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SEO Report for https://www.ou.ac.lk

Your general SEO Checkup Score


SEO Score52/100
Average SEO score of top 100 sites: 75%

Your site scored 52/100, well below the 75 average for top sites. We found 10 issues to fix, and clearing them is how you move up.

10 Failed
2 Warnings
14 Passed

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Common SEO issues

Score:60
Failed:2
Warnings:1
Passed:6
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http://www.ou.ac.lk/home/OUSL Home - The Open University of Sri LankaThe Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) is the premier Open and Distance learning institution in Sri Lanka where students can pursue their studies through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) methodologies. Established in 1980, under the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978 and OUSL Ordinance No. 1 of 1990, as amended, the OUSL has the same legal and academic status as any other national University in Sri Lanka. According to the Public Administration Circular No. 16/92, dated 13.03.92, issued by the Ministry of Public Administration, Provincial Councils & Home Affairs, the degrees awarded by The Open University of Sri Lanka are treated as equivalent to degrees awarded by any other University under the purview of the University Grants Commission. Due to the nature of its teaching methodology and infrastructure, The OUSL is able to serve a large student population spread throughout the country. Currently, there are more than 35,000 students studying at the OUSL, who are being served by six Regional Centres and nineteen Study Centres located around the country (Fig. 1). The Central campus and the Colombo Regional Centre are situated at Nawala. The other five Regional Centres are situated at Kandy, Matara, Jaffna, Anuradhapura and Batticaloa. The academic and the administrative Head of the University is the Vice-Chancellor. The Senate of the University, which is chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, is the highest body that makes decisions regarding academic matters. The University has four Faculties: Natural Sciences, Engineering Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences and Education.
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http://www.ou.ac.lk/home/OUSL Home - The Open University of Sri LankaThe Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) is the premier Open and Distance learning institution in Sri Lanka where students can pursue their studies through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) methodologies. Established in 1980, under the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978 and OUSL Ordinance No. 1 of 1990, as amended, the OUSL has the same legal and academic status as any other national University in Sri Lanka. According to the Public Administration Circular No. 16/92, dated 13.03.92, issued by the Ministry of Public Administration, Provincial Councils & Home Affairs, the degrees awarded by The Open University of Sri Lanka are treated as equivalent to degrees awarded by any other University under the purview of the University Grants Commission. Due to the nature of its teaching methodology and infrastructure, The OUSL is able to serve a large student population spread throughout the country. Currently, there are more than 35,000 students studying at the OUSL, who are being served by six Regional Centres and nineteen Study Centres located around the country (Fig. 1). The Central campus and the Colombo Regional Centre are situated at Nawala. The other five Regional Centres are situated at Kandy, Matara, Jaffna, Anuradhapura and Batticaloa. The academic and the administrative Head of the University is the Vice-Chancellor. The Senate of the University, which is chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, is the highest body that makes decisions regarding academic matters. The University has four Faculties: Natural Sciences, Engineering Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences and Education.
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Robots.txt Test
Your site lacks a "robots.txt" file. This file can protect private content from appearing online, save bandwidth, and lower load time on your server. A missing "robots.txt" file also generates additional errors in your apache log whenever robots request one. Read more about the robots.txt file, and how to create one for your site.
Sitemap Test
Your site lacks a sitemap file. Sitemaps can help robots index your content more thoroughly and quickly. Read more on Google's guidelines for implementing the sitemap protocol.
Image Alt Test
Your webpage has 42 'img' tags and 3 of them are missing the required 'alt' attribute.
Deprecated HTML Tags
Congratulations! Your page does not use HTML deprecated tags.
Google Analytics Test
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Favicon Test
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JS Error Checker
Congratulations! There are no severe JavaScript errors on your web page.

Speed optimizations

Score:58
Failed:3
Warnings:1
Passed:2
HTML Page Size Test
Congratulations! Your HTML size is 15.08 Kb and this is under the average web page size of 33 Kb.
This leads to a faster page loading time than average.
HTML Compression/GZIP Test
Congratulations! Your page is successfully compressed using gzip compression on your code.
Your HTML is compressed from 84.97 Kb to 15.08 Kb (82 % size savings). This helps ensure a faster loading web page and improved user experience.
Site Loading Speed Test
Your site loading time is around 7.916 seconds and is over the average loading speed which is 5 seconds.
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Page Objects
Your page has more than 20 http requests, which can slow down page loading. You can try reducing http requests through various methods such as using text instead of images, using css sprites, using data URIs instead of images, or combining several external files together into one.
Total Objects: 87
  • 4 HTML Pages
  • 4 CSS Files
  • 25 JS Files
  • 54 Images
  • 0 Flash Files
Image Caching Test
Your site is not using expires headers for your images. An expires tag can help speed up the serving of your webpages for users that regularly visit your site and see the same images. Learn more about how to add expires headers to your images.
URL Redirects Checker
Your URL performed one redirect! While redirects are typically not advisable (as they can affect search engine indexing issues and adversely affect site loading time), one redirect may be acceptable, particularly if the URL is redirecting from a non-www version to its www version, or vice-versa.

Server and security

Score:20
Failed:2
Warnings:0
Passed:1
URL Canonicalization Test
http://www.ou.ac.lk and http://ou.ac.lk/ should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not.
HTTPS Test
Your website is not using https, a secure communication protocol. Even for sites that do not collect senstive customer information, search engines suggest that switching to https is an increasingly good idea and may help improve rankings. Note: if your site relies primarily on adsense income, be aware that using https may be detrimental to ad earnings.
Plaintext Emails Test
Congratulations! Your webpage does not include email addresses in plaintext.

Mobile usability

Score:100
Failed:0
Warnings:0
Passed:2
Media Query Responsive Test
Congratulations, your website uses media query technique, which is the base for responsive design functionalities.
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Advanced SEO

Score:30
Failed:3
Warnings:0
Passed:3
Microdata Schema Test
Your webpage doesn't take the advantages of HTML Microdata specifications in order to markup structured data. View Google's guide for getting started with microdata.
Noindex Checker
Your webpage does not use the noindex meta tag. This means that your webpage will be read and indexed by search engines.
Canonical Tag Checker
Your webpage is using the canonical link tag. This means that your webpage is not the preferred one to use in the search results.
<link href="http://www.ou.ac.lk/home/index.php" rel="canonical" />
Nofollow Checker
Your webpage does not use the nofollow meta tag. This means that search engins will crawl all links from your webpage.
Disallow Directive Checker
Your site lacks a "robots.txt" file. This file can protect private content from appearing online, save bandwidth, and lower load on your server. A missing "robots.txt" file also generates additional errors in your apache log whenever robots request one.
SPF records checker
Your DNS server is not using an SPF record. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) allows administrators to specify which hosts are allowed to send mail from a given domain by creating a specific SPF record or TXT record in the Domain Name System (DNS). You can find more information about SPF records here.

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