Apply.commonapp.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
64% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.61 s
File size
6.00 kB
Words
6
Media files
0
Number of links
0 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Common App
The page title is too short. (123 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Common App is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. Each year, more than 1 million students, a third of whom are first-generation, apply to more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide through Common App’s online application.
The meta description is too long: 1852 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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 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
descriptionCommon App is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. Each year, more than 1 million students, a third of whom are first-generation, apply to more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide through Common App’s online application.
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langen
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 6 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
33.3% of the text are stop words.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Baselink: /
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are no external links on this page.

Found links on this page

No internal links were found.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://apply.commonapp.org/"
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 0.61 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 (6 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateTue, 10 Sep 2024 17:38:10 GMT
last-modifiedMon, 29 Jul 2024 20:02:06 GMT
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cache-controlprivate, must-revalidate, no-cache, no-store
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serverAmazonS3
etagW/"f791d3e1994f8e5d68aa8ab3a564d0de"
varyaccept-encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 dc929648f0c936ae1fcea0675ad0382c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsDENY
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,668 referring domains.
This page has 22,132 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,320 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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apply.commonapp.org
Common App
Common App is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. Each year, more than 1 million students, a third of whom are first-generation, apply to more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide through Common App’s online application.

Most important keywords

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

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Common34%Check
App34%Check
Common App34%Check
Please34%Check
wait34%Check
page34%Check
loading34%Check
please wait34%Check
apply23%Check
Universities Worldwide11%Check
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