Wits.ac.za - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
44% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
57% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.81 s
File size
30.50 kB
Words
387
Media files
10
Number of links
46 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Wits University
The length of the page title is perfect. (205 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Explore Wits University's world-class programmes, research, and vibrant campus life.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (525 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
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)
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
google-site-verificationV1x3dMDbb2OCqeWMy6CHKlnHBHSXV3M81c_Zn_YTSQ0
facebook-domain-verificationwl2megvgh501h0j7uq9y8ekjabjkbg
descriptionExplore Wits University's world-class programmes, research, and vibrant campus life.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
authorThe University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
generatorTERMINALFOUR
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 387 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.8% of the text are stop words.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...ersity-style-assets/images/wits-logo.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ets/images/Wits_Centenary_Logo_Large.svgThe University of the Witwatersrand LogoThe University of the Witwatersrand Logo
...sity/home-page/Web-banner_March-2026.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...il/Professor Bruce Bassett_600x300px.jpgThe cosmologist-potter using AI to fight superbugs
..._ CuriosityWits University_600x300px.jpgModern Mzansi families
...ng-to-wits/images/business-newspaper.jpgIdeologically bankrupt ANC persists with BEE
Video URLWidthHeight
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LmvOxkT50CQ
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ay0Y-kMRjU0

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Straight From the ‘Gram
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Straight From the ‘Gram
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.wits.ac.za/A-TITLE University of the Witwatersrand
/about-wits/About
https://www.wits.ac.za/people/People/Staff
https://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/Alumni
https://www.wits.ac.za/library/Library
/campus-life/Visit Wits
http://giving.wits.ac.za/New window External Subdomain Give
/applications/New window Apply
https://www.wits.ac.za/Homepage
/study-at-wits/Study at Wits
https://www.wits.ac.za/students/Students
/faculties-and-schools/Faculties and Schools
/teaching-and-learning/Teaching and Learning
https://www.wits.ac.za/research/Research and Innovation
https://www.wits.ac.za/news/News
https://www.wits.ac.za/Anchor Menu
https://www.wits.ac.za/IMG-ALT The University of the Witwatersrand Logo
A-TITLE University of the Witwatersrand
https://www.wits.ac.za/Anchor Skip navigation and go to page content
/study-at-wits/Text duplicate Study at Wits
https://www.wits.ac.za/students/Text duplicate Students
/faculties-and-schools/Text duplicate Faculties and Schools
/teaching-and-learning/Text duplicate Teaching and Learning
https://www.wits.ac.za/research/Text duplicate Research and Innovation
https://www.wits.ac.za/news/Text duplicate News
/about-wits/Text duplicate About
https://www.wits.ac.za/people/Text duplicate People/Staff
https://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/Text duplicate Alumni
https://www.wits.ac.za/library/Text duplicate Library
/campus-life/Text duplicate Visit Wits
http://giving.wits.ac.za/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
/applications/New window Text duplicate Apply
https://witsshop.co.za/External No Text
https://www.wits.ac.za/news/All News
/news/latest-news/research-new...The cosmologist-potter using AI to fight superbugs Distinguished Professor Bruce Bassett’s cosmic journey to Wits to join the “leading AI research group in t...
IMG-ALT The cosmologist-potter using AI to fight superbugs
A-TITLE The cosmologist-potter using AI to fight superbugs
/news/latest-news/research-new...Modern Mzansi families South African families are not all nuclear and members are not necessarily related but innovative socioeconomic strategies enable thri...
IMG-ALT Modern Mzansi families
A-TITLE Modern Mzansi families
/news/latest-news/opinion/2026...Ideologically bankrupt ANC persists with BEE South Africa’s current model of BEE will compound the looming economic crisis. 13 March 2026
IMG-ALT Ideologically bankrupt ANC persists with BEE
A-TITLE Ideologically bankrupt ANC persists with BEE
/display/events/All Events
/events-archive/2026/world-soc...17Mar World Social Work Day Celebration 2026Emthonjeni Centre Auditorium 13:00
/events-archive/2026/varsity-s...20Mar Varsity Shield 2026: FNB WITS VS FNB SPU19:00
https://youtu.be/LmvOxkT50CQExternal Wits in 60 Seconds
https://youtu.be/LmvOxkT50CQExternal [WATCH]
https://youtu.be/Ay0Y-kMRjU0External WATCH
/about-wits/contact-us/New window General enquiries
/study-at-wits/Admission enquiries
https://www.wits.ac.za/vacancies/New window Vacancies
/students/academic-matters/ter...Term dates
/about-wits/tenders/Tenders
https://witsshop.co.za/New window External Wits Shop
http://www.facebook.com/witsun...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/wits...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://twitter.com/witsuniversityNew window External No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/W...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.linkedin.com/compan...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@witsun...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@witsun...New window External Subdomain No Text
http://giving.wits.ac.za/External Subdomain Give to Wits
/site-assets/small-footer/term...Terms and Conditions of Use
https://www.wits.ac.za/popia/POPIA
https://www.wits.ac.za/paia/PAIA
/site-assets/small-footer/ispa/ISPA
/site-assets/small-footer/brow...Browser Support

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.wits.ac.za/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 very slow (1.81 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 9 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 15 Mar 2026 18:04:05 GMT
serverApache/2.4.6 () PHP/7.4.33
last-modifiedSat, 14 Mar 2026 15:13:20 GMT
etag"73d1-64cfd6d141e66"
accept-rangesbytes
content-length9922
keep-alivetimeout=5, max=89
connectionclose
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie82 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,420 referring domains.
This page has 101,396 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,204 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Home - Wits University
Explore Wits University's world-class programmes, research, and vibrant campus life.

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Wits76%Check
Wits University72%Check
University68%Check
Research51%Check
campus51%Check
vibrant51%Check
World51%Check
News and Events46%Check
Research Group45%Check
News41%Check
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