Collegeave.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
69% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
36% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
167.30 kB
Words
1400
Media files
61
Number of links
104 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Education Loans & College Planning Resources | College Ave
The length of the page title is perfect. (555 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
College Ave was built to take the stress out of paying for college. We offer stress-free, customizable student loans.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (702 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.collegeave.com/
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

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og:site_nameCollege Ave
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1400 words. That's ok.
30.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 16.09 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" 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 28 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
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..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAIS01.svgCAIS01 icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAPA01.svgCAPA01 icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAIS03.svgCAIS03 icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISDE.svgCAISDE icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISMB.svgCAISMB icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISGH.svgCAISGH icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISLW.svgCAISLW icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISMD.svgCAISMD icon
...LEGE_AVE_2023/assets/temp/test-image.pngNo alt attribute provided
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/guides.svgguides icon
...2023/assets/images/icons/calculators.svgcalculators icon
...GE_AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/faqs.svgfaqs icon
..._2023/assets/images/icons/promotions.svgpromotions icon
...GE_AVE_2023/assets/temp/test-image-2.pngNo alt attribute provided
...AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/contact.svgcontact icon
...AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/reviews.svgreviews icon
...AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/careers.svgcareers icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAIS01.svgCAIS01 icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAPA01.svgCAPA01 icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAIS03.svgCAIS03 icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISDE.svgCAISDE icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISMB.svgCAISMB icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISGH.svgCAISGH icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISLW.svgCAISLW icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/CAISMD.svgCAISMD icon
..._AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/guides.svgguides icon
...2023/assets/images/icons/calculators.svgcalculators icon
...GE_AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/faqs.svgfaqs icon
..._2023/assets/images/icons/promotions.svgpromotions icon
...AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/contact.svgcontact icon
...AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/reviews.svgreviews icon
...AVE_2023/assets/images/icons/careers.svgcareers icon
...E_2023/assets/images/icons/parchment.svgparchment icon
...E_2023/assets/images/icons/parchment.svgparchment icon
...ploads/2023/11/07145719/hero-home-2x.pngGroup of students
.../2023/08/07145719/ug_product_tile-2x.pngUndergraduate product image
...23/08/07145719/grad-product-image-2x.pngGraduate Student Loans Product Image
.../11/07145715/[email protected]No alt attribute provided
...145720/gradhealthpro_product_tile-2x.pngGraduate Health Professions
...ploads/2023/05/07150522/who-we-are-d.pngNo alt attribute provided
...-Ave-Best-Private-Student-Loans-2024.svgForbes Advisor - Best of 2024 - College Ave - Best Private Student Loan
...ent/uploads/2024/06/05092514/us-news.svgUS News - Best Private Student Loans - 2022-2023
...05120152/SL_private-overall-vt-white.svgNerd Wallet - Best Private Student Loan Overall - 2024
...s/COLLEGE_AVE_2023/assets/temp/promo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/2023/05/07150522/light-wave-bg-d-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...OLLEGE_AVE_2023/assets/temp/cal-icon.svgNo alt attribute provided
.../11/07145715/[email protected]No alt attribute provided
.../2023/11/07145719/sitting-student-2x.pngsitting student
.../07145714/loan-app-qr-code_v11.28.23.pngCollege Ave Student Loan App - qr code
...ds/2023/11/07145715/qr-code-ambition.pngAmbition App QR code
.../07145714/loan-app-qr-code_v11.28.23.pngCollege Ave Student Loan App - qr code
...ds/2023/11/07145715/qr-code-ambition.pngAmbition App QR code
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...ntent/uploads/2023/11/07145717/apple.svgDownload on the App Store
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...ntent/uploads/2023/11/07145717/apple.svgDownload on the App Store

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
A Better Student Loan Experience.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 46 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 A Better Student Loan Experience.
H2 Who we are.
H2 We’ll guide you through all steps.
H2 Enter our $1,000 Scholarship Monthly Sweepstakes
H2 See Your College Loan in Action.
