Mq.edu.au - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.14 s
File size
17.70 kB
Words
179
Media files
3
Number of links
26 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Macquarie University | Top 1% in the world | Multiply your potential
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 591 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Macquarie University is a place of pioneering minds, breaking free of conventions. Discover our story as one of the global leaders in tertiary education.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (923 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.mq.edu.au/
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
descriptionMacquarie University is a place of pioneering minds, breaking free of conventions. Discover our story as one of the global leaders in tertiary education.
robotsindex,follow
titleMacquarie University | Top 1% in the world | Multiply your potential
og:titleHome
og:descriptionMacquarie University is a place of pioneering minds, breaking free of conventions. Discover our story as one of the global leaders in tertiary education.
og:site_nameMacquarie University
og:urlhttps://www.mq.edu.au
og:imageEmpty
left.navdefault
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@Macquarie_Uni
twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionMacquarie University is a place of pioneering minds, breaking free of conventions. Discover our story as one of the global leaders in tertiary education.
twitter:urlhttps://www.mq.edu.au
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 179 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
29.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 22.33 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 amount of tags is very high (12). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...5/applications-open-session-1-2026v3.jpgSession 1 applications are now open
...s/image/0004/1331095/For-researchers.jpgResearchers
...sets/image/0003/1331094/For-partners.jpgPartners

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Session 1 applications are now open
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Session 1 applications are now open
H2 Why Macquarie
H2 What's happening
H2 Research with impact
H2 Collaborate with us
H3 For researchers
H3 For partners
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://students.mq.edu.au/External Subdomain Current students
https://mqoutlook.sharepoint.c...External Subdomain Staff
https://www.mq.edu.au/alumniAlumni
/about/facilities/libraryLibrary
/about/locations/mapsMaps
/about/locations/contactsContact
/study/find-a-course/business/_Business
/study/find-a-course/education/_Education
/study/find-a-course/engineeri...Engineering
/study/find-a-course/law/_Law
/study/find-a-course/science/_Science
/study/find-a-course/medicine-...Medicine and health
/study/find-a-course/arts-and-...Arts and social sciences
/study/find-a-course/informati...Information technologies
/study/find-a-course/languages...Languages and linguistics
/study/find-a-course/media-com...Media, communications and creative arts
/study/find-a-course/psycholog...Psychology and cognitive science
/study/find-a-course/security-...Security, intelligence and criminology
/study/admissions-and-entry/applyHow to apply
/study/admissions-and-entry/sc...Scholarships
/study/admissions-and-entry/pa...Entry pathways
/research/phd-and-research-deg...Higher degree research
/study/you-to-the-power-of-usNew window Find out more
https://page.mq.edu.au/FS-PG-2...New window External Subdomain Register now
https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/External Subdomain Visit the Lighthouse for more
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/External Subdomain Find a researcher
/research/research-centres-gro...View our research centres, groups and facilities
/research/our-researchExplore our research expertise
https://www.mq.edu.au/partnerPartner with Macquarie
/partner/access-business-oppor...See industry and business collaboration opportunities
/partner/philanthropySupport the University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mq.edu.au/"
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 slow (1.14 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 (18 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 04 Oct 2025 19:26:16 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodingbr
cf-ray989711e7bc554dc3-FRA
cf-cache-statusHIT
access-control-allow-origin*
age2876
cache-controlprivate, max-age=0
varyAccept-Encoding
access-control-allow-headersContent-Type, Authorization
x-cdn-cached-at1759603101
x-cdn-expires-at1759606701
x-cdn-original-ttl3600
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-edge-version4dee25d9
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-upgrade-enabledoff
set-cookie279 Characters
servercloudflare
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
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 1,939 referring domains.
This page has 257,612 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,527 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: funnelback
Allow: /
Disallow: /uat-landing/*
Disallow: /pubstatic/*
Disallow: /thisweek/*/feed/
Disallow: /thisweek/feed/
Disallow: /macquariematters/*/feed/
Disallow: /newsroom/*/feed/
Disallow: /newsroom/feed/
Disallow: /research-impact/feed/
Disallow: /research-impact/*/feed/
Disallow: /mq_templates/*

# Limit Bingbot
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /pubstatic/*
Disallow: /mq_templates/*
Disallow: /study/new-ia*
Disallow: /*?sq_content_src=
Disallow: /*_recache
Disallow: /*_edit
Disallow: /*_admin
Disallow: /*_login
Disallow: /*_performance
Disallow: /*_design
Disallow: /*_web_services
Disallow: /*_guide
Disallow: /*_integration
Disallow: /uat-landing/*
Disallow: /squiz-sandbox/*
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /pubstatic/*
Disallow: /mq_templates/*
Disallow: /study/new-ia*

# Allow CSS and JS
# Allow: /_design/css/*
# Allow: /_design/js/*

# Disallow some matrix defaults
Disallow: /*?sq_content_src=
Disallow: /*_recache
Disallow: /*_edit
Disallow: /*_admin
Disallow: /*_login
Disallow: /*_performance
Disallow: /*_design
Disallow: /*_web_services
Disallow: /*_guide
Disallow: /*_integration

# Disallow UAT and sandbox pages
Disallow: /uat-landing/*
Disallow: /squiz-sandbox/*

# Disallow search page
Disallow: /search

# sitemap
Sitemap: http://www.mq.edu.au/sitemap.xml

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www.mq.edu.au
Macquarie University | Top 1% in the world | Multiply your potential
Macquarie University is a place of pioneering minds, breaking free of conventions. Discover our story as one of the global leaders in tertiary education.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Macquarie62%Check
Macquarie University60%Check
University58%Check
Session54%Check
applications54%Check
open54%Check
Education51%Check
multiply45%Check
potential45%Check
research42%Check
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