Online.calstate.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
91% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
74% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.67 s
File size
33.00 kB
Words
167
Media files
1
Number of links
25 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Cal State Online Degree Programs
The length of the page title is perfect. (310 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Cal State Online is the gateway to the online degree programs, certificates and online classes for the California State University system.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (834 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.calstateonline.net/
The canonical link points to a different domain.
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

NameValue
REVISIT-AFTER1 DAYS
RATINGGENERAL
RESOURCE-TYPEDOCUMENT
facebook-domain-verificationjwqadccj1uk88soa5wk2w0njwtnn93
descriptionCal State Online is the gateway to the online degree programs, certificates and online classes for the California State University system.
keywordscal state online, cal state, california state university, csu, online, online degrees, cal state, online classes
robotsINDEX, FOLLOW
google-site-verificationr1l4Pa57PHQOpg7N5t9hbT5hylHjTBSng9pKfuoGAdk
viewportinitial-scale=1.0,width=device-width
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Script-Typetext/javascript
Content-Style-Typetext/css

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 167 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 31.67 words is high.
22.2% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "initial-scale=1.0,width=device-width" is provided.
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)
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
/Portals/0/Logo-CSU-stacked.pngThe California State University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Online
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Online
H2 Cal State Online
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.calstate.edu/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT The California State University
A-TITLE calstate.edu
https://online.calstate.edu/Subdomain Cal State Online
A-TITLE Cal State Online
/About-Cal-State-OnlineSubdomain About Cal State Online
/Spring-Fall-Single-CoursesSubdomain Spring/Fall Single Courses
/ProgramsSubdomain Degree Programs
/Transfer-Degree-CompletionSubdomain Transfer / Degree Completion
/Educator-CredentialsSubdomain Educator Credentials
/CertificatesSubdomain Certificates
/AdmissionsSubdomain Admissions
/Request-InformationSubdomain Request Information
https://ocs.calstate.edu/New window External Subdomain Online Faculty Professional Development
/ContactSubdomain Contact
/Spring-Fall-Single-CoursesSubdomain fall single courses
A-TITLE fall single courses
/ProgramsSubdomain degrees
A-TITLE degrees
/CertificatesSubdomain certificates
A-TITLE certificates
/Educator-CredentialsSubdomain educator credentials
A-TITLE educator credentials
https://online.calstate.edu/Subdomain Home
A-TITLE Home
/About-Cal-State-OnlineSubdomain Text duplicate About Cal State Online
A-TITLE About Cal State Online
/Spring-Fall-Single-CoursesSubdomain Online Courses
A-TITLE Online Courses
/ProgramsSubdomain Online Degree/Programs
A-TITLE Online Degree/Programs
/Transfer-Degree-CompletionSubdomain Degree Completion
A-TITLE Degree Completion
/Educator-CredentialsSubdomain Educator Credential
A-TITLE Educator Credential
/CertificatesSubdomain Online Certificates
A-TITLE Online Certificates
/AdmissionsSubdomain Text duplicate Admissions
A-TITLE Admissions
/Request-InformationSubdomain Text duplicate Request Information
A-TITLE Request Information
https://ocs.calstate.edu/External Subdomain Faculty Professional Development
A-TITLE Faculty Professional Development
/ContactSubdomain Text duplicate Contact
A-TITLE Contact
https://www.calstate.edu/csu-s...External Subdomain State Authorization
https://calstate.policystat.co...External Subdomain Anchor Privacy
/AccessibilityAccessibility Statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://online.calstate.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 is very slow (1.67 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 (33 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlno-cache
pragmano-cache
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-encodinggzip
expires-1
varyAccept-Encoding
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
set-cookie36 Characters
x-powered-byASP.NET
dateMon, 28 Jul 2025 11:35:14 GMT
content-length12772
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 150 referring domains.
This page has 790 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 131 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Begin robots.txt file
#/-----------------------------------------------\
#| In single portal/domain situations, uncomment the sitmap line and enter domain name
#\-----------------------------------------------/
#Sitemap: http://www.DomainNamehere.com/sitemap.aspx


User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /App_Browsers/
Disallow: /App_Code/
Disallow: /App_Data/
Disallow: /App_GlobalResources/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /Components/
Disallow: /Config/
Disallow: /contest/
Disallow: /controls/
Disallow: /DesktopModules/
Disallow: /Documentation/
Disallow: /HttpModules/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /Install/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /Portals/
Disallow: /Providers/
Disallow: /Resources/ContentRotator/
Disallow: /Resources/ControlPanel/
Disallow: /Resources/Dashboard/
Disallow: /Resources/FeedBrowser/
Disallow: /Resources/OpenForceAd/
Disallow: /Resources/Search/
Disallow: /Resources/Shared/
Disallow: /Resources/SkinWidgets/
Disallow: /Resources/TabStrip/
Disallow: /Resources/Widgets/
Disallow: /Programs?
Disallow: /Degree-Completion?
Disallow: /Request-Information?
Disallow: /Certificates?
Disallow: /Activity-Feed/userId/	# Do not index user profiles

