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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

100%

Page quality

52%

Page structure

100%

Link structure

42%

Server

83%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.21 s

File size

28.40 kB

Words

312

Media files

Number of links

28 internal / 38 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 1 Tasks

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Meta specifications 100% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

The University of British Columbia

The length of the page title is perfect. (305 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (914 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

No canonical link is specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

(Somewhat important)

Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en-ca

Server location: United States of America

The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
viewport	width=device-width
description	The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.
lang	en-ca
fb:pages	16761458703
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 52% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.

There are only 312 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

The average number of words per sentence of 49 words is high.

26.9% 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.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...mages/22601-glass_blower-1920x700_1x.jpg	UBC glassblower Brian Ditchburn making glass
...mages/22605-orderofcanada-370x370_1x.jpg	Order of Canada medal
...ages/22610-winter_classic-370x370_1x.jpg	Hockey game at Thunderbirds Arena.
...2615-student_walking_snow-370x370_1x.jpg	Students walking on UBC Vancouver campus covered with snow.
.../images/22645-ebike_grass-370x370_1x.jpg	e-bike at the park
/_cache/images/22640-cop29-370x370_1x.jpg	The logo of 29th UN Climate Conference of Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan
...ges/22635-compost_happens-370x370_1x.jpg	Fence with "compost happens" sign
...s/22630-healthcare_worker-370x370_1x.jpg	Health care worker holding patient's hand
...s/22625-tree_illustration-370x370_1x.jpg	Illustration of a tree with discussion bubbles with people under it
...images/22620-grizzly_bear-370x370_1x.jpg	Grizzle bear in the wild

Page structure 100% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

The University of British Columbia

The H1 heading is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	The University of British Columbia
H2	Marquee
H2	Spotlight
H2	Connect with UBC
H2	Explore UBC
H3	Holiday spirit
H3	UBC community members among new Order of Canada appointees
H3	Attend Winter Classic
H3	Student supports over the holidays
H3	Skyrocketing e-bike use drives speed increase on Metro Vancouver pathways
H3	Reflecting on COP29
H3	How to reduce food waste and feast sustainably this holiday season
H3	Better care for people with Parkinson’s disease
H3	How to talk about climate change
H3	Researchers highlight critical role of grizzlies in huckleberry health

Link structure 42% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are too many external links (38) on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.ubc.ca/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://www.ubc.ca/	Subdomain	The University of British Columbia A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://www.ubc.ca/	Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia
https://www.ubc.ca/about/		About UBC
https://www.ubc.ca/our-campuses/		Our Campuses
https://www.ubc.ca/admissions/		Admissions
https://www.ubc.ca/academics/		Academics
/strategic-priorities/		Strategic Priorities
https://www.ubc.ca/research/		Research
https://www.ubc.ca/campus-life/		Campus Life
https://news.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	News
https://give.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	give UBC
/prospective-students/		Prospective Students
/undergraduate-students/		Undergraduate Students
/graduate-students/		Graduate Students
https://www.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/		Faculty & Staff
http://www.alumni.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Alumni
/community-partners/		Community Partners
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/12/ub...	External Subdomain	Holiday spirit UBC glassblower raises money for charity in his daughter’s memory Read More IMG-ALT UBC glassblower Brian Ditchburn making glass
https://president.ubc.ca/post/...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Order of Canada medal
https://president.ubc.ca/post/...	External Subdomain	UBC community members among new Order of Canada appointees
https://events.ubc.ca/event/wi...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Hockey game at Thunderbirds Arena.
https://events.ubc.ca/event/wi...	External Subdomain	Attend Winter Classic
https://legacy.students.ubc.ca...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Students walking on UBC Vancouver campus covered with snow.
https://legacy.students.ubc.ca...	External Subdomain	Student supports over the holidays
https://www.facebook.com/unive...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://instagram.com/universi...	New window External	No Text
https://twitter.com/ubc	New window External	No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/ubc	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@univer...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/12/e-...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT e-bike at the park
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/12/e-...	External Subdomain	Skyrocketing e-bike use drives speed increase on Metro Vancouver pathways
https://sustain.ubc.ca/stories...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT The logo of 29th UN Climate Conference of Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan
/archives/?tags=innovation		Innovation
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://sustain.ubc.ca/stories...	External Subdomain	Reflecting on COP29
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/12/re...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Fence with "compost happens" sign
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/12/re...	External Subdomain	How to reduce food waste and feast sustainably this holiday season
https://pathwaysmagazine.med.u...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Health care worker holding patient's hand
/archives/?tags=innovation	Text duplicate	Innovation
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://pathwaysmagazine.med.u...	External Subdomain	Better care for people with Parkinson’s disease
https://magazine.alumni.ubc.ca...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Illustration of a tree with discussion bubbles with people under it
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://magazine.alumni.ubc.ca...	External Subdomain	How to talk about climate change
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2024/12...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Grizzle bear in the wild
/archives/?tags=innovation	Text duplicate	Innovation
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2024/12...	External Subdomain	Researchers highlight critical role of grizzlies in huckleberry health
https://www.ubc.ca/archives/		Explore More
/about/contact.html		Contact the Vancouver campus
/about/contact-okanagan.html		Contact the Okanagan campus
https://www.facebook.com/unive...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://instagram.com/universi...	New window External	No Text
https://twitter.com/ubc	New window External	No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/ubc	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@univer...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.ubc.ca/	Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/eme...	External Subdomain	Emergency Procedures
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/terms	External Subdomain	Terms of Use
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/cop...	External Subdomain	UBC Copyright
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/acc...	External Subdomain	Accessibility

Server configuration 83% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.ubc.ca/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.

The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is excellent with 0.21 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (28 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length	6020
date	Sat, 04 Jan 2025 07:50:52 GMT
server	Apache/2.4.59 ()
x-powered-by	PHP/8.2.9
content-encoding	gzip
x-ua-compatible	IE=edge
vary	Accept-Encoding
x-cache	Hit from cloudfront
via	1.1 76f18545659f3cecc2213d8e93d15fb2.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop	FRA60-P5
x-amz-cf-id	XbY2-PGc0DInWmLrBk5emCoHo4LqQlRyUhVSIhIwTzwG9r3vSD3xog==
age	75687
x-xss-protection	1; mode=block
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
referrer-policy	strict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-options	nosniff
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 8,635 referring domains.

This page has 790,992 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 6,173 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_ADMIN/
Disallow: /_internal/
Disallow: /DEVL/
Disallow: /okanagan/facultystaff/bba
Disallow: /okanagan/itservices/service-catalogue/accounts/novell/imanager.html

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The University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
University	73%	Check
British	73%	Check
Columbia	73%	Check
British Columbia	73%	Check
UBC	61%	Check
UBC Search	57%	Check
Search	50%	Check
Research	50%	Check
global	46%	Check
top	46%	Check
Vancouver	45%	Check
Holiday	43%	Check
Vancouver Campus	43%	Check
Canada	42%	Check
Order	42%	Check
Student	42%	Check
COP29	42%	Check
Campus	41%	Check
Metro Vancouver	41%	Check
e-bike	40%	Check
climate	40%	Check
people	40%	Check
Winter	40%	Check
Classic	40%	Check
Okanagan Campus	40%	Check

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Page quality 52% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 100% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 42% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 83% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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