Programs.usask.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
91% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.76 s
File size
52.70 kB
Words
579
Media files
0
Number of links
11 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Course and Program Catalogue - University Catalogue 2024-25 | University of Saskatchewan
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 836 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0
descriptionEmpty
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 579 words. That's ok.
40.4% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.22 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on 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)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Colleges and schools
H2 Programs
H2 Courses
H2 Academic calendar
H2 Tuition and fees
H2 Admissions
H4 Course and Program Catalogue 2024-2025
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 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://programs.usask.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.usask.ca/External Subdomain University of Saskatchewan
/index.phpUniversity Catalogue 2024-25
https://paws.usask.ca/External Subdomain P AWS
A-TITLE PAWS
/programs/colleges-and-schools...Colleges and Schools
/programs/list-of-programs.phpList of Programs
/programs/degrees-diplomas-cer...List of Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates
/programs/2024-25-admission-re...2024-2025 Admission Requirements
https://catalogue.usask.ca/External Subdomain Course Descriptions
https://students.usask.ca/acad...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://students.usask.ca/mone...External Subdomain Tuition and Fees
/archives.phpArchives
/program addendum.phpProgram Addendum
/programs/colleges-and-schools...Colleges and schools
/programs/list-of-programs.phpProgram requirements
https://catalogue.usask.ca/External Subdomain Course descriptions
https://students.usask.ca/acad...External Subdomain Academic calendar
https://students.usask.ca/mone...External Subdomain Tuition and fees
https://www.usask.ca/admission/External Subdomain Admissions
http://www.usask.ca/sesd/info-...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.usask.ca/contact/External Subdomain contact us
/index.phpThe University Catalogue is the University of Saskatchewan’s official source of course and program information. This Catalogue is effective May 1, 2024 to Ap...
https://give.usask.ca/External Subdomain Join our ambitious vision
http://www.usask.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate University of Saskatchewan
https://indigenous.usask.ca/in...External Subdomain Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis.
https://www.usask.ca/disclaime...External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.usask.ca/privacy-s...External Subdomain Privacy
https://www.usask.ca/accessibi...External Subdomain Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://programs.usask.ca/"
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 of 0.76 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.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (53 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 25 Apr 2024 03:30:47 GMT
serverApache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; preload
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
cache-controlmax-age=0
expiresThu, 25 Apr 2024 03:30:47 GMT
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
content-security-policydefault-src https:; script-src 'unsafe-inline' https:; style-src 'unsafe-inline' https:; img-src 'self' *.usask.ca https: data:; frame-ancestors 'self' *.usask.ca;
content-length12082
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 106 referring domains.
This page has 525,112 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 90 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 8 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /archive/
Disallow: /proofs/
Disallow: /admissions/

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Program66%Check
Program Catalogue60%Check
Course54%Check
Programs50%Check
Catalogue48%Check
University Catalogue48%Check
Catalogue 2024-2548%Check
University Catalogue 2024-2547%Check
University46%Check
course descriptions46%Check
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