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Meta information
66% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.74 s
File size
80.70 kB
Words
388
Media files
22
Number of links
39 internal / 44 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Berkeley News
The page title is too short. (134 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Berkeley News is UC Berkeley’s main news and information engine. Stories are posted daily by the team of writers, editors and digital media producers in the Editorial Services and Media Relations sections of the Office of Communications and Public Affairs.
The meta description is too long: 1582 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://news.berkeley.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
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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
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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.
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 388 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 23 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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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...nt/uploads/2025/02/AmyTanoutside1500.jpgAuthor Amy Tan is outdoors, wearing warm clothes, binoculars and holding a sketch book where she makes drawings and notes.
...6/20210427_Supermoon_AVL_5805-scaled.jpgThe Campanile in the evening, with a pinkish sky and a supermoon in the background, where you can also see the Golden Gate Bridge.
...tent/uploads/2025/02/kara02112024_v2.pngA collage showing headshots of Stuart Russell, Kristin Persson,  David Schaffer, Victoria Coleman and Margaret Torn.
.../2025/02/Both-Eyes-Open_Gotanda-1000.jpgTwo actors, who play Jinzo and Catherine in the opera Both Eyes Open, kneel together, holding hands
...loads/2025/02/MaxRodmanhome2025-1500.jpgAfter the Palisades Fire, student Max Rodman looks at the rubble that once was his family home. His knee is wrapped because he was recovering from surgery.
...fornia_Diablo_Wind_24292817251568_BN.jpgSmoke emerges from forested hills. In the foreground, two fire trucks aim streams of water at a vulnerable home. Overhead, an aircraft releases a plume of red flame retardant chemicals.
..._California_Wildfires_25007850011180.jpgA helicopter in the center frame drops water on a fire as yellowish smoke clouds the sky.
...nt/uploads/2025/01/Frogs_hero-scaled.jpgbrown frog with yellow stripe on side, sitting on a brown leaf
...oads/2025/02/101-COEVOLUTION-STILL-1.jpgUC Berkeley professor Noah Whiteman.
...2/20250122_DorsalGrasper_AVL_0250_BN.jpgA person is pictured holding their arm above a table. A device is strapped to the back of the person's wrist and hand, and the device is grasping a yellow tennis ball.
...content/uploads/2025/02/Illustration.jpgAn illustration shows a man being manipulated like a string puppet by a disembodied hand.
...Shrew-on-Natural-Background-THUMB_BN.jpgA close up of a small shrew sitting in grass and leaves.
...n_White-House-Effect_001-copy-scaled.jpgA still from
...uploads/2025/01/Steve-Brian-and-team.jpgfour people, the left two wearing name tags, stand in front of a blue backdrop that says Columbia University. They are smiling broadly.
.../02/berkeley-talks_medical-debt-2560.jpga doctor writes in a notebook while she examines medicine held in the other hand
...ds/2025/01/berkeley-voices-fear-2560.jpgline drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head
...man-jaffer-education-category-16x9-1.jpgArman Jaffer
...tent/uploads/2025/02/Michael-Burawoy.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/2025/01/Jennifer-Chayes.jpgJennifer Chayes
...01/Chancellor-Rich-Lyons-library-972.jpgUniversity Librarian Suzanne Wones (left) and UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons talk onstage in front of an audience of 260-plus guests at this year’s Luncheon in the Library.
...try/dist/imgs/logo-berkeley-gold.svg?v=3UC Berkeley

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
UC Berkeley News home
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 UC Berkeley News home
H1 Home
H2 Amy Tan archive lands at UC Berkeley, offering a bird’s-eye view of a singular literary life
H2 UC updates on federal policy issues
H2 Five UC Berkeley faculty named to National Academy of Engineering
H2 For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.
H2 Spotlight: LA wildfires
H2 Research
H2 In pursuit of a poison frog — and a culturally appropriate name
H2 Watch a professor explain the evolutionary war that gave us caffeine
H2 New device helps people with spinal cord injuries grasp large, heavy objects
H2 Why conspiracies are so popular — and what we can do to stop them
H2 California’s most elusive mammal photographed for the first time
H2 Arts & culture
H2 Podcasts
H2 People
H2 Campus & community
H2 About
H2 Browse News
H2 Connect
H2 Campus resources
H3 After the LA wildfires, stories emerge at UC Berkeley of great loss, support and strength
H3 Is the Bay Area prepared for major wildfires?
H3 Health, housing and the path ahead: UC Berkeley researchers on the Los Angeles fires
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (44) on this page.

Found links on this page

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/2025/01/31/this-bampfa-docume...Subdomain This BAMPFA documentary series explores the unseen side of climate change
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/category/people/Subdomain More People
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https://cdss.berkeley.edu/news...External Subdomain Jennifer Chayes reappointed as CDSS dean for five-year term
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https://give.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Give
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https://www.berkeley.edu/heerf...External Subdomain HEERF Report
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https://www.berkeley.edu/atoz/External Subdomain Websites A-Z
https://www.berkeley.edu/direc...External Subdomain Directory
https://www.berkeley.edu/map/External Subdomain Map
https://dac.berkeley.edu/web-a...External Subdomain Accessibility
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://news.berkeley.edu/"
HTTP header
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The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.74 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 (81 kB).

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