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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
95% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.57 s
File size
365.90 kB
Words
734
Media files
16
Number of links
87 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Page | Columbia Engineering
The length of the page title is perfect. (318 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Columbia Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, applied science, and innovation. Learn about the latest news, events, awards, and achievements of the faculty and students.
The meta description is too long: 1278 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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 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)
This page contains 734 words. That's ok.
26.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.25 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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

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...es/2025-04/life-student-life-500x500.jpgThe backside of the Alma Mater statue on Columbia University campus
...4-09/life-at-columbia-events-500x500.jpgColumbia Engineering students wearing graduation caps
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 News
H2 Programs
H2 Life at Columbia Engineering
H2 Impact
H2 Research
H2 Research Duplicate text
H2 Innovation & Entrepreneurship
H2 Events
H3 The Power of Partnership
H3 Powering a Solution for Climate Change
H3 Optimizing Data Centers
H3 The Kinnos Mission
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/info-for-partnersPartners
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/academicsText duplicate Academics
/academics/programs/program-fi...Program Finder
/academics/programsPrograms
/academics/departmentsDepartments
/academics/academic-resourcesAcademic Resources
/academics/librariesLibraries
https://www.cvn.columbia.edu/External Subdomain Columbia Video Network
/Anchor Research & Innovation
/research-innovationText duplicate Research & Innovation
/research-innovation/strategic...Strategic Areas
/faculty-staff/directoryDirectory
/research-innovation/institute...Institutes, Centers & Initiatives
/research-innovation/strategic...Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship
/research-innovation/student-p...Student & Postdoc Research Opportunities
/research-innovation/office-re...Office For Research
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/student-lifeText duplicate Student Life
/student-life/living-new-york-...Living in New York City
/student-life/housingHousing
/student-life/diningDining
/student-life/undergraduate-st...Undergraduate Student Life
/student-life/graduate-student...Graduate Student Life
/student-life/career-developmentCareer Development
/student-life/student-wellnessStudent Wellness
/Anchor Admissions & Aid
/admissions-aidText duplicate Admissions & Aid
/admissions-aid/undergraduate-...Undergraduate Admissions
/admissions-aid/graduate-admis...Graduate Admissions
/Anchor About
/aboutText duplicate About
/faculty-staff/directoryText duplicate Directory
/about/glanceAt A Glance
/about/mission-vision/historyHistory
/about/mission-visionMission & Vision
https://outreach.engineering.c...External Subdomain Outreach
/about/columbia-engineering-le...Columbia Engineering Leadership
/about/newsNews
/about/eventsEvents
/about/contact-usContact Us
/current-studentsText duplicate Current Students
/faculty-resourcesText duplicate Faculty
/info-staffText duplicate Staff
/alumniText duplicate Alumni
/info-for-partnersText duplicate Partners
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/about/news/how-thoughts-influ...How Thoughts Influence What the Eyes See
/about/news/how-thoughts-influ...Read Story
/about/news/how-thoughts-influ...Text duplicate Read Story
/about/news/will-fusion-solve-...Will Fusion Solve Our Energy Problems?
/about/news/tal-danino-named-c...Tal Danino Named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator to Advance Living Therapeutics
/about/news/launchpad-innovationA Launchpad for Innovation
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/student-lifeExplore Student Life
/student-life/living-new-york-...Read more about 'Living in NYC'
/student-lifeRead more about 'Student Life'
/about/eventsRead more about 'Events'
/student-life/student-wellnessRead more about 'Student Wellness'
/about/mission-vision/engineer...Learn More
/about/magazine/winter25/engin...Read the Story
/about/news/fusion-energy-powe...Text duplicate Read the Story
/lever/optimizing-data-centersText duplicate Read the Story
/about/news/tough-tech-kinnos-...Text duplicate Read the Story
/research-innovation/strategic...Strategic Areas of Research
/academics/departmentsAcademic Departments
/research-innovation/institute...Text duplicate Institutes, Centers & Initiatives
/research-innovationInterdisciplinary Research
/about/news/electrifying-colla...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/about/news/warming-trendText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/about/news/robot-can-you-say-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/about/eventsView All
https://events.columbia.edu/ca...New window External Subdomain Read more about 'Plasma Physics Colloquium with Thomas Klinger, Max-Planck-Institut'
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/c...New window External Subdomain Read more about 'Center of AI Technology | 2025 Spring Symposium'
https://aitrendsworkshop2025.e...New window External Subdomain Read more about 'Workshop on Emerging Trends in AI Exploring Resilience, Robustness, and the Future of Synthetic Data in Research'
/Text duplicate Return to home
/about/newsText duplicate News
/about/eventsText duplicate Events
/faculty-staff/directoryText duplicate Directory
/careers-columbia-engineeringCareers
https://www.columbia.edu/External Subdomain Columbia University
https://career.engineering.col...External Subdomain Hire A Columbia Engineer
/privacy-policyPrivacy
https://accessibility.columbia...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.cuit.columbia.edu/...External Subdomain Cookies
https://www.facebook.com/CUSEAS/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/CUSEASNew window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@Colum...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/colu...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.57 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 (366 kB).

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,865 referring domains.
This page has 76,034 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,770 different ip addresses.

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www.engineering.columbia.edu
Home Page | Columbia Engineering
Columbia Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, applied science, and innovation. Learn about the latest news, events, awards, and achievements of the faculty and students.

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