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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.44 s
File size
38.50 kB
Words
427
Media files
18
Number of links
16 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Undergraduate Admission : Stanford University
The length of the page title is perfect. (418 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Undergraduation Admission at Stanford University--one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. It is located in Palo Alto, California.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (907 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionUndergraduation Admission at Stanford University--one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. It is located in Palo Alto, California.
authorUndergraduation Admission at Stanford University
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 427 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.5% 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.
6 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 16.71 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
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 9 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
...ts/cardinal/images/stanford-white@2x.pngStanford University
...cardinal/images/banners/home/banner9.jpgCampus view from the OVAL of the Quad with Memorial Church
/assets/cardinal/images/home-academics3.jpgProfessor writing on chalkboard
/assets/cardinal/images/home-engage.jpgGroup of people touring the Quad
/assets/cardinal/images/home-ideal.jpgSpanish dancers performing for onlookers
...ets/cardinal/images/home-campus-life.jpgThree students walking together across campus
/assets/cardinal/images/home-athletics.jpgWomen's basketball game celebration
/assets/cardinal/images/home-arts.jpgInside the Bing concert hall
...ardinal/images/dean-shaw-square-crop.jpgDean Shaw
...rdinal/images/home-planning-applying.jpgStudents walking to the Quad with Memorial Church in the distance
...rdinal/images/stanford_block_s_logo2.jpgStanford logo
.../cardinal/images/social/instagram@2x.pngInstagram
/assets/cardinal/images/social/X@2x.pngX
...ts/cardinal/images/social/youtube@2x.pngYouTube
...dinal/images/footer-stanford-logo@2x.pngStanford University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Undergraduate Admission
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Undergraduate Admission
H2 Search form
H2 Discover Stanford
H2 Application Deadlines
H2 A Stanford Education is Possible.
H2 News & Announcements
H3 Explore Boldly. Dream Audaciously.
H3 Admit Weekend highlights
H3 In new book on college life, Jay Hamilton says students have more freedom than they know
H3 Follow @EngageStanford Stanford logo
H3 Programs
H3 Brochures
H3 Engage with Us
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://admission.stanford.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.stanford.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Stanford University
https://admission.stanford.edu/Undergraduate Admission
/plan/Plan
/afford/Afford
/engage/Engage
/apply/Apply
/index.phpNews & Announcements
/apply/first-yearApplication Requirements
/engageTours and Programs
https://financialaid.stanford....External Subdomain Cost of Attendance
https://oval.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Admission Volunteers
https://www.stanford.edu/acade...External Subdomain Academics
/engage/Subdomain Tours & Programs
https://studentaffairs.stanfor...External Subdomain Community & Belonging
https://www.stanford.edu/campu...External Subdomain Campus Life
https://gostanford.com/External Athletics
https://arts.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Arts
/plan/Planning for College
/apply/Applying to Stanford
https://financialaid.stanford....New window External Subdomain Learn more about financial aid at Stanford
https://news.stanford.edu/stor...External Subdomain Watch the Stanford Report video
https://news.stanford.edu/stor...External Subdomain Read more about the book in the Stanford Report
https://admission.stanford.edu/Subdomain Anchor top
https://apply.stanford.edu/por...External Subdomain Admission Forums, Student Programs, and Special Events
/publications/index.htmlStanford Preview and Viewbook
A-TITLE Link to Stanford Preview and Viewbook publications
https://apply.stanford.edu/reg...External Subdomain Join the Mailing List
/contact-us/index.htmlContact Us
/policies/index.htmlUniversity Policies
http://instagram.com/engagesta...External IMG-ALT Instagram
http://twitter.com/engagestanfordExternal IMG-ALT X
http://www.youtube.com/engages...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://police.stanford.edu/se...New window External Subdomain View the full report
http://www.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Stanford University
https://www.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Home
https://visit.stanford.edu/plan/External Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://www.stanford.edu/search/External Subdomain Search Stanford
https://emergency.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Info
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...External Subdomain Terms of Use
A-TITLE Terms of use for sites
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...External Subdomain Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy and cookie policy
https://uit.stanford.edu/secur...External Subdomain Copyright
A-TITLE Report alleged copyright infringement
https://adminguide.stanford.ed...External Subdomain Trademarks
A-TITLE Ownership and use of Stanford trademarks and images
http://exploredegrees.stanford...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination
A-TITLE Non-discrimination policy
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...External Subdomain Accessibility
A-TITLE Report web accessibility issues

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://admission.stanford.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.44 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 (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSun, 10 Aug 2025 07:08:11 GMT
serverApache
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 296 referring domains.
This page has 782 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 190 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /DEV/
Disallow: /TEST/
Disallow: /awschedule/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /alumni/interview/
Disallow: /alumni/volunteer/
Disallow: /alumni/test/
Disallow: /banners.html
Disallow: /onbase/
Disallow: /video/
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /extras/
Disallow: /counselors/officers.html
Disallow: /apply/selection/overview.html
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://admission.stanford.edu/sitemap.xml

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Undergraduation Admission at Stanford University--one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. It is located in Palo Alto, California.

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