Csumb.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.07 s
File size
49.20 kB
Words
535
Media files
19
Number of links
79 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | California State University Monterey Bay
The length of the page title is perfect. (434 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
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, shrink-to-fit=no
authorCalifornia State University Monterey Bay
generatorTerminalfour
google-site-verificationPBCYYAiyZz10x4MQkpP-zBmP4bVvpKDNrQ6lZ2t79Go
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.
This page contains 535 words. That's ok.
25.8% 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.
7 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 21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 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
...ogo-amp-favicon/CSUMB_wordmark_color.pngCSUMB Logo
...te-assets/map-marker-alt-solid-white.svgmaps icon
...mb/site-assets/newspaper-solid-white.svgnews icon
...site-assets/calendar-alt-solid-white.svgcalendar icon
...ite-assets/user-graduate-solid-white.svgalumni icon
..._20240518_commencement_23-24_bda_001.jpgCommencement 2024
..._20240518_commencement_23-24_bda_001.jpgCommencement 2024
...s/hero_20240506_science_illustration.jpgMonarch butterfly illustration by Taylor Maggiacomo
...mobile_20240506_science_illustration.jpgMonarch butterfly illustration by Taylor Maggiacomo
...ro_20240507_meghan_odonnell__bda_001.jpgMeghan O'Donnell
...le_20240507_meghan_odonnell__bda_001.jpgMeghan O'Donnell
...ection/students/Students-on-the-Quad.jpgFive students sitting on the CSUMB Quad and one student holding his bike
...on/students/Students-in-the-library.jpegA photo of the CSUMB students reading in the library
...008_site_ccaa_base_tournament_051323.jpgCSUMB Baseball Team holding the CCAA Tournament Championship trophy and banner
...C26-Public-RegionalUniversities-2024.pngBadge for the U.S News and World Report Ranking for Regional University
...hero-images/BC32-SocialMobility-2024.pngBadge for the U.S News and World Report Ranking for Social Mobility
.../BC06-RegionalUniversities-West-2024.pngBest Colleges U.S. News & World Report Regional Universities West 2024
...C26-Public-RegionalUniversities-2024.pngBest Colleges U.S. News & World Report Regional Universities Public 2024
...sets/images/BC32-SocialMobility-2024.pngBest Colleges U.S. News & World Report Social Mobility 2024

