Scandinavian.berkeley.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
93% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.54 s
File size
21.40 kB
Words
434
Media files
2
Number of links
50 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Scandinavian, UC Berkeley
The length of the page title is perfect. (380 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://scandinavian.berkeley.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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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generatorWordPress 5.5.3
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 434 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 25.91 words is high.
30.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
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)
2 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
/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aurora.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...themes/scandinavian/images/keys/home.jpg
Insecure Content
No alt attribute providedThe graceful snake-like jewelry pattern here comes from a pair of golden arm rings used for personal ornamentation, dating from the Roman Iron Age (100-400 A.D.) that were found in Tuna (Hjälsta, Uppland) in Sweden. Stockholms Historical Museum (object 8885). Photographer: Ulf Bruxe.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H1 Recognizing Names: The Nobel Prize and Literary Competition
H1 Search Announcement! Assistant Professor of Swedish or Norwegian Literature, Culture, and Society
H1 Welcome to Assistant Professor Asta Monsted
H1 Congratulations, Prof. Linda Haverty Rugg!
H1 Announcing our 2023 Outstanding GSI, Michael Lawson
H1 Velkommen / Tervetuloa / Velkomin / Välkommen
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 News
H2 Scandinavian Department
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 4 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Subdomain No Text
/Subdomain Home
/news-and-events/Subdomain News & Events
/2851-2/Subdomain Programs
/undergraduate/Subdomain B.A. Program
/graduate/Subdomain M.A./Ph.D. Program
/people-category/faculty-2/Subdomain People
/people-category/faculty-2/Subdomain Faculty
/people-category/graduate-stud...Subdomain Graduate Students
/visitors/Subdomain Visitors
/people-category/staff/Subdomain Staff
/history/Subdomain Resources
/history/Subdomain History
/history/collections/Subdomain Collections
/history/saga-club/Subdomain Saga Club
/history/sass/Subdomain SASS
/history/bay-area-resources/Subdomain Nordic Consuls General
/history/recommended-research-...Subdomain Research Resources
/history/department-reimbursem...Subdomain ISSA Reimbursement Forms
/courses-archive/Subdomain Courses
/opportunities/Subdomain Opportunities
/languages/Subdomain Languages
/languages/danish/Subdomain Danish
/languages/finnish/Subdomain Finnish
/languages/icelandic/Subdomain Icelandic
/languages/norwegian/Subdomain Norwegian
/languages/old-norse/Subdomain Old Norse
/languages/swedish/Subdomain Swedish
/languages/distance-learning/Subdomain Distance Learning
/events/event/recognizing-name...Subdomain Recognizing Names: The Nobel Prize and Literary Competition
A-TITLE Recognizing Names: The Nobel Prize and Literary Competition
/search-announcement-assistant...Subdomain Search Announcement! Assistant Professor of Swedish or Norwegian Literature, Culture, and Society
A-TITLE Search Announcement! Assistant Professor of Swedish or Norwegian Literature, Culture, and Society
/search-announcement-assistant...Subdomain Anchor (more…)
/welcome-to-assistant-professo...Subdomain Welcome to Assistant Professor Asta Monsted
A-TITLE Welcome to Assistant Professor Asta Monsted
/people/asta-monsted/Subdomain Prof. Asta Mønsted
/welcome-to-assistant-professo...Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate (more…)
/gratitude-and-congratulations...Subdomain Congratulations, Prof. Linda Haverty Rugg!
A-TITLE Congratulations, Prof. Linda Haverty Rugg!
/people/linda-h-rugg/Subdomain Professor Linda Rugg
/gratitude-and-congratulations...Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate (more…)
/announcing-our-2023-outstandi...Subdomain Announcing our 2023 Outstanding GSI, Michael Lawson
A-TITLE Announcing our 2023 Outstanding GSI, Michael Lawson
/people/michael-lawson/Subdomain Michael Lawson
/announcing-our-2023-outstandi...Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate (more…)
https://give.berkeley.edu/fund...External Subdomain Give to Scandinavian
/programs/graduate/Subdomain Graduate students pursuing the Ph.D.
https://events.berkeley.edu/sc...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
here
/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/2851-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Programs
/people-category/faculty-2/Subdomain Text duplicate People
/courses-archive/Subdomain Text duplicate Courses
/history/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
/opportunities/Subdomain Text duplicate Opportunities
/languages/Subdomain Text duplicate Languages
https://dac.berkeley.edu/web-a...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://ophd.berkeley.edu/poli...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination
/privacy-statement/Subdomain Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://scandinavian.berkeley.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 0.54 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 (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlpublic, max-age=600
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://scandinavian.berkeley.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe4-a-77695bcb7b-pckvw
x-styx-req-idb1e5033a-7623-11ef-8973-062c209a43f6
dateThu, 19 Sep 2024 01:08:35 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-kigq8000124-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230139-FRA
x-cacheMISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0
x-timerS1726708115.164898,VS0,VE198
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
age0
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length6295
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 70 referring domains.
This page has 129 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 68 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

Search preview

scandinavian.berkeley.edu
Department of Scandinavian, UC Berkeley

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Scandinavian63%Check
Berkeley59%Check
UC Berkeley53%Check
Department50%Check
News and Events46%Check
Professor43%Check
Assistant43%Check
Assistant Professor43%Check
Swedish or Norwegian Literature42%Check
Swedish38%Check

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