Tuitiontracker.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
65% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
58% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.89 s
File size
36.60 kB
Words
548
Media files
2
Number of links
5 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Tuition Tracker
The page title is too short. (135 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
How much does college really cost? Find out with Tuition Tracker, a tool from the Hechinger Report.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
http://www.tuitiontracker.org/
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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The Doctype markup is not in the first line of your HTML document. There must be no white spaces before the doctype markup.
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
keywordscollege tuition,college costs,how much will college cost
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionHow much does college really cost? Find out with Tuition Tracker, a tool from the Hechinger Report
news-keywordscollege tuition,college costs,how much will college cost
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
msapplication-TileImage/ms-icon-144x144.png
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@hechingerreport
twitter:creator@hechingerreport
twitter:titleTuition Tracker
twitter:descriptionHow much will college really cost? Find out with Tuition Tracker, a tool from @hechingerreport
twitter:imagehttp://www.tuitiontracker.org/images/tuitiontracker.gif
fb:app_id<<client FB app id>>
fb:page_id<<client FB page id>>
fb:admins<<client FB admins id>>
og:urlhttp://www.tuitiontracker.org
og:titleTuition Tracker
og:descriptionHow much does college really cost? Find out with Tuition Tracker, a tool from the Hechinger Report
og:imagehttp://www.tuitiontracker.org/images/tuitiontracker.gif
og:image:height345
og:image:width596
og:typewebsite
og:keywordscollege tuition,college costs,how much will college cost
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
These Typos were found:
  • doub => doubt, daub
This page contains 548 words. That's ok.
35.6% 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.
10 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 15.68 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 88 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"to submit questions or report issues with the data, email [email protected]."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
/images/_tuition-tracker-logo.pngTuition Tracker
/images/_hechinger-logo.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
There are too few (5) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 2 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/data/download/data-dictionary...Data dictionary
/data/download/cost-attendance...Sticker price
/data/download/net-price.csvNet price
/data/download/grad-rates.csvGraduation rates
/data/download/retention-rates...Retention rates
http://hechingerreport.org/External No Text
https://twitter.com/hechingerr...New window External Follow The Hechinger Report on Twitter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://tuitiontracker.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.89 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 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (37 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateTue, 09 Apr 2024 18:32:07 GMT
content-typetext/html
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
varyAccept-Encoding
last-modifiedThu, 29 Feb 2024 21:39:45 GMT
etagW/"81ae8-9263-6128c191728f6"
ms-author-viaDAV
x-powered-byPleskLin
content-encodinggzip
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 250 referring domains.
This page has 763 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 180 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

tuitiontracker.org
Tuition Tracker
How much does college really cost? Find out with Tuition Tracker, a tool from the Hechinger Report.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Tuition78%Check
Tracker78%Check
Tuition Tracker78%Check
Hechinger52%Check
Report51%Check
org51%Check
Hechinger Report51%Check
college46%Check
tool46%Check
Find46%Check

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