Studentaidbc.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.66 s
File size
44.00 kB
Words
749
Media files
5
Number of links
54 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
SABC home page | StudentAid BC
The length of the page title is perfect. (310 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://studentaidbc.ca/sabc-home-page
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 749 words. That's ok.
29.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 16.95 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 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 174 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"are you a parent, a bc high school teacher, or a bc high school counsellor? we need your help to impro..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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
/themes/custom/sabc/logo-dt.pngHome
...SIMS-PT-newspost-image.png?itok=ystXVHT-No alt attribute provided
...erse-group-of-students.jpg?itok=hsI4yeHfNo alt attribute provided
...students-around-table3.png?itok=4bUj-9EtNo alt attribute provided
...-cell-in-hand-at-table.jpg?itok=Qm79U0LjNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
How can we help you?
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 How can we help you?
H2 Search form
H2 Apply for a 2024/25 student loan
H2 Latest News
H4 About StudentAid BC
H4 Online services
H4 We are currently processing:
H4 How to download and open this PDF form
H5 SABC Primary Menu
H6 Can't find the answer?
H6 Can't find the answer? Duplicate text
H6 Tools
H6 Related Links
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://studentaidbc.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
/dashboard/loginLogin/Register
/help-centreNew window Can't find the answer? Browse the help centre
https://studentaidbc.ca/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://studentaidbc.ca/StudentAid BC
A-TITLE Home
https://studentaidbc.ca/planPlan your future
/plan/occupationsExplore occupations
/plan/educationPlan your education
https://studentaidbc.ca/plan/debtManage your debt
https://studentaidbc.ca/exploreExplore funding options
/explore/full-timeFull-time student funding
/explore/part-timePart-time student funding
/explore/grants-scholarshipsGrants, scholarships, and other financial supports
https://studentaidbc.ca/applyApply for a loan
/apply/designatedCheck your school designation
/apply/eligibilityDetermine your eligibility
/apply/how-to-applyHow to apply for student aid
/apply/receiveReceive your funding
/apply/appealAppeal your assessment
/apply/overawardWhat is an overaward?
https://studentaidbc.ca/maintainMaintain your loan
/maintain/responsibilitiesYour loan responsibilities
/maintain/when-payments-are-no...In-study payment-free status
/maintain/circumstancesReporting changes
/maintain/auditedVerify the accuracy of your information
https://studentaidbc.ca/repayRepay your loan
/repay/understand-loan-repaymentUnderstand loan repayment
/repay/missed-paymentsIf you miss loan payments
/repay/rehabilitationRehabilitation after default
/repay/repayment-helpGet help with repayment
/institution-officialsInstitution Officials
/sims-institution-accessSIMS Institution Account access
/policy-and-procedures/partner...SFAS Partner Portal access
/institution-officialsResources and Forms for Institutions
/form-libraryForm library
https://forms.office.com/r/a1Q...New window External Subdomain complete the sign-up form
A-TITLE outside link to survey
/help-centreBrowse the help centre
https://studentaidbc.ca/about-usabout us
A-TITLE Link: About us
https://studentaidbc.ca/dashboardLogin / Register
A-TITLE Link: Login/Register
/dashboard/student-loans/applyApply for a student loan
https://studentaidbc.ca/dashboardCheck your application status
/dashboard/student-loans/inter...Apply for in-study payment-free status
https://studentaidbc.ca/dashboardLogin / Register to apply
https://studentaidbc.ca/news/read all news
A-TITLE Link: Read all news
/news/general/new-student-acco...New Student Account and application for part-time students
/news/general/20242025-program...2024/2025 Program Year
/news/general/studentaid-bc-yo...StudentAid BC YouTube Videos
/news/loans/increasing-support...Increasing supports for students and borrowers
/contact-informationContact Information
/help-centreText duplicate Browse the help centre
http://get.adobe.com/reader/New window External Subdomain Adobe Acrobat Reader
/help-centre/troubleshooting/h...Help filling out PDF forms
https://twitter.com/studentaidbcExternal Tweets by @studentaidbc
https://studentaidbc.ca/about-usAbout Us
A-TITLE Link: About Us
/contact-informationText duplicate Contact Information
A-TITLE Link: Contact Information
/help-centreSearch StudentAid BC
A-TITLE Link: Search
http://www.bctransferguide.ca/New window External Subdomain BC Transfer Guide
A-TITLE Link: BC Transfer Guide
http://www.educationplanner.ca/New window External Subdomain EducationPlannerBC
A-TITLE Link: EducationPlannerBC
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/cont...New window External Subdomain Education Quality Assurance
A-TITLE Link: Education Quality Assurance
http://www.workbc.ca/New window External Subdomain WorkBC
A-TITLE Link: WorkBC
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/External Subdomain B.C. Government Home
A-TITLE Outside Link: Government Home
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/en/admin...External Subdomain Copyright
A-TITLE Outside Link: Copyright
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/en/admin...External Subdomain Disclaimer
A-TITLE Outside Link: Disclaimer
https://studentaidbc.ca/privacyPrivacy
A-TITLE Privacy
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/en/admin...External Subdomain Accessibility
A-TITLE Outside Link: Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://studentaidbc.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (3.66 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 44 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 06 Jan 2025 18:49:56 GMT
serverApache
x-powered-byPHP/8.1.27
cache-controlmax-age=86400, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN, SAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
last-modifiedMon, 06 Jan 2025 18:49:55 GMT
etag"1736189395"
content-length45087
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 906 referring domains.
This page has 7,578 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 609 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# 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: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
student72%Check
StudentAid BC71%Check
StudentAid66%Check
student funding57%Check
Student Loan57%Check
help55%Check
Student Loans55%Check
SABC52%Check
BC high school51%Check
New Student Account50%Check
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