Thegradcafe.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
86% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
41.80 kB
Words
342
Media files
1
Number of links
59 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The GradCafe
The page title is too short. (130 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Grad School Admissions Results, Discussions, Tips, Forums and Help
The length of the meta description is perfect. (433 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.thegradcafe.com/
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)
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
am-api-tokenDbyJ3SXLe
descriptionGrad School Admissions Results, Discussions, Tips, Forums and Help
keywordsgraduate school, grad school, graduate school admissions, admissions statistics, grad school admissions, grad school discussions, grad school message board, graduate school help, graduate admissions experience
langen
og:titleThe GradCafe
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.thegradcafe.com/
og:imagehttps://thegradcafe.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/images/thegradcafe-logo.png
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 342 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.2% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.67 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (8). We recommend using a maximum of 7 tags for this page.
Some tags are too long. With 80 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"last mile education fund paves the way for tech students, offers lifeline grants"
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
...t-2.amazonaws.com/images/tgc-logo-v3.svgTheGradCafe.com logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Search Grad School Admissions
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 Search Grad School Admissions
H5 See what's brewing
H5 2024 Most popular PhD Programs
H5 2024 Most popular Master Programs
H5 Join the community
H5 By School
H5 By Field of Study
H6 By School Duplicate text
H6 By School Duplicate text
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.thegradcafe.com/IMG-ALT TheGradCafe.com logo
https://www.thegradcafe.com/Home
/survey/post.phpSubmit your results
https://forum.thegradcafe.com/External Subdomain Forum
https://blog.thegradcafe.com/External Subdomain Blog
/survey/index.phpResults Search
https://jobs.thegradcafe.com/?...External Subdomain Jobs
/search/?qSearch
/signup/Sign Up
/signin/Login
/signup/Text duplicate Sign Up
/signin/Text duplicate Login
https://blog.thegradcafe.com/h...New window External Subdomain How Many Grad Schools Should I Apply To?
https://blog.thegradcafe.com/l...New window External Subdomain Last Mile Education Fund Paves the Way for Tech Students, Offers Lifeline Grants
https://blog.thegradcafe.com/w...New window External Subdomain When to Apply for Grad School: Easy Monthly Timeline [2025-2026]
https://blog.thegradcafe.com/d...New window External Subdomain 30+ Best Dorm Room Essentials for Guys in 2024
/survey/index.php?q=Economics+...University Of Maryland Economics
A-TITLE Economics
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...University Of Washington Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Economics+...Boston University Economics
A-TITLE Economics
/survey/index.php?q=Physics+Ma...Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Physics
A-TITLE Physics
/survey/index.php?q=Physics+Pr...Princeton University Physics
A-TITLE Physics
/survey/index.php?q=Economics+...Stanford University Economics
A-TITLE Economics
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...Cornell University Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Physics+St...Stanford University Physics
A-TITLE Physics
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...Stanford University Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Economics+...University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Economics
A-TITLE Economics
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...University Of California, San Diego Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...Text duplicate Stanford University Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...University Of Southern California Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...Princeton University Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...University Of Massachusetts, Amherst Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...Columbia University Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...University Of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/index.php?q=Computer+S...University Of Pennsylvania Computer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/TermsofService.phpTerms and Conditions
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Stanford University (West Coast School)
A-TITLE Stanford University (West Coast School)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Cornell University (East Coast School)
A-TITLE Cornell University (East Coast School)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Washington University in St. Louis (Midwest, not in Chicago!)
A-TITLE Washington University in St. Louis (Midwest, not in Chicago!)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Vanderbilt University (Southern School)
A-TITLE Vanderbilt University (Southern School)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...University of Southern California (West Coast School)
A-TITLE University of Southern California (West Coast School)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Harvard University (East Coast School)
A-TITLE Harvard University (East Coast School)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Northwestern University (Midwest School)
A-TITLE Northwestern University (Midwest School)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Rice University (Southern School)
A-TITLE Rice University (Southern School)
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A-TITLE Massachusetts Institute of Technology
/survey/?per_page=20&instituti...Emory University
A-TITLE Emory University
/survey/?program=Computer+ScienceComputer Science
A-TITLE Computer Science
/survey/?program=EconomicsEconomics
A-TITLE Economics
/survey/?program=Clinical+Psyc...Clinical Psychology
A-TITLE Clinical Psychology
/survey/?program=PhysicsPhysics
A-TITLE Physics
/survey/?program=Speech+Langua...Speech Language Pathology
A-TITLE Speech Language Pathology
/survey/?program=PhilosophyPhilosophy
A-TITLE Philosophy
/survey/?program=EnglishEnglish
A-TITLE English
/survey/?program=Political+Sci...Political Science
A-TITLE Political Science
/survey/?program=SociologySociology
A-TITLE Sociology
/survey/?program=Mechanical+En...Mechanical Engineering
A-TITLE Mechanical Engineering
https://www.thegradcafe.com/Text duplicate Home
/contact_us.phpContact Us
/partner-with-us.phpPartner With Us
/TermsofService.phpTerms of Service
/privacy.phpPrivacy
/survey/index.phpText duplicate Results Search
/survey/post.phpSubmit Results
https://forum.thegradcafe.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Forum
/write-for-us.phpWrite For Us
/about-us.phpAbout Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thegradcafe.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.88 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 (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateTue, 01 Oct 2024 23:39:51 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
set-cookie44 Characters
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
cross-origin-resource-policycross-origin
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 319 referring domains.
This page has 783 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 253 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /index-ad-test.php

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver/1.6
Disallow: /

User-Agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Computer_and_Automation_Research_Institute_Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

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School Admissions64%Check
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