H2 You're Ready to Build Credit. We're Here to Help.
H2 Let's get started, you've got this.
H2 Apply
H3 Undergraduate Student Loans
H3 Graduate Student Loans
H3 Student Card
H3 Graduate Health Professions
H3 College Application Deadlines to Keep in Mind for 2023-2024
H3 How is Interest Calculated on Student Loans?
H3 File the FAFSA to Get More Money in College
H3 Repaying Your College Ave Student Loan
H3 8 Types of Scholarships for Students
H3 How to Read Your Financial Aid Award Letter
H3 How Do Scholarships Work?
H3 How To Take Out Student Loans For College
H3 What’s the Difference Between Grants, Scholarships, and Loans?
H3 Upcoming Changes to the FAFSA That You Should Prepare For
H3 10 Common FAFSA Errors to Avoid
H3 How to Pay for College: A Step-by-Step Guide
H3 My Loan Account
H3 My Student Card Account
H4 Undergraduate Loans
H4 $1000 Monthly Scholarship
H4 Admissions
H4 Student Loans
H4 FAFSA
H4 College Ave
H4 Financial Aid
H4 Financial Aid Duplicate text
H4 Financial Aid Duplicate text
H4 Student Loans Duplicate text
H4 Paying for College
H4 FAFSA Duplicate text
H4 FAFSA Duplicate text
H4 Parent Tips
H4 Undergraduate Loan
H4 Graduate Loan
H4 Career Loans
H4 Parent Loan
H4 Student Loan Refinancing
H4 Interested in building your credit?
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.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/application/find-your-applica...Return to Application
/application/find-your-applica...Application Status
https://www.collegeave.com/IMG-ALT College Ave Logo
/student-loans/Student Loans
/private-student-loans/Private Student Loans
/student-loans/undergraduate/Undergraduate 4.22% - 17.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAIS01 icon
/student-loans/parent/Parent 4.22% - 17.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAPA01 icon
/student-loans/career/Career Loans 3.99% - 17.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAIS03 icon
/student-loans/graduate/Graduate Loans
/student-loans/graduate/dental/Dental 4.17% - 14.47% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISDE icon
/student-loans/graduate/mba/MBA 4.22% - 14.49% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISMB icon
/student-loans/graduate/health...Health Professions 4.17% - 14.47% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISGH icon
/student-loans/graduate/law/Law 4.17% - 14.47% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISLW icon
/student-loans/graduate/medical/Medical 4.17% - 14.47% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISMD icon
/student-loans/refinance/Student Loan Refinance
/student-loans/undergraduate/Undergraduate Loans Get a loan for next year!
/credit/student-card/Student Card
/resources/Resources & Tools
/resources/Text duplicate Resources & Tools
/articles/Guides & Articles All you need to know about loans and finances.
IMG-ALT guides icon
/calculators/Calculators Calculate and plan for your financial future.
IMG-ALT calculators icon
https://help.collegeavestudent...External Subdomain FAQs Questions about loans and finance?
IMG-ALT faqs icon
/promotions/Scholarships & Sweepstakes Rewards to assist you with your college tuition
IMG-ALT promotions icon
/promotions/monthly-scholarshi...$1000 Monthly Scholarship Enter for a chance to win
https://www.collegeave.com/about/About Us
https://www.collegeave.com/about/Text duplicate About Us
/contact/Contact Us Do you have questions? Or want to talk?
IMG-ALT contact icon
/reviews/Reviews Don't just listen to us - read what our customers have to say.
IMG-ALT reviews icon
/about/careers/Careers Come join our team.
