vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.74 s

File size

67.30 kB

Words

361

Media files

10

Number of links

52 internal / 35 external

Meta specifications 74% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Welcome | UBC Academic Calendar

The length of the page title is perfect. (324 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The Calendar is a comprehensive guide to all programs, courses, services, and policies at the University of British Columbia. The Calendar also serves as a record of many University academic policies and procedures.

The meta description is too long: 1343 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

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https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/node/12

The specified canonical link points to a different page.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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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

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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

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Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1
theme-color	#002145
msapplication-TileColor	#002145
msapplication-config	/themes/custom/kraken/img/favicons/browserconfig.xml
lang	en
charset	utf-8

Page quality 52% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content

Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.

There are only 361 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

19.1% of the text are stop words.

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 12.25 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 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

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No additional page markup was found.

HTTPS

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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
...efbaddd9_6k.jpg?h=60207e7a&itok=PiRwxNMn	Students walking along Main Mall
...453743_984120011d_6k_0.jpg?itok=_GqDEUUn	Two students at the Welcome Centre desk speaking with a staff member
...18679148_e84b0a2804_6k.jpg?itok=3lurdECi	A student working on their laptop
...96183831_57ee0f989d_6k.jpg?itok=CX5_w5FK	A marine science student writing on a whiteboard
...68536743_f2bcbd0314_6k.jpg?itok=035z4qk3	Two students walking to class together
...523229_21d349bc33_6k_0.jpg?itok=EsnmauxW	A student working on their laptop in qʷta:yθən leləm̓ (Sturgeon House)
...338049_098eef82a2_4k_0.jpg?itok=dAauYs3t	Aerial view of students studying together at a communal desk
...26500362_bc5db54b89_4k.jpg?itok=zDFTLnQd	A student working in the Prostate Centre
...87598920_505a9909a6_6k.jpg?itok=opLlhZaQ	Back view of a graduating student
...98385187_a638c28834_5k.jpg?itok=0CcX0ym1	Two students walking to class together

Page structure 87% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

UBC Academic Calendar

The H1 heading is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

Some headings occur twice on the page.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	UBC Academic Calendar
H2	Main navigation
H2	UBC Academic Calendar Duplicate text
H3	Undergraduate
H3	Admission Procedures
H3	Application and Document Deadlines
H3	Tuition
H3	Course Schedule
H3	Graduate
H3	Admission
H3	English Language and GRE Requirements
H3	Tuition Duplicate text
H3	Scholarships, Awards & Funding
H3	Course Schedule Duplicate text
H3	Upcoming Events
H3	Fall Congregation, Day 1: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
H3	Fall Congregation, Day 2: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
H3	Fall Congregation, Day 3: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
H3	Quicklinks
H3	About UBC
H3	UBC Campuses
H3	Calendar Sections
H4	UBC Sites

