Bard.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
84% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.99 s
File size
54.60 kB
Words
1007
Media files
21
Number of links
86 internal / 39 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Bard College
The page title is too short. (118 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Bard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (898 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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 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
descriptionBard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation.
keywordsbard, college, undergraduate, graduate, early college, high school, private liberal arts college, northeast, new york state, liberal arts, private college, liberal arts and sciences
authorBard College
viewportwidth=device-width, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=2
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langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@BARDCollege
twitter:titleBard College at Bard College
twitter:descriptionBard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation.
twitter:creator@BARDCollege
twitter:image:srcEmpty
og:titleBard College at Bard College
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.bard.edu/
og:imageEmpty
og:descriptionBard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1007 words. That's ok.
27.7% 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 24.11 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 13 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=2" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: migration
Some tags are too long. With 73 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"women's volleyball vs. william smith (breast cancer awareness - dig pink)"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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/icons/instagram-wht.pngNo alt attribute providedInstagram
/images/icons/facebook-wht.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/twitter-wht.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/instagram-wht.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/youtube-wht.pngNo alt attribute provided
...id=8761455&disposition=inline&type=imageAcademics
...id=7061851&disposition=inline&type=imageCivic Engagement
...id=5508220&disposition=inline&type=imageArts at Bard
...id=4046389&disposition=inline&type=imageFamily and Alumni/ae Weekend
/files/pr/main_news_image.php?id=19609BHSEC Manhattan, 2022. Photo by Natalie KeyssarBHSEC Manhattan, 2022. Photo by Natalie Keyssar
...7302/1/Bard_Levy_20230420_KR_0115_sq.jpgPhoto by Karl RabePhoto by Karl Rabe
...dia/files/9917302/3/early_college_sq.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/9917302/2/berlin Ibrar Mirzai 9 sq.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...302/4/Bard_Birds_20230421_KR_0039_sq.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...d=99961262&disposition=inline&type=imageBard College
...d=99961265&disposition=inline&type=imageFollow Us on Twitter
...d=99961263&disposition=inline&type=imageLike us on Facebook
...d=99961266&disposition=inline&type=imageFollow Us on Instagram
...&id=163036&disposition=inline&type=imageYou Tube
Video URLWidthHeight
...c38b32c2b78eaa075d7d5b0177c104bd631de175640360
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HkrQ0WIcPBM560315

