Materials.ucsb.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
93% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.53 s
File size
51.60 kB
Words
439
Media files
14
Number of links
122 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Materials - UC Santa Barbara |
The length of the page title is perfect. (275 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)
https://materials.ucsb.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
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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 439 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 53 words is high.
12.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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.
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, user-scalable=yes" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Materials - UC Santa Barbara
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 Materials - UC Santa Barbara
H2 Homepage - Slideshow
H2 Search form
H2 Highlights
H2 News
H2 Events
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
4 links don't have an 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 7 external links on this page.
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https://materials.ucsb.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
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/people/our-alumni/alumni-prof...Alumni Profiles
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A-TITLE List off Materials Department Dissertations
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https://materials.ucsb.edu/newsAll News
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/news/researchText duplicate Research
/news/alumniAlumni
/news/department-lifeText duplicate Department Life
/news/student-postdoc-honorsStudent & Postdoc Honors
/news/ucsb-materials-departmen...Newsletter
https://materials.ucsb.edu/eventsEvents
https://materials.ucsb.edu/eventsAll Events
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https://materials.ucsb.edu/eventsLectures
/events/colloquiumColloquium
/resourcesResources
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/resources/computer-support/co...Computer & Network Security Policy
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/resources/computer-support/re...IP Address Request Form
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/resources/health-safetyHealth & Safety
/resources/personnelPersonnel
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/research/electronic-and-photo...Electronic and Photonic Materials
/research/inorganic-materialsInorganic Materials
/research/macro-biomolecular-m...Macromolecular and Biomolecular Materials
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/resourcesDepartment Resources
/academics/graduate-program-ad...Prospective Graduate Students
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A-TITLE Home page
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/academicsText duplicate Academics
/people/directoryText duplicate People
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https://materials.ucsb.edu/eventsText duplicate Events
/resourcesText duplicate Resources
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/news/craig-hawker-awarded-202...No Text
/news/craig-hawker-awarded-202...Subdomain Craig Hawker awarded 2025 Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award
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https://materials.ucsb.edu/newsmore »
/events/julia-dshemuchadse-cor...Mar 21
/events/julia-dshemuchadse-cor...Julia Dshemuchadse - Cornell University
https://materials.ucsb.edu/eventsSubdomain More »
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/people/directorySubdomain Text duplicate Directory
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/about/givingSubdomain Text duplicate Giving
/academicsSubdomain Graduate Program
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http://www.policy.ucsb.edu/pri...External Subdomain Privacy
http://www.ucsb.edu/policies/t...External Subdomain Terms of Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://materials.ucsb.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 of 0.53 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 (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 145 referring domains.
This page has 247 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 130 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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UC Santa70%Check
UC Santa Barbara68%Check
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Barbara63%Check
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Macromolecular Biomolecular Materials50%Check
News40%Check
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