Catalog.csusb.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
46% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
10% 
External factors
18% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.87 s
File size
34.00 kB
Words
431
Media files
1
Number of links
54 internal / 51 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
California State University San Bernardino | CSUSB
The length of the page title is perfect. (463 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
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 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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 431 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 33.5 words is high.
16.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on 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
/gallery/2025-26-Catalog_cover.jpgCSUSB 2025-26 academic catalog; female student with a big smile

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
2025-26 Catalog
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 2025-26 Catalog
H1 California State University San Bernardino
H2 Welcome to the 2025-26 Academic Catalog for California State University San Bernardino.
H2 2025-26 Edition
H2 Print Options
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (51) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://catalog.csusb.edu/Anchor Skip to Content
/azindex/AZ Index
https://catalog.csusb.edu/Catalog Home
https://csusb.edu/External A-TITLE Home
https://my.csusb.edu/External Subdomain myCoyote
https://www.csusb.edu/campus-d...External Subdomain Directory
https://csusb.edu/libraryExternal Library
https://www.csusb.edu/maps-dir...External Subdomain Maps
https://www.csusb.edu/pdcExternal Subdomain Palm Desert Campus
https://www.csusb.edu/advancem...External Subdomain Make a Gift
https://catalog.csusb.edu/Text duplicate Catalog Home
/bulletin-contents/Catalog Contents
/colleges-schools-departments/Colleges, Schools, and Departments
/programs-az/Programs A-Z
/coursesaz/Courses A-Z
/changes-of-rulesChanges of Rules and Policies
https://catalog.csusb.edu/2025-26 Edition
/welcome/President's Welcome
/catalog/About the Catalog
/csu-system/The CSU System
/about-university/About the University
/palm-desert-campus/Palm Desert Campus (PDC)
/accreditation/Accreditation
/calendar/Academic Calendar
/admission-university/Admission
/general-education-program/General Education
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Pathway: Big ideas that Change the World: Exploring Ideas, Innovations, and Discoveries
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Pathway: Digital Life
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Pathway: Diversity and Social Justice
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Pathway: Environmental Sustainability
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Pathway: Global Connections
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Pathway: World Cultures and Diversity
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Minor: Digital Literacies
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Minor: Diversity and Social Justice Minor
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Minor: Environmental Sustainability
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Minor: Foundations of Change &​ Discovery
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Minor: Global Connections
/general-education-program/ge-...GE Minor: World Cultures and Diversity
/undergraduate-degree-programs/Undergraduate Degrees and Programs
/undergraduate-degree-programs...Undergraduate Degree and Program Requirements
/undergraduate-degree-programs...Undergraduate Degrees
/undergraduate-degree-programs...Minors
/undergraduate-degree-programs...Certificates
/undergraduate-degree-programs...Credentials
/undergraduate-degree-programs...Programs
/graduate-degree-programs/Graduate Degrees and Programs
/graduate-degree-programs/grad...Graduate Degree and Program Requirements
/graduate-degree-programs/grad...Graduate Degrees
/graduate-degree-programs/cert...Graduate Certificates
/graduate-degree-programs/cred...Graduate Credentials
/online-programs/Online Programs
/acad-success-undergrad-advising/Academic Success and Undergraduate Advising
/undergraduate-degree-programs...University Honors
/academic-support/Academic Support and Campus Services
/student-life/Student Life
/financial-information/Financial Information
/academic-regulations/Academic Regulations and Standards
/faculty/Faculty
http://csusb.edu/catalog/External Previous Catalogs
https://www.facebook.com/CSUSBExternal Subdomain Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/csusbnewsExternal Subdomain Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/csusbExternal Subdomain YouTube
