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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
91% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.07 s
File size
260.60 kB
Words
686
Media files
21
Number of links
109 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
The length of the page title is perfect. (475 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Since 1922, the Mailman School has been at the forefront of public health research, education, and community collaboration.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (765 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 686 words. That's ok.
23.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12 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 usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 45 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
H2 About Us
H2 Events
H2 News
H2 Academics
H2 Degrees
H2 Departments
H2 Research
H2 Centers
H2 People
H2 Our Faculty
H2 Become a Student
H2 Life and Community
H2 How to Apply
H2 Info For
H2 News Duplicate text
H2 Public Health Matters
H2 History
H2 Median MPH Class Size
H2 Employment Rate
H2 Alumni
H2 Prepare for Public Health Leadership
H2 Events Duplicate text
H2 Our Community
H2 Join the Conversation
H2 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
H2 Follow Us
H3 Kathleen Sikkema Named Interim Dean
H3 Congratulations to the Class of 2025!
H3 Register for SHARP Summer Trainings
H3 Register for episummer@columbia
H3 Global Survey Invites You to Share How You Are Doing
H3 Drug Treatment Among Women Increases with Access to Social Safety Net Programs
H3 New Research Proposes Framework to Define and Measure the Biology of Health
H3 Funding for Public Health Law Teaching Announced
H3 episummer
H3 Principles of Epidemiology - epsiummer
H3 Agent-Based Models for Population Health - episummer
H4 Topic
H4 Topic Duplicate text
H4 Topic Duplicate text
H4 Topic Duplicate text
H4 Venue
H4 Venue Duplicate text
H4 Venue Duplicate text
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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/research/centersExplore Our Centers
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/people/alumniAlumni
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/become-student/life-community...Student Life
/become-student/life-community...Diversity
/become-student/life-community...Student Organizations
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/become-student/life-community...New York City
/become-student/how-applyApply Now
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/news/kathleen-sikkema-named-i...Text duplicate Kathleen Sikkema Named Interim Dean
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/about-us/events/upcoming-eventsView All Events
/news/topics/student-voicesRead Student Voices
/news/topics/student-voicesText duplicate Read Student Voices
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/researchText duplicate Research
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https://twitter.com/columbiamsphNew window External Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/Colum...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/colu...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.columbia.edu/New window External Subdomain Columbia University
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu...New window External Subdomain Terms and Conditions
https://www.hipaa.cumc.columbi...New window External Subdomain HIPAA

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.publichealth.columbia.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 excellent with 0.07 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (261 kB).

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 565 referring domains.
This page has 1,530 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 395 different ip addresses.

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