Directory.columbia.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
36% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
27% 
External factors
71% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.80 s
File size
12.20 kB
Words
122
Media files
21
Number of links
9 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Columbia University: Directory
The length of the page title is perfect. (274 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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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 XHTML 1.0 Transitional is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
robotsnoarchive
keywordscolumbia university telephone number, columbia directory, phone directory
langen
expiresEmpty

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 122 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
16.4% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
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)
1 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
...ssionid=0BE554C36F0AF588C9017994FE139DADNo alt attribute provided
...ssionid=0BE554C36F0AF588C9017994FE139DADColumbia University in the City of New YorkColumbia University in the City of New York
...ssionid=0BE554C36F0AF588C9017994FE139DADDirectoriesDirectories

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Browse by Name (login required)
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Browse by Name (login required)
H1 Browse by Department (login required)
There are too few (9) 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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.columbia.edu/External Subdomain CU Home
http://www.columbia.edu/help/s...External Subdomain Search
/people/pub/help/index.htmlHelp
http://www.columbia.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Columbia University in the City of New York
/people/search/advanced;jsessi...Advanced Search
A-TITLE Search by title, department, and other options
/people/browse/departmentlistBrowse faculty and staff by department
/people/pub/help/how_to_use_di...help with your search?
/people/pub/help/update_inform...Change, withhold, or release your information
/people/pub/help/printed_listi...How to obtain printed faculty/staff listings
/people/print/Affiliates.pdfAffiliate organizational hierarchy
http://www.columbia.edu/az_ind...External Subdomain A to Z index of Web sites
http://www.columbia.edu/academ...External Subdomain Academic departments and programs
http://www.columbia.edu/resear...External Subdomain Research institutes and centers
/people/pub/help/index.htmlHelp and useful links
http://www.adobe.com/products/...External Subdomain Adobe Acrobat Reader
http://www.columbia.edu/help/c...External Subdomain © Columbia University
/people/&Webmaster

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://directory.columbia.edu/people/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.80 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 only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (12 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 01 Aug 2024 11:51:04 GMT
serverApache
set-cookie75 Characters
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 21 referring domains.
This page only has 34 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 21 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

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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directory.columbia.edu › people
Columbia University: Directory

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Columbia56%Check
Directory54%Check
Browse54%Check
login54%Check
required54%Check
login required54%Check
Columbia University53%Check
name50%Check
People42%Check
Medical39%Check
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