Universityofcalifornia.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
85% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
94% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.51 s
File size
58.30 kB
Words
860
Media files
15
Number of links
43 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | University of California
The length of the page title is perfect. (272 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The University of California is the world’s leading public research university system. With 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 3 national labs and a network of agricultural and natural resource centers, UC boasts large numbers of distinguished faculty and researchers in every field.
The meta description is too long: 1707 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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 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 University of California is the world’s leading public research university system. With 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 3 national labs and a network of agricultural and natural resource centers, UC boasts large numbers of distinguished faculty and researchers in every field.
GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHome
twitter:creator@UofCalifornia
twitter:urlhttps://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/home
twitter:imagehttps://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/uc-social-share.png
twitter:image:altUniversity of California
fb:app_id1432472603669908
og:site_nameUniversity of California
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/home
og:titleHome
og:imagehttps://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/uc-social-share.png
og:image:secure_urlhttps://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/uc-social-share.png
og:image:altUniversity of California
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 860 words. That's ok.
34% 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.
17 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.43 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 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ey_day_ucal.jpg?h=dd1e4d4b&itok=vQfih2HwA crowd of blurred students walking across a campus quad
...en_IMG_2096.jpg?h=7fb2964e&itok=IA5ipyrUSmiling young man at UC Santa Barbara on a rainy day
...UCM_day1-90.jpg?h=2f736eda&itok=0275WSRf2018 UCM
...SD_day2-120.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=JBnZdAIlUC San Diego
..._Irvine-064.jpg?h=6f8e8448&itok=_l4MDv9gUC Irvine families
..._13_day3-57.JPG?h=e55fd441&itok=KkTZzO79UC Riverside
...19_day4-112.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=RsQnHsVPUCLA grounds
...CSB_UCOP-11.JPG?h=f2fcf546&itok=3vc_dYLWUCSB UCOP
...CSC_day1-49.JPG?h=f2fcf546&itok=-0X0xAE-UCSC
...UCM_day2-79.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=2hEn1I89UCM day 2 79
...SF_day2-71.jpeg?h=9eb0d413&itok=8nGC7FMCStudents in a lab at UC San Francisco
...CB_day3-136.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=mNHnHPXzUC Berkeley campus
...CD_day2-271.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=s5B7VmsEUC Davis
Video URLWidthHeight
...eo/Banner-Admissions-Application-V4.webm
...FzMFfY3B9O3iwSdZe_ZLTvof3i7U8H-y65jiku2c1200720

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Say yes to a future at UC
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Say yes to a future at UC
H2 Breaking news
H3 Be boldly Californian
H3 James B. Milliken named 22nd president of the University of California by the UC Board of Regents
H3 Explore the UC story through data
H4 10 campuses. Endless possibilities.
H4 82% of undergrads come from California
H4 54% of California undergrads pay no tuition
H4 86% of undergrads earn a diploma
H5 Think you can’t afford UC? Think again.
H5 All campuses have something amazing to offer
H5 UC San Diego
H5 UC Irvine
H5 UC Riverside
H5 UCLA
H5 UC Santa Barbara
H5 UC Santa Cruz
H5 UC Merced
H5 UC San Francisco
H5 UC Berkeley
H5 UC Davis
H6 — Huy Nguyen, UC Santa Barbara first-year student
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/A-TITLE Home
/campuses-locationsCampuses & locations
/campuses-locations/find-your-...Find your place at UC
/student-successStudent success
/student-success/firstgenFirstGen
/student-success/graduate-stud...Graduate students
/student-success/transfer-stud...Transfer students
/student-success/undergraduate...Undergraduate research
/student-success/undocumented-...Undocumented students
/student-success/alumni-outcomesAlumni outcomes
/student-success/health-and-we...Health and well-being
/impactImpact
/impact/economyEconomy
/impact/educationEducation
/impact/affordabilityAffordability
/impact/opportunityOpportunity
/impact/researchResearch
/impact/healthHealth
/impact/public-servicePublic service
/impact/climate-leadershipClimate leadership
/about-usAbout us
/about-us/leadershipLeadership
/about-us/information-centerInformation center
/about-us/sustainabilitySustainability
/get-involvedGet involved
/get-involved/advocateAdvocate
/get-involved/double-the-pellDouble the Pell
/get-involved/alumniFor alumni
/get-involved/uc-votesUC Votes
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Admissions
A-TITLE Admissions
https://jobs.universityofcalif...External Subdomain Jobs
A-TITLE Jobs
/newsNews
/news/uc-experienceSubdomain Our campuses are brimming with opportunities you can only find here.
/news/nine-surprising-facts-ab...Subdomain 9 surprising facts about financial aid
/news/fresh-faces-campus-welco...Subdomain Meet a few of UC's newest students
/press-room/james-b-milliken-n...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
/information-centerVisit the Information Center
/campuses-locationsText duplicate Campuses & locations
/student-successText duplicate Student success
/about-usText duplicate About us
/get-involvedText duplicate Get involved
/press-roomPress releases
/contact-usContact us
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Apply or transfer
https://www.ucop.edu/External Subdomain Office of the President
A-TITLE Office of the President
https://senate.universityofcal...External Subdomain Academic Senate
A-TITLE Academic Senate
https://regents.universityofca...External Subdomain Board of Regents
A-TITLE Board of Regents
https://ucnet.universityofcali...External Subdomain UCnet: Employee resources
/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.ucop.edu/terms/ind...External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.ucop.edu/privacy-s...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://www.facebook.com/unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/UofCaliforniaExternal Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/uofc...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.tiktok.com/@univer...External Subdomain TikTok
https://www.youtube.com/uofcal...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.universityofcalifornia.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 of 0.51 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (58 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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last-modifiedSun, 11 May 2025 05:17:05 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe2-b-7b5dbfcc48-xp8pl
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x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
dateSun, 11 May 2025 06:40:56 GMT
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varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
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content-length16201
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,881 referring domains.
This page has 220,357 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,304 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /infocenter
# Disallow: /uc-system
# Disallow: /support-uc
Disallow: /press-room/state-invests-22-million-uc-entrepreneurship-innovation-drive-california-economy
Disallow: /content/historic-architectural-gem-returns-uc
Disallow: /content/historic-architectural-gem-returns-uc-0

User-agent: *
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
# Disallow: /7872wit3lks3p3s32dci9orvcd1qgf.html
Disallow: /sites/default/files/2.26.2020.At_.A.Glance.FINAL_.pdf
Disallow: /sites/default/files/uc-at-a-glance-sept-2018.pdf
Disallow: /sites/default/files/UC%20at%20a%20Glance%20-%20Feb%20%2718.pdf
Disallow: /sites/default/files/uc-at-a-glance-feb-2018-final.pdf

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www.universityofcalifornia.edu
Home | University of California
The University of California is the world’s leading public research university system. With 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 3 national labs and a network of agricultural and natural resource centers, UC boasts large numbers of distinguished faculty and researchers in every field.

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