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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
84% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
40% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.08 s
File size
247.30 kB
Words
627
Media files
16
Number of links
84 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - National Student Clearinghouse
The length of the page title is perfect. (357 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The National Student Clearinghouse, founded in 1993 by the higher education community, is the source for trusted, authenticated, and secure education data insights. Our unique verification, data exchange, and compliance services help institutions maximize time, resources, and knowledge. We power the future of education by providing educators, learners, businesses, and policymakers with the right data for the right use at the right time.
The meta description is too long: 2713 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.studentclearinghouse.org/
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
descriptionThe National Student Clearinghouse, founded in 1993 by the higher education community, is the source for trusted, authenticated, and secure education data insights. Our unique verification, data exchange, and compliance services help institutions maximize time, resources, and knowledge. We power the future of education by providing educators, learners, businesses, and policymakers with the right data for the right use at the right time.
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article:published_time2020-09-16T17:57:29-04:00
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twitter:titleHome - National Student Clearinghouse
twitter:descriptionThe National Student Clearinghouse, founded in 1993 by the higher education community, is the source for trusted, authenticated, and secure education data insights. Our unique verification, data exchange, and compliance services help institutions maximize time, resources, and knowledge. We power the future of education by providing educators, learners, businesses, and policymakers with the right data for the right use at the right time.
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og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - National Student Clearinghouse
og:descriptionThe National Student Clearinghouse, founded in 1993 by the higher education community, is the source for trusted, authenticated, and secure education data insights. Our unique verification, data exchange, and compliance services help institutions maximize time, resources, and knowledge. We power the future of education by providing educators, learners, businesses, and policymakers with the right data for the right use at the right time.
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og:site_nameNational Student Clearinghouse
og:updated_time2024-09-27T06:18:40-04:00
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Nearly 100% of America’s colleges and millions of students rely on the...
This page contains 627 words. That's ok.
26% 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.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.72 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover, maximum-scale=5, user-scalable=yes" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: join us and help make more things in education possible.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...s/2020/11/NSC-logo-w-tree-low-detail.pngNational Student Clearinghouse Home
...s/2020/11/NSC-logo-w-tree-low-detail.pngNational Student Clearinghouse Home
...tent/uploads/2022/02/transcript-icon.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/2022/03/dotline-orange.pngNo alt attribute provided
...oads/icon-purple-degree-redcredfraud.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/2022/03/dotline-orange.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/icon-blue-verify.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/icon-blue-secure-large.pngNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2022/03/dotline-blue.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/socialicon-linkedin.pngNational Student Clearinghouse on LinkedIn
/wp-content/uploads/socialicon-x.pngNational Student Clearinghouse on X
/wp-content/uploads/socialicon-youtube.pngNational Student Clearinghouse on YouTube
/wp-content/uploads/socialicon-insta.pngNational Student Clearinghouse on Instagram
...2/02/PrinciplesSupporterIcon-80x80-1.pngStudent Data Principles badge
...ontent/uploads/StudentPrivacyPledge2.pngStudent Privacy Pledge Signatory badge
Video URLWidthHeight
...C-Final-Brand-Video-Updated-Aug-2024.mp4

