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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
40% 
Server
37% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.58 s
File size
29.30 kB
Words
341
Media files
10
Number of links
29 internal / 38 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The University of British Columbia
The length of the page title is perfect. (303 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (911 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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-ca
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca
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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viewportwidth=device-width
descriptionThe University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.
langen-ca
fb:pages16761458703
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 341 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 35 words is high.
27% 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.
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" 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 7 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
...-advancing_immunobiology-1920x700_1x.jpgUndergraduate biochemistry student Janaeya Bahe in the lab and holding a tiny piece of material.
...s/23931-ubc_branching_out-370x370_1x.jpgHand holding flowers
.../23936-ubc_fitness_centre-370x370_1x.jpgRecreation Centre North at UBC Vancouver
...-asian_indigineous_exibit-370x370_1x.jpgBlack and white photograph of a group of people
...66-canadas_housing_crisis-370x370_1x.jpgCity view of Vancouver with the Canada Line train passing a bridge.
...971-bottle_return_lottery-370x370_1x.jpgBag filled with empty bottles
...961-eylul_kara_leadership-370x370_1x.jpgEylul Kara
...23956-virtual_dog_therapy-370x370_1x.jpgA dog sitting on a chair facing a camera setup
.../23951-summer_math_skills-370x370_1x.jpgDr. Lindsey Daniels looks at the geometry of leaves with seven-year-old Theodore Factora.
...ages/23946-wildfire_smoke-370x370_1x.jpgDr. Sarah Henderson

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The University of British Columbia
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The University of British Columbia
H2 Marquee
H2 Spotlight
H2 Connect with UBC
H2 Explore UBC
H3 From textbooks to tissue models
H3 Join UBC Botanical Garden’s signature pride celebration
H3 UBC’s newest state-of-the art fitness centre opens
H3 Asian-Indigenous exhibit explores the right to truthtelling
H3 Can Canada’s housing crisis be solved?
H3 How lottery-style bottle returns could transform recycling
H3 Eylul Kara awarded BC Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for leadership
H3 Just press play: Virtual dog therapy can improve mental wellbeing
H3 How kids can keep their maths skills sharp this summer
H3 5 things you need to know: How to protect your health from wildfire smoke
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 (38) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ubc.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.ubc.ca/Subdomain The University of British Columbia
A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://www.ubc.ca/Subdomain Text duplicate The University of British Columbia
https://www.ubc.ca/about/About UBC
https://www.ubc.ca/our-campuses/Our Campuses
https://www.ubc.ca/admissions/Admissions
https://www.ubc.ca/academics/Academics
/strategic-priorities/Strategic Priorities
https://www.ubc.ca/research/Research
https://www.ubc.ca/campus-life/Campus Life
https://news.ubc.ca/External Subdomain News
https://give.ubc.ca/External Subdomain give UBC
/prospective-students/Prospective Students
/undergraduate-students/Undergraduate Students
/graduate-students/Graduate Students
https://www.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/Faculty & Staff
http://www.alumni.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Alumni
/community-partners/Community Partners
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/06...External Subdomain From textbooks to tissue models How hands-on undergraduate research is advancing immunobiology Read More
IMG-ALT Undergraduate biochemistry student Janaeya Bahe in the lab and holding a tiny piece of material.
https://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Hand holding flowers
https://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca...External Subdomain Join UBC Botanical Garden’s signature pride celebration
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ub...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Recreation Centre North at UBC Vancouver
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ub...External Subdomain UBC’s newest state-of-the art fitness centre opens
https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/r...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Black and white photograph of a group of people
https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/r...External Subdomain Asian-Indigenous exhibit explores the right to truthtelling
https://www.facebook.com/unive...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://instagram.com/universi...New window External No Text
https://twitter.com/ubcNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/ubcNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@univer...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us...External Subdomain IMG-ALT City view of Vancouver with the Canada Line train passing a bridge.
/archives/?tags=researchText duplicate Research
https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us...External Subdomain Can Canada’s housing crisis be solved?
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ho...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Bag filled with empty bottles
/archives/?tags=researchText duplicate Research
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ho...External Subdomain How lottery-style bottle returns could transform recycling
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ey...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Eylul Kara
/archives/?tags=communityCommunity
/archives/?tags=innovationInnovation
/archives/?tags=peoplePeople
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ey...External Subdomain Eylul Kara awarded BC Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for leadership
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/06...External Subdomain IMG-ALT A dog sitting on a chair facing a camera setup
/archives/?tags=researchText duplicate Research
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/06...External Subdomain Just press play: Virtual dog therapy can improve mental wellbeing
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ho...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Dr. Lindsey Daniels looks at the geometry of leaves with seven-year-old Theodore Factora.
/archives/?tags=researchText duplicate Research
/archives/?tags=teaching and l...Teaching and Learning
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/06/ho...External Subdomain How kids can keep their maths skills sharp this summer
https://beyond.ubc.ca/5-things...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Dr. Sarah Henderson
/archives/?tags=peopleText duplicate People
/archives/?tags=researchText duplicate Research
https://beyond.ubc.ca/5-things...External Subdomain 5 things you need to know: How to protect your health from wildfire smoke
https://www.ubc.ca/archives/Explore More
/about/contact.htmlContact the Vancouver campus
/about/contact-okanagan.htmlContact the Okanagan campus
https://www.facebook.com/unive...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://instagram.com/universi...New window External No Text
https://twitter.com/ubcNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/ubcNew window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@univer...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.ubc.ca/Subdomain Text duplicate The University of British Columbia
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/eme...External Subdomain Emergency Procedures
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/termsExternal Subdomain Terms of Use
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/cop...External Subdomain UBC Copyright
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/acc...External Subdomain Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ubc.ca/"
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 of 0.58 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (29 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateWed, 02 Jul 2025 22:49:57 GMT
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
serverApache/2.4.59 ()
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.9
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 632ee301c4920b52f2463aa9e978c57e.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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x-amz-cf-id6LGVa3AumuKpsfs4Cvx6OJGMPSBPwwMzxuYau2LjSNh7rdyAYvANmA==
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x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
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 4,856 referring domains.
This page has 100,611 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,794 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_ADMIN/
Disallow: /_internal/
Disallow: /DEVL/
Disallow: /okanagan/facultystaff/bba
Disallow: /okanagan/itservices/service-catalogue/accounts/novell/imanager.html

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The University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.

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British73%Check
Columbia73%Check
British Columbia73%Check
UBC63%Check
UBC Search56%Check
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Research46%Check
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