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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
33% 
Server
68% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.58 s
File size
58.00 kB
Words
618
Media files
14
Number of links
185 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Simon Fraser University
The length of the page title is perfect. (217 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
As Canada’s engaged university, SFU works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change.
The meta description is too long: 1097 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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

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og:titleSimon Fraser University
og:typearticle
og:urlhttps://www.sfu.ca/content/sfu/main.html
og:descriptionAs Canada’s engaged university, SFU works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 618 words. That's ok.
20.7% 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.
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 17.88 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 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
12 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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...ientlibs/clf4/default/img/ashoka-log.pngNo alt attribute provided
...g/SFU_horizontal_reversed_colour_rgb.pngNo alt attribute provided
...f/clientlibs/clf4/default/img/[email protected]No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Simon Fraser University
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Simon Fraser University
H2 See yourself at SFU
H2 #1 CANADIAN COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSITY*
H2 #15 IN THE WORLD FOR INNOVATION†
H2 #3 IN THE WORLD FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES & COMMUNITIES‡
H2 SFU News
H2 Three Locations
H2 Apply Now
H2 Community Stories
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Follow Us
H3 Burnaby
H3 Surrey
H3 Vancouver
H3 Contact us
H5 Simon Fraser University Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
7 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 3 links with a trivial 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 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sfu.ca/Subdomain sfu.ca
https://www.facebook.com/simon...External Subdomain F
https://www.twitter.com/sfuExternal Subdomain T
https://www.instagram.com/simo...External Subdomain I
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...External Subdomain YT
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain L
https://give.sfu.ca/External Subdomain GIVE TO SFU
/main/dashboard/students.htmlStudents
/main/dashboard/faculty-staff....Faculty + Staff
/main/dashboard/alumni.htmlSubdomain Alumni
/main/dashboard/parents-public...Parents + Public
/main/dashboard/employers.htmlEmployers
/main/dashboard/careers.htmlCareers
/main/dashboard/media.htmlMedia
https://www.sfu.ca/main.htmlNo Text
https://www.sfu.ca/main.htmlSimon Fraser University
/campuses/burnaby.htmlSubdomain Burnaby
/campuses/surrey.htmlSubdomain Surrey
/campuses/vancouver.htmlSubdomain Vancouver
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/a.htmlSubdomain a
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/b.htmlSubdomain b
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/c.htmlSubdomain c
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/d.htmlSubdomain d
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/e.htmlSubdomain e
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/f.htmlSubdomain f
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/g.htmlSubdomain g
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/h.htmlSubdomain h
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/i.htmlSubdomain i
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/j.htmlSubdomain j
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/k.htmlSubdomain k
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/l.htmlSubdomain l
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/m.htmlSubdomain m
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/n.htmlSubdomain n
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/o.htmlSubdomain o
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/p.htmlSubdomain p
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/q.htmlSubdomain q
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/r.htmlSubdomain r
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/s.htmlSubdomain s
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/t.htmlSubdomain t
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/u.htmlSubdomain u
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/v.htmlSubdomain v
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/w.htmlSubdomain w
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/x.htmlSubdomain x
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/y.htmlSubdomain y
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/z.htmlSubdomain z
https://outlook.office.com/External Subdomain SFU Mail
https://go.sfu.ca/External Subdomain goSFU
https://canvas.sfu.ca/External Subdomain Canvas
/main/admission.htmlAdmission
/main/admission/undergraduate....Undergraduate
/main/admission/graduate.htmlGraduate
/main/admission/lifelong-learn...Lifelong learner
/main/programs.htmlPrograms
/main/programs/what-can-i-stud...What can I study?
