Courses.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
67% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
15.40 kB
Words
335
Media files
4
Number of links
77 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Courses.com - Online Courses, for Free
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Great online courses, for free. Open courses from top universities.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (407 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
csrf-tokenMzgM68DoGsvzo6EiDpEtc4VFytu7b5I20tTk1yXS
descriptionGreat online courses, for free. Open courses from top universities.
keywordscourses,course,online,degrees,degree,college,colleges,university,universities,school,schools,free
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 335 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.4% 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.
3 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 18.3 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 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 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://www.courses.com/images/logo.pngCourses
...articles/adults-continuing-education.jpgLearning to Learn Again: Adults Continuing Education
/images/articles/mba-degree-online.jpgWhy to Opt for an Online MBA Degree
/images/articles/online-courses.jpgOnline Courses Provide the Flexibility Needed to Succeed

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Courses to Elevate Your Potential
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Courses to Elevate Your Potential
H2 Courses by Subject
H2 Articles
H4 Learning to Learn Again: Adults Continuing Education
H4 Why to Opt for an Online MBA Degree
H4 Online Courses Provide the Flexibility Needed to Succeed
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 2 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.courses.com/mycoursesSubdomain My Courses
https://www.courses.com/loginSubdomain Login
https://www.courses.com/registerSubdomain Join for Free
https://www.courses.com/IMG-ALT Courses
/art-and-designArt & Design
/architectureArchitecture
/art-historyArt History
/film-studiesFilm Studies
https://www.courses.com/fine-artsFine Arts
https://www.courses.com/musicMusic
https://www.courses.com/businessBusiness
/entrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship
https://www.courses.com/financeFinance
/managementManagement
https://www.courses.com/marketingMarketing
/computer-scienceComputer Science
/applied-computer-scienceApplied Computer Science
/artificial-intelligenceArtificial Intelligence
/programmingProgramming
/systems-architectureSystems Architecture
/theoretical-computer-scienceTheoretical Computer Science
/engineeringEngineering
/aerospace-engineeringAerospace Engineering
/biomedical-engineeringBiomedical Engineering
/chemical-engineeringChemical Engineering
/civil-engineeringCivil Engineering
/electrical-engineeringElectrical Engineering
/electronics-engineeringElectronics Engineering
/mechanical-engineeringMechanical Engineering
/ocean-engineeringOcean Engineering
/humanitiesHumanities
/communicationsCommunications
https://www.courses.com/educationEducation
/environmental-studiesEnvironmental Studies
https://www.courses.com/historyHistory
https://www.courses.com/languagesLanguages
/literatureLiterature
/philosophyPhilosophy
/religious-studiesReligious Studies
/mathematicsMathematics
https://www.courses.com/algebraAlgebra
/arithmeticArithmetic
https://www.courses.com/calculusCalculus
https://www.courses.com/geometryGeometry
/statisticsStatistics
/trigonometryTrigonometry
/medicine-and-healthcareMedicine & Healthcare
https://www.courses.com/dentistryDentistry
/disease-and-epidemiologyDisease & Epidemiology
https://www.courses.com/scienceScience
https://www.courses.com/astronomyAstronomy
/atmospheric-scienceAtmospheric Science
https://www.courses.com/biologyBiology
https://www.courses.com/chemistryChemistry
/earth-sciencesEarth Sciences
/material-scienceMaterial Science
https://www.courses.com/physicsPhysics
/social-scienceSocial Science
https://www.courses.com/economicsEconomics
/international-relationsInternational Relations
https://www.courses.com/lawLaw
/liberal-studiesLiberal Studies
/political-sciencePolitical Science
/psychologyPsychology
https://www.courses.com/sociologySociology
/test-preparationTest Preparation
https://www.courses.com/actACT
https://www.courses.com/gmatGMAT
https://www.courses.com/satSAT
/articles/learning-to-learn-ag...IMG-ALT Learning to Learn Again: Adults Continuing Education
/articles/learning-to-learn-ag...Text duplicate Learning to Learn Again: Adults Continuing Education
/articles/why-to-opt-for-an-on...IMG-ALT Why to Opt for an Online MBA Degree
/articles/why-to-opt-for-an-on...Text duplicate Why to Opt for an Online MBA Degree
/articles/online-courses-provi...IMG-ALT Online Courses Provide the Flexibility Needed to Succeed
/articles/online-courses-provi...Text duplicate Online Courses Provide the Flexibility Needed to Succeed
https://www.courses.com/schoolsSubdomain Schools
https://www.facebook.com/cours...New window External Subdomain facebook
https://www.twitter.com/course...New window External Subdomain twitter
https://www.courses.com/Text duplicate Courses

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.courses.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 0.91 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 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (15 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 30 Jun 2024 18:05:30 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlno-cache, private
set-cookie325 Characters
expiresSun, 30 Jun 2024 18:15:29 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
content-length3954
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 page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 277 referring domains.
This page has 8,625 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 154 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 2488 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /link
Disallow: /link/
Disallow: /cslink
Disallow: /cslink/

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Courses.com - Online Courses, for Free
Great online courses, for free. Open courses from top universities.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Courses93%Check
Online Courses81%Check
Online70%Check
College Courses65%Check
Free58%Check
Potential50%Check
Elevate50%Check
Degree42%Check
Education42%Check
MBA42%Check
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