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Meta information
76% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
99% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.04 s
File size
41.50 kB
Words
193
Media files
0
Number of links
22 internal / 46 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
UW Policy Directory
The page title is too short. (181 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://policy.uw.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)
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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robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.7.1
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@uw
twitter:creator@uw
og:imagehttps://policy.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/new-burke-1024x191.png
og:titleUW Policy Directory
og:urlhttps://policy.uw.edu/
og:site_nameUW Policy Directory
og:descriptionOr choose a resource below:
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 193 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
14% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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, minimum-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 6 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
UW Policy Directory
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 UW Policy Directory
H2 Board of Regents (BRG)
H2 Presidential Orders (PO)
H2 Administrative Policy Statement (APS)
H2 Faculty Code and Governance (FCG)
H2 Student Governance and Policies (SGP)
H2 Employment and Administrative Policies (EAP)
H2 Contact us
H3 Helpful Links
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (46) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://my.uw.edu/External Subdomain MyUW
https://www.washington.edu/cal...External Subdomain Calendar
https://directory.uw.edu/External Subdomain Directories
https://lib.washington.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://uwmedicine.org/External UW Medicine
https://www.washington.edu/maps/External Subdomain Maps
https://www.washington.edu/news/External Subdomain UW Today
https://itconnect.uw.edu/External Subdomain Computing/IT
https://isc.uw.edu/External Subdomain Employee Self Service
https://hfs.uw.edu/Husky-Card-...External Subdomain Husky Card
https://www.uwb.edu/External Subdomain UW Bothell
https://tacoma.uw.edu/External Subdomain UW Tacoma
https://facebook.com/UofWAExternal UW Facebook
https://twitter.com/UWExternal UW Twitter
https://www.washington.edu/External Subdomain University of Washington
A-TITLE University of Washington Home
https://www.washington.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate University of Washington
A-TITLE University of Washington Home
https://uw.edu/studentlife/External Students
https://uw.edu/parents/External Parents
https://uw.edu/facultystaff/External Faculty & Staff
https://uw.edu/alumni/External Alumni
https://washington.edu/rules/External Home
/directory/brg/Subdomain Board of Regents Governance (BRG)
/directory/po/Subdomain Presidential Orders (PO)
/directory/aps/Subdomain Administrative Policy Statement (APS)
/directory/fcg/Subdomain Faculty Code and Governance (FCG)
/directory/sgp/Subdomain Student Governance and Policies (SGP)
/directory/eap/Subdomain Employment and Administrative Policies (EAP)
/other-university-policy-resou...Subdomain Other University policy resources
https://www.washington.edu/rul...External Subdomain Docket of WAC Rules
https://www.washington.edu/rul...External Subdomain Policy Development
https://www.washington.edu/rul...External Subdomain Policy development steps
https://www.washington.edu/rul...External Subdomain Style Guide
https://www.washington.edu/rul...External Subdomain Policy Proposal Intake form
https://www.washington.edu/rul...External Subdomain WAC rule-making procedures
https://www.washington.edu/rul...External Subdomain UW policy hierarchy
/policy-changes/Subdomain Policy changes
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor No Text
/uw-policy-directory/brg/Subdomain BRG directory
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor No Text
/uw-policy-directory/po/Subdomain PO directory
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor No Text
/uw-policy-directory/aps/Subdomain APS directory
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor No Text
/uw-policy-directory/fcg/Subdomain FCG directory
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor No Text
/uw-policy-directory/sgp/Subdomain SGP directory
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor No Text
/uw-policy-directory/eap/Subdomain EAP directory
https://policy.uw.edu/Anchor No Text
http://washington.edu/rules/External University Policy and Rules Office
https://www.washington.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate University of Washington
https://www.washington.edu/bou...External Subdomain Be boundless
https://www.facebook.com/UofWAExternal Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/UWExternal Twitter
https://instagram.com/uofwaExternal Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/u...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.pinterest.com/uofwa/External Subdomain Pinterest
http://www.uw.edu/accessibilityExternal Subdomain Accessibility
http://uw.edu/contactExternal Contact Us
http://www.washington.edu/jobsExternal Subdomain Jobs
http://www.washington.edu/safetyExternal Subdomain Campus Safety
http://my.uw.edu/External Subdomain My UW
http://www.washington.edu/rule...External Subdomain Rules Docket
http://www.washington.edu/onli...External Subdomain Privacy
http://www.washington.edu/onli...External Subdomain Terms
http://www.washington.edu/news...External Subdomain Newsletter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://policy.uw.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.04 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 (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-powered-byPHP/8.3.6
link<https://policy.uw.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://policy.uw.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/139>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://policy.uw.edu/>; rel=shortlink
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length10066
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateWed, 25 Dec 2024 14:37:00 GMT
serverApache
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 145 referring domains.
This page has 1,548 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 109 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://policy.uw.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

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