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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.44 s
File size
88.50 kB
Words
708
Media files
39
Number of links
72 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
North Island College
The page title is too short. (185 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Located in Campbell River, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Port Hardy and Ucluelet, North Island College offers university courses, programs, degrees, diplomas and certificates in arts, science, health, human services, business, trades, technology, fine arts & tourism
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
The meta description is too long: 1595 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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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application-name 
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msapplication-square70x70logo/images/favicon/mstile-70x70.png
msapplication-square150x150logo/images/favicon/mstile-150x150.png
msapplication-wide310x150logo/images/favicon/mstile-310x150.png
msapplication-square310x310logo/images/favicon/mstile-310x310.png
descriptionLocated in Campbell River, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Port Hardy and Ucluelet, North Island College offers university courses, programs, degrees, diplomas and certificates in arts, science, health, human services, business, trades, technology, fine arts & tourism.
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 6 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Studying at NIC means an accessible, affordable education in five stun...
  • Duplicate 2: Post-secondary is a big choice. That's why our Future Students team is...
  • Duplicate 3: We’re committed to Indigenous-led learning and Indigenous students and...
This page contains 708 words. That's ok.
28.7% 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.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.5 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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
30 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
/images/icons/back-to-top-icon.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images2/search-icon-black.pngSearch icon
/images/north-island-college-logo.svgNIC logo
/images2/search-icon.pngSearch icon
/images2/search-icon-black.pngSearch icon
/images/north-island-college-logo.svgNIC logo
/images2/search-icon.pngSearch icon
/images2/homepage-a-sea-of-opportunity.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...homepage-a-sea-of-opportunity-mobile.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images2/homepage-community-powered.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s2/homepage-community-powered-mobile.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...es2/homepage-naturally-extraordinary.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...epage-naturally-extraordinary-mobile.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...age_images/block-featured-program-50.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...age_images/block-featured-program-64.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...age_images/block-featured-program-34.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...age_images/block-featured-program-53.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...age_images/block-featured-program-55.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...page_images/block-featured-program-3.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...icons/NIC_Icon-WorkingTogether_White.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images2/homepage-map-of-nic-campuses2.jpgMap of Vancouver Island, BC showing location of NIC's campuses at Port Hardy, Campbell River, Comox Valley, Port Alberni and Ucluelet.
/images/icons/NIC_Icon-Place-Land_White.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/NIC_Icon-Care-Sun_White.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images2/homepage-grad-ceremony.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images2/homepage-myra-falls.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...icons/NIC_Icon-WorkingTogether_White.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ge-Map-Graphic-Tablet_836x510-tablet.pngMap of Vancouver Island, BC showing location of NIC's campuses at Port Hardy, Campbell River, Comox Valley, Port Alberni and Ucluelet.
/images/icons/NIC_Icon-Place-Land_White.svgNo alt attribute provided
...e-Here-To-Help-Tablet_836x504-tablet.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/NIC_Icon-Care-Sun_White.svgNo alt attribute provided
...rking-Together-Tablet_836x504-tablet.pngNo alt attribute provided
...icons/NIC_Icon-WorkingTogether_White.svgNo alt attribute provided
...mages/5739-in-the-news-thumbnail-(1).jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ages/5738-drone-to-map-gis-thumbnail.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/posts/images/5737-trades-thumbnail.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...mages/5739-in-the-news-thumbnail-(1).jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ages/5738-drone-to-map-gis-thumbnail.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/posts/images/5737-trades-thumbnail.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/images/NICI_websitefooter_CMYK_reverse.svgNIC logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Featured Programs
H2 Where you learn matters
H2 We're here to help
H2 Working Together
H2 Where you learn matters Duplicate text
H2 We're here to help Duplicate text
H2 Working Together Duplicate text
H2 NIC News
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 8 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 too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.nic.bc.ca/Anchor Skip to Content
https://www.nic.bc.ca/IMG-ALT NIC logo
/about-us/contact-us/questions/ASK A QUESTION
/student-life-support-services...myNIC LOGIN
https://calendar.nic.bc.ca/External Subdomain Academic Calendar
/programs/summer-camps/Youth Academy
https://mycourses.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Brightspace
https://careercentral.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain CareerCentral
https://selfservice.nic.bc.ca/...New window External Subdomain CE Registration
https://learnanywhere.opened.ca/New window External Subdomain Learn Anywhere
https://library.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Library & Learning Commons
https://teachanywhere.opened.ca/New window External Subdomain Teaching and Learning Supports
https://careers.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Work at NIC
/audience/employees/Employees
/admissions/applying-through-e...Apply Now
/audience/future-students/Future Students
/audience/current-students/Current Students
