Step.berkeley.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
84% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
85% 
External factors
56% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
126.20 kB
Words
119
Media files
29
Number of links
21 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Berkeley StEP
The page title is too short. (129 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
where UC Berkeley students become Entrepreneurs
The length of the meta description is perfect. (320 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://step.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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportinitial-scale=1
descriptionwhere UC Berkeley students become Entrepreneurs
langen-us
twitter:titleBerkeley StEP
twitter:imagehttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c1ae2657c9327c23f69852a/t/5f2b16abd6c45271d14cb7fb/1596659375066/logo.png?format=1500w
twitter:urlhttps://step.berkeley.edu
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:descriptionwhere UC Berkeley students become Entrepreneurs
og:site_nameBerkeley StEP
og:titleBerkeley StEP
og:urlhttps://step.berkeley.edu
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionwhere UC Berkeley students become Entrepreneurs
og:imagehttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c1ae2657c9327c23f69852a/t/5f2b16abd6c45271d14cb7fb/1596659375066/logo.png?format=1500w
og:image:width1500
og:image:height471
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Accept-CHSec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Model
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 119 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
25.2% of the text are stop words.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (11). We recommend using a maximum of 6 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
...X6QBOANLD7N4C/step_blue.png?format=1500wBerkeley StEP
...X6QBOANLD7N4C/step_blue.png?format=1500wBerkeley StEP
...7748942616-P1T8IUX2MVOOGH87KNAP/step.pngstep.png
...476-I0JO02KQV9RTZ1THU0FA/primarylogo.pngprimarylogo.png
...8083078-INETR0BW1XFHBLLE4HS8/meeting.pngmeeting.png
...900-US5SIJEGFSZJ0DOC3B6T/image-asset.pngNo alt attribute provided
...99-CAAF5YXMB3U2RP0KC2EO/conversation.pngconversation.png
...678-J3T3YXRZ9HJ38XPJKYD7/connections.pngconnections.png
...079762-BQP9QZD1JUDFSOKY2B36/calendar.jpgcalendar.jpg
...913-7IGHXDNZN9J0FOKKW5IY/image-asset.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Real Founder Experience
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Real Founder Experience
H1 Our Partners
H1 Our Sponsors
H2 Student Entrepreneurship Program
H3 Berkeley’s Premiere 10-week Entrepreneurship Program
H3 leARN MORE
H3 ENGAGE WITH US
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an 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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://step.berkeley.edu/IMG-ALT Berkeley StEP
https://step.berkeley.edu/searchNo Text
https://step.berkeley.edu/Home
/program-detailsProgram Details
/applicationApplication Timeline
/engage-with-usEngage with us
/our-newsOur news
https://twitter.com/BerkeleyStepNew window External No Text
http://www.facebook.com/berkel...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://instagram.com/berkeleys...New window External No Text
https://medium.com/berkeley-stepNew window External No Text
https://step.berkeley.edu/Text duplicate Home
/program-detailsText duplicate Program Details
/applicationText duplicate Application Timeline
/engage-with-stepEngage with StEP
/engage-with-usText duplicate Engage with us
/our-newsText duplicate Our news
https://step.berkeley.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Berkeley StEP
https://forms.gle/a8Va8ha7bgi7...New window External Apply for our Spring 2025 Cohort!
/engage-with-usPartner with us
https://step.berkeley.edu/Anchor Berkeley StEP +
https://step.berkeley.edu/Anchor opportunities
https://step.berkeley.edu/Anchor Main Partners
https://step.berkeley.edu/Anchor Sponsors
/about-the-programNew window leARN MORE
/applicationENGAGE WITH US
https://twitter.com/BerkeleyStepNew window External No Text
http://www.facebook.com/berkel...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://instagram.com/berkeleys...New window External No Text
https://medium.com/berkeley-stepNew window External No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://step.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 0.72 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 (126 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-rangesbytes
age3273
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
dateSun, 02 Mar 2025 02:35:36 GMT
etagW/"1cdd1a823c7712ea3fb15d495b718771--gzip"
expiresThu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
serverSquarespace
set-cookie72 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=0
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-contextidWOhUdNcd/99KIKeQN
content-length21346
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 19 referring domains.
This page only has 35 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 19 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Squarespace Robots Txt

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
User-agent: *
Disallow: /config
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /account$
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /commerce/digital-download/
Disallow: /api/
Allow: /api/ui-extensions/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow:/*?author=*
Disallow:/*&author=*
Disallow:/*?tag=*
Disallow:/*&tag=*
Disallow:/*?month=*
Disallow:/*&month=*
Disallow:/*?view=*
Disallow:/*&view=*
Disallow:/*?format=json
Disallow:/*&format=json
Disallow:/*?format=page-context
Disallow:/*&format=page-context
Disallow:/*?format=main-content
Disallow:/*&format=main-content
Disallow:/*?format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*&format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*?format=ical
Disallow:/*&format=ical
Disallow:/*?reversePaginate=*
Disallow:/*&reversePaginate=*

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Berkeley82%Check
Berkeley StEP71%Check
StEP61%Check
Founder58%Check
Student55%Check
Entrepreneurship51%Check
Real50%Check
Experience50%Check
Entrepreneurship Program49%Check
Program47%Check
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