advising.stanford.edu | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.82 s

File size

90.20 kB

Words

514

Media files

8

Number of links

10 internal / 53 external

Meta specifications 92% achieved

Title

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Academic Advising

The page title is too short. (169 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

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Academic Advising provides comprehensive academic guidance across all the years of your undergraduate career.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (705 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

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There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

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https://advising.stanford.edu/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

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Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en

Server location: Germany

The following language is defined by HTML: en

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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No parameters were found in the URL.

No session ID was found in the URL.

The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

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MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
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charset	utf-8

Page quality 98% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

This page contains 514 words. That's ok.

24.9% of the text are stop words.

The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.

8 paragraphs were found on this page.

The text content is perfect.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

The average number of words per sentence of 23.4 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

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This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

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1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.

Social Sharing

Additional markup

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No additional page markup was found.

HTTPS

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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

HTTPS

Media list

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...1011a_web_0.jpg?h=3284dfd2&itok=t-SZtpmh	AARC Advisor meeting with a student
...weekend2024.jpg?h=5e8031fa&itok=wnp0Zsmw	A group of students during admit weekend in 2024
...onal_farm_0.jpg?h=e3fc3a33&itok=O5uVGnAW	A student studying.
...ch_day_2025.jpg?h=9c2070a3&itok=4_b8SK0p	A medical student showing who they were matched with on Match Day 2025
...r_library_0.jpg?h=520ded2b&itok=0UQPjVIA	Students studying behind Meyer Library. Credit: Linda Cicero
...e/sweet_hall_banner1_0.jpg?itok=PBcvf-QC	Sweet Hall
...themes/site/src/assets/svg/vpue-logo.svg	Stanford VPUE Logo

Page structure 98% achieved

H1 heading

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Academic Advising

The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Academic Advising
H2	Address
H2	Contact Us
H2	Links
H2	Connect with us!
H2	More to Explore
H2	VPUE Units
H2	VPUE Programs

Link structure 68% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.

There are too few (9) internal links on this page.

