Scandinavian.berkeley.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.24 s
File size
50.40 kB
Words
340
Media files
14
Number of links
50 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Department of Scandinavian
The length of the page title is perfect. (322 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://scandinavian.berkeley.edu/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 340 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.9% of the text are stop words.
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 14.4 words is good.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 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)
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)
Department of Scandinavian
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Department of Scandinavian
H2 Secondary navigation
H2 Velkommen / Tervetuloa / Velkomin / Välkommen
H2 Undergraduate
H2 Graduate
H2 Courses
H2 Join our Mailing List
H2 News
H3 Upcoming Events
H3 Study Abroad Spotlight
H3 Department News
H3 Nordic folklore professor explains darker Scandinavian origins of Elf on the Shelf
H3 Associate Professor Kate Heslop Receives Prestigious MLA Award for "Viking Mediologies"
H3 The Swedish Academy awards Professor Emerita Linda Rugg
H3 Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief
H3 Search Announcement: Assistant Professor of Swedish or Norwegian Literature, Culture, and Society
H3 Asta Mønsted joins the Department of Scandinavian as Assistant Professor
H3 Professor Linda Haverty Rugg has Retired after 25 Years of Service
H3 PhD Candidate Michael Lawson Awarded the 2023 Outstanding GSI Award
H3 Follow us:
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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT UC Berkeley
https://artshumanities.berkele...External Subdomain Division of Arts & Humanities
/about-usAbout Us
/about-us/historyHistory
/about-us/collectionsCollections
/about-us/news-eventsNews & Events
/about-us/news-events/news-arc...News Archive (2017-2024)
/about-us/givingGiving
/people-0People
/people/facultyFaculty
/people/graduate-studentsGraduate Students
/people/staffStaff
/undergraduateUndergraduate
/undergraduate/major-double-majorMajor & Double Major
/undergraduate/minorMinor
/undergraduate/transfer-scandi...Transfer to Scandinavian
/undergraduate/language-placementLanguage Placement
/undergraduate/study-abroadStudy Abroad
/undergraduate/awards-scholars...Awards, Scholarships, & Grants
/undergraduate/goals-assessmentGoals & Assessment
/undergraduate/commencementCommencement
/graduateGraduate
/graduate/admissions-and-requi...Admissions and Requirements
/graduate/financial-supportFinancial Support
/graduate/interdisciplinary-pr...Interdisciplinary Programs
/graduate/graduate-placementGraduate Placement
/graduate/forms-resources-hand...Forms, Resources & Handbook
/graduate/commencementText duplicate Commencement
/coursesCourses
/resourcesResources
/resources/centers-clubs-organ...Centers & Clubs
/resources/opportunitiesOpportunities
/resources/fellowships-grantsFellowships & Grants
/resources/nordic-consuls-generalNordic Consuls General
/resources/research-resourcesResearch Resources
/faculty-staffSubdomain For Faculty & Staff
https://give.berkeley.edu/fund...External Subdomain Give
/undergraduateSubdomain Text duplicate Undergraduate
/graduateSubdomain Text duplicate Graduate
/coursesSubdomain Text duplicate Courses
https://mailchi.mp/da755dba584...External Join our Mailing List
https://studyabroad.berkeley.e...External Subdomain Sarah Lee | Lund, Sweden | "Having studied the Swedish language at Berkeley, I wanted to experience Sweden, and studying abroad helped me do that."
https://www.instagram.com/ucbe...External Subdomain No Text
/news/nordic-folklore-professo...Nordic folklore professor explains darker Scandinavian origins of Elf on the Shelf December 20, 2024
/news/associate-professor-kate...Associate Professor Kate Heslop Receives Prestigious MLA Award for "Viking Mediologies" December 10, 2024
/news/swedish-academy-awards-p...The Swedish Academy awards Professor Emerita Linda Rugg December 4, 2024
/news/berkeley-talks-computati...Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief November 19, 2024
/news/search-announcement-assi...Search Announcement: Assistant Professor of Swedish or Norwegian Literature, Culture, and Society October 1, 2024
/news/asta-mønsted-joins-depar...Asta Mønsted joins the Department of Scandinavian as Assistant Professor August 19, 2024
/news/professor-linda-haverty-...Professor Linda Haverty Rugg has Retired after 25 Years of Service July 1, 2024
/news/phd-candidate-michael-la...PhD Candidate Michael Lawson Awarded the 2023 Outstanding GSI Award April 1, 2024
/about-us/news-eventsSubdomain More News
https://www.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT UC Berkeley
https://www.instagram.com/ucbe...External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
/homeHome
/creditsCredits
https://open.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Powered by Open Berkeley
https://dap.berkeley.edu/get-h...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://ophd.berkeley.edu/poli...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination Policy Statement
https://open.berkeley.edu/priv...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
/Anchor Back to Top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://scandinavian.berkeley.edu/"
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 0.24 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (50 kB).

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 72 referring domains.
This page has 120 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 69 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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scandinavian.berkeley.edu
Home | Department of Scandinavian

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Scandinavian79%Check
Department Scandinavian72%Check
Department66%Check
Berkeley54%Check
professor43%Check
News43%Check
Graduate43%Check
Swedish43%Check
Award43%Check
Linda43%Check

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