/main/programs/faculties-depar...Faculties + Departments
/main/programs/athletics-recre...Athletics + recreation
/main/programs/for-indigenous-...For Indigenous Peoples
/main/programs/for-internation...For international students
/main/programs/french.htmlOptions in French
/main/learning.htmlLearning
/main/learning/degree-completi...Degree completion
/main/learning/learning-suppor...Learning support
/main/learning/work-learn.htmlWork + learn
/main/learning/community-learn...Community learning
/main/learning/study-abroad.htmlStudy abroad
/main/learning/leadership-deve...Leadership + development
/main/learning/continuing-educ...Continuing education
/main/sfu-community.htmlCommunity
/main/sfu-community/engage.htmlEngage with us
/main/sfu-community/events.htmlEvents
/main/sfu-community/community-...Community Supports
/main/sfu-community/arts-cultu...Arts + culture
/main/sfu-community/residence-...Residence + housing
/main/sfu-community/internatio...International engagement
/main/sfu-community/campus-tou...Campus Tours
/main/about.htmlAbout
/main/about/who-we-are.htmlWho we are
/main/about/sfu-strategy.htmlWhat's Next: The SFU Strategy
/main/about/why-choose-sfu.htmlWhy choose SFU
/main/about/rankings.htmlRankings
/main/about/sfu-news.htmlSFU News
/main/about/give.htmlGive to SFU
/main/research-at-sfu.htmlResearch
/main/research-at-sfu/find-a-r...Find a researcher
/main/research-at-sfu/centres-...Centres + institutes
/main/research-at-sfu/innovati...Innovation + Knowledge Mobilization
/main/research-at-sfu/resource...Resources + Support
/main/research-at-sfu/library....Library
/students/admission/apply.htmlSubdomain Apply to SFU
/students/admission/programs.htmlSubdomain Explore Programs
/students/admission/admission-...Subdomain Admission Requirements
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate Library
/students/admission/apply.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate Apply to SFU
/students/admission/programs.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate Explore Programs
/students/admission/admission-...Subdomain Text duplicate Admission Requirements
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate Library
https://community.sfu.ca/futur...External Subdomain Join a campus tour
/sfunews/stories/2024/08/simon...No Text
/sfunews/stories/2024/08/simon...Simon Fraser University Pipe Band captures third place at World Championships
/sfunews/stories/2024/08/simon...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/sfunews/stories/2024/08/when-...No Text
/sfunews/stories/2024/08/when-...When mammoths roamed Vancouver Island: SFU and Royal BC Museum delve into beasts’ history in our region
/sfunews/stories/2024/08/when-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/sfunews/stories/2024/07/sfu-c...No Text
/sfunews/stories/2024/07/sfu-c...SFU co-led hubs to innovate Canadian agriculture with $15.8M investment
/sfunews/stories/2024/07/sfu-c...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews.htmlSee more News
/main/campuses/burnaby.htmlNo Text
/main/campuses/surrey.htmlNo Text
/main/campuses/vancouver.htmlNo Text
/main/admission/undergraduate....Text duplicate Undergraduate
A-TITLE Undergraduate
/main/admission/graduate.htmlText duplicate Graduate
A-TITLE Graduate
/main/admission/lifelong-learn...Text duplicate Lifelong learner
A-TITLE Lifelong learner
/dashboard/faculty-staff/news/...Subdomain Jasmin Glaw brings community and connection to students
/fenv/news/rem-major-finds-ful...Subdomain REM major finds fulfillment in planning stream after transferring to SFU
https://beedie.sfu.ca/ideas/20...External Subdomain Celebrating SFU Beedie graduate Harneet Gill, BBA
/globalhumanities/news-events/...Subdomain Inaugural Dutton Essay Award winner reflects on her Global Humanities education
/dashboard/faculty-staff/news/...Subdomain Tyler Schwartz helps SEE students see success
/main/sfu-community/events.htmlSEE ALL EVENTS
/main/dashboard/media/social-m...Connect With Us
/main/admission.htmlText duplicate Admission
/main/programs.htmlText duplicate Programs
/main/learning.htmlText duplicate Learning
/main/sfu-community.htmlText duplicate Community
/main/about.htmlText duplicate About
/main/research-at-sfu.htmlText duplicate Research
/main/contact/burnaby.htmlSubdomain Burnaby campus
/main/contact/surrey.htmlSubdomain Surrey campus
/main/contact/vancouver.htmlSubdomain Vancouver campus
https://www.sfu.ca/srsSubdomain Safety & Risk
/campuses/maps-and-directionsSubdomain SFU Maps & Directions
https://www.sfu.ca/admissionSubdomain SFU Admissions
/srs/campus-safety-security/tr...Subdomain Road Report
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate Library
https://www.sfu.ca/emergencySubdomain Emergency Information
https://athletics.sfu.ca/splas...External Subdomain No Text
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/con...External Subdomain No Text
https://ashokau.org/changemake...External No Text
/contact/terms-conditions.htmlSubdomain Terms & Conditions
/contact/terms-conditions/priv...Subdomain Privacy policy
https://www.sfu.ca/Subdomain © Simon Fraser University
https://www.sfu.ca/Subdomain Text duplicate Simon Fraser University
/main/admission.htmlText duplicate Admission
/main/admission.htmlOverview
/main/admission/undergraduate....Text duplicate Undergraduate
/main/admission/graduate.htmlText duplicate Graduate
/main/admission/lifelong-learn...Text duplicate Lifelong learner
/main/programs.htmlText duplicate Programs
/main/programs.htmlText duplicate Overview
/main/programs/what-can-i-stud...Text duplicate What can I study?