https://instagram.com/csusbExternal Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.csusb.edu/advancem...External Subdomain Social Media
https://my.csusb.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate myCoyote
https://csusb.instructure.com/External Subdomain Canvas
http://mail.coyote.csusb.edu/External Subdomain Student Email
http://mail.csusb.edu/External Subdomain Faculty & Staff Email
https://www.csusb.edu/casExternal Subdomain Drupal Login
https://www.csusb.edu/future-s...External Subdomain Future Students
A-TITLE Directs to "Future Students" landing page
https://www.csusb.edu/current-...External Subdomain Current Students
A-TITLE Directs to "Current Students" landing page
https://www.csusb.edu/faculty-...External Subdomain Faculty & Staff
A-TITLE Directs to Landing Page Faculty & Staff
https://www.csusb.edu/faculty-...External Subdomain Full-Time Faculty
https://www.csusb.edu/faculty-...External Subdomain Part-Time Faculty
A-TITLE Directs to Landing Page Faculty Resource Directory - Part-Time
https://www.csusb.edu/communit...External Subdomain Community & Visitors
A-TITLE Directs to Landing Page Community & Visitors
https://www.csusb.edu/alumni-f...External Subdomain Alumni & Friends
A-TITLE Directs to Landing Page Alumni & Friends
https://www.csusb.edu/advancem...External Subdomain University Partners
https://www.csusb.edu/veteransExternal Subdomain Military/Veterans
https://www.governmentjobs.com...External Subdomain Job Listings
https://www.governmentjobs.com...External Subdomain Faculty Jobs
https://www.csusb.edu/career-c...External Subdomain Career Center
https://www.csusb.edu/human-re...External Subdomain Human Resources
https://www.csusb.edu/human-re...External Subdomain Student Employment
https://www.csusb.edu/about-cs...External Subdomain Contact
https://www.csusb.edu/clery-ac...External Subdomain Annual Safety Reports
https://www.csusb.edu/title-ix...External Subdomain Title IX Notice
https://www.csusb.edu/registra...External Subdomain Disclosure of Consumer Information
https://get.adobe.com/reader/External Subdomain Acrobat Reader
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...External Subdomain MS Office Viewers
https://www.csusb.edu/advisingExternal Subdomain Academic Advising
https://www.csusb.edu/housingExternal Subdomain Housing & Residential Life
https://www.csusb.edu/ombudsExternal Subdomain Ombuds Services
https://www.csusb.edu/parkingExternal Subdomain Parking
https://www.csusb.edu/policeExternal Subdomain Police
https://www.csusb.edu/capsExternal Subdomain Psychological Counseling
https://www.csusb.edu/ssdExternal Subdomain Services to Students with Disabilities
https://www.csusb.edu/student-...External Subdomain Student Health Center
https://www.csusb.edu/registra...External Subdomain Transcripts
https://www.csusb.edu/ats/acce...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.csusb.edu/about-cs...External Subdomain Privacy and Security
https://www.csusb.edu/its/secu...External Subdomain Website Copyright/DMCA Policy
https://catalog.csusb.edu/Anchor Back to top
/homepage.pdfDownload Page (PDF)
/pdf/2025-26.pdfNew window CSUSB 2025-26 Catalog

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://catalog.csusb.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.87 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.
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (34 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 6 referring domains.
This page only has 7 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://catalog.csusb.edu/sitemap.xml
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Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /pagewiz/
Disallow: /courseleaf/
Disallow: /wiztest/
Disallow: /navbar/
Disallow: /gallery/
Disallow: /clmail/
Disallow: /dbleaf/
Disallow: /depts/
Disallow: /responseform/
Disallow: /mig/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /ribbit/
Disallow: /azindex/
Disallow: /catalogcontents/
Disallow: /shared/
Disallow: /cim/
Disallow: /courseadmin/
Disallow: /programadmin/
Disallow: /miscadmin/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /css/
Disallow: /styles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /xsearch/
Disallow: /migration/
Disallow: /fonts/
Disallow: /wen/

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Catalog70%Check
2025-26 Catalog64%Check
University59%Check
San59%Check
California59%Check
State59%Check
California State University59%Check
San Bernardino59%Check
University San59%Check
California State University San59%Check

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