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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
89% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.79 s
File size
55.60 kB
Words
633
Media files
18
Number of links
61 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | California State University Monterey Bay
The length of the page title is perfect. (431 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Cal State Monterey Bay offers an affordable, accessible education guided by mentorship and inspired by our coastal location.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (767 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
Server location: Canada
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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descriptionCal State Monterey Bay offers an affordable, accessible education guided by mentorship and inspired by our coastal location.
keywordsAffordable education at CSUMB
authorCalifornia State University Monterey Bay
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msapplication-TileColor#da532c
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msapplication-config/media/csumb/site-assets-2024/favicons/browserconfig.xml
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@csumb
twitter:creator@csumb
fb:app_id626886828256304
og:descriptionCal State Monterey Bay offers an affordable, accessible education guided by mentorship and inspired by our coastal location.
og:typewebsite
X-UA-Compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 633 words. That's ok.
29.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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 13.6 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, shrink-to-fit=no" 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 13 tags for this page.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...a/csumb/site-assets-2024/images/logo.svgCSUMB Logo
.../site-assets-2024/images/logo-mobile.svgCSUMB Logo
...-hero-images/article_20250517_bs_001.jpgCommencement 2025 group of graduates | M
...-assets-2024/images/sea-surface-2000.pngsea-surface-2000.png
...news-library/20250412_aod_027-16-x-9.jpgCampus Tour leader in front of CAHSS building
...ibrary/03_20230515_brand_BDA0072-(2).jpgUndergraduate professor and students in classroom
..._4131_convocation_coe_cos_052123-(1).jpgGraduate Student hooding
...ry/05_20240313_jordan_janusz_bda_004.jpgJordan Janusz
...01_20240506_brand_jj_rugby_women_590.jpgRugby Club
...009_hero_ccaa_base_tournament_051323.jpgBaseball CCAA trophy
...8_03_20240508_brand_jj_dorm_room_781.jpgStudent Dorm Room
...20240312_brand_jj_3sitting_drone_101.jpgHiking trails
...20240514_black_african_stole_bda_030.jpgStole Ceremony
..._kayaking_fascinating_classes_030823.jpgStudents kayaking in coastal environment
...limate_smart_agriculture_bda_009-(1).jpgLifetime of Value - Ag students doing research
...site-launch/52979488445_cfd3e62e46_o.jpgGrassland
...b/site-assets-2024/images/logo-white.svgCSUMB Logo - Go to Homepage
Video URLWidthHeight
...acd5e598172778d217ac8300a36d0e97416220dd

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Strength of Us
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Strength of Us
H2 Campus Tours
H2 A Personalized Education Guided by Mentorship
H2 The Otter Community
H2 Innovative. Collaborative. Transformative.
H2 A Personalized Education to Empower Your Future
H2 Contact information
H2 Thanks for helping us improve csumb.edu. Spot a broken link, typo, or didn't find something where you expected to? Let us know. We'll use your feedback to improve this page, and the site overall.
H3 Undergraduate & First Year Students
H3 Graduate Programs
H3 100+ Clubs and Organizations
H3 14 NCAA Teams
H3 Vibrant Residence Life
H3 Outdoor Recreation
H3 Inclusive Programs & Events
H3 An inspiring coastal environment that sparks curiosity.
H3 A life-changing education that provides a lifetime of value.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/it/privacy-notice/Privacy Policy
https://csumb.edu/Anchor Skip to main site navigation
https://csumb.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://csumb.edu/IMG-ALT CSUMB Logo
/admissions-aid/how-to-apply/Apply
https://csumb.edu/administration/Departments
https://csumb.edu/about/About
https://csumb.edu/giving/Giving
https://www.otterathletics.com/New window External Subdomain Athletics
https://csumb.edu/dashboard/Dashboard Login
https://csumb.edu/academics/Academics
/academics/programs-degrees/Programs & Degrees
https://csumb.edu/iar/Academic Outcomes
/academics/mentorship--support/Mentorship & Support
/academics/hands-on-learning/Hands-On Learning
/academics/colleges-schools-de...Colleges & Schools
/academics/academic-support-se...Academic Resources
https://csumb.edu/admissions-aid/Admissions & Aid
/admissions-aid/how-to-apply/How to Apply
/admissions-aid/costs-financia...Paying for College
/admissions-aid/visit-campus/Visit Campus
/admissions-aid/admissions-team/Meet the Admissions Team
/studentlife/deanofstudentsoff...Student Life
https://csumb.edu/housing-dining/Housing & Dining
/parking-and-transportation/Commuting to CSUMB
https://csumb.edu/seld/Student Groups & Activities
https://csumb.edu/recreation/Recreation
https://csumb.edu/hws/Student Support
https://csumb.edu/why-csumb/Why CSUMB?
/why-csumb/monterey-bay-area/The Monterey Bay Area
/why-csumb/supportive-community/Supportive Community
/why-csumb/transformative-outc...Transformative Outcomes
/why-csumb/rankings-recognition/Rankings & Recognition
https://csumb.edu/news-events/News & Events
https://csumb.edu/news/All News
https://csumb.edu/events/Events Calendar
https://csumb.edu/academics/Our Academic Experience
/admissions-aid/visit-campus/Schedule your tour
/academics/programs-degrees/Explore Majors and Minors
/admissions-aid/how-to-apply/Text duplicate How to Apply
/academics/programs-degrees/?k...View Graduate Programs
/academics/mentorship--support/Mentorship
/academics/hands-on-learning/Text duplicate Hands-On Learning
/academics/academic-support-se...Text duplicate Student Support
/admissions-aid/visit-campus/Text duplicate Visit Campus
https://csumb.edu/why-csumb/Why Choose CSUMB?
/why-csumb/monterey-bay-area/Discover Our Location
/why-csumb/transformative-outc...See Our Outcomes
/forms/inquiry-form/Request Info
/admissions-aid/visit-campus/Visit CSUMB
/admissions-aid/how-to-apply/Text duplicate Apply
https://csumb.edu/IMG-ALT CSUMB Logo - Go to Homepage
https://csumb.edu/map/Campus Map
/police/emergency/Emergency Information
https://cm.maxient.com/reporti...External Subdomain Report Concerning/ Discriminating Behavior
https://csumb.edu/wellness-raft/Wellness Raft
https://csumb.edu/hws/Health and Wellness
/studentlife/student-parents/Student Parents
https://csumb.edu/clery/Security Report
https://csumb.edu/titleix/Title IX
https://csumb.edu/legal/Legal
/it/privacy-notice/Privacy
https://csumb.edu/library/Library
https://www.facebook.com/CSUMB/New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://x.com/CSUMBNew window External Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/csumb/New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://csumbedu-cms01-product...External Subdomain Anchor ©

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://csumb.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 is very slow (1.79 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 (56 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 06 Aug 2025 09:51:52 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length13232
set-cookie178 Characters
serverApache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
access-control-allow-origin*
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 839 referring domains.
This page has 113,502 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 633 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Allow: /
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User-Agent: msnbot
Allow: /
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User-agent: SiteimproveBot-Crawler
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User-agent: *
Allow: /

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Home | California State University Monterey Bay
Cal State Monterey Bay offers an affordable, accessible education guided by mentorship and inspired by our coastal location.

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