Counseling.sfsu.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
59% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.96 s
File size
32.10 kB
Words
361
Media files
5
Number of links
29 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Counseling | Department of Counseling
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (484 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://counseling.sfsu.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

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GeneratorDrupal 9 (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 361 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 30.6 words is high.
22.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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)
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)
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
...files/images/test_header_37_1920x600.jpgtest_header_37
...ation photo.jpg?h=d7024af5&itok=vq2U3izQphoto of seven Men of Color in front of a presentation screen
.../book photo.jpg?h=e7f7be8c&itok=xsUOBWxwimage of book cover in center surrounded by photos of white woman, South Asian woman, Black man, and AfroCaribbean Latino man
...ORE photo_1.jpg?h=e7f7be8c&itok=R-I7hS9Cleft side of photo with Filipino man, Black woman and white woman standing in front of screen and right side of photo Black man, white woman, and South Asian woman standing in front of screen
...lab/public/images/sfstate_white_logo.pngSan Francisco State University Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Department of Counseling
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Department of Counseling
H2 Announcements
H2 Contact
H2 Location
H2 Office Hours (Summer 2025)
H2 Quick Links
H3 News
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 19 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://counseling.sfsu.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.sfsu.edu/External Subdomain SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
https://counseling.sfsu.edu/Department of Counseling
https://www.sfsu.edu/atozExternal Subdomain A–Z
https://www.sfsu.edu/calendar/External Subdomain Calendar
https://www.sfsu.edu/loginExternal Subdomain Login
https://counseling.sfsu.edu/aboutAbout
A-TITLE Learn more about the department of counseling
/academicsAcademics
/career-counseling-0Career Counseling
/college-counseling-0College Counseling
/school-counseling-pupil-perso...School Counseling & Pupil Personnel Services Credential
/clinical-mental-health-counse...Clinical Mental Health Counseling
/marriage-family-and-child-cou...Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling
/pupil-personnel-services-cred...PPSC Only Program (Post-Masters)
/undergraduate-minor-counselingUndergraduate Minor in Counseling
/admissionsAdmissions Expand
/admissionsAdmissions
A-TITLE Admissions Info: Application deadline, Instructions, fees and requirements.
/ppsc-admission-instructionPPSC Program Admission Instruction
https://counseling.sfsu.edu/faqFAQ
/recommended-coursesRecommended Courses
/faculty-staffPeople
A-TITLE Faculty, Lecturers, and staff profiles list.
/resourcesResources
A-TITLE Scholarships, and other online, and on campus help for students.
/awards-and-scholarshipsAwards & Scholarships
/practicum-and-internshipPracticum & Internship
A-TITLE Forms and information for current students, and prospective host sites
/alumniAlumni Expand
/alumniAlumni
/alumni-news-spotlightsAlumni News & Spotlights
/contact-usContact
A-TITLE when the office is open, email and phone to reach us.
http://tinyurl.com/givecounssfsuExternal Give Now
/news/college-counseling-alumn...College Counseling Alumni Present at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education
/news/new-book-published-workb...New book published! "Workbook for Social Action for Counselors, Psychologists, and Helping Professionals: Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability"
/news/doc-faculty-present-nati...DoC Faculty Present at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, May 2025
https://counseling.sfsu.edu/newsMore News
/eventsMore Events
http://future.sfsu.edu/External Subdomain Future Students
http://news.sfsu.edu/External Subdomain News @ SF State
https://access.sfsu.edu/ati/do...External Subdomain Document Reader
https://www.sfsu.edu/accessibi...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://equity.sfsu.edu/External Subdomain Equity & Community Inclusion
https://sustain.sfsu.edu/External Subdomain Environment & Sustainability
https://its.sfsu.edu/privacyno...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://titleix.sfsu.edu/External Subdomain Title IX
https://www.sfsu.edu/External Subdomain San Francisco State University
https://www.calstate.edu/External Subdomain A California State University Campus
https://www.facebook.com/sanfr...External Subdomain SF State Facebook
A-TITLE SF State Facebook
https://twitter.com/SFSUExternal SF State Twitter
A-TITLE SF State Twitter
https://instagram.com/sanfranc...External SF State Instagram
A-TITLE SF State Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/s...External Subdomain SF State LinkedIn
A-TITLE SF State LinkedIn

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://counseling.sfsu.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 0.96 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 (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1753607494"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedSun, 27 Jul 2025 09:11:34 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe2-b-7f8b98f8df-td6mx
x-styx-req-idb12fc69e-6ac9-11f0-9ae4-f6f7387fcb9b
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
dateSun, 27 Jul 2025 09:11:34 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100025-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230077-FRA
x-cacheMISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0
x-timerS1753607494.145016,VS0,VE338
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
age0
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length8168
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 46 referring domains.
This page has 51 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 34 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.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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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Counseling78%Check
Department66%Check
School Counseling56%Check
College Counseling56%Check
Career Counseling56%Check
Health Counseling56%Check
SF State43%Check
Search SF State40%Check
STATE38%Check
News38%Check

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