Sbctc.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
66% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.69 s
File size
14.90 kB
Words
148
Media files
17
Number of links
42 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges | SBCTC
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 634 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Find college listings, resources for paying for college, legislation information and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (933 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
keywordsSBCTC, Washington, colleges, higher ed, community college, technical college, public college, two-year college
descriptionWashington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Find college listings, resources for paying for college, legislation information and more.
google-site-verificationWfm9h5NrinYdewZ5Cr2dfPy_dSxiE2yblgRRW-j5XbQ
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 148 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
28.4% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 23 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
H2 Brighter Futures
H2 Better Jobs
H2 Here For You
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/default.aspxWashington Community and Technical Colleges
https://www.sbctc.edu/a-z.aspxA - Z Index
/colleges-staff/For College & SBCTC Staff
https://www.sbctc.edu/contact/Contact Us
/becoming-a-student/Becoming a Student
/paying-for-college/Paying for College
/starting-your-career/Starting Your Career
/for-employers/For Employers
/our-colleges/Our Colleges
/our-colleges/explore-colleges...Apply to a College
https://www.sbctc.edu/about/About Us
https://www.sbctc.edu/about/jobs/Our Jobs
/about/agency/Our Agency
/about/communications/Communication and News
/about/facts-publications/Quick Facts & Publications
/about/board/Our Board
/about/college-trustees/College Trustees
/about/government-relations/Government Relations
/about/history.aspxOur History
/about/doing-business-with-sbctc/Doing Business with SBCTC
/about/task-forces-work-groups/Task Forces and Committees
https://www.sbctc.edu/a-z.aspxA to Z Index
/colleges-staff/Text duplicate For College & SBCTC Staff
https://www.sbctc.edu/contact/Text duplicate Contact Us
/our-colleges/explore-collegesIMG-ALT three Tacoma Community College students studying healthcare
A-TITLE Our colleges offer hundreds of degrees and certificates for today's careers.
https://www.sbctc.edu/contact/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Contact Us
https://www.sbctc.edu/contact/CONTACT US
/calendar.aspxIMG-ALT calendar
/calendar.aspxCALENDAR
/directions.aspxIMG-ALT Our Offices
/directions.aspxOUR OFFICES
https://www.sbctc.edu/about/jobs/IMG-ALT Jobs
https://www.sbctc.edu/about/jobs/JOBS
/search/default.aspxIMG-ALT Search
/search/default.aspxSEARCH
/privacy.aspxPrivacy Policy
/non-discrimination.aspxNon-Discrimination
/online-accessibility.aspxAccessibility
/colleges-staff/policies-rules...WAC Rules Process
/directions.aspxGet Directions
/webmaster-help.aspxContact Webmaster
https://www.youtube.com/user/W...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://x.com/SBCTCWashingtonNew window External IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/wasbctc/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT SBCTC Facebook
/terms-of-use.aspxTerms of Use
https://creativecommons.org/li...New window External Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
https://a.cms.omniupdate.com/1...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT starburst graphic

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sbctc.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.69 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.
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (15 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/8.5
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsALLOW-FROM omniupdate.com
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
feature-policygeolocation 'none';midi 'none';sync-xhr 'none';microphone 'none';camera 'none';magnetometer 'none';gyroscope 'none';fullscreen 'self';payment 'none';
dateWed, 03 Jul 2024 02:56:45 GMT
content-length5629
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,454 referring domains.
This page has 68,859 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 871 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *

Disallow: default-2.aspx
Disallow: login-frame.html
Disallow: *_props.html
Disallow: */_draft/
Disallow: */_resources/
Disallow: */_testing/
Disallow: */_training/
Disallow: /it-pd-training/
Disallow: /App_Code/
Disallow: /App_Data/
Disallow: /aspnet_client/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /ctcLink/
Disallow: /controls/
Disallow: /recycle-bin/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /spec/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: login-frame.html
Disallow: web.config
Disallow: web_bckup.configold
Disallow: *test*
Disallow: *old*
Disallow: /favicon.iso
Disallow: /colleges-staff/it-support/erp-support/ctclink-mobile-app-notifications.aspx
Disallow: /about/communications/alerts/alert.aspx

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: moget
User-agent: ichiro
Disallow: /

User-agent: NaverBot
User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /

User-agent: sogou spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: YoudaoBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.sbctc.edu/sitemap.xml

Search preview

www.sbctc.edu
Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges | SBCTC
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Find college listings, resources for paying for college, legislation information and more.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Washington75%Check
Community75%Check
State75%Check
Technical Colleges75%Check
Washington State75%Check
State Community75%Check
Colleges74%Check
College74%Check
Community Colleges74%Check
Community Technical74%Check

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