Link structure 68% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

There are 1 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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are too many external links (35) on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://www.calendar.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Academic Calendar
https://www.ubc.ca/landing/cam...	External Subdomain	Campus Services
https://www.ubc.ca/landing/fac...	External Subdomain	Faculties & Schools
https://www.library.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Library
https://www.ubc.ca/about/maps....	External Subdomain	Maps
https://www.ubc.ca/quicklinks/	External Subdomain	Quicklinks
https://ssc.adm.ubc.ca/sscportal/	External Subdomain	Student Service Centre
https://directory.ubc.ca/index...	External Subdomain	UBC Directory
https://www.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	The University of British Columbia
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/apl...	External Subdomain	UBC - A Place of Mind
https://www.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia
/		UBC Academic Calendar
/		Home
/dates-and-deadlines		Dates and Deadlines
/academic-year-202425		Academic Year
/admissions		Admissions
/fees		Fees
/establishment-and-constitution		Establishment and Constitution
/campus-wide-policies-and-regu...		Campus-wide Policies and Regulations
/services-facilities-and-organ...		Services, Facilities, and Organizations
/research-units-centres-and-in...		Research Units, Centres, and Institutes
/ubc-library		UBC Library
/faculties-colleges-and-schools		Faculties, Colleges, and Schools
/alternative-study-options		Alternative Study Options
/course-descriptions		Course Descriptions
/emeriti-staff		Emeriti Staff
/enrolment-statistics-202324		Enrolment Statistics 2023/24
/calendar-history		Calendar History
https://archive.calendar.ubc.c...	External Subdomain	Calendar Archive
/contact-us		Contact Us
/faculties-colleges-and-school...		Academic Standing, Additional Period Honors, and Advancement Regulations
/faculties-colleges-and-school...	Text duplicate	Academic Standing, Additional Period Honors, and Advancement Regulations
/admissions/undergraduate-admi...		Admission Procedures
/admissions/undergraduate-appl...		Application and Document Deadlines
/fees/tuition-fees/undergraduate		Tuition
https://courses.students.ubc.c...	External Subdomain	Course Schedule
/faculties-colleges-and-school...		Admission
/faculties-colleges-and-school...		English Language and GRE Requirements
/fees/tuition-fees/graduate	Text duplicate	Tuition
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/schola...	External Subdomain	Scholarships, Awards & Funding
https://courses.students.ubc.c...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Course Schedule
/academic-year-202425/november...		Fall Congregation, Day 1: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
/academic-year-202425/november...		Fall Congregation, Day 2: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
/academic-year-202425/november...		Fall Congregation, Day 3: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
/academic-year-202324/academic...		Trivial anchor text more
/dates-and-deadlines	Text duplicate	Dates and Deadlines
/academic-year-202324		Academic Year 2023/24
https://ubc.ca/	External	UBC Main Site
https://myworkday.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Login to Workday
https://www.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia
https://www.ubc.ca/about/conta...	External Subdomain	Contact UBC
https://www.ubc.ca/about/	External Subdomain	About the University
https://www.ubc.ca/landing/new...	External Subdomain	News
https://www.ubc.ca/landing/eve...	External Subdomain	Events
https://hr.ubc.ca/careers-and-...	External Subdomain	Careers
https://give.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Make a Gift
https://www.ubc.ca/search/	External Subdomain	Search UBC.ca
https://www.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Vancouver Campus
https://ok.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Okanagan Campus
https://robsonsquare.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Robson Square
https://thecdm.ca/	External	Centre for Digital Media
https://www.med.ubc.ca/about/c...	External Subdomain	Faculty of Medicine Across BC
https://www.ubc.ca/landing/eme...	External Subdomain	Emergency Procedures
https://www.ubc.ca/site/legal....	External Subdomain	Terms of Use
https://copyright.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	UBC Copyright
https://www.ubc.ca/accessibility/	External Subdomain	Accessibility
/	Text duplicate	Home
/dates-and-deadlines	Text duplicate	Dates and Deadlines
/academic-year-202425	Text duplicate	Academic Year
/admissions	Text duplicate	Admissions
/fees	Text duplicate	Fees
/establishment-and-constitution	Text duplicate	Establishment and Constitution
/campus-wide-policies-and-regu...	Text duplicate	Campus-wide Policies and Regulations
/services-facilities-and-organ...	Text duplicate	Services, Facilities, and Organizations
/research-units-centres-and-in...	Text duplicate	Research Units, Centres, and Institutes
/ubc-library	Text duplicate	UBC Library
/faculties-colleges-and-schools	Text duplicate	Faculties, Colleges, and Schools
/alternative-study-options	Text duplicate	Alternative Study Options
/course-descriptions	Text duplicate	Course Descriptions
/emeriti-staff	Text duplicate	Emeriti Staff
/enrolment-statistics-202324	Text duplicate	Enrolment Statistics 2023/24
/calendar-history	Text duplicate	Calendar History
https://archive.calendar.ubc.c...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Calendar Archive
/contact-us	Text duplicate	Contact Us
/faculties-colleges-and-school...	Text duplicate	Academic Standing, Additional Period Honors, and Advancement Regulations
/faculties-colleges-and-school...	Text duplicate	Academic Standing, Additional Period Honors, and Advancement Regulations

Server configuration 29% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.74 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 (67 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

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content-language	en
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
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vary	Cookie
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-debug-info	eyJyZXRyaWVzIjowfQ==
x-drupal-cache	HIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
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x-platform-cluster	aktqocgqruqfa-master-7rqtwti
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http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 246 referring domains.

This page has 452 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 173 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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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vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca

Welcome | UBC Academic Calendar

The Calendar is a comprehensive guide to all programs, courses, services, and policies at the University of British Columbia. The Calendar also serves as a record of many University academic policies and procedures.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Calendar	89%	Check
Academic Calendar	83%	Check
UBC Academic Calendar	81%	Check
UBC	77%	Check
Academic	77%	Check
Online Calendar	63%	Check
Academic Year	58%	Check
University academic policies	58%	Check
Course	54%	Check
Policies and Procedures	52%	Check
procedures	50%	Check
serves as	47%	Check
University	46%	Check
Policies	46%	Check
Services	46%	Check
British	46%	Check
Columbia	46%	Check
British Columbia	46%	Check
Vancouver	46%	Check
comprehensive	46%	Check
guide	46%	Check
programs	46%	Check
courses	46%	Check
serves	46%	Check
record	46%	Check

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Page structure 87% achieved

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Link structure 68% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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