Berkeley.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.76 s
File size
52.80 kB
Words
222
Media files
11
Number of links
21 internal / 41 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - University of California, Berkeley
The length of the page title is perfect. (364 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (820 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.berkeley.edu/
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
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionUC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
article:modified_time2024-09-18T17:00:35+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - University of California, Berkeley
og:descriptionUC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
og:urlhttps://www.berkeley.edu/
og:site_nameUniversity of California, Berkeley
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 222 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
16.7% 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.
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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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)
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
...erkeleygateway/img/logo-berkeley.svg?v=3UC Berkeley home
...ygateway/img/logo-berkeley-white.svg?v=3UC Berkeley home
...ir_Pollution_23005733293051-1024x686.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...4/09/Oskicupcake500-1-e1726513445593.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/2024/09/fascists-01-1024x576.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...09/Understanding-panel-2500-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/2024/09/grains-1024x585.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...opy-01.00_02_05_07.Still002-1024x576.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2024/09/DSZ_5477-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...-Team-Photo_20240827_095956-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...eygateway/img/logo-berkeley-gold.svg?v=3UC Berkeley

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
UC Berkeley home
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 UC Berkeley home
H1 UC Berkeley home Duplicate text
H2 Leading the pack
H3 Events
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 (41) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.berkeley.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.berkeley.edu/Anchor Skip to main menu
https://www.berkeley.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Skip to main menu
/students/Subdomain Students
/faculty-staff/Subdomain Faculty & Staff
https://calparents.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Parents
https://my.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Alumni
http://give.berkeley.edu/?sc=1...External Subdomain Give
https://www.berkeley.edu/map/Subdomain Map
/directory/Subdomain Directory
https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain bConnected
https://news.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain News
https://www.berkeley.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT UC Berkeley home
https://www.berkeley.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT UC Berkeley home
https://www.berkeley.edu/map/Subdomain Text duplicate Map
/directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate bConnected
https://news.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate News
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Students
/faculty-staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty & Staff
https://calparents.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Parents
https://my.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni
http://give.berkeley.edu/?sc=1...External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024...External Subdomain Leading the pack UC Berkeley ranks No. 1 university for producing startups in 2024 PitchBook rankings.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024...External Subdomain California has dramatically improved its air quality, but racial disparities persist
https://givingday.berkeley.edu...External Subdomain Oski’s b-day fundraiser (Sept. 16–20) to support basic needs, scholarships, and other student programs
https://events.berkeley.edu/li...External Subdomain A Movement in Every Direction: Roundtable Discussion with Exhibition Artists and Curators
https://events.berkeley.edu/li...External Subdomain Healing Voice of Deep Release with Odeya Nini
https://events.berkeley.edu/li...External Subdomain Roundtable | Language Program Vitality: Building Community
https://events.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain More Events
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024...External Subdomain Fascism shattered Europe a century ago — and historians hear echoes today in the U.S.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024...External Subdomain Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024...External Subdomain Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024...External Subdomain Chancellor Lyons welcomes UC Berkeley to a new academic year
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024...External Subdomain UC Berkeley gathers to remember those lost over the past year
https://inspire.berkeley.edu/o...External Subdomain $23 million gift for Cal Golf marks largest endowment in Athletics history
https://www.berkeley.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT UC Berkeley
http://www.facebook.com/UCBerk...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/UCBerkeleyNew window External X
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE Youtube
http://instagram.com/ucberkele...New window External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://medium.com/@UCBerkeleyNew window External Medium
A-TITLE Medium
https://visit.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Visit
https://www.berkeley.edu/jobs/Subdomain Jobs
https://news.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate News
https://blogs.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Blog
https://events.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Events
https://give.berkeley.edu/?sc=...External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
https://lib.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://www.calbears.com/External Subdomain Cal Athletics
https://diversity.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Equity, Inclusion & Diversity
https://vcue.berkeley.edu/comm...External Subdomain Accreditation
https://light.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Berkeley Inspire
/heerf-report/Subdomain HEERF Report
https://ophd.berkeley.edu/poli...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination
https://www.berkeley.edu/atoz/Subdomain Websites A-Z
/directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://www.berkeley.edu/map/Subdomain Text duplicate Map
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy policy
https://dac.berkeley.edu/web-a...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://news.berkeley.edu/abou...External Subdomain Media inquiries

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.berkeley.edu/"
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 0.76 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 (53 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 21 Sep 2024 14:42:47 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
access-control-allow-originhttps://www.berkeley.edu
link<https://www.berkeley.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-powered-byWP Engine
x-cacheablebot
cache-controlmax-age=10800, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 1018
x-cache-groupbot
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8c6ad2e2bf3bd264-FRA
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 17,985 referring domains.
This page has 564,406 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,372 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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www.berkeley.edu
Home - University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.

Most important keywords

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Berkeley92%Check
UC Berkeley79%Check
university46%Check
California46%Check
Events38%Check
Leading38%Check
pack38%Check
content36%Check
News36%Check
air36%Check
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