Collegedata.com - SEO Checker

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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
69% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.09 s
File size
236.10 kB
Words
1392
Media files
66
Number of links
127 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
College Database Find the Best Colleges in US | CollegeData
The length of the page title is perfect. (551 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
CollegeData is your one stop shop to find the best colleges in the US. Use our college database to find, plan and apply to colleges across the nation.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (910 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.collegedata.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: 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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1392 words. That's ok.
37.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
20 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 22.07 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (30). We recommend using a maximum of 28 tags for this page.
Some tags are too long. With 77 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"still have questions about collegedata or how to use our tools and resources?"
The following tag is repeated too often: class of 2024
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Plan your path to and through college.
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Plan your path to and through college.
H1 DOWNLOAD COLLEGEDATA'S MOBILE APP TODAY. IT'S FREE!
H1 LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT A PROFESSIONAL RACE CAR DRIVER HAS TO SAY ABOUT BUILDING CREDIT
H1 1ST FINANCIAL BANK USA & BUILDING CREDIT WISELY
H2 EXPLORE & PREPARE
H2 PAY Your way
H2 TESTIMONIALS
H4 College Search
H4 College Tools
H4 Scholarship Finder
H4 Resources
H4 Resources (Cont.)
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 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/privacyPrivacy
/privacySubdomain California Privacy
/privacySubdomain Anchor California Notice at Collection

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.collegedata.com/"
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 is slow (1.09 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 (236 kB).

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