Finaid.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
83% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
73% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.97 s
File size
85.80 kB
Words
564
Media files
14
Number of links
83 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid
The length of the page title is perfect. (395 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Comprehensive source of student financial aid, student loan and loan forgiveness program information, with advice and tools for students, parents and educators.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://finaid.org/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionInformation on financial aid for college and tips on how to help ease the burden of college expenses.
robotsfollow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.7.2
msapplication-TileImagehttps://finaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/favicon.ico
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleYour Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid
twitter:descriptionComprehensive source of student financial aid, student loan and loan forgiveness program information, with advice and tools for students, parents and educators.
twitter:label1Written by
twitter:data1TJ Widner
twitter:label2Time to read
twitter:data2Less than a minute
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleYour Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid
og:descriptionComprehensive source of student financial aid, student loan and loan forgiveness program information, with advice and tools for students, parents and educators.
og:urlhttps://finaid.org/
og:site_nameFinaid
og:updated_time2023-08-25T17:59:47+00:00
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 564 words. That's ok.
28% 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.
10 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 19.23 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" 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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64STUDENT LOANS
data:[...] Base64SCHOLARSHIPS
data:[...] Base64GRANTS
data:[...] Base64WORK-STUDY
...2024/02/sai-calculator-slide-350x350.pngNo alt attribute providedsai-calculator-slide
data:[...] Base64PREPAYMENT CALCULATORprepayment-calculator
data:[...] Base64LOAN PAYMENT CALCULATORloan-payment-calculator
data:[...] Base64IRS Data Retrieval Tool
data:[...] Base64Title IV Institution Codes
data:[...] Base64Student Aid Index
data:[...] Base64FinAid
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Go-to Guide for College Financial Aid
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Go-to Guide for College Financial Aid
H2 Main Content
H2 Types of Financial Aid
H2 Popular Financial Aid Calculators
H2 More FAFSA Information
H2 Footer
H3 What the Press Says
H3 Quick Links
H3 Financial Aid Topics
H3 Get to Know Finaid
H5 Yahoo
H5 HuffPost Life
H5 New York Daily News
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://finaid.org/Anchor Skip to primary navigation
https://finaid.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://finaid.org/Anchor Skip to footer
https://finaid.org/IMG-ALT FinAid
https://finaid.org/loans/Student Loans
https://finaid.org/loans/Student Loans Home
/loans/privatestudentloans/Text duplicate Student Loans
/loans/privateconsolidation/Student Loan Consolidation
/loans/loancomparisonsites/Student Loan Comparison
/loans/parentloan/Parent Loans
https://finaid.org/calculators/Calculators
https://finaid.org/calculators/Calculators Home
/calculators/saicalculator/Student Aid Index
/calculators/loanpayments/Loan Payment
/calculators/prepayment/Loan Prepayment
/calculators/loanconsolidation/Loan Consolidation
/calculators/finaidestimate/Expected Family Contribution
/calculators/costprojector/College Cost Projector
https://finaid.org/scholarships/Scholarships
https://finaid.org/scholarships/Scholarships Home
/scholarships/winning/Winning Scholarships
/scholarships/scams/Scholarship Scams
/scholarships/average/Scholarships for Average Students
https://finaid.org/fafsa/FAFSA
https://finaid.org/fafsa/FAFSA Home
/financial-aid-applications/Financial Aid Applications
/fafsa/student-aid-index/Student Aid Index (SAI)
https://finaid.org/fafsa/efc/Text duplicate Expected Family Contribution
/fafsa/awardletters/Award Letters
https://finaid.org/beyond/Beyond Financial Aid
https://finaid.org/educators/Educators and Administrators
/financial-aid-applications/Text duplicate Financial Aid Applications
https://finaid.org/questions/Financial Aid FAQ
https://finaid.org/military/Military Aid
