Uic.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
33% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
69% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.59 s
File size
191.20 kB
Words
295
Media files
1
Number of links
37 internal / 47 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University of Illinois Chicago
The length of the page title is perfect. (253 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Located in the heart of one of the world’s great cities, the University of Illinois Chicago is a vital part of the educational, technological and cultural fabric of the region. As Chicago’s only public research university with more than 33,000 students, 16 colleges, a hospital and a health sciences system, UIC provides students access to excellence and opportunity.
The meta description is too long: 2193 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. 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)
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
theme-color#D50032
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-styleblack
apple-mobile-web-app-titleUniversity of Illinois Chicago
msapplication-TileImage/img/icons/msapplication-icon-144x144.png
msapplication-TileColor#000000
application-nameUniversity of Illinois Chicago
descriptionLocated in the heart of one of the world’s great cities, the University of Illinois Chicago is a vital part of the educational, technological and cultural fabric of the region. As Chicago’s only public research university with more than 33,000 students, 16 colleges, a hospital and a health sciences system, UIC provides students access to excellence and opportunity.
google-site-verification4olqK8HMATn4OkmXUKEGdcETVPpplQk9Y9I2odvKYgg
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 295 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
17.3% 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-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)
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
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
$0 Tuition
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 $0 Tuition
H1 University of Illinois Chicago
H1 34,000
H1 Top 40
H1 Academic calendar
H2 Students
H2 Public University
H2 First-week flashback
H2 Student Wellness Day, no classes
H2 Thanksgiving holiday, no classes
H2 Fall semester 2024 instruction ends
H2 Fall semester final examinations
H2 Tools
H2 Resources
H2 Quick Links
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 too many external links (47) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.uic.edu/University of Illinois Chicago
/admissions-aid/Admissions & Aid
/admissions-aid/visit-campus/Visit Campus
/admissions-aid/paying-for-col...Paying for College
https://www.uic.edu/academics/Academics
/academics/programs-of-study/Programs of Study
/academics/colleges-schools/Colleges and Schools
/academics/online-programs/Online Programs
/academics/student-support/Student Support
https://www.uic.edu/research/Research
/research/research-impact/Research Impact
/research/research-strengths/Research Strengths
/research/resources-facilities/Resources & Facilities
/research/student-research/Student Research
https://www.uic.edu/life-at-uic/Life at UIC
/life-at-uic/living-on-around-...Living On and Around Campus
/life-at-uic/campus-resources/Campus Resources
/life-at-uic/exploring-chicago/Exploring Chicago
/life-at-uic/city-transportation/City Transportation
/life-at-uic/essential-chicago/Essential Chicago
https://www.uic.edu/health-care/Health Care
https://www.uic.edu/alumni/Alumni
https://www.uic.edu/about/About
/about/visit-directions/Visit and Directions
/about/history/History
/about/leadership/Leadership
/about/public-media-resources/Public and Media Resources
/about/job-opportunities/Job Opportunities
/about/contact-us/Contact Us
https://www.uic.edu/about/acerca/Acerca de la UIC (en español)
https://free.uic.edu/External Subdomain $0 Tuition If your family earns $75,000 or less, you may qualify for $0 tuition and fees at UIC. More
https://admissions.uic.edu/pro...External Subdomain Majors
https://discover.uic.edu/?utm_...External Subdomain Anchor Book a visit
http://admissions.uic.edu/unde...External Subdomain Request info
http://admissions.uic.edu/appl...External Subdomain Apply now
https://today.uic.edu/best-of-...External Subdomain View photo gallery
https://today.uic.edu/?utm_sou...External Subdomain No Text
https://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/a...External Subdomain Academic calendar
http://uic.blackboard.com/External Subdomain Blackboard
https://help.uillinois.edu/TDC...External Subdomain Google Workspace
https://my.uic.edu/External Subdomain my UIC
https://www.hr.uillinois.edu/pay/External Subdomain My UI Info: Pay
https://outlook.uic.edu/External Subdomain UIC Outlook Online
https://ready.uic.edu/digital-...External Subdomain UIC Safe (Mobile App)
/about/contact-us/Contact the webmaster
http://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/ac...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://today.uic.edu/resource...External Subdomain Current Students
http://events.uic.edu/External Subdomain Event Calendar
https://today.uic.edu/resource...External Subdomain Faculty and Staff
https://hospital.uillinois.edu/External Subdomain Patients
http://today.uic.edu/External Subdomain UIC Today
/about/visit-directions/Text duplicate Visit and Directions
http://clery.uic.edu/External Subdomain Clery Compliance
https://oae.uic.edu/policies/n...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination Policy
https://sexualmisconduct.uic.edu/External Subdomain Title IX: Sexual Misconduct
http://financialaid.uic.edu/co...External Subdomain Student Information Disclosures
http://www.uicflames.com/?utm_...External Subdomain Athletics
/apps/departments-az/search/?u...Directory
http://disabilityresources.uic...External Subdomain Disability Resources
http://emergency.uic.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Information
http://oge.uic.edu/?utm_source...External Subdomain International
/about/job-opportunities/Text duplicate Job Opportunities
http://library.uic.edu/?utm_so...External Subdomain Library
https://maps.uic.edu/?utm_sour...External Subdomain Maps
/depts/dos/studentveteranaffai...Subdomain Veterans Affairs
https://uihealth.uic.edu/?utm_...External Subdomain UI Health
https://www.uic.edu/about/acerca/Text duplicate Acerca de la UIC (en español)
http://admissions.uic.edu/visi...External Subdomain Book a Visit
http://admissions.uic.edu/unde...External Subdomain Request Info
http://admissions.uic.edu/appl...External Subdomain Apply Now
https://give.uic.edu/?utm_sour...External Subdomain Give
http://advance.uic.edu/alumni-...External Subdomain Alumni Association
/about/contact-us/?utm_source=...Text duplicate Contact Us
https://reportaconcern.uic.edu/External Subdomain Report a Concern
https://www.facebook.com/uic.eduExternal Subdomain facebook
https://twitter.com/thisisuicExternal twitter
https://instagram.com/thisisuic/External instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/t...External Subdomain youtube
http://uicscience.tumblr.com/External Subdomain tumblr
https://news.uic.edu/social-me...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
more
https://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
http://www.uillinois.edu/External Subdomain University of Illinois System
http://www.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Urbana-Champaign
http://www.uis.edu/External Subdomain Springfield

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.uic.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.59 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.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (191 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 02 Apr 2025 02:20:35 GMT
servernginx/1.27.2
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
last-modifiedTue, 29 Oct 2024 14:22:56 GMT
etagW/"6720efc0-2fc9f"
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-encodinggzip
transfer-encodingchunked
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,915 referring domains.
This page has 31,832 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,461 different ip addresses.

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www.uic.edu
University of Illinois Chicago
Located in the heart of one of the world’s great cities, the University of Illinois Chicago is a vital part of the educational, technological and cultural fabric of the region. As Chicago’s only public research university with more than 33,000 students, 16 colleges, a hospital and a health sciences system, UIC provides students access to excellence and opportunity.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
University66%Check
Chicago62%Check
UIC62%Check
Illinois62%Check
Illinois Chicago62%Check
Research University58%Check
Public Research University55%Check
Student54%Check
Students50%Check
Tuition50%Check
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