Uwaterloo.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
112.50 kB
Words
531
Media files
3
Number of links
31 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | University of Waterloo
The length of the page title is perfect. (267 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
University of Waterloo
The meta description is too short. (136 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://uwaterloo.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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

NameValue
descriptionUniversity of Waterloo
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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
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og:urlhttps://uwaterloo.ca/
og:titleHome | University of Waterloo
og:descriptionUniversity of Waterloo
og:updated_time2025-07-25T07:37:11-04:00
og:localeen_CA
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 34.89 words is high.
This page contains 531 words. That's ok.
31.5% 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.
9 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=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 77 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"join our community of innovators and build the skills for a successful future"
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...es/students-cheering_0.jpg?itok=f8-cvogUStudents at a Waterloo Warriors football game cheering
...ds/images/img_3303.jpeg?itok=SGHN_H9L 1xDisney Lam with her late father Tung on the left
...si-mihaela-vlesea-crop.jpg?itok=c-cV_7JlTwo students working in a lab

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Get Waterloo Ready
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Get Waterloo Ready
H2 Latest news
H2 Upcoming events
H3 When support comes full circle
H3 Serving up sustainability with Tennis Canada
H3 Waterloo researchers awarded $10.9 million for additive manufacturing network
H3 Made by Waterloo: Portable stroke detection using AI and electromagnetic imaging
H3 Discover Waterloo by the numbers →
H3 Manulife presents CareNext Collective: Why readiness matters – a look back at WRHN’s first AI collaboration
H3 July 29: Cycles, Cramps, and Cravings... Oh My! Nutrition for Menstrual Wellness
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://uwaterloo.ca/Anchor Skip to main content
https://uwaterloo.ca/A-TITLE University of Waterloo Home
https://uwaterloo.ca/admissions/Admissions
https://uwaterloo.ca/about/About Waterloo
/faculties-academics/Faculties & Academics
/offices-services/Offices & Services
https://uwaterloo.ca/support/Support Waterloo
/welcome-warriors/waterloo-readyGet Waterloo Ready We're thrilled to welcome you into our Warrior community! View your pre-arrival guide →
IMG-ALT Students at a Waterloo Warriors football game cheering
/news/magazine/when-support-co...Campus When support comes full circle Disney Lam honours her father’s legacy by encouraging the next generation of female software engineers
/news/environment/serving-sust...Environment Serving up sustainability with Tennis Canada Tennis Canada partners with Waterloo researchers to reach their goal of a net-zero and waste-free ev...
/news/engineering-research/wat...Engineering Waterloo researchers awarded $10.9 million for additive manufacturing network From process optimization to multi-scale modeling and machine learn...
/news/made-by-waterloo-portabl...Science Made by Waterloo: Portable stroke detection using AI and electromagnetic imaging Waterloo startup AiimSense pioneers a portable brain scanner for bra...
https://uwaterloo.ca/newsView all Waterloo News
https://uwaterloo.ca/admissions/Join our community of innovators and build the skills for a successful future Discover Waterloo's programs →
IMG-ALT Two students working in a lab
/future-students/university-of...Discover Waterloo by the numbers →
/events/events/manulife-presen...Jul 25 12:00 pm Manulife presents CareNext Collective: Why readiness matters – a look back at WRHN’s first AI collaboration The CareNext Coalition is hosting...
/events/events/july-29-cycles-...Jul 29 12:00 pm July 29: Cycles, Cramps, and Cravings... Oh My! Nutrition for Menstrual Wellness In this online presentation, Courtney Wilson, MScFN RD (she/...
https://uwaterloo.ca/eventsView all Waterloo Events
https://uwaterloo.ca/map/Campus map
/about/contact-usContact Waterloo
/accessibility/Accessibility
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/News
/about/maps-and-directionsMaps & directions
https://uwaterloo.ca/privacy/Privacy
https://uwaterloo.ca/careers/Careers
/emergency-notifications/Emergency notifications
https://uwaterloo.ca/copyrightCopyright
/about/contact-us/contact-formFeedback
https://uwaterloo.ca/indigenousOffice of Indigenous Relations
https://www.instagram.com/uofw...External Subdomain Instagram
https://twitter.com/UWaterlooExternal X (formerly Twitter)
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.facebook.com/unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/user/u...External Subdomain YouTube
/social-media/@uwaterloo social directory
https://uwaterloo.ca/on-itLearn how →

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://uwaterloo.ca/"
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 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (113 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,452 referring domains.
This page has 994,374 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,113 different ip addresses.

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