flexible.learning.ubc.ca | Website SEO Review

Response time

1.35 s

File size

61.40 kB

Words

496

Media files

13

Number of links

56 internal / 18 external

Meta specifications 79% achieved

Title

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Home Page | Flexible Learning

The length of the page title is perfect. (278 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

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Flexible learning is a comprehensive strategy that’s changing how, when and where UBC students learn. It boosts reasoning and retention, and lets students customize their experience to meet long-term educational and professional goals.

The meta description is too long: 1466 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description

Meta Description

Crawlability

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There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

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https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

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Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en-us

Server location: United States of America

The following language is defined by HTML: en-us

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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No parameters were found in the URL.

No session ID was found in the URL.

The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
viewport	width=device-width
robots	max-image-preview:large
template	UBC Collab 1.0.5
description	Flexible learning is a comprehensive strategy that’s changing how, when and where UBC students learn. It boosts reasoning and retention, and lets students customize their experience to meet long-term educational and professional goals.
lang	en-us
Content-Type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge,chrome=1

Page quality 67% achieved

Content

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There are only 496 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

24.6% of the text are stop words.

The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.

7 paragraphs were found on this page.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

The average number of words per sentence of 19.71 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

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This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

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This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.

A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

Additional markup

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No additional page markup was found.

HTTPS

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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
.../files/2015/03/landing-page-pillar-1.png	Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning
.../files/2015/03/landing-page-pillar-2.png	Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education
.../files/2015/03/landing-page-pillar-3.png	Pillar 3: Improved student experience
.../files/2015/03/landing-page-pillar-4.png	Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization
.../files/2015/03/landing-page-pillar-5.png	Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs
.../files/2015/03/landing-page-pillar-6.png	Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships
....ca/files/2015/03/fl-benefits-choice.png	fl-benefits-choice
...a/files/2015/03/fl-benefits-stronger.png	fl-benefits-stronger
...a/files/2015/03/fl-benefits-learning.png	fl-benefits-learning
....ca/files/2015/03/fl-benefits-access.png	fl-benefits-access
...files/2015/03/where-to-start-support.png	where-to-start-support
...ca/files/2015/03/where-to-start-news.png	where-to-start-news
...t.ubc.ca/files/2015/03/contact-us-bg.png	contact-us-bg

Page structure 93% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Home Page

The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Home Page
H2	What is Flexible Learning?
H2	What's our approach?
H2	What are the benefits?
H2	How do I get involved?
H3	For instructors:
H3	For students:
H3	For all:
H3	Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning
H3	Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education
H3	Pillar 3: Improved student experience
H3	Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization
H3	Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs
H3	Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships
H3	How does it work?

