Catalog.upenn.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
7% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.93 s
File size
30.00 kB
Words
231
Media files
1
Number of links
28 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
2024-25 University Catalog < University of Pennsylvania
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (506 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 231 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
27.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 24.67 words is good.
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 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
/images/logotype.svgUniversity of Pennsylvania

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
2024-25 University Catalog
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 2024-25 University Catalog
H2 Welcome to the University of Pennsylvania Catalog
H2 Faculty Handbook
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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://catalog.upenn.edu/Anchor Skip to Content
/azindex/AZ Index
https://catalog.upenn.edu/Catalog Home
https://catalog.upenn.edu/Institution Home
http://www.upenn.edu/New window External Subdomain University of Pennsylvania
/programs/Programs
/courses/Courses
/pennbook/Pennbook
https://catalog.upenn.edu/Anchor Search
https://catalog.upenn.edu/Anchor Print Options
/undergraduate/Undergraduate Catalog
/graduate/Graduate Catalog
/programs/Programs A-​Z
/courses/Courses A-​Z
/attributes/Course Attributes A-​Z
https://courses.upenn.edu/New window External Subdomain Search Courses
/pennbook/Text duplicate Pennbook
/faculty-handbook/Faculty Handbook
/undergraduate/Undergraduate
/graduate/Graduate
/pennbook/Text duplicate Pennbook
/programs/Programs A-Z
/courses/Courses A-Z
https://almanac.upenn.edu/penn...New window External Subdomain Academic Calendar
/faculty-handbook/Text duplicate Faculty Handbook
https://www.upenn.edu/aboutNew window External Subdomain About the University of Pennsylvania
https://catalog.upenn.edu/archiveCatalog Archive
http://www.upenn.edu/services/External Subdomain Offices & Services
http://www.upenn.edu/calendar/External Subdomain Calendar
https://www.hr.upenn.edu/career/External Subdomain Careers
http://www.upenn.edu/about/com...External Subdomain Contact Us
http://www.facilities.upenn.ed...External Subdomain Maps
http://cms.business-services.u...External Subdomain Parking
http://www.upenn.edu/computing...External Subdomain Copyright
http://www.upenn.edu/about/dis...External Subdomain Disclaimer
http://www.upenn.edu/about/pri...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://catalog.upenn.edu/Anchor Back to Top
/homepage.pdfDownload Page (PDF)
/pdf/University of Pennsylvani...New window 2024-25 University Catalog
/pdf/University of Pennsylvani...New window 2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
/pdf/University of Pennsylvani...New window 2024-25 Graduate Catalog

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://catalog.upenn.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 0.93 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 (30 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 06 Oct 2024 13:11:20 GMT
serverApache/2.4.37 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/1.1.1k
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1
last-modifiedTue, 03 Sep 2024 17:15:57 GMT
etag"77f9-6213a35f640ba"
accept-rangesbytes
content-length30713
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 786 referring domains.
This page has 14,821 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 681 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.

Robots.txt

Sitemap: http://catalog.upenn.edu/sitemap.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /archive/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /azindex/
Disallow: /catalogcontents/
Disallow: /cim/
Disallow: /clmail/
Disallow: /courseadmin/
Disallow: /courseleaf/
Disallow: /css/
Disallow: /dbleaf/
Disallow: /depts/
Disallow: /fonts/
Disallow: /gallery/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /mig/
Disallow: /migration/
Disallow: /navbar/
Disallow: /pagewiz/
Disallow: /programadmin/
Disallow: /responseform/
Disallow: /ribbit/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /shared/
Disallow: /styles/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /wiztest/
Disallow: /xsearch/
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow:  /course-search/build
Disallow:  /course-search/api

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Catalog77%Check
2024-25 University Catalog70%Check
Catalog University70%Check
University66%Check
Penn62%Check
Undergraduate Catalog58%Check
Pennsylvania51%Check
2024-25 Undergraduate48%Check
PDF 2024-2548%Check
2024-25 Graduate48%Check
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