IMG-ALT careers icon
/student-loans/Student Loans Overview
/private-student-loans/Text duplicate Private Student Loans
/student-loans/undergraduate/Undergraduate 3.99% - 14.96% APR†
IMG-ALT CAIS01 icon
/student-loans/parent/Parent 3.99% - 14.96% APR†
IMG-ALT CAPA01 icon
/student-loans/career/Career Loans 1.19% - 12.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAIS03 icon
/student-loans/graduate/Text duplicate Graduate Loans
/student-loans/graduate/dental/Dental 3.99% - 12.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISDE icon
/student-loans/graduate/mba/MBA 3.99% - 14.96% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISMB icon
/student-loans/graduate/health...Health Professions 1.19% - 12.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISGH icon
/student-loans/graduate/law/Law 1.19% - 12.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISLW icon
/student-loans/graduate/medical/Medical 1.19% - 12.99% APR†
IMG-ALT CAISMD icon
/student-loans/refinance/Text duplicate Student Loan Refinance
/credit/student-card/Text duplicate Student Card
/resources/Text duplicate Resources & Tools
/articles/Text duplicate Guides & Articles All you need to know about loans and finances.
IMG-ALT guides icon
/calculators/Text duplicate Calculators Calculate and plan for your financial future.
IMG-ALT calculators icon
https://help.collegeavestudent...External Subdomain Text duplicate FAQs Questions about loans and finance?
IMG-ALT faqs icon
/promotions/Text duplicate Scholarships & Sweepstakes Rewards to assist you with your college tuition
IMG-ALT promotions icon
https://www.collegeave.com/about/Text duplicate About Us
/contact/Text duplicate Contact Us Do you have questions? Or want to talk?
IMG-ALT contact icon
/reviews/Text duplicate Reviews Don't just listen to us - read what our customers have to say.
IMG-ALT reviews icon
/about/careers/Text duplicate Careers Come join our team.
IMG-ALT careers icon
/application/find-your-applica...Text duplicate Return to Application
IMG-ALT parchment icon
/application/find-your-applica...Text duplicate Application Status
IMG-ALT parchment icon
/student-loans/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate Student Loans 3 minutes to apply Cover 100% of school costs2 Rates starting at 4.22% APR1
IMG-ALT Undergraduate product image
/student-loans/graduate/Subdomain Graduate Student Loans No origination fees Cover 100% of school costs2 Rates starting at 4.22% APR1
IMG-ALT Graduate Student Loans Product Image
/credit/student-card/Student Card No credit check to qualify. No interest or late fees3. Cash back on all purchases4. Built-in fraud protection.
/student-loans/graduate/health...Subdomain Graduate Health Professions No origination fees Flexible repayment options Cover 100% of school costs2 Rates starting at 4.17% APR1
IMG-ALT Graduate Health Professions
https://www.collegeave.com/about/Learn More
https://www.forbes.com/advisor...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Forbes Advisor - Best of 2024 - College Ave - Best Private Student Loan
https://money.usnews.com/loans...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT US News - Best Private Student Loans - 2022-2023
https://www.collegeave.com/about/Text duplicate Learn More
/articles/6-deadlines-keep-min...Subdomain Admissions College Application Deadlines to Keep in Mind for 2023-2024 Learn More
/articles/how-student-loan-int...Subdomain Student Loans How is Interest Calculated on Student Loans? Learn More
/articles/file-the-fafsa-to-ge...Subdomain FAFSA File the FAFSA to Get More Money in College Learn More
/articles/repaying-college-ave...Subdomain College Ave Repaying Your College Ave Student Loan Learn More
/articles/breaking-down-types-...Subdomain Financial Aid 8 Types of Scholarships for Students Learn More
/articles/how-to-read-financia...Subdomain Financial Aid How to Read Your Financial Aid Award Letter Learn More
/articles/how-do-scholarships-...Subdomain Financial Aid How Do Scholarships Work? Learn More
/articles/how-to-take-out-stud...Subdomain Student Loans How To Take Out Student Loans For College Learn More
/articles/differences-between-...Subdomain Paying for College What’s the Difference Between Grants, Scholarships, and Loans? Learn More
/articles/upcoming-changes-to-...Subdomain FAFSA Upcoming Changes to the FAFSA That You Should Prepare For Learn More
/articles/10-common-fafsa-erro...Subdomain FAFSA 10 Common FAFSA Errors to Avoid Learn More
/articles/tips-to-pay-for-your...Subdomain Parent Tips How to Pay for College: A Step-by-Step Guide Learn More
/promotions/monthly-scholarshi...Enter Today
/calculators/Calculate Your Loan
