nwu.ac.za

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nwu.ac.za is ranked #8,160 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 753 places in four weeks. Its homepage uses Drupal, Google Analytics and PHP. It is served through cdnjs by Apache.

Global rank

#8,160

▲ 294 this week

Domain age

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Registration date unavailable

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

78/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#8,160 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: #8,160.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

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Domain registration

The registry for .ac.za does not publish registration data over RDAP.

Technology stack

CMS & site builders

Analytics

CDN

Web servers

Back-end

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.

78/100

https://www.nwu.ac.za/

Welcome to North-West University (NWU) – It All Starts Here! | NWU | North-West University

(no meta description)

15 passed · 6 warnings · 2 failed

Content

!Title90 characters — aim for 15–65
✕Meta descriptionMissing
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings8 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 45 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 728 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttp://www.nwu.ac.za/
✓robots.txtFound
!XML sitemapNot found
✓Language attributeen
ihreflang3 language alternates
!Structured dataNo JSON-LD or microdata

Social sharing

✕Open GraphMissing
!Twitter / X cardMissing

Technical

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

Security headers

!Strict-Transport-SecurityNot set
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://www.nwu.ac.za/
HTTP status: 200
Server: Apache/2.4.62 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) PHP/8.3.19
Response time: 362 ms (first byte 268 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 113 KB
Compression: gzip

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