kcl.ac.uk

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kcl.ac.uk is ranked #5,493 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 284 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses jQuery and Google Tag Manager. It is served by Varnish.

Global rank

#5,493

▲ 25 this week

Domain age

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Registration date unavailable

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

83/100

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Popularity rank

#5,493 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: #5,432.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

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Domain registration

Registration data was not available from the registry.

Technology stack

JavaScript libraries

jQuery 3.2.1

Analytics

Google Tag Manager

Web servers

Varnish

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.

83/100

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/

King's College London

King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.

16 passed · 6 warnings · 1 failed

Content

✓Title21 characters
!Meta description257 characters — aim for 50–170
!H1 heading4 H1 headings — use one
✓Subheadings3 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 16 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 705 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.kcl.ac.uk
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen-GB
✓Structured dataArticle, Event, Organization

Social sharing

✕Open GraphMissing
!Twitter / X cardMissing

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
!FaviconMissing
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
!X-Content-Type-OptionsNot set
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/
HTTP status: 200
Server: —
Response time: 6.57 s (first byte 6.46 s, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 95 KB
Compression: gzip

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