Top Higher Education Websites in the Netherlands 2023

We are thrilled to announce the top performers in Digital Accessibility, Content Quality Assurance, Response Time, Performance, and SEO.

The Overall category showcases the top-performing websites of Higher Education in the Netherlands in terms of SEO, response time, performance, and web accessibility. These websites received high overall rankings in 2023. Congratulations, and keep up the good work!

More than 2 million people have a disability in the Netherlands. For many of those, Digital Accessibility matters. Accessible websites enable anyone, regardless of their age, level of digital competency, or disabilities, to use your website and access its content.

Monsido scans your website to look for potential problems preventing web accessibility. The recommendations for fixing these problems are provided in the following step, which also gives you an overview of how well your website is performing.

We advise achieving an accessibility compliance score of at least 70% for organisations using the Monsido platform in order to demonstrate progress towards compliance. The average score for Higher Education websites in the Netherlands was 71.25%.

These 5 Top Universities in the Netherlands scored highest for Digital Accessibility in 2023.

The Content Quality Assurance module looks for misspellings, broken links, broken images, and readability issues. By taking on Quality Assurance, you can decrease bounce rates, increase conversions, and improve your SEO, helping (future) students more easily find the information they need about their University or education program.

The websites of Universities in the Netherlands received a 70.57 average rating. The Universities listed below deserve special praise for raising the bar for Content Quality Assurance.

On-page SEO still plays a significant role in search engine rankings. Common errors like missing H1 tags, broken links and too many internal links on a page can harm your rankings and visitor experience.

The average SEO score for the websites of the Netherlands' higher education websites was 83.41 We applaud the following universities for being leaders in the SEO category.

In addition to improving user experience, having a quick-loading website is important for SEO because Google uses it as a ranking factor. With Monsido's Heartbeat module, you can keep an eye on how well your website is performing to guarantee a positive user experience for your visitors and prevent any potential member annoyance.

The higher education websites in the Netherlands had an average response time of 373.45 ms. Your score must be under 200 ms in order for you to be considered an excellent performer. The top five high education institutions in the Netherlands should be pleased with their exceptional response time results.

Getting a pulse check on the overall website performance score (0–100) based on Google Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals provides a comprehensive view of how visitor location, network speed, and device affect your site's performance.

The average performance rating for this benchmark report was 48.10. We recommend that you aim for a score between 90 and 100. Below is a list of the top five higher education websites in the Netherlands based on this report.

We looked at the websites of the 40 top Higher Education websites in the Netherlands during a 2.5 week period at the end of January 2023.

If you can’t find your university listed below, and are curious about what your website score will look like - you are welcome to request a scan of your website here.

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See your website's scan results and how your university performed in this report. We can also scan your internal user portal if you need to understand its performance.

Monsido:

• Scanned a sample of 500 pages from the main publicly facing websites of 40 top Higher Education websites in the Netherlands using Monsido’s Web Governance software during a two-week period in January 2023.
• Ranked the top 40 Higher Education websites in the Netherlands based on their scores in Web Accessibility, Content Quality Assurance, SEO, and Response Time.
• Calculated the Overall champions based on the average (weighted) ranking in all categories, prioritizing Web Accessibility, then Content Quality Assurance, Response Time, and SEO and Performance.