Wscuc.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
70% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
18% 
Link structure
33% 
Server
71% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.84 s
File size
67.60 kB
Words
737
Media files
12
Number of links
114 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - WSCUC
The page title is too short. (149 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://www.wscuc.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 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
msapplication-TileColor#da532c
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
article:modified_time2024-05-03T20:41:01+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - WSCUC
og:description 
og:urlhttps://www.wscuc.org/
og:site_nameWSCUC
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 737 words. That's ok.
26.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 24.94 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" 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 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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
.../knowhow/assets/img/brand/logo-print.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/logo-1.svglogo
...ent/uploads/2021/02/icon-institution.svgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/icon-peers.svgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/KID.svgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2021/02/icon-student.svgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/policy-icon.svgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/icon-teams.svgNo alt attribute provided
...icon-revised-275px.png?fit=275,275&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...4-Homepage-Graphic.jpg?fit=250,250&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...themes/knowhow/assets/img/brand/logo.svglogo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
logo
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 37 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 logo
H1 Excellence. Equity. Engagement.
H2 Accreditation Resources
H2 Highlighted Resources
H2 Accreditation Handbooks
H2 Events and Programs
H2 News & Views
H2 SIGN UP TO KEEP INFORMED OF WSCUC NEWS AND EVENTS
H3 WSCUC pursues excellence and innovation.
H3 Peer Reviewers
H3 Announcements
H3 Accreditation Leadership Academy
H3 Upcoming Events
H4 Institutions & ALOs
H4 Peer Teams
H4 Key Indicators Dashboard
H4 Students
H4 Policies
H4 Become a Peer Reviewer
H4 Apply by Monday, May 20
H4 Student Achievement Highlighted in Accreditors’ Letter on Federal Proposals
H4 Post-Graduation Economic Outcomes Metrics Available in KID
H4 WSCUC Coffee with CEOs Events Offer Guidance, Connection
H4 WSCUC Webinar Offers Critical Insights for Navigating Third-Party Agreements
H4 Explore
H4 Resources
H4 For General Public
H4 Newsletter
H4 COVID
H4 Contact
H4 Privacy Policy
H5 2024 Annual Report Cycle Open May 1-31
H5 Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 Authorization for Distance Education/Remote Instruction
H5 Equity and Inclusion Guide
H5 Commission Meeting – June 2024
H5 Commission Meeting – February 2025
H5 ARC2025
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 8 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.wscuc.org/IMG-ALT logo
https://www.wscuc.org/Login
https://wscuc.my.site.com/ampExternal Subdomain AMP
https://wscuc.my.site.com/vipExternal Subdomain VIP
/wp-login.phpWSCUC
https://vimeo.com/wascseniorNew window External Vimeo
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.wscuc.org/Search
/resources/about-peer-reviewers/Subdomain PEER REVIEWERS
https://www.wscuc.org/news/Subdomain News
https://www.wscuc.org/events/Subdomain Events
https://www.wscuc.org/contact/Subdomain Contact
https://www.wscuc.org/about/Subdomain About
https://www.wscuc.org/about/Subdomain About WSCUC
/about/commission/Subdomain The Commission
/about/staff/Subdomain Staff
/resources/about-peer-reviewers/Subdomain Peer Reviewers
/resources/becoming-accredited/Subdomain Becoming Accredited
https://www.wscuc.org/handbook/Subdomain Handbooks
https://www.wscuc.org/handbook/Subdomain The Handbooks
/handbook2013/Subdomain 2013 Handbook
/handbook2023/Subdomain 2023 Handbook
https://www.wscuc.org/directory/Subdomain Directory
https://www.wscuc.org/directory/Subdomain Find an Institution
/resources/formerly-accredited/Subdomain Formerly Accredited or Candidate Institutions
/resources/international/Subdomain International Institutions
https://www.wscuc.org/resources/Subdomain Resource Library
https://www.wscuc.org/resources/Subdomain All Resources
https://www.wscuc.org/handbook/Subdomain Text duplicate The Handbooks
/handbook2013/Subdomain Text duplicate 2013 Handbook
/handbook2023/Subdomain Text duplicate 2023 Handbook
/resources/institution-toolbox/Subdomain Institutions & ALOs
/resources/team-toolbox/Subdomain Peer Teams
/resources/student-toolbox/Subdomain Students
/resources/general-public-tool...Subdomain Public
/resources/becoming-accredited/Subdomain Text duplicate Becoming Accredited
/resources/?fwp_resource_type=...Subdomain Policies
/resources/comments/Subdomain Public Comments & Complaints
/?page_id=91214Subdomain Zemsky Key Indicators Dashboard (KID)
/resources/aim/Subdomain AIM
/educational-programs/Subdomain Educational Programs
/educational-programs/Subdomain Overview
/educational-programs/accredit...Subdomain Accreditation Leadership Academy
https://www.wscuc.org/arc/Subdomain Accreditation Resource Conference (ARC)
/events/?fwp_event_categories=...Workshops & Webinars
/resources/student-toolbox/Subdomain For Students
https://www.wscuc.org/Text duplicate Search
https://vimeo.com/wascseniorExternal Text duplicate Vimeo
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Text duplicate LinkedIn
https://www.wscuc.org/Subdomain Home
https://www.wscuc.org/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
