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Meta information
74% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
95% 
External factors
18% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.85 s
File size
85.10 kB
Words
557
Media files
8
Number of links
29 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
First-Year Seminars
The page title is too short. (176 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://firstyearseminarprogram.college.harvard.edu/
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)
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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twitter:descriptionFirst-Year Seminars provide students with the optimal environment to work closely with faculty and peers on topics of mutual interest. They are also ideal for discovering areas of interest and exploring potential concentrations. We offer the broadest set of topics, and students can enroll in one seminar, worth 4 degree credits, in each term. Incoming students apply to...
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 557 words. That's ok.
28.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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 19.69 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)
Some tags are too long. With 71 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"fri, august 1, 11:30-12:30 pm: informational webinar with the director!"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...themes/harvard-flex/img/harvard-logo.svgHarvard University homepage
.../07/hc_fysp_signature_horiz_cmyk_0-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...Home-c7cd041676161047-e1712945994267.jpgA student speaks in her First-Year Seminar
/files/2023/01/harvard-ext-98.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...BSITE_HERO_Seminars-38b02386bd2f908b.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...527-e0a320d4c23f3b5f-e1713568403454.jpegStudents in a First-Year Seminar pose during their field trip to the Rose Art Museum.
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
First-Year Seminar Program
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 First-Year Seminar Program
H2 Deadline for Fall and Spring Seminars August 7, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
H2 Dates & Deadlines 2025-2026
H2 Questions?
H2 First-Year Seminar Program Duplicate text
H2 Quick Links
H2 University Teaching Resources
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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to content
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/9428...External Subdomain Anchor Monday, August 4
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/9611...External Subdomain Anchor Wednesday August 6
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Harvard University homepage
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain HARVARD.EDU
/Subdomain A-TITLE First-Year Seminars
/about/Subdomain About
A-TITLE About
/seminars/Subdomain Seminars
A-TITLE Seminars
/students/Subdomain Students
A-TITLE Students
/students/apply/Subdomain Apply for a Seminar
A-TITLE Apply for a Seminar
/students/Subdomain Information for Students
A-TITLE Information for Students
/information-for-academic-advi...Subdomain Advisors
A-TITLE Advisors
/teach/Subdomain Faculty
A-TITLE Faculty
/teach/Subdomain Proposing & Teaching a First-Year Seminar
A-TITLE Proposing & Teaching a First-Year Seminar
/teach/review/Subdomain Review Seminar Applications
A-TITLE Review Seminar Applications
/teach/faqs/Subdomain FAQs
A-TITLE FAQs
/seminars/Subdomain BROWSE SEMINARS
/seminars/Subdomain broadest set of topics
/students/apply/Subdomain apply
https://firstyearseminars.fas....External Subdomain APPLY TO FALL AND SPRING SEMINARS
/seminars/Subdomain SEMINARS
/students/Subdomain STUDENTS
/teach/Subdomain FACULTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Watch a recording
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/9428...External Subdomain Anchor Virtual Office Hours
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/9611...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Virtual Office Hours
/dates-deadlines/Subdomain SEE ALL DATES
https://www.instagram.com/harv...External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
https://registrar.fas.harvard....External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://calendar.college.harva...New window External Subdomain College Events Calendar
https://registrar.fas.harvard....New window External Subdomain FAS Registrar's Office
https://oue.fas.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Office of Undergraduate Education
https://dso.college.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Dean of Students Office
https://handbook.college.harva...External Subdomain Anchor Fields of Concentration
https://handbook.college.harva...New window External Subdomain Student Handbook
https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
https://teaching.fas.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
https://accessibility.harvard....External Subdomain Accessibility
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
https://www.harvard.edu/copyri...External Subdomain Report Copyright Infringement
https://websites.harvard.edu/f...External Subdomain Log In
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
/seminars/Subdomain Text duplicate Seminars
A-TITLE Seminars
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Students
A-TITLE Students
/students/apply/Subdomain Text duplicate Apply for a Seminar
A-TITLE Apply for a Seminar
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Information for Students
A-TITLE Information for Students
/information-for-academic-advi...Subdomain Text duplicate Advisors
A-TITLE Advisors
/teach/Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty
A-TITLE Faculty
/teach/Subdomain Text duplicate Proposing & Teaching a First-Year Seminar
A-TITLE Proposing & Teaching a First-Year Seminar
/teach/review/Subdomain Text duplicate Review Seminar Applications
A-TITLE Review Seminar Applications
/teach/faqs/Subdomain Text duplicate FAQs
A-TITLE FAQs

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://firstyearseminarprogram.college.harvard.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 (1.85 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 (85 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 6 referring domains.
This page only has 7 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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