Registrar.duke.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
25% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
40% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.12 s
File size
403.40 kB
Words
329
Media files
3
Number of links
13 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | Office of the University Registrar
The length of the page title is perfect. (404 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Office of the University RegistrarThe Office of the University Registrar (OUR) provides a variety of academic services to members of the Duke community. We
The meta description is too long: 1072 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://registrar.duke.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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
generatorGatsby 5.12.4
theme-color#012169
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
descriptionWelcome to the Office of the University RegistrarThe Office of the University Registrar (OUR) provides a variety of academic services to members of the Duke community. We
imagehttps://registrar.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large_3_2/public/students_sign_chapel_4.jpg?h=ab82e8a7&itok=l3xEAvll
publisherOffice of the University Registrar
authorOffice of the University Registrar
robotsindex
site-nameOffice of the University Registrar
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHomepage | Office of the University Registrar
twitter:descriptionWelcome to the Office of the University RegistrarThe Office of the University Registrar (OUR) provides a variety of academic services to members of the Duke community. We
twitter:imagehttps://registrar.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large_3_2/public/students_sign_chapel_4.jpg?h=ab82e8a7&itok=l3xEAvll
og:site_nameOffice of the University Registrar
og:urlhttps://registrar.duke.edu/
og:typeWebPage
og:titleHomepage | Office of the University Registrar
og:descriptionWelcome to the Office of the University RegistrarThe Office of the University Registrar (OUR) provides a variety of academic services to members of the Duke community. We
og:imagehttps://registrar.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large_3_2/public/students_sign_chapel_4.jpg?h=ab82e8a7&itok=l3xEAvll
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 329 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.2% 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.
6 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 10.87 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: student id
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
data:[...] Base64Duke University
data:[...] Base64Duke University
data:[...] Base64Duke University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage
H2 Action menu
H2 Utility menu
H2 Primary navigation
H2 Welcome to the Office of the University Registrar
H3 Email Tips & Quick Links
H3 Email Tips
H3 Quick Links
H3 Office of the University Registrar
H6 For First-Year Students
H6 Helpful Pages
H6 Other Offices
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://registrar.duke.edu/Anchor Skip to main
https://security.duke.edu/vpn/External Subdomain Duke’s VPN
https://oit.duke.edu/helpExternal Subdomain OIT Service Desk
https://registrar.duke.edu/Office of the University Registrar
IMG-ALT Duke University
https://registrar.duke.edu/Text duplicate Office of the University Registrar
IMG-ALT Duke University
https://nscverifications.org/External nscverifications.org
https://trinity.duke.edu/const...External Subdomain Constellations
https://focus.duke.edu/External Subdomain Focus
https://advising.duke.edu/trin...External Subdomain Academic Advising Center
/student-resources/advanced-pl...AP/IB Scores
/student-resources/transfer-cr...Prematriculation & Transfer Credit
/student-resources/transcripts/Official & Unofficial Transcripts
/student-resources/replacement...Replacement Diplomas
/registration/Registration Windows & Tips
/registration/interinstitution...Interinstitutional Classes
/student-resources/transfer-cr...Text duplicate Prematriculation & Transfer Credit
https://finance.duke.edu/depar...External Subdomain Bursar's Office
https://financialaid.duke.edu/External Subdomain Financial Aid
https://oit.duke.edu/External Subdomain Office of Information Technology (OIT)
https://advising.duke.edu/External Subdomain Academic Advising Center (AAC)
https://trinity.duke.edu/under...External Subdomain Trinity Academic Policies (T-Reqs)
https://registrar.duke.edu/Text duplicate Office of the University Registrar
/student-resources/transcripts/Order a Transcript
/contact/Contact Us
https://duke.edu/External IMG-ALT Duke University
https://accessibility.duke.edu/External Subdomain Accessibility
https://oarc.duke.edu/privacy/...External Subdomain Privacy Statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://registrar.duke.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.12 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 (403 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 10 Jun 2026 17:54:08 GMT
server
x-frame-optionsdeny
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000;
last-modifiedWed, 10 Jun 2026 17:49:42 GMT
etag"64dab-653e9de47ea12"
accept-rangesbytes
content-length413099
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie106 Characters
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 135 referring domains.
This page has 222 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 33 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /404
Disallow: /dev-404-page
Disallow: /secure/*
Sitemap: https://registrar.duke.edu/sitemap/sitemap-0.xml
Host: https://registrar.duke.edu

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Welcome to the Office of the University RegistrarThe Office of the University Registrar (OUR) provides a variety of academic services to members of the Duke community. We

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Registrar76%Check
University Registrar72%Check
University68%Check
Duke University67%Check
Office66%Check
Duke64%Check
Homepage62%Check
Duke community55%Check
Welcome50%Check
Email47%Check
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