https://www.wscuc.org/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About WSCUC
/about/commission/Subdomain Text duplicate The Commission
/about/staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Staff
/resources/about-peer-reviewers/Subdomain Text duplicate Peer Reviewers
/resources/becoming-accredited/Subdomain Text duplicate Becoming Accredited
https://www.wscuc.org/directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://www.wscuc.org/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
https://www.wscuc.org/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
https://www.wscuc.org/resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Resource Library
https://www.wscuc.org/resources/Subdomain Text duplicate All Resources
/handbook2013/Subdomain Text duplicate 2013 Handbook
https://wascsenior.box.com/s/j...External Subdomain Text duplicate 2023 Handbook
/resources/institution-toolbox/Subdomain Text duplicate Institutions & ALOs
/resources/team-toolbox/Subdomain Text duplicate Peer Teams
/resources/general-public-tool...Subdomain Text duplicate Public
/resources/becoming-accredited/Subdomain Text duplicate Becoming Accredited
/resources/?fwp_resource_type=...Subdomain Text duplicate Policies
/resources/comments/Subdomain Text duplicate Public Comments & Complaints
/educational-programs/Subdomain Text duplicate Educational Programs
https://www.wscuc.org/arc-2023/Subdomain 2023 Accreditation Resource Conference (ARC2023)
/educational-programs/accredit...Subdomain Text duplicate Accreditation Leadership Academy
/resources/student-toolbox/Subdomain Text duplicate For Students
https://www.wscuc.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.wscuc.org/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About WSCUC
https://www.wscuc.org/directory/Subdomain Institutions WSCUC Accredits
/resources/institution-toolbox/Text duplicate Institutions & ALOs
/resources/team-toolbox/Text duplicate Peer Teams
/resources/kid/Subdomain Key Indicators Dashboard
/resources/student-toolbox/Text duplicate Students
/resources/?fwp_resource_type=...Text duplicate Policies
/resources/about-peer-reviewers/Subdomain Learn More
/post/2024-annual-report-cycle...Subdomain 2024 Annual Report Cycle Open May 1-31
/post/2024-annual-report-cycle...Subdomain ➜
/post/fall-2023-spring-2024-au...Subdomain Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 Authorization for Distance Education/Remote Instruction
/post/fall-2023-spring-2024-au...Subdomain Text duplicate ➜
/post/equity-and-inclusion-guide/Subdomain Equity and Inclusion Guide
/post/equity-and-inclusion-guide/Subdomain Text duplicate ➜
https://www.wscuc.org/handbookText duplicate 2013 Handbook
https://www.wscuc.org/handbookText duplicate 2023 Handbook
/educational-programs/accredit...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/event/commission-meeting-june...Subdomain Commission Meeting – June 2024
/event/commission-meeting-febr...Subdomain Commission Meeting – February 2025
/event/arc2025/Subdomain ARC2025
https://www.wscuc.org/eventsView All Events
/post/student-achievement-high...Subdomain Student Achievement Highlighted in Accreditors’ Letter on Federal Proposals
/post/student-achievement-high...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/post/student-achievement-high...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/post/post-graduation-economic...Subdomain Post-Graduation Economic Outcomes Metrics Available in KID
/post/post-graduation-economic...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/post/post-graduation-economic...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/post/wscuc-coffee-with-ceos-e...Subdomain WSCUC Coffee with CEOs Events Offer Guidance, Connection
/post/wscuc-coffee-with-ceos-e...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/post/wscuc-coffee-with-ceos-e...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/post/wscuc-webinar-offers-cri...Subdomain WSCUC Webinar Offers Critical Insights for Navigating Third-Party Agreements
/post/wscuc-webinar-offers-cri...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/post/wscuc-webinar-offers-cri...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.wscuc.org/news/Subdomain View all Headlines
https://www.wscuc.org/newsletter/Subdomain Past Newsletters
https://www.wscuc.org/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About WSCUC
/about/staff/jobs/Subdomain Jobs
/sitemap_index.xmlSubdomain Sitemap
/resources/institution-toolbox/Subdomain For Institutions & ALOs
/resources/team-toolbox/Subdomain For Peer Teams
/resources/student-toolbox/Subdomain Text duplicate For Students
https://www.wscuc.org/resources/Subdomain All Resources and Documents
/resources/comments/Subdomain Submit or File a Complaint
https://www.wscuc.org/newsletter/Newsletter
/resources/covid-19/Subdomain COVID
https://www.wscuc.org/contact/Text duplicate Contact
/privacypolicy/Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.wscuc.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 0.84 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 (68 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateThu, 09 May 2024 13:51:50 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
x-pingbackhttps://www.wscuc.org/xmlrpc.php
link<https://www.wscuc.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheablebot
cache-controlmax-age=10800, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 39
x-cache-groupbot
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000;
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,970 referring domains.
This page has 52,828 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 749 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
WSCUC68%Check
WSCUC pursues excellence50%Check
PEER44%Check
Student44%Check
Peer Teams44%Check
Accreditation43%Check
Events43%Check
Resources43%Check
Commission43%Check
News43%Check
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