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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.63 s
File size
159.70 kB
Words
501
Media files
15
Number of links
23 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Hillsdale College Online Courses
The length of the page title is perfect. (295 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Free courses taught by Hillsdale College faculty to pursue knowledge of the highest things, form character, and defend constitutional government.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (893 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionFree courses taught by Hillsdale College faculty to pursue knowledge of the highest things, form character, and defend constitutional government.
fb:app_id2453341268213061
next-size-adjustEmpty
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHillsdale College Online Courses
twitter:descriptionFree courses taught by Hillsdale College faculty to pursue knowledge of the highest things, form character, and defend constitutional government.
og:titleHillsdale College Online Courses
og:descriptionFree courses taught by Hillsdale College faculty to pursue knowledge of the highest things, form character, and defend constitutional government.
og:urlhttps://online.hillsdale.edu/
og:typewebsite
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 501 words. That's ok.
33.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
6 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 15.8 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
https://online.hillsdale.edu/name_logo.svgHillsdale College
...talism_course_horizontal.jpg&w=3840&q=75No alt attribute provided
...apitalism_course_vertical.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...002_Totalitarian%20Novels.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...0/Paradise-Lost-Professor.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...0e7/Marxism_vertical_tile.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...e/Con%20101_vertical_tile.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...PROF_0025_Genesis%20Story.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...Lewis%20on%20Christianity.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...39_Ancient%20Christianity.jpg&w=3840&q=1No alt attribute provided
...Novels_horizontal_header.jpg&w=3840&q=75newest course catalog image
...2025/03/serpent-799x1024.jpg&w=3840&q=75Who or What is the Serpent in Genesis 3 image
...-e1741292868681-1024x670.png&w=3840&q=75Who Was Cicero? image
...S-Supreme-Court-1024x664.jpg&w=3840&q=75The President, the Judiciary, and the Constitution image
https://online.hillsdale.edu/name_logo.svgHillsdale College

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
WELCOME
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 WELCOME
H2 Explore Our Catalog
H2 Our Newest Course
H2 Latest Articles
H2 Create your FREE account today!
H3 Understanding Capitalism
H3 Totalitarian Novels
H3 Paradise Lost
H3 Marxism, Socialism, and Communism
H3 Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution
H3 The Genesis Story: Reading Biblical Narratives
H3 C.S. Lewis on Christianity
H3 Ancient Christianity
H3 Totalitarian Novels Duplicate text
H3 Who or What is the Serpent in Genesis 3
H3 Who Was Cicero?
H3 The President, the Judiciary, and the Constitution
H4 March 20, 2025
H4 March 6, 2025
H4 February 27, 2025
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://online.hillsdale.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
/signupSign up
/loginSign in
/coursesCatalog
https://online.hillsdale.edu/dvdsDVDs
https://shop.hillsdale.edu/col...New window External Subdomain Books
https://onlinecoursesblog.hill...New window External Subdomain Blog
/aboutAbout
https://secured.hillsdale.edu/...New window External Subdomain Donate
https://online.hillsdale.edu/helpHelp
A-TITLE Help
https://online.hillsdale.edu/IMG-ALT Hillsdale College
A-TITLE Hillsdale College Online Courses Home
/coursesText duplicate Catalog
https://online.hillsdale.edu/dvdsText duplicate DVDs
https://shop.hillsdale.edu/col...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Books
https://onlinecoursesblog.hill...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Blog
/aboutText duplicate About
https://secured.hillsdale.edu/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Donate
/signupCreate a Free Account
/courses/promo/capitalismRegister Now 7 Lessons 4 hours Understanding Capitalism Economics
/courses/promo/totalitarian-no...8 Lessons 4.5 hours Totalitarian Novels Politics
/courses/promo/paradise-lost9 Lessons 5 hours Paradise Lost Literature
/courses/promo/marxism-sociali...6 Lessons 3.5 hours Marxism, Socialism, and Communism Politics
/courses/promo/constitution-10112 Lessons 10.5 hours Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution Politics
/courses/promo/genesis6 Lessons 6.5 hours The Genesis Story: Reading Biblical Narratives Literature
/courses/promo/c-s-lewis-on-ch...7 Lessons 5.5 hours C.S. Lewis on Christianity Philosophy & Religion
/courses/promo/ancient-christi...11 Lessons 9.5 hours Ancient Christianity History
/coursesView All Courses
/courses/promo/totalitarian-no...About This Course
https://onlinecoursesblog.hill...New window External Subdomain Who or What is the Serpent in Genesis 3 March 20, 2025 One of Genesis’ enduring mysteries lingers over the Serpent, or nachash in Hebrew, that appears in cha...
IMG-ALT Who or What is the Serpent in Genesis 3 image
https://onlinecoursesblog.hill...New window External Subdomain Who Was Cicero? March 6, 2025 John Adams wrote that “all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero.” Spe...
IMG-ALT Who Was Cicero? image
https://onlinecoursesblog.hill...New window External Subdomain The President, the Judiciary, and the Constitution February 27, 2025 The news has been flooded in recent weeks with articles about constitutional battles bet...
IMG-ALT The President, the Judiciary, and the Constitution image
https://onlinecoursesblog.hill...New window External Subdomain View All Articles
/signupGet Started
https://www.facebook.com/Hills...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/HillsdaleO...New window External A-TITLE X / Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/@Hills...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Youtube
https://www.hillsdale.edu/priv...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://online.hillsdale.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.63 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 (160 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 26 Mar 2025 06:08:36 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlprivate, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
set-cookie108 Characters
varyRSC, Next-Router-State-Tree, Next-Router-Prefetch, Next-Url, Accept-Encoding
request-contextappId=cid-v1:
x-powered-byNext.js
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
strict-transport-securitymax-age=0
servercloudflare
cf-ray9264796fcf13d6c6-CDG
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 888 referring domains.
This page has 170,716 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 707 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-Agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-Agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /partner/*

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /courses/register/*

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