Uctap.universityofcalifornia.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
36% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.02 s
File size
35.60 kB
Words
273
Media files
0
Number of links
8 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
UC Transfer Admission Planner - UC TAP | UC Admissions
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (524 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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
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

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X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 273 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 28 words is high.
30% 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.
4 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (11). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: uc tap login 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Transfer admission planner
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Transfer admission planner
H4 Start planning your future at UC
H4 Prepare. Transfer. Succeed.
H4 Sign In to UC TAP
H4 Welcome to the UC Transfer Admission Planner (UC TAP). If you're a California community college student thinking about transferring to UC, this resource is for you.
H4 Sign In to UC TAP Duplicate text
H4 California Community College Counselors
H4 Having trouble?
There are too few (8) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 20 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/students/index.cfmAnchor Skip to main content
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Admissions
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Requirements
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain How to apply
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Tuition & financial aid
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Campuses & majors
https://twitter.com/uc_applyExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Search
/index.htmlText duplicate Admissions
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Text duplicate Requirements
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Text duplicate How to apply
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Text duplicate Tuition & financial aid
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Text duplicate Campuses & majors
https://twitter.com/uc_applyExternal Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/unive...External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Home
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Text duplicate Requirements
https://admission.universityof...External Subdomain Transfer requirements
/students/account/retrieve-log...login ID
/students/account/retrieve-pass/password
/students/account/retrieve-log...Text duplicate login ID
/students/account/retrieve-pass/Text duplicate password
/counselorsAccess your account
/contact-us/Contact us about technical problems with UC TAP
https://universityofcalifornia...External universityofcalifornia.edu
https://apply.universityofcali...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://apply.universityofcali...External Subdomain Terms of use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://uctap.universityofcalifornia.edu/students/index.cfm"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.02 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.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 02 Aug 2025 15:50:00 GMT
serverApache/2.4.37 (Oracle Linux Server) OpenSSL/1.1.1k mod_fcgid/2.3.9 mod_jk/1.2.46
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
set-cookie20 Characters
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 51 referring domains.
This page has 228 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 43 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

uctap.universityofcalifornia.edu › students › index.cfm
UC Transfer Admission Planner - UC TAP | UC Admissions

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Transfer70%Check
Transfer admission68%Check
UC Transfer68%Check
Transfer admission planner67%Check
UC Transfer Admission Planner67%Check
admission66%Check
planner66%Check
TAP65%Check
UC TAP65%Check
UC Admissions55%Check

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