Osfa.illinois.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.28 s
File size
93.50 kB
Words
633
Media files
8
Number of links
47 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Office of Student Financial Aid
The length of the page title is perfect. (272 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://osfa.illinois.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.4.5
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 633 words. That's ok.
28.1% 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.
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 12.19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 19 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 95 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"students must be admitted to the university of illinois before financial aid processing begins."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
...ent/uploads/2023/06/altgeld-blue-sky.jpgAltgeld Hall in the winter months with a bright blue sky
...12/slider-graduation-confetti-darker.jpghigh school students
...nt/uploads/2022/12/slider-alma-mater.jpghigh school students
data:[...] Base64previous arrow
data:[...] Base64next arrow
...ads/2022/12/card-student-with-laptop.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ent/uploads/2022/12/card-blocki-flag.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ent/uploads/2022/12/card-illini-fest.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Office of Student Financial Aid
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Office of Student Financial Aid
H1 Office of Student Financial Aid Duplicate text
H2 Four years. Free Tuition.
H2 Special Circumstance
H2 Welcome to the Office of Student Financial Aid
H2 Closed for Labor Day
H2 Apply Now for Aid
H2 Fall 2024 Important Information
H2 Access to OSFA
H2 Private Outside Scholarships
H2 Other Resources
H2 Helpful Resources
H3 2024-2025 FAFSA
H3 Check Your Status
H3 Estimate Your Aid
H3 Find a Job
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://osfa.illinois.edu/Subdomain Office of Student Financial Aid
https://osfa.illinois.edu/cost/Subdomain Cost
/cost/undergraduate-cost/Subdomain Undergraduate Cost
/cost/graduate-professional-cost/Subdomain Graduate & Professional Cost
/process/Subdomain The Process
/process/checking-your-status/Subdomain Check Your Status
/process/eligibility/Subdomain Eligibility
/process/how-to-apply/Subdomain How to Apply
/process/verification-process/Subdomain Verification Process
/process/checking-your-status-2/Subdomain Notification
/process/disbursement/Subdomain Disbursement
/process/satisfactory-academic...Subdomain Satisfactory Academic Progress
/process/withdrawal-refunds-re...Subdomain Withdrawal, Refunds, & Reduction of Hours
/process/special-programs/Subdomain Special Programs
/types-of-aid/Subdomain Types of Aid
/types-of-aid/grants/Subdomain Grants
/types-of-aid/scholarships/Subdomain Scholarships
/types-of-aid/waivers/Subdomain Waivers
/types-of-aid/loans/Subdomain Loans
/types-of-aid/employment/Subdomain Employment
/types-of-aid/other-aid/Subdomain Other Aid
/resources/Subdomain Resources
/resources/calculators/Subdomain Calculators
/resources/calendar/Subdomain Calendar
/resources/departmental-award-...Subdomain Departmental Award Web System (DAWS)
/resources/money-management/Subdomain Money Management
/resources/helpful-links/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
/documentupload/Subdomain Document Upload
https://osfa.illinois.edu/forms/Subdomain Forms
/forms/2024-2025-forms/Subdomain 2024-2025 Forms
/forms/2023-2024-forms/Subdomain 2023-2024 Forms
/veteran-education-benefits/Subdomain Veteran Education Benefits
/veteran-education-benefits/ve...Subdomain About Us
/veteran-education-benefits/ap...Subdomain Apply for Education Benefits
/veteran-education-benefits/ve...Subdomain Veteran Forms
/veteran-education-benefits/he...Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
/veteran-education-benefits/im...Subdomain Important Dates & Announcements
/veteran-education-benefits/faq/Subdomain FAQ
https://forms.illinois.edu/sec...External Subdomain Contact Us
/resources/fafsa-simplificatio...Subdomain See More Details
/illinois-commitment/Subdomain Learn More
/other-financial-aid-optionsSee more options
/process/how-to-apply/Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Learn More
https://fafsa.gov/New window External Submit Your FAFSA
https://go.illinois.edu/Import...New window External Subdomain important information
/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/24...Subdomain Private Outside Scholarship Form
https://studentaid.gov/entranc...New window External Complete Direct Loan Entrance Counseling
https://studentaid.gov/mpn/New window External Complete Direct Loan Promissory Note
https://www.ecsi.net/promH69New window External Subdomain Complete University Loan/HPSL/LDS Entrance Counseling and Promissory Note
/types-of-aid/scholarships/Subdomain Find Scholarships
/illinois-commitment/Subdomain Illinois Commitment
/types-of-aid/other-aid/illino...Subdomain Illinois Promise
https://osfa.illinois.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Office of Student Financial Aid
https://directory.illinois.edu...New window External Subdomain Campus Directory
https://si.illinois.edu/New window External Subdomain Student Health Insurance
https://provost.illinois.edu/s...New window External Subdomain Student Consumer Information
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/New window External Subdomain College Scorecard
https://paymybill.uillinois.ed...New window External Subdomain University Bursar
https://www.admissions.illinoi...New window External Subdomain Office of Undergraduate Admissions
https://registrar.illinois.edu/New window External Subdomain Office of the Registrar
https://studentaid.gov/New window External Federal Student Aid
https://www.isac.org/New window External Subdomain Illinois Student Assistance Commission

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://osfa.illinois.edu/"
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 is slow (1.28 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.
This page loads 9 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 19 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (94 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 02 Sep 2024 07:26:43 GMT
serverApache
x-litespeed-tagc5f_HTTP.200
link<https://osfa.illinois.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://osfa.illinois.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/7021>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json", <https://osfa.illinois.edu/>; rel=shortlink
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 300 referring domains.
This page has 697 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 228 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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://osfa.illinois.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Student74%Check
Student Aid72%Check
Student Financial72%Check
Student Financial Aid71%Check
Aid70%Check
Financial70%Check
Financial Aid70%Check
Office66%Check
Student Health56%Check
Illinois52%Check
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