Harvardonline.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
151.20 kB
Words
967
Media files
2
Number of links
50 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Harvard Online
The page title is too short. (137 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Harvard Online presents curated online courses that combine faculty and disciplines from across the University, connecting learners around the globe with the world’s most urgent issues.
The meta description is too long: 1143 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/
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)
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
descriptionHarvard Online presents curated online courses that combine faculty and disciplines from across the University, connecting learners around the globe with the world’s most urgent issues.
geo.placenameHarvard Online
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GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardphoto
twitter:titleHarvard Online
twitter:site@harvardonline
twitter:urlhttps://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/
twitter:image:altHarvard Online
twitter:imagehttps://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2022-01/Sanders-Hall-Photo%20Credit_Kris%20Snibbe_Harvard%20University.jpg
og:determinerHarvard Online
og:site_nameHarvard Online
og:urlhttps://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/
og:titleHarvard Online
og:descriptionHarvard Online presents curated online courses that combine faculty and disciplines from across the University, connecting learners around the globe with the world’s most urgent issues.
og:imagehttps://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2022-01/Sanders-Hall-Photo%20Credit_Kris%20Snibbe_Harvard%20University.jpg
og:image:urlhttps://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2022-01/Sanders-Hall-Photo%20Credit_Kris%20Snibbe_Harvard%20University.jpg
og:image:secure_urlhttps://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2022-01/Sanders-Hall-Photo%20Credit_Kris%20Snibbe_Harvard%20University.jpg
ImageToolbarfalse
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 967 words. That's ok.
35% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
17 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 19.2 words is good.
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.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: on data privacy and technology
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)
The HTML has georegion information: Harvard Online
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Harvard Online
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Harvard Online
H1 New Course
H2 Outsmarting Implicit Bias
H2 What are you interested in?
H2 Benefit and Discount Programs for Organizations and Individuals
H2 Trending Courses
H2 Learner Testimonials
H2 Join our list to learn more
H3 Health Care Leadership
H3 Harvard on Digital
H3 Leadership, Communication, Transformation
H3 Law in Practice
H3 Experience Harvard Online by utilizing our wide variety of discount programs for individuals and groups.
H3 Data Science Principles
H3 Health Care Economics
H3 Data Privacy and Technology
H4 Past Participant Discounts
H4 Non-profit, Government, Military, and Education Discounts
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 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 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Harvard Online
A-TITLE Home
/courses-pageCourses
/learning-paths/harvard-on-dig...HARVARD ON DIGITAL>>
/course/big-data-social-goodBig Data for Social Good
/course/data-science-businessData Science for Business
/course/data-science-principlesData Science Principles
/course/data-privacy-technologyData Privacy and Technology
/course/open-innovationOpen Innovation
/learning-paths/health-care-le...HEALTH CARE LEADERSHIP>>
/course/innovations-teamwork-h...Innovations in Teamwork for Health Care
/course/digital-healthDigital Health
/course/health-care-economicsHealth Care Economics
/course/health-care-strategyHealth Care Strategy
A-TITLE Health Care Strategy
/course/reducing-racial-dispar...Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care
/series/leadershipLEADERSHIP, COMMUNICATION, AND TRANSFORMATION>>
/course/adaptive-leadershipComing Soon: Adaptive Leadership
/node/358Subdomain Outsmarting Implicit Bias
/course/strategy-execution-pub...Strategy Execution for Public Leadership
/series/law-practiceLAW IN PRACTICE>>
/course/financial-analysis-val...Financial Analysis and Valuation for Lawyers
/courses-pageView All Courses
/seriesLearning Paths
/learning-paths/harvard-on-dig...Harvard on Digital
/learning-paths/health-care-le...Health Care Leadership
/learning-pathsView All Learning Paths
/community-learnersLearner Stories
/blogBlog
/harvard-online-organizationsFor Organizations
/aboutAbout
/faqFAQ
/aboutLearn More
/node/358Text duplicate Outsmarting Implicit Bias
/node/358Apply Now
/learning-paths/health-care-le...Read More >
/learning-paths/harvard-on-dig...Text duplicate Read More >
/series/leadershipText duplicate Read More >
/series/law-practiceText duplicate Read More >
/node/28Explore Learning Paths
/node/92Learn more here
https://www.edx.org/school/har...New window External Subdomain edX platform
https://harvard.az1.qualtrics....External Subdomain Click here to apply for these discounts.
/harvard-online-organizationsNew window Subdomain Learn more and enroll your team
/course/data-science-principlesTrivial anchor text
Read More
/course/health-care-economicsText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/course/data-privacy-technologyText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/node/85Explore All Courses
/Anchor Back to top
https://twitter.com/HarvardOnlineNew window External Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.facebook.com/harva...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/harv...New window External Subdomain Instagram
/node/332Text duplicate For Organizations
/course-policiesCourse Policies and Discounts
https://accessibility.harvard....External Subdomain Accessibility
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/contact-usContact Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.harvardonline.harvard.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 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (151 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1731104556"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 08 Nov 2024 22:22:36 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheMISS
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
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x-styx-req-idf4eba64e-9e1f-11ef-80b1-1ef6d6bdce0c
dateSun, 10 Nov 2024 04:51:35 GMT
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 703 referring domains.
This page has 5,591 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 536 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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/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
# OneTrust Token
Disallow: /onetrust/token

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www.harvardonline.harvard.edu
Harvard Online
Harvard Online presents curated online courses that combine faculty and disciplines from across the University, connecting learners around the globe with the world’s most urgent issues.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Harvard89%Check
Online89%Check
Harvard Online89%Check
Experience Harvard Online73%Check
Harvard Online program73%Check
Online Courses71%Check
Harvard Online presents curated71%Check
presents curated online courses59%Check
Course54%Check
Learn54%Check

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