Chinesestudies.ucsd.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
85% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
87% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.20 s
File size
47.90 kB
Words
337
Media files
10
Number of links
44 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Chinese Studies
The page title is too short. (147 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to Chinese Studies at UC San Diego
The length of the meta description is perfect. (287 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportinitial-scale=1.0
google-site-verification7MiYjX2ZghMOWvtKRWlar--c6mD2ose5EcbQFQ6szFA
ORGANIZATIONUniversity of California, San Diego
robotsindex,follow,noarchive
SITEChinese-Studies
PAGETITLEChinese Studies
DESCRIPTIONWelcome to Chinese Studies at UC San Diego
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langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 337 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.1% 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.
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 14.71 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 "initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H1 Chinese Studies
H1 Empty heading
H1 Chinese Studies Duplicate text
H1 Empty heading
H1 Chinese Studies Duplicate text
H1 Empty heading
H2 Chinese Language Placement
H2 Undergraduate
H2 Office Hours
H2 Social Media
H2 Lunar New Year 2022
H2 Give Now
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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://chinesestudies.ucsd.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://chinesestudies.ucsd.edu/Subdomain Chinese Studies Program
https://chinesestudies.ucsd.edu/Subdomain Chinese Studies
http://www.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain UC San Diego
/about/index.htmlAbout Us
/about/statements.htmlStatements
/people/index.htmlPeople
/undergraduate/index.htmlUndergraduate
/undergraduate/major.htmlMajor
/undergraduate/minor.htmlMinor
/undergraduate/study-abroad.htmlStudy Abroad
/undergraduate/petitions.htmlPetitions
/undergraduate/faq.htmlFAQ
/courses/index.htmlCourses
/courses/course-offerings.htmlCourse Offerings
https://catalog.ucsd.edu/cours...External Subdomain Language Courses
https://catalog.ucsd.edu/curri...External Subdomain Non-Language Courses
/language/index.htmlLanguage
/language/enrollment-process.htmlCHIN Course Enrollment Information
/language/placement-info.htmlPlacement Interview Information
/language/proficiency-exam.htmlChinese Proficiency Examination
/ta/index.htmlTeaching Assistant
/resources/index.htmlResources
/contact-information/index.htmlContact Information
/about/index.htmlText duplicate About Us
/about/statements.htmlText duplicate Statements
/people/index.htmlText duplicate People
/undergraduate/index.htmlText duplicate Undergraduate
/undergraduate/major.htmlText duplicate Major
/undergraduate/minor.htmlText duplicate Minor
/undergraduate/study-abroad.htmlText duplicate Study Abroad
/undergraduate/petitions.htmlText duplicate Petitions
/undergraduate/faq.htmlText duplicate FAQ
/courses/index.htmlText duplicate Courses
/courses/course-offerings.htmlText duplicate Course Offerings
https://catalog.ucsd.edu/cours...External Subdomain Text duplicate Language Courses
https://catalog.ucsd.edu/curri...External Subdomain Text duplicate Non-Language Courses
/language/index.htmlText duplicate Language
/language/enrollment-process.htmlText duplicate CHIN Course Enrollment Information
/language/placement-info.htmlText duplicate Placement Interview Information
/language/proficiency-exam.htmlText duplicate Chinese Proficiency Examination
/ta/index.htmlText duplicate Teaching Assistant
/resources/index.htmlText duplicate Resources
/contact-information/index.htmlText duplicate Contact Information
https://chinesestudies.ucsd.edu/Anchor Previous
https://chinesestudies.ucsd.edu/Anchor Next
/language/placement-info.htmlLearn about placement
/undergraduate/index.htmlUndergraduate Opportunities
/contact-information/index.htmlVisit Office Hours
https://www.instagram.com/ucsd...External Subdomain Connect on Instagram
https://youtu.be/fYh5njtGdYEExternal Watch on YouTube
https://espi.ucsd.edu/make-a-g...External Subdomain Donate
https://accessibility.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Accessibility
https://ucsd.edu/about/privacy...External Privacy
https://ucsd.edu/about/terms-o...External Terms of Use
https://ucsd.edu/External IMG-ALT UCSD homepage

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://chinesestudies.ucsd.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.20 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (48 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 15 Feb 2026 20:07:37 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length49055
serverApache/2.4.62 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
last-modifiedWed, 11 Jun 2025 03:30:59 GMT
etag"bf9f-63743711453b0"
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 149 referring domains.
This page has 189 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 32 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

chinesestudies.ucsd.edu
Chinese Studies
Welcome to Chinese Studies at UC San Diego

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Studies84%Check
Chinese Studies83%Check
Chinese81%Check
Chinese Studies UC77%Check
Chinese Studies Program68%Check
Chinese Language61%Check
UC San58%Check
UC San Diego55%Check
UCSD54%Check
San51%Check

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