Uwaterloo.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.13 s
File size
117.50 kB
Words
705
Media files
5
Number of links
33 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | University of Waterloo
The length of the page title is perfect. (269 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://uwaterloo.ca/
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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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 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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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.53 words is high.
This page contains 705 words. That's ok.
33.9% 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.
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" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 100 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"take your career to the next level with flexible online and on-campus course-based master's programs"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
...ploads/images/_dsc3772.jpg?itok=N8vgtv0hStudents walking on campus
...ck-the-north-banner.jpg?itok=f9CW3Ot9 1xStudents participating in Hack the North with their hands raised in the air sitting inside a theatre
...rad_lifestyle-cropped2.jpg?itok=DXMoQU2yNo alt attribute provided
...agazine-homepage-promo.jpg?itok=F1LlhHRGColourful illustrations from the Waterloo Magazine overlayed on a photo of campus
...s/promobanner-cropped3.jpg?itok=WBK6duAKNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Explore your UWaterloo life  
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Explore your UWaterloo life  
H2 Latest news
H2 Upcoming events
H3 Canada’s biggest hackathon is back
H3 Seizing happiness through adversity
H3 Building trust through community conversation on climate misinformation
H3 Co-op students accelerate boundary-breaking research at SickKids
H3 Discover Waterloo by the numbers →
H3 Partnerships for Employment (P4E) Job Fair
H3 Gidinawendamin/Ska’nikú•lát 21st Annual Pow Wow
H3 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://uwaterloo.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://uwaterloo.ca/A-TITLE University of Waterloo Home
https://uwaterloo.ca/admissions/Admissions
https://uwaterloo.ca/about/About Waterloo
/faculties-academics/Faculties & Academics
/offices-services/Offices & Services
https://uwaterloo.ca/support/Support Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/studentsExplore your UWaterloo life   Learn how you can get involved, find the support you need and build your Waterloo community
IMG-ALT Students walking on campus
/news/eweal-canadas-biggest-ha...Engineering Canada’s biggest hackathon is back Hackers find inspiration, invention and community at the weekend-long Hack the North event
/news/magazine/seizing-happine...Arts Seizing happiness through adversity Brian Orend brings a philosopher’s perspective on happiness, navigating the challenges of chronic illness through co...
/news/building-trust-through-c...Environment Building trust through community conversation on climate misinformation TRuST Scholarly Network hosts conversation on charting a course through c...
/news/co-op-students-accelerat...Campus Co-op students accelerate boundary-breaking research at SickKids With robotics, 3D technology, AI and more, Waterloo students are advancing the future...
https://uwaterloo.ca/newsView all Waterloo News
/future-graduate-students/prog...Take your career to the next level with flexible online and on-campus course-based master's programs Discover our flexible master's programs →
/future-students/university-of...Discover Waterloo by the numbers →
https://uwaterloo.ca/magazine/Waterloo Magazine 2024: Happiness Explore the people, policies, innovations and insights that are helping to create a world where happiness and well-being is...
IMG-ALT Colourful illustrations from the Waterloo Magazine overlayed on a photo of campus
https://publications.uwaterloo...External Subdomain Thank you, Waterloo donors Meet the students building a better future and donors who support them. Read the 2023-2024 Report on Giving →
/events/events/partnerships-em...Sep 25 10:00 am Partnerships for Employment (P4E) Job Fair Partnerships for Employment (P4E) hosts the largest job fair event of its kind for students in the...
/events/events/gidinawendamins...Sep 28 10:00 am Gidinawendamin/Ska’nikú•lát 21st Annual Pow Wow September 28, 2024 marks the 21st anniversary of the Gidinawendamin/Ska’nikú•lát annual Pow W...
/events/events/national-day-tr...Sep 30 7:00 am National Day for Truth and Reconciliation September 30th marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation On this day we honour the lost ch...
https://uwaterloo.ca/eventsView all Waterloo Events
https://uwaterloo.ca/map/Campus map
/about/contact-usContact Waterloo
/accessibility/Accessibility
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/News
/about/maps-and-directionsMaps & directions
https://uwaterloo.ca/privacy/Privacy
https://uwaterloo.ca/careers/Careers
https://uwaterloo.ca/watsafe/WatSAFE
https://uwaterloo.ca/copyrightCopyright
/about/contact-us/contact-formFeedback
https://uwaterloo.ca/indigenousOffice of Indigenous Relations
https://www.instagram.com/uofw...External Subdomain Instagram
https://twitter.com/UWaterlooExternal X (formerly Twitter)
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.facebook.com/unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/user/u...External Subdomain YouTube
/social-media/@uwaterloo social directory
https://uwaterloo.ca/on-itLearn how →

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://uwaterloo.ca/"
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 excellent with 0.13 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (118 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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last-modifiedFri, 20 Sep 2024 03:19:33 GMT
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 41,907 referring domains.
This page has 7,036,301 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 28,413 different ip addresses.

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