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Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| heriot watt university scotland | #1 | 1,100 |
| heriot watt university | #1 | 1,100 |
| heriot watt university uk | #2 | 580 |
| james watt james watt | #6 | 500 |
| centre for doctoral training | #13 | 290 |
| universities in edinburgh scotland | #3 | 240 |
| eross | #22 | 220 |
| crater chicxulub | #66 | 160 |
| watt | #86 | 160 |
| hwu | #1 | 150 |
| aerospace engineering | #92 | 140 |
| heriot-watt university dubai | #1 | 89 |
| the university of edinburgh | #27 | 85 |
| university of edinburgh | #26 | 85 |
| quantity surveying uni rankings | #59 | 70 |
| james watt | #17 | 64 |
| richard williams | #70 | 57 |
| heriot-watt ranking in uk | #1 | 52 |
| heriot watt university scotland ranking | #1 | 52 |
| heriot watt ranking | #1 | 52 |
| edinburgh heriot watt university ranking | #1 | 52 |
| snow crab | #83 | 47 |
| petroleum engineering | #83 | 43 |
| edinburgh uk | #41 | 43 |
| heriot watt university ranking | #1 | 39 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
Audience
- 86% phone
- 12% desktop
- 2% tablet
Pakistan
Bangladesh
United Arab Emirates
India
United Kingdom
Malaysia
Countries where the site has Chrome traffic, strongest markets first.
Open Page Rank
7.86 / 10 · ranked #9,781 of all domains
3,070 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
8,000 est. monthly organic visits (US)
5,191 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.4 s |
| INP | 150 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1300 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026.
Page
- Weight: 0.0 MB · 2 requests
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Jul 2026.
Subdomains
| Host | Techs |
|---|---|
| hw.ac.uk | 36 |
| lta.hw.ac.uk | 35 |
| myfoundation.hw.ac.uk | 31 |
| books.scholar.hw.ac.uk | 28 |
| cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk | 28 |
| www.tex.hw.ac.uk | 28 |
| www.hw.ac.uk | 24 |
| explore.hw.ac.uk | 22 |
| exploredubai.hw.ac.uk | 21 |
| discovery.hw.ac.uk | 19 |
| ice-museum-scotland.hw.ac.uk | 19 |
| qpl.eps.hw.ac.uk | 19 |
| confuciusinstitute.site.hw.ac.uk | 18 |
| coursewebsites.online.hw.ac.uk | 17 |
| informs.hw.ac.uk | 17 |
| professionalacademy.hw.ac.uk | 17 |
| students.online.hw.ac.uk | 17 |
| greenindustrialfutures.site.hw.ac.uk | 16 |
| researchportal.hw.ac.uk | 16 |
| signs.hw.ac.uk | 16 |
| www.ros-test.hw.ac.uk | 16 |
| actuarialchallenge.site.hw.ac.uk | 15 |
| ecowild.site.hw.ac.uk | 15 |
| gitlab-student.macs.hw.ac.uk | 15 |
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