Catalog.uic.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
21% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.61 s
File size
8.70 kB
Words
245
Media files
1
Number of links
17 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University of Illinois Chicago < University of Illinois Chicago
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (531 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
langen
og:site_nameUniversity of Illinois Chicago
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 245 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
31.4% 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.
4 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 17.25 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 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0" 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
https://catalog.uic.edu/images/logo2021.pngUniversity of Illinois Chicago

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Academic Catalog
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 Academic Catalog
H1 University of Illinois Chicago
H2 University of Illinois Chicago Catalogs
H2 Academic Catalog Duplicate text
H2 Print Options
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://catalog.uic.edu/Anchor Skip to Content
https://catalog.uic.edu/azindex/AZ Index
https://catalog.uic.edu/Catalog Home
http://www.uic.edu/External Subdomain UIC Home
https://www.uic.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Illinois Chicago
https://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/Undergraduate
https://catalog.uic.edu/gcatGraduate & Professional
https://catalog.uic.edu/Academic Catalog
https://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/Undergraduate Catalog
https://catalog.uic.edu/gcat/Graduate & Professional Catalog
/all-course-descriptions/All Course Descriptions
https://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/Text duplicate Undergraduate Catalog
https://catalog.uic.edu/gcat/Graduate and Professional Catalog
/all-course-descriptions/Text duplicate All Course Descriptions
https://catalog.uic.edu/Text duplicate University of Illinois Chicago
http://admissions.uic.edu/appl...External Subdomain Apply Online
http://admissions.uic.edu/cont...External Subdomain Contact Admissions
https://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://catalog.uic.edu/Anchor Back to Top
/homepage.pdfDownload Page (PDF)
/pdf/2023-24-graduate.pdfNew window Download PDF of the entire Graduate & Professional Catalog
/pdf/2023-24-undergraduate.pdfNew window Download PDF of the entire Undergraduate Catalog

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://catalog.uic.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
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.
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (9 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 21 Aug 2024 07:32:17 GMT
serverApache/2.4.37 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/1.1.1k
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1
last-modifiedMon, 29 Jul 2024 15:05:02 GMT
etag"22ca-61e642f80bff7"
accept-rangesbytes
content-length8906
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 597 referring domains.
This page has 5,859 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 503 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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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Catalog66%Check
University56%Check
Illinois56%Check
Chicago56%Check
Illinois Chicago56%Check
Illinois Chicago University56%Check
Academic54%Check
Undergraduate Catalog52%Check
Professional Catalog52%Check
UIC46%Check
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