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Powering the Future of Education
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Powering the Future of Education
H2 Empty heading
H2 Faster, easier transcripts
H2 Empty heading
H2 Automated verifications
H2 Empty heading
H2 Instant results
H2 Empty heading
H2 Latest from our blog
H2 Clearinghouse Careers
H2 Clearinghouse Careers Duplicate text
H2 Subscribe to our blog for the latest news from the Clearinghouse
H3 Privacy & Security
H4 Research Center
H4 Clearinghouse News
H4 Compliance Central
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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://secure.studentclearing...External Subdomain User Login
https://ftps.nslc.org/External Subdomain FTP Login
/support/Subdomain Help
/solutions/learners/Subdomain Students
https://studentclearinghouse.org/IMG-ALT National Student Clearinghouse Home
/about/Subdomain Company
/about/Subdomain About
/about/privacy/Subdomain Privacy
/about/leadership/Subdomain Leadership
/about/partners/Subdomain Partners
/careers/Subdomain Careers
/nscblog/Blog
/news/News
/solutions/Subdomain Solutions
/solutions/Anchor Education
/solutions/ed-compliance/Subdomain Compliance
/solutions/ed-dataexchange/Subdomain Data Exchange
/solutions/ed-insights/Subdomain Learner Insights
/solutions/myhub/Subdomain Myhub
/solutions/ed-transcripts/Subdomain Transcript Services
/solutions/ed-verifications/Subdomain Verifications
/solutions/Anchor Business
/solutions/business-insights/Subdomain Education-based Insights
/solutions/business-verificati...Subdomain Text duplicate Verifications
/solutions/learners/Subdomain Students & Learners
https://nscresearchcenter.org/External Research Center
/contact-sales/Subdomain Contact Sales
https://tsorder.studentclearin...External Subdomain Order a Transcript
https://tsorder.studentclearin...External Subdomain Track Transcript Order Status
/verify/Subdomain Verify Degrees & Enrollment
https://studentclearinghouse.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT National Student Clearinghouse Home
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/about/privacy/Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy
/about/partners/Subdomain Text duplicate Partners
/about/leadership/Subdomain Text duplicate Leadership
/careers/Subdomain Text duplicate Careers
/nscblog/Text duplicate Blog
/news/Text duplicate News
/solutions/Subdomain Text duplicate Solutions
/solutions/Anchor Text duplicate Education
/solutions/ed-compliance/Subdomain Text duplicate Compliance
/solutions/ed-dataexchange/Subdomain Text duplicate Data Exchange
/solutions/ed-insights/Subdomain Text duplicate Learner Insights
/solutions/myhub/Subdomain Text duplicate Myhub
/solutions/ed-transcripts/Subdomain Text duplicate Transcript Services
/solutions/ed-verifications/Subdomain Text duplicate Verifications
/solutions/Anchor Text duplicate Business
/solutions/business-insights/Subdomain Text duplicate Education-based Insights
/solutions/business-verificati...Subdomain Text duplicate Verifications
/solutions/learners/Subdomain Text duplicate Students & Learners
https://nscresearchcenter.org/External Text duplicate Research Center
/support/Subdomain Text duplicate Help
/support/Anchor Knowledge Bases
/support/Anchor Training & Webinars
/contact/Subdomain Contact Us
https://tsorder.studentclearin...External Subdomain Order Transcript
https://tsorder.studentclearin...External Subdomain Text duplicate Track Transcript Order Status
/verify/Text duplicate Verify Degrees & Enrollment
https://secure.studentclearing...External Subdomain Text duplicate User Login
https://ftps.nslc.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate FTP Login
/solutions/For Education Institutions
/solutions/For Businesses
/solutions/learners/For Students & Learners
/solutions/ed-transcripts/LEARN ABOUT TRANSCRIPT SERVICES
/solutions/ed-dataexchange/Subdomain LEARN ABOUT DATA EXCHANGE
/solutions/ed-verifications/LEARN ABOUT AUTOMATED VERIFICATIONS FOR SCHOOLS
/solutions/business-verificati...LEARN ABOUT INSTANT VERIFICATIONS FOR BUSINESSES
/about/privacy/FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR PRIVACY COMMITMENT
/nscblog/november-schedule-of-...New window Subdomain November Schedule of Live Webinars
/nscblog/clearinghouse-ready-t...New window Subdomain Clearinghouse Ready to Support Institutions During Hurricane Season
/nscblog/using-insights-to-sup...New window Subdomain Using Insights to Support Older Learners
/nscblog/READ MORE ON OUR BLOG
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Student Clearinghouse on LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/nsclearing...External IMG-ALT National Student Clearinghouse on X
https://www.youtube.com/user/N...External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Student Clearinghouse on YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/NSCl...External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Student Clearinghouse on Instagram
/support/Anchor School and business help
https://nscsso.my.site.com/stu...External Subdomain Student help
/academy/Subdomain Clearinghouse Academy
/about/About the Clearinghouse
/nscblog/Text duplicate Blog
/news/Text duplicate News
/about/privacy/Privacy & security
https://nscresearchcenter.org/External Research reports
https://app.studentclearinghou...External Subdomain Student Insights dashboard
/contact-sales/Contact sales
/academy/event-directory/Events & webinars
https://theclearinghouse.downl...External Fee Schedule
/support/Anchor Text duplicate School and business help
https://nscsso.my.site.com/stu...External Subdomain Text duplicate Student help
/academy/Subdomain Text duplicate Clearinghouse Academy
/contact-sales/Text duplicate Contact sales
/academy/event-directory/Text duplicate Events & webinars
https://theclearinghouse.downl...External Text duplicate Fee Schedule
/about/Text duplicate About the Clearinghouse
/nscblog/Text duplicate Blog
/news/Text duplicate News
/about/privacy/Text duplicate Privacy & security
/careers/EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES
https://dataqualitycampaign.or...External IMG-ALT Student Data Principles badge
https://studentprivacypledge.org/External IMG-ALT Student Privacy Pledge Signatory badge
/careers/Text duplicate EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES
/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy & Notice
https://www.levelaccess.com/a/...External Subdomain Web Accessibility Statement
/service-status/System Status
/sitemap/Site Map

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.studentclearinghouse.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.08 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (247 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,653 referring domains.
This page has 47,578 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,557 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /marcomm-projectrequest/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/

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Home - National Student Clearinghouse
The National Student Clearinghouse, founded in 1993 by the higher education community, is the source for trusted, authenticated, and secure education data insights. Our unique verification, data exchange, and compliance services help institutions maximize time, resources, and knowledge. We power the future of education by providing educators, learners, businesses, and policymakers with the right data for the right use at the right time.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Clearinghouse81%Check
Student Clearinghouse81%Check
student78%Check
National Student Clearinghouse74%Check
us help70%Check
Education66%Check
Future62%Check
National59%Check
Clearinghouse Academy59%Check
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