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

None of the anchor texts is too long.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are too many external links (53) on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
/meet-your-advisors		Undergraduate Advising Directors
/incoming-students		Incoming Students
/current-students		Current Students Resources
/beyond-undergrad		Beyond Undergrad
/faculty-and-staff		Faculty and Staff Resources
/saml/login?destination=/?gf_p...	Nofollow	Web Login
http://stanford.edu/	External	Visit
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Campus Map
/appointments		Make an Appointment
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Stanford Undergrad
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...	External Subdomain	About VPUE
https://advising.stanford.edu/		About Academic Advising
https://advisinghandbook.stanf...	External Subdomain	Academic Advising Intranet
http://vpue.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Stanford VPUE Logo
http://vpue.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Stanford VPUE Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...	External Subdomain	map
https://twitter.com/StanfordVPUE	External	Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/stanf...	External Subdomain	Stanford Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/stan...	External Subdomain	Stanford Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...	External Subdomain	Youtube
/?utm_source=footer&utm_medium...	Subdomain	Academic Advising
https://undergradresearch.stan...	External Subdomain	Research and Independent Projects
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...	External Subdomain	Tutoring and Support
https://vpuefacstaff.stanford....	External Subdomain	For Faculty / Staff
https://advising.stanford.edu/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Academic Advising
https://bosp.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Bing Overseas Studies Programs
https://ctl.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Center for Teaching and Learning
https://haas.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Haas Center for Public Service
https://pwr.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
https://sis.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Stanford Introductory Studies
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...	External Subdomain	Vice Provost’s Office
https://approaching.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Approaching Stanford (APSU)
https://artsintensive.stanford...	External Subdomain	Arts Intensive (AI)
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...	External Subdomain	Bing Honors College (BHC)
https://bosp.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Bing Overseas Studies Programs (BOSP)
https://cardinalservice.stanfo...	External Subdomain	Cardinal Service
https://college.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE)
https://sis.stanford.edu/educa...	External Subdomain	Education as Self-Fashioning (ESF)
https://frosh101.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Frosh 101 / Transfer 101
https://hume.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Hume Center for Writing and Speaking
https://introsems.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Introductory Seminars (IntroSems)
https://italic.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	ITALIC: Immersion in the Arts
https://orientation.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	New Student Orientation (NSO)
https://undergrad.stanford.edu...	External Subdomain	Oral Communication Program
https://pwr.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR)
https://soco.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Sophomore College (SoCo)
http://sle.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Structured Liberal Education (SLE)
https://studentlearning.stanfo...	External Subdomain	Student Learning Programs
https://summerbridge.stanford....	External Subdomain	Summer Bridge Program
https://summerfellows.stanford...	External Subdomain	Summer Fellows Program (SSFP)
https://undergradresearch.stan...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Research and Independent Projects
https://ways.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Ways of Thinking / Ways of Doing (WAYS)
https://www.stanford.edu/	External Subdomain	Stanford University (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/	Nofollow External Subdomain	Stanford Home (link is external)
https://visit.stanford.edu/bas...	Nofollow External Subdomain	Maps & Directions (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/search/	Nofollow External Subdomain	Search Stanford (link is external)
https://emergency.stanford.edu/	Nofollow External Subdomain	Emergency Info (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...	Nofollow External Subdomain	Terms of Use (link is external) A-TITLE Terms of use for sites
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...	Nofollow External Subdomain	Privacy (link is external) A-TITLE Privacy and cookie policy
https://uit.stanford.edu/secur...	Nofollow External Subdomain	Copyright (link is external) A-TITLE Report alleged copyright infringement
https://adminguide.stanford.ed...	Nofollow External Subdomain	Trademarks (link is external) A-TITLE Ownership and use of Stanford trademarks and images
https://non-discrimination.sta...	Nofollow External Subdomain	Non-Discrimination (link is external) A-TITLE Non-discrimination policy
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...	Nofollow External Subdomain	Accessibility (link is external) A-TITLE Report web accessibility issues

Server configuration 80% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://advising.stanford.edu/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.82 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 (90 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

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x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
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access-control-allow-origin	*
content-encoding	gzip
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x-cache-hits	8
x-age	2932
accept-ranges	bytes
cache-control	public, max-age=60
expires	Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:14:58 GMT
date	Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:13:58 GMT
vary	Accept-Encoding
strict-transport-security	max-age=15768000
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 12% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page has only a few links from other websites.

This page only has backlinks from 4 referring domains.

This page only has 6 backlinks.

This page only has few backlinks from 4 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 30
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed
# Block Printable Paths
Disallow: /*/printable/print
# Block saml paths links
Disallow: /sso/login
Disallow: /saml_login
Disallow: /saml/login
Disallow: /saml/acs
# Block Femtosearch
User-agent: FemtosearchBot
Crawl-Delay: 120
Disallow: /
# Block SemrushBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-Delay: 120
Disallow: /

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Academic Advising provides comprehensive academic guidance across all the years of your undergraduate career.

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Advising	90%	Check
Academic Advising	84%	Check
Academic	78%	Check
Academic Advising provides comprehensive	65%	Check
Undergraduate Advising Directors	56%	Check
provides comprehensive academic guidance	54%	Check
Stanford	48%	Check
edu	48%	Check
Stanford Undergrad	47%	Check
undergraduate	46%	Check
VPUE	46%	Check
career	46%	Check
provides	46%	Check
comprehensive	46%	Check
guidance	46%	Check
years	46%	Check
provides comprehensive	46%	Check
undergraduate student	42%	Check
Stanford University	41%	Check
undergraduate education	41%	Check
Approaching Stanford	41%	Check
student	38%	Check
Programs	38%	Check
students	38%	Check
Explore	38%	Check

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Meta specifications 92% achieved

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Page quality 98% achieved

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Page structure 98% achieved

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Link structure 68% achieved

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Server configuration 80% achieved

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External factors 12% achieved

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