/international/International Students
/continuing-education/Continuing Education Students
/indigenous-students/Indigenous Students
https://www.nic.bc.ca/Text duplicate IMG-ALT NIC logo
/about-us/contact-us/questions/Text duplicate ASK A QUESTION
/student-life-support-services...Text duplicate myNIC LOGIN
https://calendar.nic.bc.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate Academic Calendar
/programs/summer-camps/Text duplicate Youth Academy
https://mycourses.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Brightspace
https://careercentral.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate CareerCentral
https://selfservice.nic.bc.ca/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate CE Registration
https://learnanywhere.opened.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn Anywhere
https://library.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Library & Learning Commons
https://teachanywhere.opened.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Teaching and Learning Supports
https://careers.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Work at NIC
/audience/employees/Text duplicate Employees
https://www.nic.bc.ca/programs/Programs and Courses
https://www.nic.bc.ca/admissions/Admissions
/financial-aid-awards/Financial Aid & Awards
/student-life-support-services/Student Life & Support Services
https://www.nic.bc.ca/about-us/About Us
/audience/future-students/Text duplicate Future Students
/audience/current-students/Text duplicate Current Students
/international/Text duplicate International Students
/continuing-education/Text duplicate Continuing Education Students
/indigenous-students/Text duplicate Indigenous Students
/admissions/applying-through-e...Text duplicate Apply Now
https://www.nic.bc.ca/programs/Programs
/admissions/applying-through-e...Apply
/programs/arts-science-and-man...Trivial anchor text
Read more
/programs/trades-apprenticeshi...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/programs/trades-apprenticeshi...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/programs/health-and-human-ser...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/programs/trades-apprenticeshi...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/programs/trades-apprenticeshi...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about-us/our-locations/Campuses
/audience/future-students/Connect
/about-us/reconciliation-indig...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about-us/our-locations/Text duplicate Campuses
/audience/future-students/Text duplicate Connect
/about-us/reconciliation-indig...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about-us/nic-news/news/NIC News
/about-us/nic-news/news/studen...NIC in the News: Student housing award
/about-us/nic-news/news/future...NIC programs for in-demand jobs receive StrongerBC funding
/about-us/nic-news/news/health...Island Health grant helps NIC trades students handle pain and stress management
/about-us/nic-news/news/studen...News Jul 25, 2024 NIC in the News: Student housing award
/about-us/nic-news/news/future...News Jul 24, 2024 NIC programs for in-demand jobs receive StrongerBC funding
/about-us/nic-news/news/health...News Jul 18, 2024 Island Health grant helps NIC trades students handle pain and stress management
https://www.nic.bc.ca/Anchor Events
https://www.nic.bc.ca/Anchor Key Dates
/student-life-support-services...View all Events
/about-us/nic-news/news/campus...Guided Campus Tour - Campbell River
/about-us/nic-news/news/campus...Guided Campus Tour - Comox Valley
/about-us/nic-news/news/orient...Live virtual session - Navigating NIC's Digital Platforms
/about-us/nic-news/news/orient...Live virtual session – Student Life
/about-us/nic-news/news/orient...Live virtual session - Supports for Success
/about-us/nic-news/news/orient...Live virtual session – Meet your North Island Students' Union
/admissions/key-dates/academic...View all Key Dates
/about-us/research/carti/Applied Research
https://careercentral.nic.bc.c...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate CareerCentral
https://foundation.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Foundation
/international/International
https://library.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Library & Learning Commons
https://teachanywhere.opened.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Teaching and Learning Supports
/student-life-support-services...Sign into myNIC
https://careers.nic.bc.ca/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Work at NIC
/audience/employees/Text duplicate Employees
/audience/recruitment-partners/For Recruitment Partners
/audience/counsellors/For Counsellors
https://foundation.nic.bc.ca/w...New window External Subdomain For Donors
/audience/current-students/For Current Students
/audience/future-students/For Future Students
/audience/parents/For Parents
/about-us/contact-us/questions/Ask a Question
/about-us/contact-us/Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/North...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/nort...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/s...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/NIC_firstNew window External No Text
https://www.nic.bc.ca/privacy/Privacy
https://www.nic.bc.ca/sitemapSite Map

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.nic.bc.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.44 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 (89 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate,no-cache
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
set-cookie74 Characters
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
x-powered-byASP.NET
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' experience.elluciancloud.ca nicollege.sharepoint.com
access-control-allow-originhttps://mynic.nic.bc.ca
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
dateThu, 01 Aug 2024 02:28:30 GMT
content-length90676
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 975 referring domains.
This page has 12,535 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 728 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: /search/
Disallow: /pdf/North-Island-College-IAPR-2022-23-Response.pdf

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North Island College
Located in Campbell River, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Port Hardy and Ucluelet, North Island College offers university courses, programs, degrees, diplomas and certificates in arts, science, health, human services, business, trades, technology, fine arts & tourism

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Island61%Check
North Island60%Check
North Island College60%Check
College59%Check
North59%Check
Island Health54%Check
Programs50%Check
trades48%Check
Campbell River48%Check
Health46%Check
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