Catalog.northeastern.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
37% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
14% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
20.50 kB
Words
392
Media files
3
Number of links
26 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
< Northeastern University Academic Catalog
The length of the page title is perfect. (398 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
langen
og:site_nameNortheastern University Academic Catalog
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 392 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 33.8 words is high.
21.9% 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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
/images/logo.pngNortheastern University
/images/search.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images/close.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H1 Welcome to the Northeastern University Academic Catalog and Student Handbook
H2 Academic Catalog 2024-2025
H2 2024-2025 Edition
H2 Print Options
H3 Campus Locations
H3 Quick Links
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://catalog.northeastern.edu/Anchor Skip to Content
/azindex/AZ Index
https://catalog.northeastern.edu/Catalog Home
https://northeastern.edu/External Institution Home
https://www.northeastern.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Northeastern University
https://catalog.northeastern.edu/2024-2025 Edition
/delivery-services/Delivery of Services
/general-information/General Information
/undergraduate/Undergraduate
/professional-studies/College of Professional Studies Undergraduate
/graduate/Graduate
/course-descriptions/Course Descriptions
/archive/Catalog Archives
/handbook/Student Handbook
/undergraduateUndergraduate Catalog
/handbookNo Text
/professional-studiesCollege of Professional Studies Undergraduate Catalog
/graduateGraduate Catalog
/handbookText duplicate Student Handbook
/course-descriptionsText duplicate Course Descriptions
/general-information/information
/archive/previous versions
https://policies.northeastern....New window External Subdomain the University’s Policies
https://arlington.northeastern...New window External Subdomain Arlington VAOpens New Window
https://www.northeastern.edu/c...New window External Subdomain Boston MAOpens New Window
https://www.burlington.northea...New window External Subdomain Burlington MAOpens New Window
https://charlotte.northeastern...New window External Subdomain Charlotte NCOpens New Window
https://www.nchlondon.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain London UKOpens New Window
https://miami.northeastern.edu/New window External Subdomain Miami FLOpens New Window
https://csi.northeastern.edu/New window External Subdomain Nahant MAOpens New Window
https://oakland.northeastern.edu/New window External Subdomain Oakland CAOpens New Window
https://roux.northeastern.edu/New window External Subdomain Portland MEOpens New Window
https://seattle.northeastern.edu/New window External Subdomain Seattle WAOpens New Window
https://siliconvalley.northeas...New window External Subdomain Silicon Valley CAOpens New Window
https://toronto.northeastern.edu/New window External Subdomain Toronto ONOpens New Window
https://vancouver.northeastern...New window External Subdomain Vancouver BCOpens New Window
https://registrar.northeastern...New window External Subdomain Registrar Opens New Window
https://nu.outsystemsenterpris...New window External Subdomain Directory Opens New Window
https://library.northeastern.edu/New window External Subdomain Libraries Opens New Window
https://www.northeastern.edu/e...New window External Subdomain Emergency Information Opens New Window
https://www.northeastern.edu/p...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy Opens New Window
https://digital-accessibility....New window External Subdomain Accessibility Opens New Window
https://www.facebook.com/north...New window External Subdomain Facebook. Opens New Window
https://x.com/NortheasternNew window External X. Opens New Window
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...New window External Subdomain YouTube. Opens New Window
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain Linkedin. Opens New Window
https://www.instagram.com/nort...New window External Subdomain Instagram. Opens New Window
https://www.tiktok.com/@northe...New window External Subdomain TikTok. Opens New Window
https://catalog.northeastern.edu/Anchor Back to top
/homepage.pdfDownload Page (PDF)
/pdf/Northeastern University 2...New window 2023-24 Undergraduate Day PDF
/pdf/Northeastern University 2...New window 2023-24 CPS Undergraduate PDF
/pdf/Northeastern University 2...New window 2023-24 Graduate/Law PDF
/pdf/Northeastern University 2...New window 2023-24 Course Descriptions PDF

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://catalog.northeastern.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.73 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 8 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 (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 04 Aug 2024 15:53:05 GMT
serverApache/2.4.37 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/1.1.1k
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1
last-modifiedThu, 01 Aug 2024 18:15:42 GMT
etag"51dc-61ea332e1ce38"
accept-rangesbytes
content-length20956
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 717 referring domains.
This page has 3,054 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 607 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/sitemap.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /archive/
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: /pdf/
Disallow: /wen/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/user-experience-design-graduate-certificate/
Disallow: /graduate/health-sciences/nursing/dnp-concentration-nurse-anesthesia/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/full-stack-software-engineering-graduate-certificate/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/engineering-entrepreneurship-graduate-certificate/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/big-data-systes-engineering-graduate-certificate/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/digital-business-graduate-certificate/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/cyber-security-development-graduate-certificate/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/blockchain-smart-contract-engineering-graduate-certificate/
Disallow: /graduate/engineering/multidisciplinary/business-intelligence-data-analytics-graduate-certificate
Disallow: /graduate/phdnetwork/
Disallow: /graduate/health-sciences/physical-therapy-movement-rehabilitation/human-movement-rehabilitation-sciences-phd/
Disallow: /class-search/
Disallow: /course-search/

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