Selfloan.state.mn.us - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.34 s
File size
19.80 kB
Words
758
Media files
4
Number of links
27 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The title tag is missing.
Meta description
(Critically important)
SELF Loan - Low-cost student loan - variable interest rate 7.65% through 12-22-2024 or fixed rate 6.35%. Available to Minnesota residents attending participating colleges nationwide and nonresidents attending college in Minnesota. The SELF program is administered through the state of Minnesota by the Office of Higher Education.
The meta description is too long: 2047 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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=1.0, user-scalable=0
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
descriptionSELF Loan - Low-cost student loan - variable interest rate 7.65% through 12-22-2024 or fixed rate 6.35%. Available to Minnesota residents attending participating colleges nationwide and nonresidents attending college in Minnesota. The SELF program is administered through the state of Minnesota by the Office of Higher Education.
keywordsStudent Loans, Minnesota Student Loans, Affordable Student Loans, College Loans, Paying for College, Money for College, Alternative Student Loans, Education Loans, Financial Aid,Student Educational Loan Fund,student laons,Government student loans,Private student loans,Low interest student loans,Apply for student loan,Student loan application,Fixed rate student loan,Undergraduate student loan,Graduate student loan
langen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.48 words is high.
This page contains 758 words. That's ok.
35.4% of the text are stop words.
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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 15 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/images/logo-header.pnglogo-highered
/images/OHE_SELFLoan_032321.pngbanner-self-loan
/images/InvestInYourself.pngbanner-self-loan
Video URLWidthHeight
...SELF/OHE_SelfLoan_Online_Compression.mp4575345

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.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Empty heading
H2 About SELF Loan!
H2 Student Success Coaching!
H2 Get the Facts About SELF Loan
H3 SELF Interest Rates
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 10 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.getready.state.mn.us/External Subdomain Get Ready!
https://www.mnsaves.org/External Subdomain MN College Savings Plan
https://www.selfloan.state.mn.us/Subdomain Self Loan
http://www.selfrefi.state.mn.us/External Subdomain Self Refi
http://www.ohe.state.mn.us/External Subdomain IMG-ALT logo-highered
/selfElig2.cfmStudent Borrower Apply Now
/faq.cfmFrequently Asked Questions
/selfSchools.cfmParticipating Schools
/studentsuccesscoaching/index.cfmSubdomain Student Success Coaching
/disclosures.cfmSubdomain Application Disclosures
/ssl/SELFPmt/index.cfmSubdomain Make Payment
https://www.selfloan.state.mn.us/Subdomain Home
/successcoaching.cfmSubdomain Student Success Coaching Page
https://studentaid.gov/New window External URL anchor text
https://studentaid.gov
/SELFFactsheet.pdfNew window Download our Fact Sheet
/SELFPrivacyNotice.pdfNew window Annual Privacy Notice
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/sta...New window External Subdomain SELF Statutes
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rul...New window External Subdomain SELF Rules
/faq.cfmText duplicate Frequently Asked Questions
/selfSchools.cfmText duplicate Participating Schools
/ssl/SELFCalc/index.cfmSubdomain SELF Repayment Calculator
/studentsuccesscoaching/index.cfmSubdomain Student Success Coaching Home
/studentsuccesscoaching/Meetou...Subdomain Meet our Coaches
/studentsuccesscoaching/coach1...Subdomain - Mainong Yang
/studentsuccesscoaching/coach2...Subdomain - Ongers Herr
/studentsuccesscoaching/coach3...Subdomain - Tracee Bishop
/studentsuccesscoaching/coach4...Subdomain - Emily Hennes
/studentsuccesscoaching/faq.cfmSubdomain FAQ
/studentsuccesscoaching/succes...Subdomain Reward policy
/studentsuccesscoaching/Confid...Subdomain Confidentiality and Recording Notice
/studentsuccesscoaching/contac...Subdomain Contact Us
/ssl/SELFPmt/index.cfmSubdomain Text duplicate Make Payment
https://www.selfloan.state.mn.us/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
http://www.getready.state.mn.us/External Subdomain Text duplicate Get Ready!
https://www.mnsaves.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate MN College Savings Plan
https://www.selfloan.state.mn.us/Subdomain SELF Loan
http://www.selfrefi.state.mn.us/External Subdomain SELF Refi

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.selfloan.state.mn.us/"
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 slow (1.34 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 (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
set-cookie131 Characters
dateSun, 22 Dec 2024 19:52:41 GMT
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 74 referring domains.
This page has 162 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 66 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

www.selfloan.state.mn.us
No title provided
SELF Loan - Low-cost student loan - variable interest rate 7.65% through 12-22-2024 or fixed rate 6.35%. Available to Minnesota residents attending participating colleges nationwide and nonresidents attending college in Minnesota. The SELF program is administered through the state of Minnesota by the Office of Higher Education.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Self70%Check
Loan70%Check
Self Loan70%Check
Student Loan61%Check
state58%Check
loan balance53%Check
loan amount53%Check
Self Refi53%Check
Fixed51%Check
Variable51%Check

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