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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.02 s
File size
1,472.60 kB
Words
301
Media files
4
Number of links
23 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Canterbury Christ Church University
The length of the page title is perfect. (394 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find your perfect course at a supportive, friendly university ranked 1st in the UK for graduates in employment (HESA: Graduate Outcomes 2023).
The length of the meta description is perfect. (892 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: 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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 301 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
34.9% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.89 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1472.6 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no" 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 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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...4e-679f10755543/static/img/logo-dark.svgCanterbury Christ Church University Logo
...us-cet-v2.x1a7bcdbb.jpg?w=500&h=500&q=70A person interacting with a laptop.
...ll-us-cet.xf4d0c5a2.jpg?w=500&h=500&q=70A support officer smiling at the camera.
...ont-card-chat-500x500.x2a1ca402.jpg?q=70A student in an archive smiling at the camera.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The UK needs people like you.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The UK needs people like you.
H2 Choose CCCU
H2 Transform your future
H2 Discover more about us
H3 Benidorm unveiled: the original beach holiday and the changing dream
H3 Ukraine leads the way to energy security and sustainability
H3 New treatment to support people with Anorexia
H3 Email us
H3 Phone us
H3 Chat with a student
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
8 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://cccu.canterbury.ac.uk/External Subdomain Staff
/alumniAlumni
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/IMG-ALT Canterbury Christ Church University Logo
/explore-cccu/future-youFind your future course
/study-here/subject-areasSubject areas
/search/undergraduate-coursesView all courses
/study-here/applying/visit-usVisit us
/study-here/contact-usContact us
/study-here/explore-undergraduateNo Text
/study-here/explore-postgraduateNo Text
/study-here/subject-areasNo Text
/study-here/applying/ive-appli...No Text
/study-here/student-life/why-c...No Text
/study-here/student-life/stude...Subdomain No Text
/black-history-365Black History 365
/study-here/applying/order-you...No Text
https://explore.canterbury.ac....External Subdomain No Text
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/newsSubdomain View all news
/eventsSubdomain View all events
/events?eventCategory=650b0b59...Subdomain View arts and culture
/news/benidorm-unveiled-the-or...Benidorm unveiled: the original beach holiday and the changing dream Rob Ball, Reader in Photography, reveals the story of the iconic Spanish seaside resort ...
/news/ukraine-leads-the-way-to...Ukraine leads the way to energy security and sustainability In the face of formidable difficulties, Ukraine is emerging as a leading nation in transitioning ...
/news/eating-disorder-awarenes...New treatment to support people with Anorexia Eating Disorder Awareness Week: A new treatment for people with Anorexia could improve recovery rates for those...
https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk...External Subdomain No Text
https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk...External Subdomain No Text
/blogs/2024/ai-in-your-life-ar...Subdomain No Text
/study-here/student-life/join-...Chat with a student Chat to one of our students through The Student Room
IMG-ALT A student in an archive smiling at the camera.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.02 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1,473 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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dateThu, 03 Apr 2025 08:25:11 GMT
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x-is-iis-fallbackfalse
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x-version-no205
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x-grace72h
x-backend-ttl3600.000
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
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x-varnish-authenticationskip
x-age2704
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
accept-rangesbytes
content-length262096
x-server-namez-canterbury-CACHE1
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
x-geoip-country-codeDE
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
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 668 referring domains.
This page has 19,255 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 580 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Home - Canterbury Christ Church University
Find your perfect course at a supportive, friendly university ranked 1st in the UK for graduates in employment (HESA: Graduate Outcomes 2023).

Most important keywords

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university58%Check
people54%Check
support52%Check
needs50%Check
Find46%Check
course46%Check
perfect46%Check
HESA46%Check
Graduate46%Check
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