Aidvantage.studentaid.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
31.80 kB
Words
285
Media files
8
Number of links
27 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The title tag is missing.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 285 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.89 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/img/us_flag_small.pngUSA Flag
/img/icon-dot-gov.svgpartner icon
/img/icon-https.svgsecurity icon
/img/aidvantage-logo.pngaidvantage logo
/img/fsa-servicer-logo.svgfederal student aid logo
/img/aidvantage-logo.pngaidvantage footer logo
/img/fsa-cobrand-logo.svgOfficial servicer of Federal student aid
/img/fsa-cobrand-logo.svgfsa logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Here's how you know
/Anchor No Text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/IMG-ALT aidvantage logo
/getting-started/about-aidvantageAbout Aidvantage
/getting-started/loans-we-serviceLoans we service
/getting-started/in-schoolIn school
/getting-started/in-your-grace...In your grace period
/in-repayment/entering-repaymentEntering repayment
/in-repayment/federal-optionsRepayment options
/in-repayment/interest-and-taxesInterest and taxes
/in-repayment/about-paymentsAbout payments
/in-repayment/credit-reportingCredit reporting
/financial-aid-officesFinancial aid offices
/help-topicsHelp Topics
https://studentaid.gov/feedbac...New window External Submit a Complaint
/contact-usContact Us
https://myaccount.aidvantage.s...External Subdomain Log in
https://myaccount.aidvantage.s...External Subdomain Create Account
/IMG-ALT aidvantage footer logo
https://twitter.com/aidvantageNew window External No Text
https://m.youtube.com/@howtoai...New window External Subdomain No Text
/loan-servicingLoan Servicing transfers
/credit-reportingCredit Reporting
/military-benefitsMilitary benefits
/disaster-reliefDisaster relief
https://studentaid.gov/manage-...New window External Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
https://studentaid.gov/sites/d...New window External Repaying your loans
https://studentaid.gov/loan-si...New window External Loan repayment options simulation
https://studentaid.gov/help-ce...New window External How to re-certify your income every year
https://studentaid.gov/manage-...New window External Avoiding loan default
https://studentaid.gov/resourc...New window External How to identify and avoid student loan scams
https://studentaid.gov/feedbac...New window External State ombudsman offices
https://studentaid.gov/announc...New window External Payment Count Adjustments
https://studentaid.gov/New window External IMG-ALT Official servicer of Federal student aid
https://studentaid.gov/New window External Learn more about Federal Student Aid
https://studentaid.gov/loan-si...New window External See your repayment options with Loan Simulator
https://www.nmlsconsumeraccess...New window External Subdomain NMLS Consumer Access
/getting-started/about-aidvantageAbout Us
/termsTerms of Use
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/accessibilityAccessibility
/sitemapSite Map
/noticesNotices
https://studentaid.gov/New window External studentaid.gov
https://usa.gov/New window External usa.gov
https://studentaid.gov/New window External Text duplicate Learn more about Federal Student Aid
https://studentaid.gov/loan-si...New window External Text duplicate See your repayment options with Loan Simulator

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://aidvantage.studentaid.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.72 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedTue, 15 Oct 2024 03:02:06 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
etag"c5ad559eae1edb1:0"
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-akamai-transformed9 28295 0 pmb=mRUM,1
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
expiresMon, 28 Oct 2024 14:17:14 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, no-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
dateMon, 28 Oct 2024 14:17:14 GMT
content-length8458
server-timingcdn-cache; desc=MISS
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=93600
strict-transport-securitymax-age=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 128 referring domains.
This page has 274 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 104 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
gov52%Check
Aidvantage50%Check
Student Aid49%Check
Student48%Check
studentaid46%Check
Federal Student Aid44%Check
Federal Student42%Check
Financial Aid42%Check
official41%Check
HTTPS41%Check
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