https://finaid.org/otheraid/Other Types of Aid
https://finaid.org/parents/Parents
https://finaid.org/savings/Saving for College
https://finaid.org/students/Students
https://www.fastweb.com/New window External Subdomain Fastweb.com
https://finaid.org/fafsaHow to Get Financial Aid
https://finaid.org/loans/IMG-ALT STUDENT LOANS
https://finaid.org/loans/Text duplicate STUDENT LOANS
https://finaid.org/scholarships/IMG-ALT SCHOLARSHIPS
https://finaid.org/scholarships/Text duplicate SCHOLARSHIPS
/otheraid/grants/IMG-ALT GRANTS
/otheraid/grants/Text duplicate GRANTS
https://finaid.org/work-study/IMG-ALT WORK-STUDY
https://finaid.org/work-study/Text duplicate WORK-STUDY
/calculators/saicalculator/Student Aid Index Calculator
/calculators/prepayment/Prepayment Calulator
/calculators/loanpayments/Loan Payment Calculator
https://finaid.org/calculators/Financial Aid Calculators
/calculators/saicalculator/No Text
/calculators/prepayment/IMG-ALT PREPAYMENT CALCULATOR
/calculators/loanpayments/IMG-ALT LOAN PAYMENT CALCULATOR
https://finaid.org/fafsa/More FAFSA Information
https://finaid.org/fafsa/Text duplicate FAFSA
/fafsa/irsdataretrievaltool/IMG-ALT IRS Data Retrieval Tool
/fafsa/irsdataretrievaltool/Text duplicate IRS Data Retrieval Tool
https://finaid.org/fafsa/tiv/IMG-ALT Title IV Institution Codes
https://finaid.org/fafsa/tiv/Text duplicate Title IV Institution Codes
https://finaid.org/fafsa/efc/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Student Aid Index
/fafsa/student-aid-index/Text duplicate Student Aid Index
https://finaid.org/Your Guide for College Financial Aid
https://finaid.org/loans/Text duplicate Student Loans
https://finaid.org/calculators/Text duplicate Calculators
https://finaid.org/educators/Educators and Financial Aid Administrators
https://finaid.org/military/Text duplicate Military Aid
https://finaid.org/scholarships/Text duplicate Scholarships
https://finaid.org/parents/Text duplicate Parents
https://www.fastweb.com/New window External Subdomain Fastweb.com – College Scholarships
https://finaid.org/beyond/Text duplicate Beyond Financial Aid
https://finaid.org/fafsa/Text duplicate FAFSA
/financial-aid-applications/Text duplicate Financial Aid Applications
https://finaid.org/otheraid/Text duplicate Other Types of Aid
https://finaid.org/savings/Text duplicate Saving for College
https://www.fastweb.com/studen...External Subdomain Fastweb Student Loans
https://finaid.org/about/About Finaid
https://finaid.org/questions/Answering Your Questions
https://finaid.org/questions/faq/FAQs about Financial Aid
/educators/helping/Helping Students use Finaid.org
/about/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
https://finaid.org/about/contact/Contact Us
https://finaid.org/sitemap.xmlSitemap
https://finaid.org/about/terms/Terms of Use
/your-privacy-choices/Your Privacy Choices

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://finaid.org/"
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 0.97 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 (86 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-chsec-ch-ua-model,sec-ch-ua-platform-version
permissions-policych-ua-model=*,ch-ua-platform-version=*
strict-transport-securitymax-age=10886400; includeSubDomains; preload
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://www.fastweb.com
link<https://finaid.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://finaid.org/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/564>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://finaid.org/>; rel=shortlink
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
cross-origin-opener-policysame-origin
cross-origin-embedder-policyunsafe-none
cross-origin-resource-policycross-origin
content-length23373
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateTue, 22 Jul 2025 10:18:12 GMT
serverApache
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 768 referring domains.
This page has 8,577 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 604 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://finaid.org/sitemap_index.xml

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Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid
Comprehensive source of student financial aid, student loan and loan forgiveness program information, with advice and tools for students, parents and educators.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Aid95%Check
Financial Aid86%Check
Financial77%Check
College Financial Aid77%Check
Student Aid72%Check
Financial Aid Calculators69%Check
Aid Index66%Check
Finaid64%Check
College62%Check
Guide62%Check
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