Futurestudents.yorku.ca - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
46% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.98 s
File size
65.30 kB
Words
762
Media files
13
Number of links
56 internal / 24 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Your Future Starts Here | Future Students | York University
The length of the page title is perfect. (522 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://futurestudents.yorku.ca/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@YorkUniversity
twitter:creator@YorkUniversity
twitter:titleEmpty
twitter:urlEmpty
twitter:imagehttps://students.yorku.ca/themes/custom/york/images/york2020/yorkusharethumbnail.jpg
twitter:descriptionEmpty
fb:app_id129713115217
og:localeen_US
og:titleEmpty
og:typewebsite
og:urlEmpty
og:site_nameEmpty
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og:descriptionEmpty
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 762 words. That's ok.
33.2% 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.
15 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 18.17 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 25 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 193 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"tell us a bit about yourself so we can help guide your next steps. choose from the options below to re..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Future Students
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Future Students
H1 Your Future Starts Here
H1 Join a Community of Changemakers
H2 FutureStudents
H2 Congratulations!
H2 Pursue Your Passion. Find Your Program.
H2 Admitted for Fall 2025?
H2 Apply for Residence
H2 Your Story Continues With Us
H2 Explore Upcoming Events
H2 Find out what you need to apply and more
H2 Warning about fraudulent offers of admission and scholarships
H2 The York Advantage
H2 Anudari Chingis (she/her), Commerce - International student from Mongolia
H2 Awwal Abass (he/him), Law and Society - Recipient of the Tom Janes Award for Black Scholars
H2 Greatlove Bariboloka, Software Engineering - International student from Nigeria
H2 Parents and Families
H2 Teachers and Guidance Counsellors
H2 Follow Us Online
H2 We love hearing from you
H2 Connect with York University
H3 Download Your Handbook
H3 Contact us
H3 Mail Us
H3 Book a Tour
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
4 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 24 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://futurestudents.yorku.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.yorku.ca/External Subdomain IMG-ALT York University
/program-search/Subdomain Programs of Study
https://eclass.yorku.ca/External Subdomain eClass
https://www.yorku.ca/about/email/External Subdomain Email
https://www.yorku.ca/about/fac...External Subdomain Faculty & Staff
https://sfs.yorku.ca/External Subdomain Financial Services
https://www.library.yorku.ca/web/External Subdomain Libraries
https://atlas.yorku.ca/External Subdomain Directory
https://futurestudents.yorku.ca/Future Students
A-TITLE Future Students
/how-do-i-applyApply
/program-searchUndergraduate Programs
/graduate/programsGraduate Programs
https://continue.yorku.ca/External Subdomain Continuing Studies
/how-do-i-applyYour Application
/requirementsAdmission Requirements
/how-do-i-applyHow to Apply
/appliedI've Applied
/admittedI've Been Admitted
/financing-your-degree/tuition...Tuition & Fees
/financing-your-degree/scholar...Scholarships & Bursaries
/financing-your-degree/interna...Scholarships for International Students
/your-community/student-servicesYour Community
/your-community/indigenous-stu...Indigenous Students
/your-community/international-...International Students
/your-community/student-servicesServices for Students
/your-community/student-lifeStudent Life
/your-community/transition-sup...Transition Support
/toursConnect with Us
/eventsEvents
/toursTours
/admissions-faqFAQs
/admissions-faq/fraudSubdomain Frauds and Scams
/contact-admissionsCONTACT
/admittedSubdomain Accept Your Offer
/program-searchView undergraduate programs
/graduate/programsView graduate programs
/admittedSubdomain Learn More
A-TITLE Learn More
https://www.yorku.ca/housing/k...External Subdomain guaranteed a space in residence
https://housingportal.uit.york...External Subdomain Apply Now
A-TITLE Apply Now
/your-application/how-apply/tr...Transfer Student Pathways
A-TITLE Transfer Student Pathways
/eventsSubdomain Text duplicate Learn More
A-TITLE Learn More
/your-application/how-apply/hi...I am an Ontario high-school student
/your-application/how-apply/ca...I am a Canadian high-school student outside of Ontario
/your-application/how-apply/in...I am an international high-school student
/your-application/how-apply/tr...I am a college/university student
/your-application/how-apply/in...I am an Indigenous student
/your-application/how-apply/ma...I am a mature student
/graduate/programsI am interested in graduate studies
/admissions-faq/fraudSubdomain Detecting Fraud
/admissions-faqSubdomain Admissions FAQs
/sites/futurestudents/files/20...No Text
/sites/futurestudents/files/20...Undergraduate Students Handbook
/sites/futurestudents/files/vi...No Text
/sites/futurestudents/files/vi...Indigenous Students Handbook
/sites/futurestudents/files/vi...No Text
/sites/futurestudents/files/vi...International Students Handbook
/sites/futurestudents/files/vi...No Text
/sites/futurestudents/files/vi...Graduate Students Handbook
/anudari-chingisSubdomain Meet Anudari
A-TITLE Learn more about Anudari Chingis (she/her), Commerce - International student from Mongolia
/awwal-abassSubdomain Meet Awwal
A-TITLE Learn more about Awwal Abass (he/him), Law and Society - Recipient of the Tom Janes Award for Black Scholars
/greatlove-baribolokaSubdomain Meet Greatlove
A-TITLE Learn more about Greatlove Bariboloka, Software Engineering - International student from Nigeria
/parents-and-familiesText duplicate Learn More
A-TITLE Learn more about Parents and Families
/counsellorsText duplicate Learn More
A-TITLE Learn more about Teachers and Guidance Counsellors
https://curator.io/New window External Powered by Curator.io
/contact-admissionsWays to connect with Student Support & Advising
https://students.yorku.ca/ssa-...External Subdomain Contact SSA
/toursKeele or Glendon campus
https://twitter.com/studyatyorkuExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/study...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/stud...External Subdomain No Text
https://youtube.com/@studyatyorkuExternal No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@yorkun...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.yorku.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT York University
https://www.yorku.ca/about/con...External Subdomain Contact
https://map.concept3d.com/?id=...External Subdomain Campus Maps
https://www.yorku.ca/safety/External Subdomain Community Safety
https://www.yorku.ca/about/pri...External Subdomain Privacy & Legal
https://accessibility.students...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.yorku.ca/about/car...External Subdomain Careers

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://futurestudents.yorku.ca/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 0.98 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.
This page loads 51 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 25 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (65 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateMon, 02 Jun 2025 01:51:20 GMT
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cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
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access-control-allow-methodsGET,POST,OPTIONS,DELETE,PUT
upgradeh2
connectionUpgrade
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content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' '8thwall.app' 'yorkustudents.8thwall.app'
content-length14355
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 145 referring domains.
This page has 210 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 99 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

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Student83%Check
Future79%Check
Future Students79%Check
Students78%Check
York68%Check
university student67%Check
Future Starts66%Check
York University62%Check
International student62%Check
Students Handbook60%Check

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