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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.33 s
File size
25.70 kB
Words
897
Media files
1
Number of links
21 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Office of Student Financial Aid
The length of the page title is perfect. (271 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://financialaid.umd.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)
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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (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)
This page contains 897 words. That's ok.
32% 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.
21 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.52 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 205 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"the university of maryland has launched a new investment in need-based financial aid, the terrapin com..."
The following tag is repeated too often: 002103
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

Video URLWidthHeight
...om/embed/C1ZKYIEzdKM?si=qh63X7mOwvMRaNah560315

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Main navigation
H2 Office of Student Financial Aid
H2 Social Networks menu
H2 Footer
H5 Wear RED | Save GREEN
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 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://financialaid.umd.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://financialaid.umd.edu/Office of Student Financial Aid
A-TITLE Home
/my-finaid-accountMy FinAid Account
/types-aidTypes of Aid
/resources-policiesResources & Policies
/formsForms
/financial-aid-processFinancial Aid Process
/terrapin-commitmentSubdomain Learn more>>
/my-finaid-accountText duplicate My FinAid Account
/resources-policiesPopular FAQs
/resources-policies/billing-faqsBilling FAQs
/resources-policies/financial-...Financial Aid FAQs
/resources-policies/loans-faqsLoan FAQs
/financial-aid-processText duplicate Financial Aid Process
/types-aidText duplicate Types of Aid
/resources-policies/verificati...Verification Process
/important-datesImportant Dates
/resources-policies/helpful-linksHelpful Links
/resources-policies/summer-aidSubdomain Summer Aid
https://studentaid.gov/h/apply...External Apply for Aid Now
https://studentaid.gov/h/apply...New window External 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain 2024-2025 FAFSA Walkthrough Video
https://studentaid.gov/h/apply...New window External live
https://studentaid.gov/aid-est...New window External Federal Student Aid Estimator
https://studentaid.gov/fafsa-a...New window External "Who's the Parent on the FAFSA Form?" Wizard
https://studentaid.gov/resourc...New window External "Creating Your StudentAid.gov Account" page
https://studentaid.gov/apply-f...New window External Pro Tips for Completing the FAFSA Form
https://www.youtube.com/@Feder...New window External Subdomain Federal Student Aid YouTube Channel: FAFSA Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain FAFSA 2025-2026 Walkthrough Video
https://www.nasfaa.org/news-it...New window External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
here
https://umd.financialaidtv.com...New window External Subdomain Search Our Video Library
A-TITLE Search Our Video Library
https://www.kiplinger.com/tool...External Subdomain 100 Best Values in Public Colleges 2018
https://www.facebook.com/umdfi...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/umdfinaidNew window External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.umd.edu/faqs-heoac...New window External Subdomain Consumer Information & Federal Notices
/contact-usContact Us
https://gradschool.umd.edu/External Subdomain Office of Graduate Admissions
A-TITLE Office of Graduate Admissions
https://admissions.umd.edu/New window External Subdomain Office of Undergraduate Admissions
https://umd.edu/web-accessibilityExternal Web Accessibility
https://umd.edu/privacy-noticeExternal Privacy Notice
/site-mapSite Map
A-TITLE Website Sitemap

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://financialaid.umd.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 excellent with 0.33 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (26 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=900, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1752674544"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedWed, 16 Jul 2025 14:02:24 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe1-b-54b8dd7594-z88sj
x-styx-req-idef5a4905-6963-11f0-8c21-d6137221edf2
dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 01:43:02 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-kigq8000023-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230049-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits5, 0
x-timerS1753494182.136235,VS0,VE109
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
age317
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length8713
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 35 referring domains.
This page has 134 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 33 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.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/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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Office of Student Financial Aid

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Aid66%Check
Financial66%Check
Financial Aid66%Check
Student Financial Aid62%Check
Student Financial61%Check
Student Aid61%Check
financial aid programs57%Check
Student55%Check
Financial Aid Process55%Check
Federal Student Aid53%Check
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