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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
86% 
External factors
78% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.36 s
File size
106.00 kB
Words
306
Media files
3
Number of links
29 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
ECU Online Degrees | ECU Online | ECU
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (369 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Finish your degree or start something new! ECU Offers a variety of online bachelor, online master's, online doctorates and certificates.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (823 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://online.ecu.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)
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionFinish your degree or start something new! ECU Offers a variety of online bachelor, online master's, online doctorates and certificates.
article:modified_time2025-06-20T16:01:47+00:00
langen-us
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og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleECU Online - Online Bachelor's - Masters - Doctoral Degrees
og:descriptionFinish your degree or start something new! ECU Offers a variety of online bachelor, online master's, online doctorates and certificates.
og:urlhttps://online.ecu.edu/
og:site_nameECU Online
og:imagehttps://online.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/146/2021/01/ecu-logo.jpg
og:image:width300
og:image:height119
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 306 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.8% of the text are stop words.
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 25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 355 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"east carolina university (ecu) is the state’s leader and national trailblazer in distance education. w..."
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
...lank/images/ECU_lockup_primary_White.svgEast Carolina University Homepage
.../sites/146/2018/04/RealOptionsBanner.jpgECU Online. Real options for real life.
...v-uploads/sites/146/2021/01/ecu-logo.jpgECU Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
ECU Online Degrees
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 ECU Online Degrees
H2 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 too many external links (29) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://online.ecu.edu/Anchor Skip To Main Content
https://accessibility.ecu.edu/...External Subdomain Report an Accessibility Barrier
https://accessibility.ecu.edu/External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.ecu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT East Carolina University Homepage
A-TITLE East Carolina University
https://info.ecu.edu/email/External Subdomain Email
https://canvas.ecu.edu/External Subdomain Canvas
https://www.ecu.edu/banner/External Subdomain Banner
https://pirateport.ecu.edu/con...External Subdomain PiratePort
https://pirateid.ecu.edu/External Subdomain PirateID
https://ecu.teamdynamix.com/TD...External Subdomain IT Help
https://ecu.teamdynamix.com/TD...External Subdomain Videoconferencing
https://thepirateexperience.ec...External Subdomain The Pirate Experience
https://ecu.assetworks.cloud/r...External Subdomain Work Request
https://info.ecu.edu/directory/External Subdomain Directory
https://maps.ecu.edu/External Subdomain Maps
https://www.ecu.edu/?External Subdomain Anchor Virtual Tour
https://info.ecu.edu/a-z/External Subdomain A-Z Index
https://facultysenate.ecu.edu/...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://calendar.ecu.edu/External Subdomain Event Calendar
https://catalog.ecu.edu/External Subdomain Catalog
https://www.facebook.com/EastC...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/EastCarolinaNew window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/east...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/ECUNew window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://online.ecu.edu/Subdomain ECU Online
/future-destudents/Subdomain Future Students
A-TITLE Future Students
/welcome-aboard/Subdomain Welcome Aboard
A-TITLE Welcome Aboard
/new-current-students/Subdomain New & Current Students
A-TITLE New & Current Students
/welcome-aboard/tutorials/Subdomain Tutorials
A-TITLE Tutorials
/online-programs-online-underg...Subdomain Undergraduate Degree Completion Programs
A-TITLE Undergraduate Degree Completion Programs
/online-programs/online-gradua...Subdomain Graduate Degrees
A-TITLE Graduate Degrees
/online-programs/online-gradua...Subdomain Graduate Certificates
A-TITLE Graduate Certificates
/online-programs/online-post-m...Subdomain Post-Master’s and Post-Doctoral Nursing Certificates
A-TITLE Post-Master's and Post-Doctoral Nursing Certificates
/online-programs/add-on-and-al...Subdomain Add-On and Alternative Teacher Licensure
A-TITLE Add-On and Alternative Teacher Licensure
/deapply/deundergradapply/Subdomain How to Apply – Undergraduate
A-TITLE How to Apply – Undergraduate
/deapply/degradapply/Subdomain How to Apply – Graduate
A-TITLE How to Apply – Graduate
https://financialservices.ecu....External Subdomain Distance Education Tuition & Fees
A-TITLE Distance Education Tuition & Fees
/tuition-financial-aid/deaid/Subdomain Financial Aid
A-TITLE Financial Aid
/tuition-financial-aid/derefunds/Subdomain Refunding of Tuition and Fees
A-TITLE Refunding of Tuition and Fees
/resolving-problems/Subdomain Resolving Problems
A-TITLE Resolving Problems
https://online.ecu.edu/about-us/Subdomain About Us
A-TITLE About Us
/testimonials/Subdomain Testimonials
A-TITLE Testimonials
/contact-ecu-online/contact-us...Subdomain History
A-TITLE History
/contact-ecu-online/Subdomain Contact Us
A-TITLE Contact Us
/home/finish-what-you-started/Subdomain finish what you started
/online-programs/Subdomain start something new
/future-destudents/Subdomain Text duplicate Future Students
/online-programs/Subdomain Online Programs
/new-current-students/Subdomain Text duplicate New & Current Students
https://online.ecu.edu/deapply/Subdomain How to Apply
/tuition-financial-aid/Subdomain Tuition & Financial Aid
/testimonials/Subdomain Text duplicate Testimonials
http://www.sacscoc.org/New window External Subdomain SACSCOC’s website
/contact-ecu-online/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.ecu.edu/terms/External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://accessibility.ecu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Accessibility
https://accessibility.ecu.edu/...External Subdomain Report a Barrier/Website Issue

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://online.ecu.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 slow (1.36 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 (106 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 26 referring domains.
This page only has 39 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 26 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: SiteimproveBot-Crawler
Allow: /
User-agent: * 
Disallow: /wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/146/ninja-forms/ 
Sitemap: https://online.ecu.edu/sitemap_index.xml

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online.ecu.edu
ECU Online Degrees | ECU Online | ECU
Finish your degree or start something new! ECU Offers a variety of online bachelor, online master's, online doctorates and certificates.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
ECU93%Check
Online93%Check
ECU Online93%Check
Online Degree86%Check
ECU Online Degrees82%Check
Degree78%Check
Online Degrees77%Check
ECU offers72%Check
Programs Online66%Check
New51%Check
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