Catalogue.usc.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
26% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
32.40 kB
Words
208
Media files
1
Number of links
23 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University of Southern California - Modern Campus Catalog™
The length of the page title is perfect. (553 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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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, minimum-scale=1
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 208 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
27.4% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 23 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
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
/mime/media/20/8449/IMG_8925.JPEGPeaceful photo of the newly opened Dramatic Arts Building on the USC campus.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
USC Catalogue 2024-2025
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 USC Catalogue 2024-2025
H2 Primary Menu
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 Empty heading
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://catalogue.usc.edu/Anchor Skip to Content
http://www.usc.edu/External Subdomain University of Southern California
https://catalogue.usc.edu/Academics
https://www.usc.edu/academic-c...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://catalogue.usc.edu/Subdomain Catalogue
https://undergrad.usc.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate
https://graduateschool.usc.edu/External Subdomain Graduate
https://classes.usc.edu/External Subdomain Class Schedule
https://libraries.usc.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://online.usc.edu/External Subdomain Online
https://international.usc.edu/External Subdomain International
/search_advanced.php?catoid=20Advanced Search
/index.php?catoid=20Catalogue Home
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...About USC
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Administration
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Admission and Orientation
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Tuition and Fees
https://www.usc.edu/academic-c...New window External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Academic Calendar
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...The Schools and Academic Units
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Programs, Minors and Certificates
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Programs by School
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Courses of Instruction
https://classes.usc.edu/New window External Subdomain Schedule of Classes
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Academic and University Policies
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Undergraduate Education
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Graduate and Professional Education
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...The Graduate School
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...About the Catalogue
http://cataloguearchive.usc.edu/New window External Subdomain Past Catalogues (Online)
/help.php?catoid=20New window HELP
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Text duplicate Programs, Minors and Certificates
/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=...Text duplicate Courses of Instruction
https://classes.usc.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Schedule of Classes
/index.php?amp;printNew window Nofollow Print-Friendly Page (opens a new window)
A-TITLE Print-Friendly Page (opens a new window)
/misc/catalog_list.php?catoid=20catalogues
http://www.moderncampus.com/New window External Subdomain Modern Campus Catalog™

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://catalogue.usc.edu/"
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 0.85 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 23 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 31 Oct 2024 12:25:04 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length7402
connectionkeep-alive
set-cookie186 Characters
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
serverdirector
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 900 referring domains.
This page has 2,800 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 746 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Oberlin's bot.
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /portfolio.php
Disallow: /portfolio_nopop.php
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /search_advanced.php
crawl-delay: 15

#Owens Community College
User-agent: occ-crawler
Disallow: /portfolio.php
Disallow: /portfolio_nopop.php
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /search_advanced.php
crawl-delay: 15

# Everyone else.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /portfolio.php
Disallow: /portfolio_nopop.php
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /search_advanced.php
crawl-delay: 120

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
USC63%Check
Catalogue62%Check
USC Catalogue62%Check
Campus47%Check
Modern Campus47%Check
University46%Check
Southern46%Check
California46%Check
Southern California46%Check
Modern45%Check
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