Online.wits.ac.za - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
26% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
204.70 kB
Words
710
Media files
18
Number of links
30 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Transform Your Career with WITS Online Programmes
The length of the page title is perfect. (485 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Online programmes at University of the Witwatersrand offer working professionals the option of applying, registering and studying online.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (839 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://online.wits.ac.za/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en-za
Server location: United States of America
There are different language information within the page markup.
The following language is defined by HTML: en-za
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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twitter:descriptionOnline programmes at University of the Witwatersrand offer working professionals the option of applying, registering and studying online.
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twitter:cardsummary
og:descriptionOnline programmes at University of the Witwatersrand offer working professionals the option of applying, registering and studying online.
og:titleTransform Your Career with WITS Online Programmes
og:urlhttps://online.wits.ac.za/
content-languageen-za
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Placeholders texts or images were found.
  • Filler text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit sed do eiusmod ...
There are 7 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmo...
The average number of words per sentence of 26.53 words is high.
This page contains 710 words. That's ok.
30.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
14 paragraphs were found on this page.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
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 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
At least one javascript file was found, which is not integrated via HTTPS.
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
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/hubfs/Wits%20-%20Centenary%20Logo%201.pngWits
/hubfs/btnBell-1.pngbell-notshow
/hubfs/WHY%201%20(2).pngWHY
/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Wits-ME.jpegNo alt attribute provided
.../Imported_Blog_Media/Wits-Take-care.jpegNo alt attribute provided
...ealth-Display-scaled-e1633983361904.jpegNo alt attribute provided
...ubfs/wits-logo-mono-white-f164faed 1.pngwits-logo-mono-white-f164faed
https://online.wits.ac.za/hubfs/first-2.svgfirst-2
/hubfs/suitcase-1.svgsuitcase-1
/hubfs/database-1.svgdatabase-1
/hubfs/hand-shake-1.svghand-shake-1
https://online.wits.ac.za/hubfs/second.svgsecond
https://online.wits.ac.za/hubfs/six.svgsix
https://online.wits.ac.za/hubfs/first-2.svgnotshow
/hubfs/suitcase-1.svgnotshow
/hubfs/hand-shake-1.svgnotshow
https://online.wits.ac.za/hubfs/second.svgnotshow

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Online Offering
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Online Offering
H1 LATEST NEWS
H1 REQUEST INFORMATION
H1 Title
H2 Study online with Wits
H2 Empty heading
H2 100% Online Programmes
H2 6 Start Dates
H2 Flexible Payment
H2 Empty heading
H2 100% Online Programmes Duplicate text
H2 6 Start Dates Duplicate text
H2 Flexible Payment Duplicate text
H3 Accelerate your career with fully supported online offerings from Wits
H3 Online programmes
H3 What you will learn with Monitoring and Evaluation
H3 Take care of yourself
H3 Staying connected
H3 Title Duplicate text
H3 Title Duplicate text
H3 Title Duplicate text
H3 Title Duplicate text
H3 Title Duplicate text
H3 Title Duplicate text
H5 Navigation
H5 Get in Touch with Us
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.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain IMG-ALT Wits
/?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Wits
/online-programmesSubdomain Online Programmes
/course/PDBA-Postgraduate-Dipl...Subdomain Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
/course/PDPM-Postgraduate-Dipl...Subdomain Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management
/course/PDMPM-Postgraduate-Dip...Subdomain Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation
/course/BHSciNSS-Bachelor-of-H...Subdomain Bachelor of Health Sciences in the field of Nursing Systems Science
/why-wits-onlineSubdomain Why Wits?
https://online.wits.ac.za/feesSubdomain Fees
https://online.wits.ac.za/blogsSubdomain Articles
/rfi-general?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain REQUEST INFORMATION
/rfi-general?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain Text duplicate REQUEST INFORMATION
https://online.wits.ac.za/Anchor No Text
/rfi-general?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain Text duplicate REQUEST INFORMATION
/rfi-general?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain Text duplicate REQUEST INFORMATION
/blogs/what-you-will-learn-wit...Subdomain No Text
/blogs/what-you-will-learn-wit...Subdomain What you will learn with Monitoring and Evaluation
/blogs/what-you-will-learn-wit...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blogs/take-care-of-yourself?h...Subdomain No Text
/blogs/take-care-of-yourself?h...Subdomain Take care of yourself
/blogs/take-care-of-yourself?h...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blogs/staying-connected?hsLan...Subdomain No Text
/blogs/staying-connected?hsLan...Subdomain Staying connected
/blogs/staying-connected?hsLan...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blogs?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain View More
https://www.facebook.com/witsu...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE facebook
https://twitter.com/witsuniver...New window External A-TITLE twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/W...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE youtube
http://www.linkedin.com/compan...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/wits...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE instagram
/online-programmesSubdomain Text duplicate Online Programmes
https://www.wits.ac.za/External Subdomain On Campus Programmes
/why-wits-onlineSubdomain About
/terms-conditionsSubdomain Terms & Conditions
/privacy-policySubdomain Privacy Policy
https://online.wits.ac.za/Anchor No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://online.wits.ac.za/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (205 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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last-modifiedFri, 23 May 2025 09:58:27 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
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x-hs-cache-configBrowserCache-5s-EdgeCache-0s
x-hs-cache-controls-maxage=10800, max-age=0
x-hs-cf-cache-statusHIT
x-hs-cfworker-meta{"contentType":"SITE_PAGE"}
x-hs-content-id104860578763
x-hs-hub-id26606987
x-hs-prerenderedFri, 23 May 2025 09:58:27 GMT
set-cookie283 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
servercloudflare
cf-ray944e70d16cb846b2-CDG
content-encodingbr
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 53 referring domains.
This page has 694 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 52 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_hcms/preview/
Disallow: /hs/manage-preferences/
Disallow: /hs/preferences-center/
Disallow: /*?*hs_preview=*
Disallow: /*?*hsCacheBuster=*

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online.wits.ac.za
Transform Your Career with WITS Online Programmes
Online programmes at University of the Witwatersrand offer working professionals the option of applying, registering and studying online.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
online91%Check
Wits online80%Check
Online Programmes78%Check
WITS Online Programmes75%Check
Study Online72%Check
Online Offering72%Check
wits70%Check
online offerings66%Check
Programmes65%Check
Online Learning64%Check
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