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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
95% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
89% 
External factors
18% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
51.00 kB
Words
572
Media files
4
Number of links
50 internal / 56 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Ways of Thinking Ways of Doing
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (291 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://ways.stanford.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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 572 words. That's ok.
23.6% 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.
3 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 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 11 tags for this page.
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)
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Ways of Thinking Ways of Doing
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Ways of Thinking Ways of Doing
H2 Ways of Thinking / Ways of Doing
H2 The Ways
H2 What Students Say About Ways
H2 Address
H2 Contact Us
H2 Links
H2 Connect with us!
H2 More to Explore
H2 VPUE Units
H2 VPUE Programs
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 too many external links (56) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://ways.stanford.edu/Anchor Skip to secondary navigation
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https://ways.stanford.edu/Home
https://ways.stanford.edu/aboutAbout
https://ways.stanford.edu/aboutAbout Ways
/about/ways-quickstart-guide-s...Quickstart Guide for Students
/about/ways-categoriesWays Categories
/about/ways-categories/aesthet...Aesthetic and Interpretive Inquiry (AII)
/about/ways-categories/applied...Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR)
/about/ways-categories/creativ...Creative Expression (CE)
/about/ways-categories/explori...Exploring Difference and Power (EDP)
/about/ways-categories/ethical...Ethical Reasoning (ER)
/about/ways-categories/formal-...Formal Reasoning (FR)
/about/ways-categories/scienti...Scientific Method and Analysis (SMA)
/about/ways-categories/social-...Social Inquiry (SI)
/about/what-students-say-about...What Students Say About Ways
/about/choose-ways-coursesChoose Ways Courses
/about/covid-19-guidance-sprin...COVID-19 Guidance (2020-2021)
/transfer-credit/transfer-cred...Transfer Credit
/transfer-credit/transfer-cred...Text duplicate Transfer Credit
/transfer-credit/transfer-cred...Incoming Transfer Students
/transfer-credit/ways-credit-i...Text duplicate COVID-19 Guidance (2020-2021)
/transfer-credit/transfer-cred...Current Students Requesting Transfer Credit
/transfer-credit/requesting-wa...Text duplicate COVID-19 Guidance (2020-2021)
/transfer-credit/transfer-cred...Changing from GERs to Ways
/common-questions-asked-studen...Common Questions for Ways Transfer Credit
/common-questions-asked-studen...Common Questions
/common-questions-asked-studen...Common Questions asked by Students
/common-questions-asked-studen...Common Questions About Transfer Credit
/common-questions-asked-studen...Common Questions About the EDP Name Change
/common-questions-asked-studen...Common Questions About COVID-19
https://ways.stanford.edu/facultyFor Faculty
/faculty/ways-guidelinesWays Guidelines
/faculty/ways-guidelines/ways-...Intradepartmental Ways Course Form
/faculty/common-questionsText duplicate Common Questions
https://ways.stanford.edu/aboutFind out how to fulfill your Ways requirement
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/about/ways-categories/applied...Text duplicate Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR)
/about/ways-categories/creativ...Text duplicate Creative Expression (CE)
/about/ways-categories/explori...Text duplicate Exploring Difference and Power (EDP)
/about/ways-categories/ethical...Text duplicate Ethical Reasoning (ER)
/about/ways-categories/formal-...Text duplicate Formal Reasoning (FR)
/about/ways-categories/scienti...Text duplicate Scientific Method and Analysis (SMA)
/about/ways-categories/social-...Text duplicate Social Inquiry (SI)
/node/171Find Ways Courses by Type
/about/what-students-say-about...Hear more from students about Ways
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https://ways.stanford.edu/Subdomain Stanford Ways of Thinking Ways of Doing
/saml/login?destination=/Nofollow Web Login
http://stanford.edu/External Visit
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Campus Map
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Undergrad
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...External Subdomain About VPUE
https://ways.sites.stanford.ed...External Subdomain Common Questions Asked by Students
https://ways.sites.stanford.ed...External Subdomain Common Questions Asked by Faculty
http://vpue.stanford.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Stanford VPUE Logo
http://vpue.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford VPUE Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...External Subdomain map
https://twitter.com/StanfordVPUEExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/stanf...External Subdomain Stanford Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/stan...External Subdomain Stanford Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Youtube
https://advising.stanford.edu/...External Subdomain Academic Advising
https://undergradresearch.stan...External Subdomain Research and Independent Projects
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...External Subdomain Tutoring and Support
https://vpuefacstaff.stanford....External Subdomain For Faculty / Staff
https://advising.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Academic Advising
https://bosp.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Bing Overseas Studies Programs
https://ctl.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Center for Teaching and Learning
https://haas.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Haas Center for Public Service
https://pwr.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Program in Writing and Rhetoric
https://sis.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Introductory Studies
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...External Subdomain Vice Provost’s Office
https://approaching.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Approaching Stanford (APSU)
https://artsintensive.stanford...External Subdomain Arts Intensive (AI)
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...External Subdomain Bing Honors College (BHC)
https://bosp.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Bing Overseas Studies Programs (BOSP)
https://cardinalservice.stanfo...External Subdomain Cardinal Service
https://college.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE)
https://sis.stanford.edu/educa...External Subdomain Education as Self-Fashioning (ESF)
https://frosh101.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Frosh 101 / Transfer 101
https://hume.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Hume Center for Writing and Speaking
https://introsems.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Introductory Seminars (IntroSems)
https://italic.stanford.edu/External Subdomain ITALIC: Immersion in the Arts
https://lelandscholars.stanfor...External Subdomain Leland Scholars Program (LSP)
https://orientation.stanford.edu/External Subdomain New Student Orientation (NSO)
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...External Subdomain Oral Communication Program
https://pwr.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR)
https://soco.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Sophomore College (SoCo)
http://sle.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Structured Liberal Education (SLE)
https://studentlearning.stanfo...External Subdomain Student Learning Programs
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...External Subdomain Summer Bridge Programs
https://summerfellows.stanford...External Subdomain Summer Fellows Program (SSFP)
https://undergradresearch.stan...External Subdomain Text duplicate Research and Independent Projects
https://ways.stanford.edu/Subdomain Ways of Thinking / Ways of Doing (WAYS)
https://www.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford University (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/Nofollow External Subdomain Stanford Home (link is external)
https://visit.stanford.edu/bas...Nofollow External Subdomain Maps & Directions (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/search/Nofollow External Subdomain Search Stanford (link is external)
https://emergency.stanford.edu/Nofollow External Subdomain Emergency Info (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...Nofollow External Subdomain Terms of Use (link is external)
A-TITLE Terms of use for sites
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...Nofollow External Subdomain Privacy (link is external)
A-TITLE Privacy and cookie policy
https://uit.stanford.edu/secur...Nofollow External Subdomain Copyright (link is external)
A-TITLE Report alleged copyright infringement
https://adminguide.stanford.ed...Nofollow External Subdomain Trademarks (link is external)
A-TITLE Ownership and use of Stanford trademarks and images
https://non-discrimination.sta...Nofollow External Subdomain Non-Discrimination (link is external)
A-TITLE Non-discrimination policy
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...Nofollow External Subdomain Accessibility (link is external)
A-TITLE Report web accessibility issues

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ways.stanford.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 0.63 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 (51 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 6 referring domains.
This page only has 40 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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
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# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 30
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
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Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
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Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
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Disallow: /saml_login
Disallow: /saml/login
Disallow: /saml/acs
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User-agent: FemtosearchBot
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