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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.04 s
File size
140.40 kB
Words
395
Media files
13
Number of links
33 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 673 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Home of 21st-Century Music.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (208 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.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)
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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og:descriptionOnly at UCLA! We are a school of music that unites independent but complementary departments and programs in Ethnomusicology, Global Jazz Studies, Music, and Musicology – all in one place. Our exceptional approach to education provides our students with academic opportunities that balance cutting-edge scholarship, performance mastery, and composition, with access to a leading music industry program.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 395 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.5 words is high.
27.6% 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.
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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
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

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...4/Beckerman-00-w-Piano.jpg-1024x683.jpegAward-winning scholar and musicologist <br /> Michael Beckerman named new dean of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
...emes/ucla/dist/images/arrow_e8efa9f9.svgRead the Announcement
...emes/ucla/dist/images/arrow_e8efa9f9.svgLearn More
...emes/ucla/dist/images/arrow_e8efa9f9.svgStudent Recitals
...emes/ucla/dist/images/arrow_e8efa9f9.svgSummer Courses
...emes/ucla/dist/images/arrow_e8efa9f9.svgSummer Intensives
...emes/ucla/dist/images/arrow_e8efa9f9.svgMore News
...ds/2019/01/Bxd_Blk_HerbAlpert_D_SEC1.svgThe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Video URLWidthHeight
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Explore Our New Student Brochure
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Explore Our New Student Brochure
H3 Special Programs in Spring 2025
H3 Get Ready for Summer
H3 Latest News
H3 Follow Us On Social @UCLAAlpert #ThisisUCLAmusic
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
/about/Subdomain About
/faculty/Subdomain Faculty
/academics/Subdomain Academics
/admissions/Subdomain Admissions
/students/Subdomain Students
/ensembles/Subdomain Ensembles
/news/Subdomain News
/about/alumni/Subdomain Alumni
/admissions/visit-us/Subdomain Visit
/contact/Subdomain Contact
/support-us/Subdomain Support Us
/calendar/Event Calendar
IMG-ALT calendar
https://evcp.ucla.edu/announce...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Award-winning scholar and musicologist <br /> Michael Beckerman named new dean of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
https://evcp.ucla.edu/announce...New window External Subdomain Read the Announcement Read the Announcement
IMG-ALT Read the Announcement
/spring-festival-2025/New window Subdomain Spring Festival of World Music
/spring-festival-2025/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Spring Festival of World Music
/spring-festival-2025/New window Subdomain Learn More Learn More
IMG-ALT Learn More
/student-recitals/New window Subdomain Student Recitals
/student-recitals/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Student Recitals
/student-recitals/New window Subdomain Student Recitals Student Recitals
IMG-ALT Student Recitals
/summer-session-for-college-st...New window Subdomain Summer Courses for College Students
/summer-session-for-college-st...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Summer Courses for College Students
/summer-session-for-college-st...New window Subdomain Summer Courses Summer Courses
IMG-ALT Summer Courses
/summer-intensives-for-high-sc...New window Subdomain Summer Intensives for High School Students
/summer-intensives-for-high-sc...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Summer Intensives for High School Students
/summer-intensives-for-high-sc...New window Subdomain Summer Intensives Summer Intensives
IMG-ALT Summer Intensives
/news/Subdomain More News More News
IMG-ALT More News
/justin-mcmanus-to-lead-ucla-m...Subdomain Justin McManus to Lead UCLA Marching Band
/justin-mcmanus-to-lead-ucla-m...Subdomain Text duplicate Justin McManus to Lead UCLA Marching Band
https://www.sfcv.org/articles/...External Subdomain Kay Rhie's "H'on" Receives its World Premiere by the LA Philharmonic
https://www.sfcv.org/articles/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Kay Rhie's "H'on" Receives its World Premiere by the LA Philharmonic
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stor...External Subdomain Julio Frenk's Inauguration Ceremony is Music to His Ears
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stor...External Subdomain Text duplicate Julio Frenk's Inauguration Ceremony is Music to His Ears
https://www.instagram.com/1784...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Follow on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/ucla...External Subdomain @UCLAalpert on Instagram @UCLAalpert on Instagram
https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audi...New window External Subdomain Subscribe to our Newsletter
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
/school-of-music-live-streams/Subdomain Livestreams
/search-for-faculty/Subdomain Faculty Directory
/press-inquiries/Subdomain Press Inquiries
/staff-directory/Subdomain Staff Directory
https://www.instagram.com/ucla...External Subdomain instagram
https://www.facebook.com/UCLAa...External Subdomain facebook-f
https://twitter.com/UCLAalpertExternal twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain linkedin-in
http://kley.co/New window External Kley, Inc

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://schoolofmusic.ucla.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 0.04 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (140 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 177 referring domains.
This page has 432 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 117 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp/wp-admin/
Allow: /wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Disallow:

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