Nature.berkeley.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
62% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.86 s
File size
38.00 kB
Words
271
Media files
6
Number of links
57 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Rausser College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
The length of the page title is perfect. (468 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://nature.berkeley.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)
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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generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width
langen
og:site_nameUC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://nature.berkeley.edu/
og:titleUC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources
cleartypeon
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 271 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24% 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.
4 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 22.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width" 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 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)
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
/sites/default/files/rausser.pngUC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources
...fault/files/BT25_homepage_bigpicture.jpgA colorful, abstract image of a globe
...lt/files/lodgepole_aspen_highpark-hp.jpgA forest with colorful grass and flowers and burned trees
...huri,Shreya_THUMB_8620.jpg?itok=VoCjrjOZA photo of a woman in graduation regalia speaking while standing at a podium
...obeStock_154070335_web.jpg?itok=P62gPy0USeaweed growing underwater
...ws_03-schell_thumb_web.jpg?itok=vzMIrluzChris Schell

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 Search form
H2 FEATURED
H2 HIGHLIGHT
H2 News
H3 Shreya Chaudhuri on how UC Berkeley inspires the courage to make change
H3 Conference fosters connection in growing seaweed industry
H3 On the Ground: National Geographic Explorers
H3 More Headlines
H4 New panels recognize UC Berkeley’s ties to National Parks history
H4 Gordon Rausser named 2025 Distinguished Emeritus of the Year
H4 New NAS report details how climate change harms biodiversity
H4 Q&A: California-China Climate Institute
H4 Professor Patrick Shih honored by the American Society of Plant Biologists
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 6 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://nature.berkeley.edu/Anchor Jump to navigation
https://nature.berkeley.edu/Subdomain Rausser College of Natural Resources
A-TITLE Rausser College of Natural Resources
/node/128Subdomain Current students
/node/3028Subdomain Faculty & staff
/givingGiving
https://nature.berkeley.edu/IMG-ALT UC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources
A-TITLE Home
/node/128Subdomain Text duplicate Current students
/node/3028Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty & staff
/givingText duplicate Giving
https://nature.berkeley.edu/aboutAbout
/rausser-college-historyHistory
/strategic-planStrategic Plan
/college-leadershipLeadership
/about/visitVisit
/about/contactContact
/advising/academicsAcademics
/advising/academics/rausser-ba...Undergraduate Education
/academics/graduate-studiesGraduate Studies
/academic-departmentsAcademic Departments
/professional-programsProfessional Education
/summer-sessionsSummer Sessions
/researchResearch
/researchCenters & Facilities
/research/undergraduate-researchUndergraduate Research
/academics/graduate-studiesText duplicate Graduate Studies
/agricultural-experiment-stationAgricultural Experiment Station
/cooperative-extensionOutreach and Extension
/diversity-equity-and-inclusionEquity+Inclusion
https://nature.berkeley.edu/newsNews
/press-roomPress Room
/breakthroughsSubdomain Our Magazine
A-TITLE The magazine of the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources
/eventsEvents
/giving/alumni-communityConnect With Us
/breakthroughsSubdomain Our Global Reach
/breakthroughsSubdomain Read the issue online >>
/news/2025/02/climate-change-o...Subdomain Climate change outpaces forests
/news/2025/02/climate-change-o...Subdomain Read more >>
https://nature.berkeley.edu/Anchor 1
https://nature.berkeley.edu/Anchor 2
/news/2025/05/shreya-chaudhuri...Subdomain IMG-ALT A photo of a woman in graduation regalia speaking while standing at a podium
/news/2025/05/shreya-chaudhuri...Subdomain Shreya Chaudhuri on how UC Berkeley inspires the courage to make change
/eventsMore Events
/news/2025/05/conference-foste...Subdomain IMG-ALT Seaweed growing underwater
/news/2025/05/conference-foste...Subdomain Conference fosters connection in growing seaweed industry
/news/2025/04/ground-national-...IMG-ALT Chris Schell
/news/2025/04/ground-national-...On the Ground: National Geographic Explorers
/news/2025/05/new-panels-recog...New panels recognize UC Berkeley’s ties to National Parks history
/news/2025/05/gordon-rausser-n...Gordon Rausser named 2025 Distinguished Emeritus of the Year
/news/2025/05/nas-report-detai...New NAS report details how climate change harms biodiversity
/news/2025/04/qa-california-ch...Q&A: California-China Climate Institute
/news/2025/05/professor-patric...Professor Patrick Shih honored by the American Society of Plant Biologists
https://nature.berkeley.edu/newsMore News
/about/contactText duplicate Contact
/about/visitText duplicate Visit
/rausser-parentsParents
https://dac.berkeley.edu/web-a...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://ophd.berkeley.edu/poli...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination
/website-privacy-statementPrivacy
/searchSearch
https://www.facebook.com/rauss...External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/NatureAtCalExternal No Text
https://instagram.com/natureat...External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://nature.berkeley.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.86 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 (38 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.28.0
dateSat, 07 Jun 2025 08:48:38 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
x-generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
link<https://nature.berkeley.edu/>; rel="canonical",<https://nature.berkeley.edu/>; rel="shortlink"
cache-controlpublic, max-age=900, max-age=0, no-store
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
content-encodinggzip
access-control-allow-headers*
access-control-allow-origin*
access-control-allow-methods*
access-control-allow-max-age1728000
etag"1749279246-1"
last-modifiedSat, 07 Jun 2025 06:54:06 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding,X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Forwarded-Proto
x-varnish111480748
age0
via1.1 varnish (Varnish/6.6)
accept-rangesbytes
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
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 155 referring domains.
This page has 473 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 96 different ip addresses.

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: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Berkeley68%Check
UC Berkeley63%Check
Rausser54%Check
Rausser College51%Check
College48%Check
Natural48%Check
Resources48%Check
Natural Resources48%Check
change43%Check
Climate43%Check

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