Cricos.education.gov.au - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
27% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.50 s
File size
13.20 kB
Words
113
Media files
4
Number of links
9 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Australian Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS)
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 909 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
This is the official Australian Government website that lists all Australian education providers and registered courses for overseas students
The length of the meta description is perfect. (850 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
TitleThe Australian Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS)
DescriptionThis is the official Australian Government website that lists all Australian education providers and registered courses for overseas students
KeywordsAustralian Education providers,Course Search,Institution Search,CRICOS Contacts,Study In Australia,CRICOS, Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 113 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 41 words is high.
31% 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.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 95 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"welcome to the commonwealth register of institutions and courses for overseas students (cricos)"
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/Dept-Education_Inline_Rev.pngAustralian Government - Department of Education
/images/cricos.gifCRICOS - Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students
/Images/Maps/none.gifAustralian Map
/images/TopOfPage.gifTop

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Course Search
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Course Search
H1 Institution Search
There are too few (9) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://cricos.education.gov.au/Anchor Skip to main content
/default.aspxIMG-ALT CRICOS - Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students
/default.aspxHome
/Course/CourseSearch.aspxCourse Search
/Institution/InstitutionSearch...Institution Search
/Contacts/CRICOSContacts.aspxCRICOS Contacts
https://studyaustralia.gov.au/New window External Study Australia
https://data.gov.au/data/datas...New window External CRICOS on data.gov.au
/Course/CourseSearch.aspxText duplicate Course Search
/Institution/InstitutionSearch...Text duplicate Institution Search
https://www.education.gov.au/e...New window External Subdomain Additional information about registration of institutions and courses for overseas students
https://www.education.gov.au/New window External Subdomain Department of Education
https://www.education.gov.au/c...New window External Subdomain Copyright © Commonwealth of Australia
https://www.education.gov.au/u...New window External Subdomain Department of Education Web Site Privacy Statement
https://www.education.gov.au/u...New window External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://cricos.education.gov.au/Anchor IMG-ALT Top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://cricos.education.gov.au/"
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 is slow (1.50 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 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-dt-tracestate4f6fe859-900f9d9f@dt
traceresponse00-feac48471fb37e5ba5e2347a47b4a9e8-8d4680536e38c9da-01
set-cookie85 Characters
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policysame-origin
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-security-policydefault-src 'self'; child-src 'self'; connect-src 'self' https://maps.googleapis.com; object-src 'none'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https://maps.googleapis.com https://ssl.google-analytics.com; img-src 'self' https://maps.googleapis.com https://maps.gstatic.com https://ssl.google-analytics.com data:; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://fonts.googleapis.com; font-src 'self' https://fonts.gstatic.com https://fonts.googleapis.com;
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), camera=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), payment=(), usb=()
x-oneagent-js-injectiontrue
x-ruxit-js-agenttrue
server-timingdtSInfo;desc="0", dtRpid;desc="1144457482"
dateMon, 03 Feb 2025 01:14:21 GMT
connectionclose
content-length13546
xappdeliveryNew
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 890 referring domains.
This page has 244,037 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 747 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Tells robots such as googlebot where they can and can't go.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /aspnet_client
Disallow: /bin
Disallow: /Common
Disallow: /Contacts
Disallow: /Course
Disallow: /Help
Disallow: /Images
Disallow: /Institution
Disallow: /Services
Disallow: /*.axd$
Disallow: /ScriptResource.axd
Disallow: /WebResource.axd

Sitemap: /Sitemap.xml

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cricos.education.gov.au
The Australian Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses fo...
This is the official Australian Government website that lists all Australian education providers and registered courses for overseas students

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Course79%Check
CRICOS65%Check
Register64%Check
Overseas Students64%Check
Courses63%Check
Overseas63%Check
Students63%Check
education61%Check
Australian education60%Check
Australian59%Check
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