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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
65% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
72% 
Link structure
52% 
Server
31% 
External factors
36% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.47 s
File size
39.70 kB
Words
451
Media files
2
Number of links
21 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Portal
The page title is too short. (122 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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)
No canonical link is 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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=EDGE
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 451 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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 17.93 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=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 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
...get=9beed948-7927-4820-81b1-ab6c61a4a715logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
logo
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 logo
H2 Portal
H3 Academics
H3 Financial Aid
H3 Student Accounts
H3 Alumni
H3 Help
H4 Student and Faculty Portal
H4 Registrar Website
H4 Financial Aid Portal
H4 Print Financial Aid Package
H4 Financial Aid Website
H4 View and Pay Student Account Balance Online
H4 Student Accounts Website
H4 Alumni Portal
H4 Give a Gift
H4 Reset Your HMC Credentials
H4 Computing and Information Services
Baselink: https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/Anchor *MISSING[TXT_SKIP_TO_CONTENT]*
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/IMG-ALT logo
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/*MISSING[TXT_HOME]*
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/Text duplicate *MISSING[TXT_HOME]*
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnzHome
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/Portal
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/Anchor Menu
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/Anchor Quick Links
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Academics
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Financial Aid
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Student Accounts
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Alumni
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Help
/ICS/Gift_a_Gift_to_HMC_by_eCh...Gift a Gift to HMC by eCheck
http://catalog.hmc.edu/External Subdomain Academic Catalog
A-TITLE Academic Catalog
http://sakai.claremont.edu/External Subdomain Claremont Sakai
A-TITLE Claremont Sakai
https://engage.claremont.edu/External Subdomain Engage (formerly CollegiateLink)
A-TITLE Engage (formerly CollegiateLink)
http://www.hmc.edu/External Subdomain Harvey Mudd College
A-TITLE Harvey Mudd College
https://www.hmc.edu/hsa/curric...External Subdomain HSA Requirements
A-TITLE HSA Requirements
https://portal.hmc.edu/ICS/Text duplicate Portal
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Text duplicate Academics
A-TITLE Go to main Academics screen
https://jenzabarhelp.jenzabar....External Subdomain Get help using 'Academics'
A-TITLE Get help using 'Academics'
https://www.hmc.edu/registrar/External Subdomain Registrar
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Text duplicate Financial Aid
A-TITLE Go to main Financial Aid screen
https://jenzabarhelp.jenzabar....External Subdomain Get help using 'Financial Aid'
A-TITLE Get help using 'Financial Aid'
https://myfinaid.hmc.edu/External Subdomain Financial Aid @ HMC Portal
/ics/Applications/CUS/OnBaseCo...view or print their financial aid package
https://www.hmc.edu/admission/...External Subdomain Financial Aid at Harvey Mudd
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Text duplicate Student Accounts
A-TITLE Go to main Student Accounts screen
https://jenzabarhelp.jenzabar....External Subdomain Get help using 'Student Accounts'
A-TITLE Get help using 'Student Accounts'
https://hmc.kualibuild.com/app...New window External Subdomain Tuition Payment Agreement
https://www.hmc.edu/bao/studen...External Subdomain detailed instructions for paying online
https://www.hmc.edu/bao/studen...External Subdomain other payment methods
https://www.hmc.edu/bao/studen...External Subdomain questions
https://www.hmc.edu/bao/studen...External Subdomain Office of Student Accounts
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Text duplicate Alumni
A-TITLE Go to main Alumni screen
https://jenzabarhelp.jenzabar....External Subdomain Get help using 'Alumni'
A-TITLE Get help using 'Alumni'
http://alumni.hmc.edu/External Subdomain Alumni Association
https://www.hmc.edu/campaign/g...External Subdomain give a gift by credit card
https://www.hmc.edu/campaign/w...External Subdomain ways to give
/ICS/Portal_Homepage.jnz?portl...Text duplicate Help
A-TITLE Go to main Help screen
https://jenzabarhelp.jenzabar....External Subdomain Get help using 'Help'
A-TITLE Get help using 'Help'
https://identity.hmc.edu/External Subdomain Rapid Identity Portal
https://docs.google.com/docume...External Subdomain how do I reset my HMC credentials password?
https://helpdesk.hmc.edu/External Subdomain Chat with us
https://www.hmc.edu/about/New window External Subdomain About Us
https://www.hmc.edu/cis/New window External Subdomain Portal Support
https://www.hmc.edu/admission/New window External Subdomain Admissions
https://alumni.hmc.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://portal.hmc.edu/ics/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.47 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 (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
set-cookie74 Characters
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
x-powered-byASP.NET
service-worker-allowed/
dateWed, 18 Jun 2025 19:51:46 GMT
content-length40663
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 12 referring domains.
This page only has 27 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 12 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Portal60%Check
Portal Login49%Check
HMC44%Check
Student43%Check
Financial43%Check
Aid43%Check
Financial Aid43%Check
Alumni43%Check
Website43%Check
Accounts43%Check
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