User-agent: msnbot
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /App_Browsers/
Disallow: /App_Code/
Disallow: /App_Data/
Disallow: /App_GlobalResources/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /Components/
Disallow: /Config/
Disallow: /contest/
Disallow: /controls/
Disallow: /DesktopModules/
Disallow: /Documentation/
Disallow: /HttpModules/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /Install/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /Portals/
Disallow: /Providers/
Disallow: /Resources/ContentRotator/
Disallow: /Resources/ControlPanel/
Disallow: /Resources/Dashboard/
Disallow: /Resources/FeedBrowser/
Disallow: /Resources/OpenForceAd/
Disallow: /Resources/Search/
Disallow: /Resources/Shared/
Disallow: /Resources/SkinWidgets/
Disallow: /Resources/TabStrip/
Disallow: /Resources/Widgets/
Disallow: /Programs?
Disallow: /Degree-Completion?
Disallow: /Request-Information?
Disallow: /Certificates?
Disallow: /Activity-Feed/userId/	# Do not index user profiles
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /*/ctl/		# Slurp permits *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /App_Browsers/
Disallow: /App_Code/
Disallow: /App_Data/
Disallow: /App_GlobalResources/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /Components/
Disallow: /Config/
Disallow: /contest/
Disallow: /controls/
Disallow: /DesktopModules/
Disallow: /Documentation/
Disallow: /HttpModules/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /Install/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /Portals/
Disallow: /Providers/
Disallow: /Resources/ContentRotator/
Disallow: /Resources/ControlPanel/
Disallow: /Resources/Dashboard/
Disallow: /Resources/FeedBrowser/
Disallow: /Resources/OpenForceAd/
Disallow: /Resources/Search/
Disallow: /Resources/Shared/
Disallow: /Resources/SkinWidgets/
Disallow: /Resources/TabStrip/
Disallow: /Resources/Widgets/
Disallow: /Programs?
Disallow: /Degree-Completion?
Disallow: /Request-Information?
Disallow: /Certificates?
Disallow: /Activity-Feed/userId/	# Do not index user profiles
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/ctl/		# Googlebot permits *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /App_Browsers/
Disallow: /App_Code/
Disallow: /App_Data/
Disallow: /App_GlobalResources/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /Components/
Disallow: /Config/
Disallow: /contest/
Disallow: /controls/
Disallow: /Documentation/
Disallow: /HttpModules/
Disallow: /Install/
Disallow: /Providers/
Disallow: /Programs?
Disallow: /Degree-Completion?
Disallow: /Request-Information?
Disallow: /Certificates?
Disallow: /Activity-Feed/userId/	# Do not index user profiles

User-agent: Yahoo Pipes 1.0
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /App_Browsers/
Disallow: /App_Code/
Disallow: /App_Data/
Disallow: /App_GlobalResources/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /Components/
Disallow: /Config/
Disallow: /contest/
Disallow: /controls/
Disallow: /DesktopModules/
Disallow: /Documentation/
Disallow: /HttpModules/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /Install/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /Portals/
Disallow: /Providers/
Disallow: /Resources/ContentRotator/
Disallow: /Resources/ControlPanel/
Disallow: /Resources/Dashboard/
Disallow: /Resources/FeedBrowser/
Disallow: /Resources/OpenForceAd/
Disallow: /Resources/Search/
Disallow: /Resources/Shared/
Disallow: /Resources/SkinWidgets/
Disallow: /Resources/TabStrip/
Disallow: /Resources/Widgets/
Disallow: /Programs?
Disallow: /Degree-Completion?
Disallow: /Request-Information?
Disallow: /Certificates?
Disallow: /Activity-Feed/userId/	# Do not index user profiles


# End of robots.txt file

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Cal State Online Degree Programs
Cal State Online is the gateway to the online degree programs, certificates and online classes for the California State University system.

Most important keywords

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State Online83%Check
Cal State Online81%Check
State75%Check
Cal75%Check
Cal State75%Check
Online Degree75%Check
Programs Online75%Check
Cal State Online Degree75%Check
State Online Degree Programs71%Check
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