Sydney.edu.au - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.23 s
File size
117.60 kB
Words
398
Media files
2
Number of links
34 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The University of Sydney: One of Australia’s top universities
The length of the page title is perfect. (534 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The University of Sydney: A global top 20 university in Sydney, Australia, leading the way in addressing environmental, social, and governance challenges. Ranked 11th in the world for sustainability.
The meta description is too long: 1211 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sydney.edu.au/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Australia
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 398 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.1% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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 22 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
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
...orate/ex/images/web-uplift/175-black.svgUniversity Home
...orate/ex/images/web-uplift/175-black.svgUniversity Home

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Find a course
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Find a course
H2 Study levels
H2 Our research
H2 News and opinion
H2 Contact us
H3 Research areas
H3 Research centres
H3 Find a researcher
H3 University ranks highly in two prestigious global rankings
H3 The carbon removal technology that could change our energy future
H3 Cogniti – an 'AI stunt double' for teachers – wins major award
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.library.sydney.edu...External Subdomain Library
/students/Subdomain Current students
https://intranet.sydney.edu.au/External Subdomain Staff intranet
https://whatson.sydney.edu.au/External Subdomain Find an event
/engage/give.htmlSubdomain Give
/contact-us.htmlContact us
https://www.sydney.edu.au/Subdomain IMG-ALT University Home
/study.htmlSubdomain Study
/research.htmlSubdomain Research
/engage.htmlSubdomain Engage with us
/about-us.htmlSubdomain About us
/news-opinion.htmlSubdomain News & opinion
https://www.sydney.edu.au/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT University Home
/content/corporate/about-us/ou...ranked 1st in Australia
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Architecture, Design and Planning
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Arts and social sciences
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Business
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Economics
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Education and social work
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Engineering and computer science
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Law
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Medicine and health
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Music
/content/courses/field-of-stud...Science
/content/corporate/study/study...Undergraduate courses
/content/corporate/study/study...Postgraduate courses
/content/corporate/study/study...Text duplicate Research
/content/corporate/study/study...Short courses
/research/our-research/areas.htmlSubdomain Research areas Our breadth of expertise across our faculties and schools is supported by deep disciplinary knowledge.
/research/our-research/centres...Subdomain Research centres With more than 150 research centres and networks, we are one of the world's leading research universities.
/research/our-research/find-a-...Subdomain Find a researcher Our academics are leaders in their fields, publishing thousands of articles, books, and research papers each year.
/content/corporate/news-opinio...Read all
/news-opinion/news/2025/06/19/...Subdomain University ranks highly in two prestigious global rankings The University has risen to first in Australia in the US News Rankings and placed equal 25th globa...
/research/our-research/impact/...Subdomain The carbon removal technology that could change our energy future Cutting-edge direct air capture technology could pave the way for the large-scale reduction...
/news-opinion/news/2025/06/03/...Subdomain Cogniti – an 'AI stunt double' for teachers – wins major award Cogniti, a University of Sydney innovation, is an AI assistant that puts teachers in control a...
https://sydneyuni.service-now....External Subdomain Prospective students
/students/student-contacts-enq...Subdomain Text duplicate Current students
/content/corporate/contact-us....Non-student enquiries

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sydney.edu.au/"
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 (1.23 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 (118 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
content-length32841
dateTue, 08 Jul 2025 15:55:44 GMT
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
set-cookie178 Characters
serverApache
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accept-rangesbytes
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,849 referring domains.
This page has 72,191 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,573 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: FunnelBack
Disallow: /education_social_work/bulletin/

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap:https://www.sydney.edu.au/sitemap.xml
Allow: /myuni-content/
Allow: /medicine-health/schools/sydney-school-of-health-sciences/academic-staff/
Allow: /science/about/our-people/academic-staff/


Disallow: /medicine/fmrc/icpc3dev/
Disallow: /handbooks/archive/2011/
Disallow: /medicine/people/academics-old/profiles/
Disallow: /search/

Disallow: /library/images/
Disallow: /library/scripts/
Disallow: /library/styles/
Disallow: /library/test/
Disallow: /library/templates/
Disallow: /library/stream/
Disallow: /library/screens/
Disallow: /library/cgi-bin/
Disallow: /library/unified-search/
Disallow: /library/contacts/email-campaigns/

Disallow: /styleguide/
Disallow: /agents/

Disallow: /errors/
Disallow: /architecture/about/our-people/academic-staff/staff-profile.html
Disallow: /law/about/our-people/academic-staff/staff-profile.html
Disallow: /music/about/our-people/academic-staff/staff-profile.html
Disallow: /engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/staff-profile.html
Disallow: /medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/staff-profile.html
Disallow: /medicine-health/schools/faculty-of-health-sciences/academic-staff/staff-profile.html
Disallow: /arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/staff-profile.html

Disallow: /content/dam/corporate/documents/agents-portal/
Disallow: /content/dam/corporate/documents/study/guides/usyd-international-guide-2022.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/corporate/documents/study/guides/usyd-international-guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/corporate/documents/study/how-to-apply/international-admission-guide.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/corporate/documents/study/getting-started/welcome-guide_international.pdf
Disallow: /content/dam/corporate/documents/business-school/study/mba/part-time-mba-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /business/study/mba/part-time-mba/request-a-brochure/thank-you.html
Disallow: /study/mba/full-time-mba/request-a-brochure/thank-you.html
Disallow: /business/study/mba/global-executive-mba/request-a-brochure/thank-you.html
Disallow: /content/dam/students/documents/graduations/programs/

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