Urf.columbia.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
54% 
Page quality
85% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.55 s
File size
43.40 kB
Words
725
Media files
8
Number of links
56 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Undergraduate Research and Fellowships | Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 771 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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://urf.columbia.edu/urf
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)
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

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1
theme-color#a8cee2
GeneratorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 26.38 words is high.
This page contains 725 words. That's ok.
29.7% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 15 tags for this page.
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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Empty heading
H2 Search
H2 Menu
H2 Congratulations to the Columbia University Affiliates Awarded a 2024 - 2025 Fulbright US Student Grant
H2 Asher Baron CC’25 named Beinecke Scholar
H2 Sara Wahedi GS’24 named Clarendon Scholar
H2 Two Columbia College Graduates Named John & Daria Barry Scholars
H2 Sonia Rosa Kahn, CC’23, Named Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellow
H2 Two Columbians Named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
H2 Fellowships
H2 Research
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Upcoming Deadlines
H2 Announcements & News
H2 Columbia University Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
H6 FOR ANY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OR FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE EXTERNAL TO COLUMBIA, THEIR LISTING AND ANY ACCOMPANYING LINKS ARE PROVIDED FOR GENERAL INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. UNLESS OTHER...
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 7 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 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://urf.columbia.edu/urfUndergraduate Research & Fellowships
A-TITLE Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
https://columbia.studioabroad....External Subdomain Log In
/opportunity/searchFind an Opportunity
/urf/fellowshipsFellowships
/urf/fellowships/storiesStudent Stories
/urf/fellowships/facultyFor Faculty
A-TITLE Faculty involvement in fellowships
/urf/fellowships/FulbrightWeekFulbright Week 2024
/urf/researchResearch
/urf/research/Ugrad-symposiumResearch Symposium
/urf/research/programsScholar Programs
/urf/research/HRSPHumanities Research Scholars Program
/urf/research/laidlawLaidlaw Scholarship
/urf/research/mmufMellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
/urf/research/mmuf/applyHow to Apply
/urf/research/mmuf/scholarsMMUF Fellows and Alumni
/urf/research/rabiRabi Scholars
/urf/research/rabi/scholarsCurrent Rabi Scholars
/urf/research/rabi/publicationsPublications
/urf/research/rabi/faculty-com...Rabi Faculty Committee
/urf/research/srfScience Research Fellows
/urf/research/srf/scholarsCurrent Science Research Fellows
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.e...External Subdomain C.P. Davis Scholars
https://engineering.columbia.e...External Subdomain Egleston Scholars
https://gs.columbia.edu/conten...External Subdomain Program for Academic Leadership and Service (PALS)
/urf/research/facultyText duplicate For Faculty
/content/columbia-college-rose...Subdomain Research Ambassadors and Peer Advisors
/urf/research/helpHelp & Advice
/urf/aboutAbout Us
/urf/about/staffStaff
/urf/about/advisingAdvising
/urf/about/eventsEvents
/news/congratulations-columbia...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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/news/asher-baron-cc’25-named-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/news/sara-wahedi-gs’24-named-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/news/two-columbia-college-gra...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/news/sonia-rosa-kahn-cc’23-na...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/news/two-columbians-named-kni...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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https://urf-dev.college.columb...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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https://urf-dev.college.columb...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
/urf/about/advisingappointment or virtual walk-in sessions
/urf/about/eventsTrivial anchor text
here
/urf/opportunities/searchText duplicate Find an Opportunity
/events/event/fellowship-frida...Fellowship Friday: Last Minute Q&A for 8/13 Deadlines!
/events/event/urf-presents-wri...URF presents Writing Wednesdays
/events/event/fellowship-frida...Fellowship Friday: Q&A for Fellowship Applicants
/urf/about/eventsSee All
/fellowship/st-andrews-society...St. Andrew's Society Scholarship for Graduate Study in Scotland
/fellowship/michel-david-weill...Michel David-Weill Scholarship
/fellowship/rhodes-scholarshipsRhodes Scholarships
/fellowship/marshall-scholarshipMarshall Scholarship
/fellowship/churchill-scholars...Churchill Scholarships
/urf/about/eventsText duplicate See All
/news/call-applications-cusj’s...CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CUSJ’S Summer Publishing Program
/news/call-applications-brenna...CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE (7/8)
/news/call-applications-americ...CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INTERNSHIP (8/3)
/news/call-submissions-columbi...CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Columbia Undergraduate Research Blog (8/1)
/urf/about/announcementsText duplicate See All
https://goo.gl/maps/xgKPG6gyXg62External 1130 Amsterdam Ave New York, NY 10027
/opportunity/searchText duplicate Find an Opportunity
/urf/fellowshipsText duplicate Fellowships
/urf/researchText duplicate Research
/urf/research/helpText duplicate Help & Advice
/urf/aboutText duplicate About Us
http://www.columbia.edu/conten...External Subdomain © 2024 Columbia University
https://www.college.columbia.e...External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://accessibility.columbia...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.columbia.edu/External Subdomain University Home Page

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://urf.columbia.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 0.55 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.
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 08 Aug 2024 13:42:15 GMT
serverApache
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
link</urf>; rel="canonical",</node/4029>; rel="shortlink"
cache-controlpublic, max-age=0
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding,X-Forwarded-For
content-encodinggzip
etag"1723120240-1"
last-modifiedThu, 08 Aug 2024 12:30:40 GMT
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://*.ally.ac;
connectionclose
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 website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 353 referring domains.
This page has 747 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 192 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Research59%Check
Undergraduate59%Check
Fellowships59%Check
Undergraduate Research59%Check
Undergraduate Research Fellowships59%Check
Columbia54%Check
Science Research Fellows53%Check
undergraduate programs50%Check
fellowship opportunities50%Check
Columbia University48%Check

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