/main/programs/faculties-depar...Text duplicate Faculties + Departments
/main/programs/athletics-recre...Text duplicate Athletics + recreation
/main/programs/for-indigenous-...Text duplicate For Indigenous Peoples
/main/programs/for-internation...Text duplicate For international students
/main/programs/french.htmlText duplicate Options in French
/main/learning.htmlText duplicate Learning
/main/learning.htmlText duplicate Overview
/main/learning/degree-completi...Text duplicate Degree completion
/main/learning/learning-suppor...Text duplicate Learning support
/main/learning/work-learn.htmlText duplicate Work + learn
/main/learning/community-learn...Text duplicate Community learning
/main/learning/study-abroad.htmlText duplicate Study abroad
/main/learning/leadership-deve...Text duplicate Leadership + development
/main/learning/continuing-educ...Text duplicate Continuing education
/main/sfu-community.htmlText duplicate Community
/main/sfu-community.htmlText duplicate Overview
/main/sfu-community/engage.htmlText duplicate Engage with us
/main/sfu-community/events.htmlText duplicate Events
/main/sfu-community/community-...Text duplicate Community Supports
/main/sfu-community/arts-cultu...Text duplicate Arts + culture
/main/sfu-community/residence-...Text duplicate Residence + housing
/main/sfu-community/internatio...Text duplicate International engagement
/main/sfu-community/campus-tou...Text duplicate Campus Tours
/main/about.htmlText duplicate About
/main/about.htmlText duplicate Overview
/main/about/who-we-are.htmlText duplicate Who we are
/main/about/sfu-strategy.htmlText duplicate What's Next: The SFU Strategy
/main/about/sfu-strategy.htmlText duplicate Overview
/main/about/sfu-strategy/uphol...Uphold Truth and Reconciliation
/main/about/sfu-strategy/engag...Engage in Global Challenges
/main/about/sfu-strategy/make-...Make a Difference for BC
/main/about/sfu-strategy/trans...Transform the SFU Experience
/main/about/sfu-strategy/archi...Our Process
/main/about/sfu-strategy/stori...Stories
/main/about/sfu-strategy/stori...Celebrating the launch of the Snuneymuxw language learning hub
/main/about/sfu-strategy/imple...Implementation
/main/about/why-choose-sfu.htmlText duplicate Why choose SFU
/main/about/rankings.htmlText duplicate Rankings
/main/about/sfu-news.htmlText duplicate SFU News
/main/about/give.htmlText duplicate Give to SFU
/main/research-at-sfu.htmlText duplicate Research
/main/research-at-sfu.htmlText duplicate Overview
/main/research-at-sfu/find-a-r...Text duplicate Find a researcher
/main/research-at-sfu/centres-...Text duplicate Centres + institutes
/main/research-at-sfu/innovati...Text duplicate Innovation + Knowledge Mobilization
/main/research-at-sfu/resource...Text duplicate Resources + Support
/main/research-at-sfu/library....Text duplicate Library
https://www.sfu.ca/Subdomain SFU.CA
/campuses/burnaby.htmlSubdomain Burnaby Campus
/campuses/surrey.htmlSubdomain Surrey Campus
/campuses/vancouver.htmlSubdomain Vancouver Campus
https://www.sfu.ca/dir/a.htmlSubdomain A-Z Directory
https://outlook.office.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate SFU Mail
https://go.sfu.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate goSFU
https://canvas.sfu.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate Canvas

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sfu.ca/"
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 is very slow (1.58 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 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (58 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateSun, 01 Sep 2024 14:20:21 GMT
serverApache
last-modifiedSun, 01 Sep 2024 13:01:22 GMT
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access-control-allow-origin*
content-length10912
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 page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 20,958 referring domains.
This page has 1,036,185 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 13,972 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: *
Allow: /content/dam/sfu/sfunews

User-agent: *
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Disallow: /services.htm
Disallow: /stats3.html
Disallow: /stat.html
Disallow: /stat2.html
Disallow: /stats
Disallow: /swipe
Disallow: /convocation/Invitation
Disallow: /convocation/invitation
Disallow: /convocation/information/invitation/
Disallow: /convocation/information/Invitation/
Disallow: /designgroup
Disallow: /vpresearch/sfuhomepg/
Disallow: /vpresearch/docs/
Disallow: /policies/_pvw5d0992/
Disallow: /~cmnsweb
Disallow: /~extrel
Disallow: /advancement/services_and_systems/
Disallow: /advancement/files/System_Services/
Disallow: /advancement/files/
Disallow: /sfunews/Archives/By_Category/
Disallow: /sfunews/Archives/By_Year/
Disallow: /sfunews/learning/index.shtml
Disallow: /sfunews/community/index.shtml
Disallow: /sfunews/research/index.shtml
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Disallow: /dean-gradstudies/administration/staff.html
Disallow: /pamr/issues_experts/featured_experts_archive/index.html
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Disallow: /pamr/media_releases/media_releases_archive/index.html
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Disallow: /pamr/files
Disallow: /archive-university-communications
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Disallow: /content/dam/alumni/2012elections
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Allow: /content/dam/math
Allow: /content/dam/sfu/retirees/Newsletters
Allow: /content/dam/sfu/julita-clf4
Allow: /content/dam/sfu/senate/senate-documents
Disallow: /students-resources
Disallow: /rs/
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Disallow: /sakai
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Disallow: /students/calendar/2013
Disallow: /students/calendar/2014 
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Disallow: /students/calendar/2019
Disallow: /students/calendar/2020
Disallow: /students/calendar/2021
Disallow: /students/calendar/2022
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Disallow: /students/calendar/2024/spring
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Disallow: /sustainabledevelopment/search
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Disallow: /content/clf
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Disallow: /sustainable-development-goals/sustainable-cities
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Disallow: /psychology/clinical-psychology-centre/services/checkout9827b34DY.html
Disallow: /fass/using-fass-qualtrics/

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