glasgow is a major research-led university operating in an international context with the following fundamental aims:
* to provide education through the development of learning in a research environment
* to undertake fundamental, strategic and applied research
* to make a major contribution to local, regional, national and international communities through widening access and through working in partnership
12 passed · 10 warnings · 1 failed
Content
!Title67 characters — aim for 15–65
!Meta description499 characters — aim for 50–170
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings36 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 33 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 857 words
Indexing
✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.gla.ac.uk/
✓robots.txtFound
!XML sitemapNot found
✓Language attributeen
!Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata
Social sharing
✕Open GraphMissing
✓Twitter / X cardsummary_large_image
Technical
✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
!FaviconMissing
✓Character encodingutf-8
Security headers
!Strict-Transport-SecurityNot set
!Content-Security-PolicyNot set
!Clickjacking protectionNot set
!X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
!Referrer-PolicyNot set
Server response
Final URL
https://www.gla.ac.uk/
HTTP status
200
Server
Apache
Response time
5.93 s (first byte 5.81 s, from our scanner in a US data centre)
