Courses.students.ubc.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
27% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.80 s
File size
12.70 kB
Words
126
Media files
4
Number of links
18 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | University of British Columbia
The length of the page title is perfect. (379 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)
http://courses.students.ubc.ca/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 126 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 7.57 words is low.
31% of the text are stop words.
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.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...s/custom/ergo/serve/svg/logo-sm-blue.svgUniversity of British Columbia Logo
...custom/ergo/serve/svg/logo-full-blue.svgUniversity of British Columbia Logo
..._logo/2023-01/ubc_logo.png?itok=llxd0nXjUBC logo
...ustom/ergo/serve/svg/logo-full-white.svgUniversity of British Columbia Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Help
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Help
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 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://courses.students.ubc.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
/browse-coursesBrowse Courses
A-TITLE Browse Courses
/course-searchSearch Courses
A-TITLE Search Courses
http://courses.students.ubc.ca/IMG-ALT University of British Columbia Logo
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
http://courses.students.ubc.ca/Text duplicate IMG-ALT University of British Columbia Logo
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
http://courses.students.ubc.ca/Home
A-TITLE Home
/browse-coursesCourses
A-TITLE Courses
/browse-timetablesStandard Timetables
A-TITLE Standard Timetables
/course-searchText duplicate Courses
A-TITLE Courses
/quick-helpHelp
A-TITLE Help
/browse-timetablesSubdomain Text duplicate Standard Timetables
https://myworkday.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Workday
https://facultystaff.students....External Subdomain UBC Vancouver Course Schedule
https://facultystaff.students....External Subdomain UBC Okanagan Course Schedule
/node/2Click on this link
http://courses.students.ubc.ca/Anchor Back to Top
http://courses.students.ubc.ca/Text duplicate IMG-ALT University of British Columbia Logo
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
/accessibilityAccessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility
/emergency-proceduresEmergency Procedures
A-TITLE Emergency Procedures
/terms-useTerms of Use
A-TITLE Terms of Use
/ubc-copyrightUBC Copyright
A-TITLE UBC Copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 0.80 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 only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 15 Oct 2024 16:13:12 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
transfer-encodingchunked
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 165 referring domains.
This page has 513,394 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 124 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Course51%Check
ubc50%Check
Help50%Check
Courses46%Check
students46%Check
Course Schedule43%Check
Standard39%Check
Registration39%Check
Timetable39%Check
Information39%Check
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