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Rafting up for Commencement
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Rafting up for Commencement
H1 Illustrating the New York Times
H1 Dialogue encouraged during Jewish American Heritage Month
H2 Join The Raft
H2 Discover CSUMB
H2 CSUMB is a top ranked University
H2 Latest News
H2 Get social with us!
H2 Thanks for helping us improve csumb.edu. Spot a broken link, typo, or didn't find something where you expected to? Let us know. We'll use your feedback to improve this page, and the site overall.
H3 Our Rankings
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://csumb.edu/IMG-ALT CSUMB Logo
https://csumb.edu/dashboard/Dashboard
/admissions/apply-now/Apply
https://csumb.edu/admissions/Explore
https://csumb.edu/giving/Give
/academicaffairs/Academic Affairs
/academics/centers-institutes/Centers
/academics/colleges-schools-de...Colleges
https://csumb.edu/academics/Degrees
https://csumb.edu/library/Library
/academics/research-engage/Research
/admissions/freshman-requirementsFirst-year
/admissions/transfer-students/Transfer
/graduate-studies/graduate-stu...Graduate
/international/apply/International
/admissions/campus-tours/Visit campus
https://csumb.edu/seld/Activities
https://otterathletics.com/External Athletics
https://csumb.edu/hws/Wellness
https://csumb.edu/housing-dining/Housing and dining
https://csumb.edu/traditions/Traditions
https://csumb.edu/mastercalendar/Academic calendar
https://csumb.edu/af/Admin and finance
https://csumb.edu/cost/Cost calculator
/planning/office-registrar/rec...Records
https://csumb.edu/iar/Reports and data
https://csumb.edu/hr/University careers
/academics/academic-support-se...Academic support
/studentaffairs/enrollment-ser...Enrollment
https://csumb.edu/financialaid/Financial aid
/parking-and-transportation/Parking and transportation
/life/safety-conduct/Safety
/academicaffairs/accreditationAccreditation
https://csumb.edu/administration/Administration
https://csumb.edu/aboutCampus
https://csumb.edu/diversityInclusion
https://csumb.edu/presidentPresident
/about/mission-strategic-planStrategic plan
https://csumb.edu/map/Maps
IMG-ALT maps icon
https://csumb.edu/news/News
IMG-ALT news icon
https://csumb.edu/events/Events
IMG-ALT calendar icon
https://csumb.edu/alumni/Alumni
IMG-ALT alumni icon
/news/news-listing/2024/q2/sin...Read the Story
https://csumb.edu/Anchor No Text
/news/news-listing/2024/q2/exc...Text duplicate Read the Story
https://csumb.edu/Anchor No Text
/news/news-listing/2024/q2/csu...Text duplicate Read the Story
https://csumb.edu/Anchor No Text
/admissions/apply-now/Apply now
https://csumb.edu/about/Our Campus
https://csumb.edu/studentlife/Student Life
https://csumb.edu/academics/Academics
https://csumb.edu/admissions/Admissions
https://csumb.edu/athletics/Text duplicate Athletics
/news/news-listing/csumb-ranke...IMG-ALT Badge for the U.S News and World Report Ranking for Regional University
/news/news-listing/2023/q3/us-...IMG-ALT Badge for the U.S News and World Report Ranking for Social Mobility
https://csumb.edu/about/rankingsLearn more
/news/news-listing/2024/q2/csu...CSUMB Undocu-Success Conference lives up to its name The conference focused on providing support and easier access to CSUMB. April 19, 2024
/news/news-listing/2024/q2/ann...Annual Ethics and Responsible Business Forum will tackle AI The online event will feature a keynote address and a panel discussion. April 15, 2024
/news/news-listing/2024/q2/csu...CSUMB tops CSU list of National Science Foundation fellowships Six CSUMB students and graduates will receive $37,000 annually for three years to pursue gradu...
https://csumb.edu/news/View More News
https://csumb.edu/mastercalendar/Calendars
https://catalog.csumb.edu/External Subdomain Catalog
/planning/class-schedule/Class Schedule
https://csumb.edu/directory/Directory
/hr/prospective-employees/Jobs
https://csumb.edu/map/Text duplicate Maps
https://csumb.edu/police/University Police
https://csumb.edu/wellness-raft/Wellness RAFT
/studentlife/care-team/Care Team
https://csumb.edu/hws/Health and Wellness
/police/emergency/Emergency Information
/health/coronavirus-information/COVID 19
https://csumb.edu/about/rankings/U.S. News And World Report Rankings
https://csumb.edu/about/rankings/IMG-ALT Best Colleges U.S. News & World Report Regional Universities West 2024
https://csumb.edu/about/rankings/IMG-ALT Best Colleges U.S. News & World Report Regional Universities Public 2024
https://csumb.edu/about/rankings/IMG-ALT Best Colleges U.S. News & World Report Social Mobility 2024
https://twitter.com/CSUMBExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/CSUMB/External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/csumb/External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://cm.maxient.com/reporti...External Subdomain Report concerning/discriminating behavior
https://csumb.edu/clery/Security report
https://csumb.edu/titleix/Title IX
https://csumb.edu/legal/Legal
/it/privacy-notice/Privacy
https://csumbedu-cms01-product...External Subdomain Anchor © CSUMB 2024

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://csumb.edu/"
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 is slow (1.07 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 fine (49 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 27 May 2024 16:16:21 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length13514
set-cookie178 Characters
serverApache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 5,754 referring domains.
This page has 382,597 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,879 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-Agent: googlebot
Allow: /
crawl-delay: 2

User-Agent: googlebot-image
Allow: /
crawl-delay: 2

User-Agent: duckduckbot
Allow: /
crawl-delay: 2

User-Agent: bingbot
Allow: /
crawl-delay: 2

User-Agent: msnbot
Allow: /
crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: SiteimproveBot-Crawler
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://csumb.edu/sitemap.xml

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KeywordResultRecheck
CSUMB58%Check
Raft54%Check
Commencement54%Check
University52%Check
edu50%Check
Rafting50%Check
State University49%Check
California State University48%Check
California State University Monterey47%Check
State University Monterey Bay47%Check
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