Mco.mass.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.09 s
File size
81.90 kB
Words
529
Media files
8
Number of links
32 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage - Massachusetts Colleges Online
The length of the page title is perfect. (400 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://www.mco.mass.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

NameValue
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorPowered by Visual Composer - drag and drop page builder for WordPress.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
TagPages1.64
article:published_time2013-11-26T09:10:02+00:00
article:modified_time2017-09-28T20:45:59+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleHomepage - Massachusetts Colleges Online
og:localeen_US
og:site_nameMassachusetts Colleges Online - Explore Online Learning
og:typearticle
og:titleHomepage - Massachusetts Colleges Online
og:urlhttps://www.mco.mass.edu/
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
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 529 words. That's ok.
34.8% 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.
9 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 12.44 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 tags for this page.
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
...017/07/mco-LOGO-FinalRevision_391x65.pngMassachusetts Colleges Online
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngStudent with laptopbanner-student-in-red
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngStudent in library typing on a laptopbanner-student-in-library
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngWoman at home reading from her laptopbanner-woman-at-home
.../revslider/admin/assets/images/dummy.pngOld man on a couch reading from a tabletbanner-older-man-on-couch
...11/iStock_000008179802Medium-768x512.jpgStudent with laptop computer
...3/11/headshots-tiles-3x3-600-300x300.jpgheadshots-tiles-3×3-600
...09/GPSTEM-logo-circle-e1506620622836.pngGuided Pathways to STEM LogoGPSTEM

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage Content
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage Content
H2 Search thousands of online courses offered by Massachusetts community colleges and state universities.
H2 Search Colleges
H2 Search Programs/Degrees
H2 Search Credentials
H2 About MCO
H2 Testimonials
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.mco.mass.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.mco.mass.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Massachusetts Colleges Online
A-TITLE Massachusetts Colleges Online
/about-mco/Subdomain About MCO
/about-online-learning/Subdomain About Online Learning
/colleges/Subdomain Map of Colleges
/learn-more/Subdomain Learn More
/search/?entity=courseSubdomain Search
/search/?entity=collegeSubdomain College
/search/?entity=courseSubdomain Course
/search/?entity=credentialSubdomain Credential
/search/?entity=programSubdomain Program
/search/?entity=credentialFind a Degree or Credential
A-TITLE Credential Search
/search/?entity=courseFind A Course
A-TITLE Course Search
/search/?entity=collegeFind a College
A-TITLE College-based Search
/search/?entity=programFind a Program
A-TITLE Program Search
/search/?entity=credentialText duplicate Find a Degree or Credential
A-TITLE Credential Search
/search/?entity=courseText duplicate Find A Course
A-TITLE Course Search
/search/?entity=collegeText duplicate Find a College
A-TITLE College-based Search
/search/?entity=programText duplicate Find a Program
A-TITLE Program Search
/search/?entity=credentialText duplicate Find a Degree or Credential
A-TITLE Credential Search
/search/?entity=programText duplicate Find a Program
A-TITLE Program Search
/search/?entity=collegeText duplicate Find a College
A-TITLE College-based Search
/search/?entity=courseText duplicate Find A Course
A-TITLE Course Search
/search/?entity=credentialText duplicate Find a Degree or Credential
A-TITLE Credential Search
/search/?entity=courseText duplicate Find A Course
A-TITLE Course Search
/search/?entity=collegeText duplicate Find a College
A-TITLE College-based Search
/search/?entity=programText duplicate Find a Program
A-TITLE Program Search
/search/?entity=collegeSearch Colleges
A-TITLE College-based Search
/search/?entity=programSearch Programs
A-TITLE Program Search
/search/?entity=credentialSearch Credentials
A-TITLE Credential-based Search
http://masscc.org/gpstemExternal IMG-ALT Guided Pathways to STEM Logo
http://masscc.org/gpstemExternal Guided Pathways to STEM
http://www.massstateuniversiti...External Subdomain MA State Universities Executive Office
http://www.masscc.org/about-mc...External Subdomain Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges (MACC)
https://www.mco.mass.edu/wp-adminSubdomain Admin Dashboard
https://www.mco.mass.edu/Anchor No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mco.mass.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 slow (1.09 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (82 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateWed, 22 May 2024 06:27:05 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
link<https://www.mco.mass.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-httpd-modphp1
host-header8441280b0c35cbc1147f8ba998a563a7
x-proxy-cacheHIT
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 47 referring domains.
This page has 582 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 42 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

Sitemap: https://www.mco.mass.edu/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mco.mass.edu/sitemap.rss

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Mass65%Check
Homepage62%Check
Colleges56%Check
Colleges Online55%Check
Massachusetts Colleges Online55%Check
MCO52%Check
Massachusetts52%Check
Content52%Check
Online51%Check
Community Colleges49%Check
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