Link structure 85% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 18 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	The University of British Columbia A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/apl...	External Subdomain	UBC - A Place of Mind A-TITLE UBC a place of mind
https://www.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/	Subdomain	Flexible Learning A-TITLE Flexible Learning
https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/	Subdomain	Home
/our-approach/	Subdomain	Our Approach
/our-approach/pillar-1-transfo...	Subdomain	Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning
/our-approach/pillar-2-expande...	Subdomain	Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education
/our-approach/pillar-3-improve...	Subdomain	Pillar 3: Improved student experience
/our-approach/pillar-4-enhance...	Subdomain	Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization
/our-approach/pillar-5-extende...	Subdomain	Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs
/our-approach/pillar-6-strengt...	Subdomain	Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships
/get-started/	Subdomain	Get Started
/get-started/courses-workshops/	Subdomain	Courses + workshops
/get-started/find-funding/	Subdomain	Find funding
/get-started/funded-projects/	Subdomain	Funded projects
/get-started/reports-resources/	Subdomain	Reports + resources
/about-edx-edge/	Subdomain	About edX edge at UBC
/get-started/get-involved-find...	Subdomain	Get involved + find support
/research-evidence/	Subdomain	Research + Evidence
/research-evidence/research-ar...	Subdomain	Research articles
/research-evidence/research-ar...	Subdomain	Flipped classroom
/research-evidence/research-ar...	Subdomain	Peer assessment + feedback
/research-evidence/research-ar...	Subdomain	Blended learning
/research-evidence/research-ar...	Subdomain	Community engagement
/research-evidence/research-ar...	Subdomain	Experiential learning
/research-evidence/case-studies/	Subdomain	Case studies
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	News + Events
/fl-news-and-views/	Subdomain	News
/fl-news-and-views/edubytes/	Subdomain	Edubytes
/fl-news-and-views/digital-lea...	Subdomain	Digital Learning Blog
/for-tas/	Subdomain	For TAs
/for-tas/benefits-for-tas/	Subdomain	Benefits for TAs
/for-tas/resources-support/	Subdomain	Resources + support
/for-students/	Subdomain	For Students
/for-students/benefits-for-stu...	Subdomain	Benefits for students
/for-students/find-courses-sup...	Subdomain	Courses + support
https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/	Anchor	A-TITLE next slide
/our-approach/pillar-1-transfo...	Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning
/our-approach/pillar-1-transfo...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning
/our-approach/pillar-1-transfo...	Subdomain	Read more > A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 1: Transformed teaching + learning
/our-approach/pillar-2-expande...	Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education
/our-approach/pillar-2-expande...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education
/our-approach/pillar-2-expande...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Read more > A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 2: Expanded career + personal education
/our-approach/pillar-3-improve...	Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Pillar 3: Improved student experience A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 3: Improved student experience
/our-approach/pillar-3-improve...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Pillar 3: Improved student experience A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 3: Improved student experience
/our-approach/pillar-3-improve...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Read more > A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 3: Improved student experience
/our-approach/pillar-4-enhance...	Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization
/our-approach/pillar-4-enhance...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization
/our-approach/pillar-4-enhance...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Read more > A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 4: Enhanced personalization
/our-approach/pillar-5-extende...	Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs
/our-approach/pillar-5-extende...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs
/our-approach/pillar-5-extende...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Read more > A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 5: Extended bridging programs
/our-approach/pillar-6-strengt...	Subdomain Text duplicate	IMG-ALT Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships
/our-approach/pillar-6-strengt...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships
/our-approach/pillar-6-strengt...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Read more > A-TITLE See More on: Pillar 6: Strengthened academic partnerships
/our-approach		See our approach > A-TITLE See our approach
https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/	Anchor Text duplicate	A-TITLE next slide
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	Research
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	case studies A-TITLE Case studies
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	See research + evidence > A-TITLE Research + Evidence
https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/	Anchor Text duplicate	A-TITLE next slide
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT where-to-start-support A-TITLE Get started
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	See get started > A-TITLE Get started
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT where-to-start-news A-TITLE News + events
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	See news + events > A-TITLE News + events
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT contact-us-bg A-TITLE Contact
https://flexible-learning2015....	External Subdomain	See contact > A-TITLE Contact
https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/	Anchor Text duplicate	A-TITLE next slide
https://www.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/eme...	External Subdomain	Emergency Procedures A-TITLE Emergency Procedures
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/terms	External Subdomain	Terms of Use A-TITLE Terms of Use
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/cop...	External Subdomain	Copyright A-TITLE UBC Copyright
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/acc...	External Subdomain	Accessibility A-TITLE Accessibility

Server configuration 0% achieved

HTTP redirects

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This page redirects to "https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

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The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.

The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.

The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)

HTTP headers

Performance

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The page response time is slow (1.35 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 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.

This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (61 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:51:45 GMT
server	Apache/2.4.57 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/3.0.7
x-powered-by	PHP/8.2.18
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
link	<https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/133>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/>; rel=shortlink
connection	close
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie	49 Characters
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/1.1

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 135 referring domains.

This page has 405 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 114 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*/*.css
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Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wp-hybrid-clf/
Disallow: /trackback
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flexible.learning.ubc.ca

Home Page | Flexible Learning

Flexible learning is a comprehensive strategy that’s changing how, when and where UBC students learn. It boosts reasoning and retention, and lets students customize their experience to meet long-term educational and professional goals.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Learning	81%	Check
Flexible Learning	80%	Check
Flexible	75%	Check
learning experience	68%	Check
students learn	67%	Check
Page	63%	Check
UBC	59%	Check
Experiential Learning	59%	Check
Digital Learning	59%	Check
student	56%	Check
experience	52%	Check
education	52%	Check
Students	50%	Check
educational	46%	Check
professional	46%	Check
customize	46%	Check
meet	46%	Check
long-term	46%	Check
goals	46%	Check
retention	46%	Check
long-term educational	46%	Check
personal	44%	Check
Pillar	43%	Check
Benefits	42%	Check
programs	40%	Check

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Page quality 67% achieved

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Page structure 93% achieved

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Link structure 85% achieved

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