Online.wits.ac.za - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
30% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
206.70 kB
Words
583
Media files
8
Number of links
28 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Transform Your Career with WITS Online Programmes | Foundation for Professional Development
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 876 pixels long. Optimize title
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. (840 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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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 | Foundation for Professional Development
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
This page contains 583 words. That's ok.
32.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 22.13 words is good.
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 12 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)
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)
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
...Navigating distance higher education.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../hubfs/The role of health management.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ploring the essentials of management.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ubfs/wits-logo-mono-white-f164faed 1.pngwits-logo-mono-white-f164faed

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
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 Navigating distance higher education
H3 The role of health management
H3 The essentials of management
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/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
/?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain IMG-ALT Wits
/?hsLang=en-zaSubdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Wits
/online-programmesSubdomain Text duplicate Online Programmes
/course/PDBA-Postgraduate-Dipl...Subdomain Text duplicate Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
/course/PDPM-Postgraduate-Dipl...Subdomain Text duplicate Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management
/course/PDMPM-Postgraduate-Dip...Subdomain Text duplicate Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation
/course/BHSciNSS-Bachelor-of-H...Subdomain Text duplicate Bachelor of Health Sciences in the field of Nursing Systems Science
/why-wits-onlineSubdomain Text duplicate Why Wits?
https://online.wits.ac.za/feesSubdomain Text duplicate Fees
https://online.wits.ac.za/blogsSubdomain Text duplicate 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
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain No Text
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain Navigating distance higher education
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain No Text
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain The role of health management
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain No Text
https://online.foundation.co.z...External Subdomain The essentials of management
https://online.foundation.co.z...External 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

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.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (207 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-hs-prerenderedFri, 11 Oct 2024 17:58:21 GMT
set-cookie262 Characters
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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 52 referring domains.
This page has 1,466 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 43 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 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
online87%Check
Wits online78%Check
Online Programmes76%Check
WITS Online Programmes75%Check
wits70%Check
Online Offering70%Check
Study Online67%Check
Programmes65%Check
online offerings61%Check
Online Learning59%Check
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