Residential.columbia.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.55 s
File size
66.80 kB
Words
351
Media files
5
Number of links
45 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Columbia Residential
The page title is too short. (192 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://residential.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

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 351 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Valuable information to help make your time living in Columbia Residen...
16.8% of the text are stop words.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.67 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, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...barroso.jpg.jpg?h=c1cdfcf0&itok=MzTp2BgRAerial photo of Morningside Park, Morningside Campus and the Hudson River
...tudent Lawn.jpg?h=42e1b439&itok=OMtYWeB6Students relaxing on lawn next to Hamilton Hall
...een-Barroso.jpg?h=8598a678&itok=8RSsiYkhphoto of students sitting on the steps of Low Library near Alma Mater
...een-Barroso.jpg?h=7ebce9a3&itok=RDS_xzEFphoto of Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street looking downtown, with the campus gates on the right and residential building on the left
...tom/columbia/assets/img/cu-blue-logo.svgColumbia University Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Main navigation expanded
H2 Columbia Residential
H2 Quick Links
H2 Recent News
H2 Residential Times | Spring 2024
H2 Residential Times | Winter 2024
H2 Residential Times | Fall / Winter 2023
H2 Phone
H2 Contact Us
H2 Follow Us
H3 Webinar | Navigating Your Transfer Options at Columbia Residential
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 13 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://residential.columbia.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.columbia.edu/External Subdomain Columbia University in the City of New York
https://residential.columbia.edu/Columbia Residential
https://cufo.columbia.edu/External Subdomain Facilities and Operations
/content/prospective-residentsProspective Residents
/content/current-residentsCurrent Residents
/content/explore-residencesExplore Residences
/offcampushousingOff-Campus Housing
/content/studentsStudents
/content/facultystaffpostdocsFaculty, Staff and Postdocs
/content/movingPrepare for Move in
A-TITLE Procedural details for moving into an apartment
/faqFrequently Asked Questions
/content/billing-and-paymentsBilling and Payments
/agreements-renewalsHousing Agreements & Renewals
/content/transferringTransferring
/content/resident-information-...Resident Information and Policies
/content/sublettingSubletting
/moving-outMoving Out
/faqText duplicate Frequently Asked Questions
/content/neighborhoodNeighborhood
A-TITLE The Neighborhood
/content/explore-residential-b...Subdomain Anchor Residential Building Profiles
/ochaOff-Campus Housing Assistance
/ocha/i-houseInternational House
/content/ford-hallFord Hall
/directoryResidential Staff Directory
/newsNews
/eventsEvents
/content/explore-residencesText duplicate Explore Residences
https://servicerequest.cuf.col...External Subdomain ambulance icon Submit a Service Request
https://residential.cuf.columb...External Subdomain building icon Housing Portal
/content/billing-and-paymentscredit-card-alt icon Billing & Payments
/content/movingkey icon Moving In
/content/resident-information-...archive icon Resident Information & Policies
/faqquestion-circle icon Frequently Asked Questions
/content/prospective-residentsText duplicate Prospective Residents
IMG-ALT Students relaxing on lawn next to Hamilton Hall
/content/studentsText duplicate Current Residents
IMG-ALT photo of students sitting on the steps of Low Library near Alma Mater
/content/explore-residencesText duplicate Explore Residences
IMG-ALT photo of Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street looking downtown, with the campus gates on the right and residential building on the left
/events/webinar-navigating-you...Oct1Tue
/events/webinar-navigating-you...Webinar | Navigating Your Transfer Options at Columbia Residential
/eventsMore Events
/newsRecent News
/news/residential-times-spring...Residential Times | Spring 2024
/newsletterNewsletter
/news/residential-times-winter...Residential Times | Winter 2024
/newsletterText duplicate Newsletter
/news/residential-times-fall-w...Residential Times | Fall / Winter 2023
/newsletterText duplicate Newsletter
/newsMore News
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/CUFac...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/colu...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/@cufor...External Subdomain Youtube
http://www.columbia.edu/External Subdomain Columbia University
IMG-ALT Columbia University Logo
https://www.columbia.edu/conte...External Subdomain ©2024 Columbia University
https://accessibility.columbia...External Subdomain Accessibility
http://eoaa.columbia.edu/notic...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination
https://careers.columbia.edu/External Subdomain Careers
https://sites.columbia.edu/External Subdomain Built using Columbia Sites

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://residential.columbia.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 0.55 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 (67 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 20 Sep 2024 00:13:49 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
cache-controlmax-age=300, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE
link<https://residential.columbia.edu/>; rel="canonical", <https://residential.columbia.edu/>; rel="shortlink"
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedWed, 18 Sep 2024 20:00:04 GMT
varyCookie
x-generatorDrupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
set-cookie203 Characters
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8c5d9ca03cec4d73-FRA
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 185 referring domains.
This page has 370 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 150 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password/
Disallow: /index.php/user/register/
Disallow: /index.php/user/login/
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout/
Disallow: /sites/default/files/private/

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residential.columbia.edu
Columbia Residential

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Columbia70%Check
Columbia Residential67%Check
Residential65%Check
Columbia University54%Check
Columbia Residential housing as52%Check
Residential Building49%Check
Resident Information Policies44%Check
time43%Check
Winter43%Check
Times43%Check

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