Bigfuture.collegeboard.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
9% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
47.80 kB
Words
547
Media files
6
Number of links
47 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home – BigFuture | College Board
The length of the page title is perfect. (307 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Plan for life after high school. Compare colleges. Explore career possibilities. Learn about financial aid and scholarships.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (740 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/
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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descriptionPlan for life after high school. Compare colleges. Explore career possibilities. Learn about financial aid and scholarships.
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MobileOptimizedwidth
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charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 547 words. That's ok.
34% 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.
5 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 14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=2" 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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Your Future, Your Way®
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Your Future, Your Way®
H1 Your Future, Your Way
H2 ✦ Qualify for a $40k Scholarship when you complete the FAFSA ✦
H2 See Your Options
H2 What can you do with BigFuture?
H2 The FAFSA Essentials
H2 ✦ Break down tasks into steps with our grade-by-grade high school checklists! ✦
H2 See which students won our $40, 000 scholarship
H2 Find the right college for you
H3 Career Quiz
H3 College Quiz
H3 Scholarship Quiz
H3 Start Your FAFSA Application
H3 Who counts as a parent on the FAFSA form?
H3 Federal Student Aid YouTube Channel: FAFSA Videos
H3 January 2023 Winner
H3 February 2023 Winner
H3 March 2023 Winner
H3 April 2023 Winner
H3 January 2023 Winner Duplicate text
H3 March 2023 Winner Duplicate text
H3 April 2023 Winner Duplicate text
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/BigFuture
/explore-careersExplore Home
/career-search/Subdomain Career Search
/career-search/career-quizSubdomain Career Quiz
/explore-careers/get-startedYour Guide to Career Exploration
/explore-careers/get-started/m...Multiple Pathways to Success
/explore-careers/career-clustersCareer Clusters
/plan-for-collegePlan Home
/college-search/filtersNew window Subdomain College Search
/college-search/college-quizSubdomain College Quiz
/student-search-serviceConnect With Colleges
/plan-for-college/stand-out-in...Stand Out in High School
/plan-for-college/find-your-fitFind Your Fit
/plan-for-college/get-startedYour Guide to College Planning
/plan-for-college/apply-to-col...Apply to College
/explore-careers/majorsLearn about Majors
/majorsSubdomain Majors Directory
/pay-for-collegePay Home
/scholarship-searchNew window Subdomain Scholarship Search
/pay-for-college/get-startedHow Much Will College Cost
/pay-for-college/get-help-payi...Get Help Paying for College
/pay-for-college/bigfuture-sch...BigFuture Scholarships
/student-search-serviceConnect with Scholarships
/communities-events/bigfuture-...BigFuture Live
/communities-events/real-talkReal Talk for Black Students
/communities-events/for-lgbtq-...For LGBTQ+ Students
/communities-events/for-native...For Native and Indigenous Students
/communities-events/bigfuture-...BigFuture Ambassador Program
/communities-events/national-r...National Recognition Programs
/communities-events/well-beingFor Your Well-Being
/communities-events/for-educatorsFor Educators
/communities-events/for-parent...For Parents
/communities-events/recursos-e...En Español
/dashboardSubdomain My Dashboard
/profileSubdomain My Profile
/checklistSubdomain My Checklist
/career-search/career-listSubdomain My Career List
/college-search/college-listSubdomain My College List
/scholarship-search/scholarshi...Subdomain My Scholarship List
https://account.collegeboard.o...External Subdomain Sign In
https://account.collegeboard.o...External Subdomain Create an Account
/dashboardSubdomain Go to Your Dashboard
/pay-for-college/bigfuture-sch...New window Subdomain ✦ Qualify for a $40k Scholarship when you complete the FAFSA ✦
/career-search/career-quizNew window Subdomain Take the Career Quiz
A-TITLE Opens in a new window
/college-search/college-quizSubdomain Take the College Quiz
/scholarship-matchNew window Subdomain Take the Scholarship Quiz
A-TITLE Opens in a new window
/about-usSubdomain About BigFuture
https://studentaid.gov/h/apply...External Start Application
https://studentaid.gov/fafsa-a...External Use Tool
https://www.youtube.com/@Feder...External Subdomain Watch Now
/plan-for-college/your-high-sc...New window Subdomain ✦ Break down tasks into steps with our grade-by-grade high school checklists! ✦
/pay-for-college/bigfuture-sch...Subdomain Qualify Now

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 11 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (48 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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last-modifiedWed, 11 Dec 2024 17:27:56 GMT
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x-xss-protection1; mode=block
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 12,671 referring domains.
This page has 394,745 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,594 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/careers/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/scholarships/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.collegeboard.org/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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bigfuture.collegeboard.org
Home – BigFuture | College Board
Plan for life after high school. Compare colleges. Explore career possibilities. Learn about financial aid and scholarships.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Future79%Check
College77%Check
College Board66%Check
BigFuture63%Check
College Quiz60%Check
College Search58%Check
College Planning58%Check
Way56%Check
Scholarship54%Check
School50%Check
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