Graduate.nichols.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
88% 
External factors
90% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.66 s
File size
109.50 kB
Words
1200
Media files
27
Number of links
48 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Nichols College - The Graduate School
The length of the page title is perfect. (350 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Nichols College graduate degree programs offer a distinctive educational experience that sets them apart from other institutions.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (788 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://graduate.nichols.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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
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

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twitter:label1Est. reading time
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1200 words. That's ok.
35.9% 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.
25 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.65 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" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: read more
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
26 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Graduate School
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Graduate School
H2 How is a Nichols Graduate Degree Different?
H2 Distinguish Yourself From the Crowd with a Nichols Graduate Degree
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Meet Ronnie Joseph ’21 (MSOL ’23)
H2 Flexible Learning
H2 Online Classes
H2 Accelerated Semesters
H2 Off Hour Support
H2 Our Graduates Work For
H2 By the Numbers
H2 5 yrs
H2 #13
H2 #2
H2 The Unparalleled Value of a Nichols Graduate Degree
H2 Meet us at an event
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 The Graduate School Blog
H2 Search
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 4 links with a trivial 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 25 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://graduate.nichols.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://graduate.nichols.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Nichols College
/about/Subdomain About
/admissions-requirements/Subdomain Admissions
/programs/Subdomain Programs
/career-paths/Subdomain Career Outcomes
/about/calendar-and-schedule/Subdomain Calendar & Schedule
/about/college-catalog/Subdomain College Catalog
/faculty/Subdomain Faculty
/about/directions-campus-map/Subdomain Directions & Campus Map
/about/graduate-assistants/Subdomain Graduate Assistants
/blog/Subdomain Blog
/advisory-council/Subdomain Advisory Council
/admissions-requirements/Subdomain Admissions Requirements
/scholarships/Subdomain Scholarships
/tuition-and-fees/Subdomain Tuition and Fees
/international-students/Subdomain International Students
/military/Subdomain Military & First Responders
/degrees/executive-mba/Subdomain Executive MBA
/degrees/master-of-business-ad...Subdomain MBA
/degrees/master-of-science-in-...Subdomain MSA
/degrees/master-of-science-in-...Subdomain MSOL
/degrees/master-of-science-in-...Subdomain MSC
/certificates/Subdomain Certificates
/programs/4-plus-1-program/Subdomain 4+1 Program
/career-paths/Subdomain Text duplicate Career Outcomes
/business-partnerships/Subdomain Business Partnerships
/academic-partnerships/Subdomain Academic Partnerships
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...External Subdomain Information Sessions
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...External Subdomain Apply
https://alumni.nichols.edu/External Subdomain Alumni
https://alumni.nichols.edu/donateExternal Subdomain Donate
https://nichols.onelogin.com/External Subdomain OneLogin
/programs/Subdomain Master’s Programs
/certificates/New window Subdomain Certificate Programs
/business-partnerships/Subdomain Partnerships
/blog/meet-ronnie-joseph/New window Subdomain Meet Ronnie
/programs/Subdomain Our Programs →
http://payscale.com/External payscale.com
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...New window External Subdomain Graduate Events
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...New window External Subdomain Apply to Nichols
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...New window External Subdomain Request Information
https://youtu.be/huz46RWDgZUExternal No Text
https://youtu.be/qO5Sz31pmeoExternal No Text
https://youtu.be/30Ja780E24YExternal No Text
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...External Subdomain View All Events
/blog/emba-executive-leadership/Subdomain How an EMBA Prepares You for Executive Leadership
/blog/emba-executive-leadership/New window Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blog/tips-for-success-and-car...New window Subdomain Tips for Success and Career Advancement in the MBA Program
/blog/tips-for-success-and-car...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blog/crisis-management-and-le...Subdomain Crisis Management and Leadership
/blog/crisis-management-and-le...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blog/balancing-work-life-and-...Subdomain Balancing Work, Life, and Advanced Education in the Executive MBA Program at Nichols College
/blog/balancing-work-life-and-...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...External Subdomain Text duplicate Information Sessions
/about/calendar-and-schedule/Subdomain Calendar
/blog/Subdomain Text duplicate Blog
https://nichols.onelogin.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate OneLogin
https://hub.nichols.edu/External Subdomain Nichols Hub
/about/college-catalog/Subdomain Text duplicate College Catalog
https://alumni.nichols.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni
/about/directions-campus-map/Subdomain Directions
/offices/human-resources/Subdomain Employment
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy
https://graduate.nichols.edu/Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Nicho...New window External Subdomain Nichols Facebook
https://twitter.com/NC_GPSNew window External Nichols Twitter
https://instagram.com/nichols_...New window External Nichols Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...New window External Subdomain Nichols Youtube
https://alumni.nichols.edu/donateExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Donate
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...External Subdomain Events
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...External Subdomain Text duplicate Request Information
https://slate.nichols.edu/port...External Subdomain Text duplicate Apply

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://graduate.nichols.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 of 0.66 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (110 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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access-control-allow-methodsPOST, GET
access-control-allow-headersOrigin, X-Requested-With, Content-type, Accept
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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is very well linked from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 29 referring domains.
This page has 81 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 28 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Nichols College - The Graduate School
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