Canvas.ucsb.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
79% 
External factors
18% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
35.80 kB
Words
145
Media files
1
Number of links
7 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Log In | UCSB Canvas
The length of the page title is perfect. (202 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
UC Santa Barbara is a leading center for teaching and research located on the California coast - truly a learning and living environment like no other!
The length of the meta description is perfect. (912 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.canvas.ucsb.edu/
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)
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

NameValue
descriptionUC Santa Barbara is a leading center for teaching and research located on the California coast - truly a learning and living environment like no other!
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 145 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
31.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 13 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)
Some tags are too long. With 112 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"instructors: course sites for summer 2025 and fall 2025 are now available to be created by following t..."
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
/sites/default/files/2024-03/_ERK3316_2.jpgphoto of palm trees on campus

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Log In
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Log In
H2 Main navigation
H2 UCSB Login
H2 PaCE Login
H2 Announcements
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.canvas.ucsb.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ucsb.edu/External Subdomain University of California, Santa Barbara
https://www.canvas.ucsb.edu/A-TITLE Home
https://www.canvas.ucsb.edu/Log In
/supportSupport
/best-practicesBest Practices
/integrationsIntegrations
https://ucsb.instructure.com/l...External Subdomain UCSB Users
https://www.identity.ucsb.edu/External Subdomain Need Help with your UCSBnetID?
https://ucsb.instructure.com/l...External Subdomain PaCE and other users
https://help.professional.ucsb...External Subdomain Help for PaCE students accessing Canvas
https://help.lsit.ucsb.edu/hc/...External Subdomain No Text
https://ucsb.instructure.com/c...External Subdomain this guide.
https://ucsb.instructure.com/c...External Subdomain can be found here.
https://ucsb.instructure.com/c...External Subdomain See more info here.
https://www.ucsb.edu/policies-...External Subdomain Policies and Disclosures
https://www.ucsb.edu/peopleExternal Subdomain Campus Directory
http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/External Subdomain Campus Maps
https://www.ucsb.edu/terms-of-useExternal Subdomain Terms of Use
/accessibilityAccessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.canvas.ucsb.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 0.85 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 (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=2700, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1754437753"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedTue, 05 Aug 2025 23:49:13 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe1-b-6b49f54d8b-sk9mm
x-styx-req-idc7112f7b-7295-11f0-9c7a-0eaa5b35ed23
dateWed, 06 Aug 2025 10:47:14 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100116-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230150-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits21, 0
x-timerS1754477235.855694,VS0,VE5
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
age1464
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length11666
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 6 referring domains.
This page only has 17 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 different ip addresses.

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: *
# 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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www.canvas.ucsb.edu
Log In | UCSB Canvas
UC Santa Barbara is a leading center for teaching and research located on the California coast - truly a learning and living environment like no other!

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
UCSB66%Check
Log66%Check
UCSB Canvas64%Check
Canvas62%Check
California46%Check
Santa46%Check
Barbara46%Check
Santa Barbara46%Check
Login43%Check
sites41%Check
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