https://ambition.collegeave.co...External Subdomain Start Today
/prequalify/Prequalify
/rewards/terms/Terms & Conditions
https://www.collegeaveservicin...External Subdomain Manage My Loan
https://play.google.com/store/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain IMG-ALT Get it on Google Play
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain IMG-ALT Download on the App Store
https://ambition.collegeave.co...External Subdomain Manage My Ambition Card
https://play.google.com/store/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Get it on Google Play
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Download on the App Store
/application/?SC=CAIS01Undergraduate Loan
/application/?SC=CAIS02Graduate Loan
/application/?SC=CAIS03Career Loans
/application/?SC=CAPA01Parent Loan
/application/?SC=CARF01Student Loan Refinancing
/credit/student-card/Ambition Card by College Ave
/application/find-your-applica...Find My Application
/student-loans/Text duplicate Student Loans
/student-loans/refinance/Text duplicate Student Loan Refinance
/student-loans/undergraduate/Undergraduate
/student-loans/graduate/Graduate
/private-student-loans/Text duplicate Private Student Loans
/resources/Text duplicate Resources & Tools
/reviews/Reviews
/articles/Guides & Articles
https://www.collegeave.com/about/Text duplicate About Us
/promotions/Scholarships & Sweepstakes
/credit/student-card/Text duplicate Student Card
https://www.collegeave.com/press/Press
/partner/Partner With Us
/for-schools/For Schools
/contact/Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/colle...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/coll...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/@Colle...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://twitter.com/CollegeAve...New window External Twitter
https://www.bbb.org/us/de/wilm...New window External Subdomain Better Business Bureau
https://play.google.com/store/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Google Play Store
IMG-ALT Get it on Google Play
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Apple App Store
IMG-ALT Download on the App Store
https://play.google.com/store/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Google Play Store
IMG-ALT Get it on Google Play
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Text duplicate Apple App Store
IMG-ALT Download on the App Store
https://www.facebook.com/colle...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/coll...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/@Colle...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Youtube
https://twitter.com/CollegeAve...New window External Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.bbb.org/us/de/wilm...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Better Business Bureau
https://www.collegeave.com/WWW.COLLEGEAVE.COM
/privacy/Privacy Policy
/licenses/Licenses
/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
/sitemap/Site Map
/privacy/Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/licenses/Text duplicate Licenses
/terms-of-use/Text duplicate Terms of Use
/sitemap/Text duplicate Site Map

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.collegeave.com/"
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 0.88 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 (167 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 1,640 referring domains.
This page has 36,703 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,238 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: *.pdf
Disallow: *.css
Disallow: *.js
Disallow: */feed/*
Disallow: /tag/*/page/*
Disallow: */tag/*/page/*
Disallow: /tag/sarah-brumbley/
Disallow: /application/error*
Disallow: /application/error/*
Disallow: /blog/page/*
Disallow: /wp-content/*
Disallow: */wp-content/*
Disallow: /open-position/feed/
Disallow: /open-position/feed/*
Disallow: /press/feed/
Disallow: /press/feed/*
Disallow: /resources/feed/
Disallow: /resources/feed/*
Disallow: /tools/prequalify/career-student-loan/?applicant=C
Disallow: /tools/prequalify/career-graduate-health/
Disallow: /tools/prequalify/undergraduate-student-loan/?applicant=S
Disallow: /tools/prequalify/undergraduate-student-loan/?applicant=C
Disallow: /tools/prequalify/graduate-student-loan/?applicant=C
Disallow: /tools/prequalify/parent-student-loan/?applicant=S

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Education Loans & College Planning Resources | College Ave
College Ave was built to take the stress out of paying for college. We offer stress-free, customizable student loans.

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