Globalscholars.yale.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
55% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.05 s
File size
43.50 kB
Words
423
Media files
5
Number of links
65 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome | Yale Young Global Scholars
The length of the page title is perfect. (349 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)
https://globalscholars.yale.edu/welcome
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=10, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 423 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22% 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.
4 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 14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=10, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (19). We recommend using a maximum of 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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
.../files/homepage_banner_2024_1956x700.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...fault/files/resize/images/4(1)-30x30.pngNo alt attribute provided
...fault/files/resize/images/3(1)-30x30.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../default/files/resize/images/6-30x30.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../public/yygs_pr_logo_1.jpg?itok=WExATXRUNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Yale Young Global Scholars
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Yale Young Global Scholars
H1 Welcome
H1 About
H1 Sessions
H1 Apply
H1 Tuition & Aid
H1 YYGS Residential
H1 Alumni
H1 COVID Updates
H2 Follow Us!
H2 Latest Updates
H3 Yale Young African Scholars
H4 INSPIRED MINDS, GLOBAL CONNECTIONS.
H4 THE YYGS APPLICATION IS NOW OPEN!
H4 SUMMER 2025 OFFERINGS:
H4 Session I Residential (June 22-July 4)
H4 Session II Residential (July 6 - July 18)
H4 Session III Residential (July 20 - Aug 1)
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://globalscholars.yale.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale University
/about-yygs/partnersYYGS Partners
/employmentYYGS Employment
/alumniAlumni
https://globalscholars.yale.edu/Yale Young Global Scholars
A-TITLE Home
/aboutAbout
/how-to-applyHow to Apply
/eligibilityEligibility
/tuitionTuition & Aid
/academicsAcademics
/residential-lifeResidential Life
/covid-updatesCOVID Updates
/how-to-applyText duplicate How to Apply
https://apply.globalscholars.y...Nofollow External Subdomain mailing list
/node/1720Innovations in Science & Technology (IST I)
/node/1450Literature, Philosophy, & Culture (LPC I)
/node/1451Politics Law & Economics (PLE I)
/node/1452Solving Global Challenges (SGC I)
/node/1720Innovations in Science & Technology (IST II)
/node/1450Literature, Philosophy, & Culture (LPC II)
/node/1451Politics Law & Economics (PLE II)
/node/1452Solving Global Challenges (SGC II)
/node/1720Innovations in Science & Technology (IST III)
/node/1450Literature, Philosophy, & Culture (LPC III)
/node/1451Politics Law & Economics (PLE III)
/node/1452Solving Global Challenges (SGC III)
https://instagram.com/yaleygs/New window Nofollow External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/yaleygsNew window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@yaleygsNew window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/yaleygsNew window Nofollow External Subdomain YouTube
http://www.tiktok.com/@yaleygsNew window Nofollow External Subdomain TikTok
http://instagram.com/yaleygs/New window Nofollow External Instagram Stories
/webinarsNew window Nofollow Subdomain live webinar series
/news/yale-young-global-schola...No Text
/news/yale-young-global-schola...Yale Young Global Scholars Opens Application for Summer 2025
/newsMore news...
http://africanscholars.yale.edu/New window Nofollow External Subdomain YYAS is our sister program
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale
https://usability.yale.edu/web...External Subdomain Accessibility at Yale
http://www.yale.edu/privacy-po...External Subdomain Privacy policy
/node/1823Text duplicate About
/node/1459Contact
/node/31Vision & Mission
/node/1363History
/node/1340Our Team
/node/1446Employment
/node/103Give
/node/59Digital Flyers
/node/1343Our Program
/node/1720IST
/node/1450LPC
/node/1451PLE
/node/1452SGC
/node/501Text duplicate How to Apply
/node/1455Deadlines
/node/1367Text duplicate Eligibility
/node/1366Required Components
/node/1447Session Offerings & Dates
/node/1368Preview Application
/node/1739Common Questions
/node/1406Webinars
/node/41Tuition
/node/1346Need-Based Financial Aid
/node/101Partners for Access
/node/1347Scholarships
/node/1348Tuition Fundraising
/node/189YYGS Residential
/node/1428Visa & ESTA
/node/1427Arrival & Departure
/node/1424Packing Checklist
/node/1429Health Insurance
/node/1432Rules & Regulations
/node/1434Text duplicate Common Questions
/node/1826Student Feedback
/node/581Text duplicate Alumni
/node/1709Covid Updates

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://globalscholars.yale.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 is excellent with 0.05 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlpublic, max-age=21600
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
etagW/"1726753446-0"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedThu, 19 Sep 2024 13:44:06 GMT
link</welcome>; rel="canonical",</node/1>; rel="shortlink"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31622400
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe3-b-66bdb8b744-vfs4x
x-styx-req-id09ec0e12-7694-11ef-8e08-fed2db9c91e8
dateThu, 19 Sep 2024 17:06:41 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100035-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230155-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits1, 4
x-timerS1726765601.043022,VS0,VE4
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
age9235
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length12998
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 701 referring domains.
This page has 2,524 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 565 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

# Biblio module rules to prevent recursive searches by bots.
Disallow: /biblio/export/
Disallow: /biblio?*
Disallow: /biblio?page=*&*
Disallow: /publications/export/
Disallow: /publications?*
Disallow: /publications?page=*&*
Disallow: /user/*/biblio*
Allow: /biblio?page=*
Allow: /publications?page=*

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globalscholars.yale.edu
Welcome | Yale Young Global Scholars

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Yale84%Check
Global84%Check
Scholars79%Check
Yale Young Global Scholars78%Check
Yale Young75%Check
Young66%Check
Yale University61%Check
Welcome50%Check
YYGS49%Check
Residential47%Check

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