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Bard College
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Bard College
H2 Academics
H2 Civic Engagement
H2 At Bard, We Show Up
H2 Campus Life
H2 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
H2 Arts at Bard
H2 Family and Alumni/ae Weekend
H2 Bard News and Events
H2 Featured News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Discover More
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (39) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content.
https://www.bard.edu/inside/Faculty + Staff
https://alums.bard.edu/External Subdomain Alumni/ae
https://families.bard.edu/External Subdomain Families
https://www.bard.edu/students/Students
https://www.bard.edu/Bard
https://www.bard.edu/Text duplicate Bard
https://www.bard.edu/academics/Academics
https://www.bard.edu/academics/Text duplicate Academics
/academics/programs/Programs and Divisions
/academics/curriculum/Structure of the Curriculum
/academics/courses/Courses
/academics/requirements/Requirements
/academics/calendar/Academic Calendar
/academics/faculty/Faculty
https://www.bard.edu/catalogue/College Catalogue
https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/Bard Abroad
/academics/libraries/Libraries
/academics/dual/Dual-Degree Programs
/conservatory/Bard Conservatory of Music
/academics/additional/Other Study Opportunities
https://www.bard.edu/graduate/Graduate Programs
https://bhsec.bard.edu/New window External Subdomain Early Colleges
https://www.bard.edu/admission/Admission
/admission/applying/Applying
/admission/applying/Apply Now
/financialaid/New window Financial Aid
/studentaccounts/New window Tuition + Payment
/admission/tours/Campus Tours
/admission/students/Meet Our Students + Alumni/ae
/admission/families/For Families
/admission/families/es/Para Familias
/admission/inquiries/form/Join Our Mailing List
/admission/contact/Contact Us
https://www.instagram.com/bard...New window External No Text
https://www.bard.edu/campus/Campus Life
https://www.bard.edu/campus/Living on Campus
/campus/reslife/Housing + Dining
/campus/services/Campus Resources
/campus/activities/Get Involved on Campus
https://www.bard.edu/visiting/Visiting + Transportation
https://bardathletics.com/External Athletics + Recreation
/montgomeryplace/Montgomery Place Campus
https://www.bard.edu/students/Current Students
/campus/newstudents/New Students
https://cce.bard.edu/External Subdomain Civic Engagement
https://cce.bard.edu/community/External Subdomain Campus + Community
https://cce.bard.edu/classroom/External Subdomain In the Classroom
https://cce.bard.edu/us-network/External Subdomain U.S. Network
https://cce.bard.edu/internati...External Subdomain International Network
https://cce.bard.edu/about/External Subdomain About CCE
https://cce.bard.edu/impacts/External Subdomain Support
https://cce.bard.edu/get-invol...External Subdomain Get Involved
https://www.bard.edu/news/News + Events
https://www.bard.edu/news/Newsroom
https://www.bard.edu/news/events/Events Calendar
/news/releases/Press Releases
/communications/Office of Communications
https://families.bard.edu/fami...External Subdomain Family and Alumni/ae Weekend
/commencement/Commencement
https://www.bard.edu/reunion/Reunion
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/New window External Subdomain Fisher Center + SummerScape
https://bardathletics.com/New window External Athletic Events
https://www.facebook.com/bardc...New window External No Text
https://twitter.com/bardcollegeNew window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/bard...New window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/b...New window External No Text
https://www.bard.edu/about/About Bard
https://www.bard.edu/about/About Bard College
/about/history/Bard History
/admission/tours/Text duplicate Campus Tours
https://www.bard.edu/employment/Employment
https://www.bard.edu/visiting/Visiting Bard
/about/diversity/Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
https://bos.bard.edu/External Subdomain Sustainability
/nondiscrimination/Title IX and Nondiscrimination
https://www.bard.edu/trustees/Board of Trustees
https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/Text duplicate Bard Abroad
https://opensocietyuniversityn...New window External Open Society University Network
https://www.bard.edu/network/The Bard Network
https://bardian.bard.edu/regis...New window External Subdomain Give
https://www.bard.edu/search/Search
https://www.bard.edu/about/Discover Bard
/admission/applying/Apply to Bard
/admission/tours/Request a Tour
https://www.annandaleonline.or...External Support Bard
/academics/programs/New window Text duplicate IMG-ALT Academics
/academics/programs/New window View All Academic Programs
https://cce.bard.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Civic Engagement
https://cce.bard.edu/External Subdomain Visit the Center for Civic Engagement
https://www.bard.edu/campus/New window Learn More about Campus Life
https://www.bard.edu/dei/New window DEI Initiatives
https://arts.bard.edu/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Arts at Bard
https://arts.bard.edu/New window External Subdomain Get to Know the Division of the Arts
https://families.bard.edu/fami...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Family and Alumni/ae Weekend
https://families.bard.edu/fami...New window External Subdomain Learn More + Register
/news/bard-early-college-to-of...IMG-ALT BHSEC Manhattan, 2022. Photo by Natalie Keyssar
/news/bard-early-college-to-of...More >
https://www.bard.edu/news/View All News >>
/news/events/event/?eid=145252...Migration
/news/events/event/?eid=145253...Text duplicate Migration
/news/events/event/?eid=144919...Women's Volleyball vs. William Smith (Breast Cancer Awareness - Dig Pink)
https://www.bard.edu/news/events/View All Events >>
https://www.bard.edu/graduate/IMG-ALT Photo by Karl Rabe
https://www.bard.edu/graduate/Text duplicate Graduate Programs
https://bhsec.bard.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://bhsec.bard.edu/New window External Subdomain Bard Early Colleges
https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/No Text
https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/New window International Programs
https://www.bard.edu/network/No Text
https://www.bard.edu/network/Centers and Institutes
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
https://twitter.com/BARDCollegeNew window External IMG-ALT Follow Us on Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/BardC...New window External IMG-ALT Like us on Facebook
https://instagram.com/bardcoll...New window External IMG-ALT Follow Us on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/b...New window External IMG-ALT You Tube
https://www.bard.edu/admission/Prospective Students
https://www.bard.edu/employment/Current Employees
https://alums.bard.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni/ae
https://families.bard.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Families
/employment/employment/Text duplicate Employment
/visiting/directions/Travel to Bard
https://www.bard.edu/search/Site Search
https://giving.bard.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Support Bard
https://www.bard.edu/covid19/COVID-19 Info

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bard.edu/"
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 of 0.99 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 9 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 13 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (55 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 18 Oct 2023 21:39:23 GMT
content-typetext/html
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
pragmano-cache
set-cookie62 Characters
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=2592000; includeSubDomains
access-control-allow-originhttps://opensocietyuniversitynetwork.org
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8183ef053ea41ac5-FRA
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 7,020 referring domains.
This page has 103,299 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,131 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /webtest/
Disallow: /graduate/mfa/gallery/faculty/
Disallow: /graduate/mfa/gallery/students/
Disallow: /mfa/gallery/faculty/
Disallow: /mfa/gallery/students/
Disallow: /academics/programs/arts/wordandimage/gallery/
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Disallow: /usno/
Disallow: /neworleans/
Disallow: /cep/blog/wp-content/?*
Disallow: /trustees/
Disallow: /admission/accepted/epostcards/
Disallow: /templates/

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