Afford.ua.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
61% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
93% 
External factors
9% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.54 s
File size
106.70 kB
Words
311
Media files
11
Number of links
15 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Afford
The page title is too short. (53 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Affording college at the University of Alabama
The length of the meta description is perfect. (280 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://afford.ua.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.8.1
descriptionAffording college at the University of Alabama
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
og:descriptionAffording college at the University of Alabama
og:typewebsite
og:titleAfford - Afford | The University of Alabama
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 311 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 19.56 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
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.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...ua.edu/brand/logos/UA_Wordmark-White.svgThe University of Alabama
...1/elephant-hr-centered_white-1024x53.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/white-waves.svgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2025/01/home_toolkit-card.jpgAerial view of a group of students walking out of a building on campus
/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/red-wave.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ent/uploads/2025/01/crimson-gradient.pngNo alt attribute provided
...23/07/2202020_MW_028_student_stock-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../2023/07/1806067_JH_016_WLAM_Banners.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...loads/2025/01/Tuska-Wave-Gray-scaled.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...etfiles.ua.edu/brand/logos/UA_System.svgNo alt attribute provided
....ua.edu/brand/logos/Capstone_A-White.svgThe University of Alabama Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Affording UA
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (12 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Affording UA
H1 Afford
H2 YOUR UA RESOURCES
H2 Affordability Toolkit
H2 Cost of Attendance
H2 IMPORTANT SCHOLARSHIP & FINANCIAL AID DATES
H2 SCHOLARSHIPS
H2 FINANCIAL AID
H2 QUICK LINKS
H3 Cost of Attendance Duplicate text
H3 Net Price Calculator
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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://afford.ua.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://ua.edu/External IMG-ALT The University of Alabama
http://mybama.ua.edu/External Subdomain myBama
https://afford.ua.edu/Subdomain Afford
/scholarships/Subdomain Scholarships
/financial-aid/Subdomain Financial Aid
https://afford.ua.edu/cost/Subdomain Cost of Attendance
https://afford.ua.edu/toolkit/Subdomain Affordability Toolkit
https://afford.ua.edu/timeline/Subdomain Scholarship/Aid Timeline
https://afford.ua.edu/contact/Subdomain Contact
/scholarshipsUndergraduate Scholarships
/financial-aidStudent Financial Aid
https://graduate.ua.edu/applic...External Subdomain Paying For Grad School
https://afford.ua.edu/toolkitText duplicate Affordability Toolkit
https://afford.ua.edu/costText duplicate Cost of Attendance
https://ua.clearcostcalculator...External Subdomain Net Price Calculator
https://afford.ua.edu/timelineView timeline
/contact/scholarships/Subdomain Visit our Contact page for more information
https://www.facebook.com/ua.un...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/ua_a...External Subdomain Instagram
/contact/financial-aid/Subdomain Text duplicate Visit our Contact page for more information
https://www.facebook.com/UAStu...External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://catalog.ua.edu/programs/External Subdomain Anchor Undergraduate Majors
http://admissions.ua.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate Admissions
https://www.ua.edu/map/External Subdomain Campus Map
https://catalog.ua.edu/External Subdomain Academic Catalog
https://compliance.ua.edu/high...External Subdomain Higher Education Act
https://uasystem.edu/New window External Part of the University of Alabama System
https://www.ua.edu/copyrightExternal Subdomain Copyright © 2025
https://www.ua.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate The University of Alabama
https://www.ua.edu/contactExternal Subdomain Contact UA
https://accessibility.ua.edu/s...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://oie.ua.edu/accreditationExternal Subdomain SACSCOC
https://login.ua.edu/cas/login...External Subdomain Taskstream
http://eop.ua.edu/External Subdomain Equal Opportunity
http://compliance.ua.edu/priva...External Subdomain Data Access Request
https://www.ua.edu/disclaimerExternal Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.ua.edu/privacyExternal Subdomain Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://afford.ua.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.54 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 (107 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlpublic, max-age=604800
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://afford.ua.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe2-a-7d5b69868b-fcsz4
x-styx-req-id4106318b-68cb-11f0-8111-3239714acf4a
age122523
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 06:19:46 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-kigq8000162-CHI, cache-fra-etou8220164-FRA, cache-fra-eddf8230156-FRA, cache-fra-eddf8230156-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT, MISS, MISS
x-cache-hits1, 0, 0, 0
x-timerS1753510786.148084,VS0,VE8
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
content-length38417
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 3 referring domains.
This page only has 9 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://afford.ua.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Afford91%Check
Affording62%Check
University48%Check
Alabama48%Check
Aid47%Check
Financial47%Check
Financial Aid47%Check
Scholarship47%Check
Student Financial Aid47%Check
college46%Check
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