Collegescorecard.ed.gov - SEO Checker

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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
94% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.52 s
File size
59.40 kB
Words
205
Media files
2
Number of links
6 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | College Scorecard
The length of the page title is perfect. (238 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find the college that’s the best fit for you! The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard has the most reliable data on college costs,graduation, and post-college earnings.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
The meta description is too long: 1104 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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)
There are only 205 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
32.7% 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.
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 9.89 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" 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)
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
/img/Pathway-Icon.svgPathways Icon
/img/icon-financial-aid-black.svgFinancial Aid Icon

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Find the right fit
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Find the right fit
H2 Alternative Pathwaysto a Career Pathways Icon
H2 Learn More AboutPaying for College Financial Aid Icon
There are too few (6) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.apprenticeship.gov...New window External Subdomain apprenticeship.gov
https://www.mynextmove.org/New window External Subdomain MyNextMove.org
https://trainingproviderresult...New window External TrainingProviderResults.gov
https://careeronestop.org/New window External CareerOneStop.org
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/New window External Subdomain Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
https://studentaid.gov/New window External StudentAid.gov
https://studentaid.gov/aid-est...New window External Federal Student Aid Estimator
https://studentaid.gov/h/apply...New window External Start Your FAFSA® Application
https://www.vets.gov/gi-bill-c...New window External Subdomain GI Bill® comparison tool
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/Home
/dataAbout the Data
/searchSearch
/compareCompare
/dataCollege Scorecard Data
https://github.com/RTICWDT/col...New window External 3.2.4
http://www2.ed.gov/notices/ind...New window External Subdomain Notices
/data/glossary/Glossary
http://www.ed.gov/New window External Subdomain U.S. Department of Education

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/"
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 0.52 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 (59 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 7,759 referring domains.
This page has 886,358 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,850 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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Find the college that’s the best fit for you! The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard has the most reliable data on college costs,graduation, and post-college earnings.

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College Scorecard71%Check
Scorecard69%Check
Find62%Check
fit62%Check
College Search54%Check
right50%Check
education46%Check
gov46%Check
Data46%Check
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