Apply.universityofcalifornia.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
40% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.66 s
File size
45.50 kB
Words
641
Media files
5
Number of links
7 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
UC application
The page title is too short. (133 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
My UC Application
The meta description is too short. (116 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
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 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
descriptionMy UC Application
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 641 words. That's ok.
32% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 23.13 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
/docs/img/temp/slide1.jpgFirst image slide for desktop
/docs/img/temp/slide3.jpgSecond image slide for desktop
/docs/img/temp/slide4.jpgThird image slide for desktop
/docs/img/temp/slide5.jpgFourth image slide for desktop
...plication/img/svg-badges/apply-arrow.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
University of California
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 University of California
H1 University of California's application for undergraduate admissions and scholarships
H2 Create an account
H2 Sign in to your account
H2 Before you apply
H2 Getting help
H2 News and updates
H2 Stay connected
H2 Statement of application integrity
H2 UC immunization requirements
H2 System Requirements
H3 Or call the UC Application Center:
H3 Helpdesk hours:
H3 November & December hours:
H3 Closed on the following holidays:
H3 Dates & Deadlines
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/my-application/loginAnchor Skip to Main Content
/docs/StatementOfPrivacy.pdfNew window Privacy Policy opens in new tab
/my-application/termsofuseNew window Terms of Useopens in new tab
/my-application/resetPasswordForgot your password?
http://admission.universityofc...New window External Subdomain admissions website.
https://admission.universityof...New window External Subdomain Freshman admissions opens in new tab
https://admission.universityof...New window External Subdomain Transfer admissions opens in new tab
https://admission.universityof...New window External Subdomain Applying as an international student opens in new tab
https://admission.universityof...New window External Subdomain How to apply for financial aid opens in new tab
https://admission.universityof...New window External Subdomain Campus programs and contact information opens in new tab
https://admission.universityof...New window External Subdomain Application tips, guides and worksheets opens in new tab
https://twitter.com/uc_applyNew window External @UC_Applyopens in new tab
/docs/StatementOfIntegrity.pdfNew window Statement of integrity PDF opens in new tab
/docs/StatementOfPrivacy.pdfNew window Privacy Policyopens in new tab
/my-application/termsofuseNew window Terms of useopens in new tab

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://apply.universityofcalifornia.edu/my-application/login"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.66 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 14 Jun 2024 03:34:42 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
set-cookie178 Characters
servermy-application
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload
cache-controlno-store
x-powered-bymyapplication
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-languagees-
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 373 referring domains.
This page has 2,229 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 302 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

apply.universityofcalifornia.edu › my-application › login
UC application
My UC Application

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
application73%Check
UC Application69%Check
California60%Check
University60%Check
Application tips55%Check
UC immunization54%Check
University System51%Check
or newer50%Check
114 or50%Check
apply46%Check

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