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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.61 s
File size
54.20 kB
Words
236
Media files
11
Number of links
22 internal / 39 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - University of California, Berkeley
The length of the page title is perfect. (362 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (819 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.berkeley.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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

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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionUC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
article:modified_time2025-06-02T16:48:35+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - University of California, Berkeley
og:descriptionUC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
og:urlhttps://www.berkeley.edu/
og:site_nameUniversity of California, Berkeley
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 236 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
19.9% 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 14 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...erkeleygateway/img/logo-berkeley.svg?v=3UC Berkeley home
...erkeleygateway/img/logo-berkeley.svg?v=3UC Berkeley home
...05/US_deportation_2025_edit-1024x585.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2025/05/0F6A7235-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../doctor_patient_confer_edit-1024x586.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...opy-01.00_08_22_01.Still010-1024x576.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/2025/05/iStock-1933557318-1024x576.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...rsalGrasper_AVL_0393_16x9-1200x675-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
....edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cas9.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2025/05/DSC_1102_crop3000px-1024x585.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...eygateway/img/logo-berkeley-gold.svg?v=3UC Berkeley

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
UC Berkeley home
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 UC Berkeley home
H1 UC Berkeley home Duplicate text
H2 Information for ...
H2 Congratulations, Class of 2025!
H3 Events
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (39) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.berkeley.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.berkeley.edu/Anchor Skip to main menu
https://www.berkeley.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Skip to main menu
/students/Subdomain Students
/faculty-staff/Subdomain Faculty & Staff
https://calparents.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Parents
https://my.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Alumni
http://give.berkeley.edu/?sc=1...External Subdomain Give
https://www.berkeley.edu/map/Subdomain Map
/directory/Subdomain Directory
https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain bConnected
https://news.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain News
https://www.berkeley.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT UC Berkeley home
https://www.berkeley.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT UC Berkeley home
https://www.berkeley.edu/map/Subdomain Text duplicate Map
/directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate bConnected
https://news.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate News
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Students
/faculty-staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty & Staff
https://calparents.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Parents
https://my.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni
http://give.berkeley.edu/?sc=1...External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025...External Subdomain Congratulations, Class of 2025! UC Berkeley’s campuswide commencement was a morning filled with sunshine and gratitude.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025...External Subdomain A looming crisis: In deportation push, will the U.S. scrap constitutional safeguards?
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025...External Subdomain For Berkeley’s top graduating senior, academia is great — but helping real people is even better
https://events.berkeley.edu/li...External Subdomain Past as Present: APA Religions, Renewal, and Collective Care
https://events.berkeley.edu/li...External Subdomain Text duplicate Past as Present: APA Religions, Renewal, and Collective Care
https://events.berkeley.edu/li...External Subdomain Psychedelics and Spirituality in Light of the Religious Leaders Study
https://events.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain More Events
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025...External Subdomain Proposed Medicaid cuts could have devastating impact in California, UC Berkeley analysts say
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025...External Subdomain The roots of the groove of African American pop music, explained
https://engineering.berkeley.e...External Subdomain New MRI method offers deeper insight into brain physiology
/research-impact/Subdomain UC Berkeley researchers work to solve society’s toughest problems and propel humanity forward.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025...External Subdomain Federal appeals court sends CRISPR-Cas9 patent case back to patent office for reconsideration
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025...External Subdomain Leinweber Foundation and UC Berkeley establish $18 million endowment to fund theoretical physics research
https://www.berkeley.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT UC Berkeley
http://www.facebook.com/UCBerk...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/UCBerkeleyNew window External X
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE Youtube
http://instagram.com/ucberkele...New window External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://medium.com/@UCBerkeleyNew window External Medium
A-TITLE Medium
https://visit.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Visit
https://www.berkeley.edu/jobs/Subdomain Jobs
https://news.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate News
https://events.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Events
https://give.berkeley.edu/?sc=...External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
https://lib.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://www.calbears.com/External Subdomain Cal Athletics
https://diversity.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Equity, Inclusion & Diversity
https://vcue.berkeley.edu/comm...External Subdomain Accreditation
https://light.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain Berkeley Inspire
/heerf-report/Subdomain HEERF Report
https://ophd.berkeley.edu/poli...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination
https://www.berkeley.edu/atoz/Subdomain Websites A-Z
/directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://www.berkeley.edu/map/Subdomain Text duplicate Map
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy policy
https://dac.berkeley.edu/web-a...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://news.berkeley.edu/abou...External Subdomain Media inquiries

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.berkeley.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.61 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 (54 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 11 Jun 2025 04:39:19 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
access-control-allow-originhttps://www.berkeley.edu
link<https://www.berkeley.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-powered-byWP Engine
x-cacheableSHORT
cache-controlmax-age=600, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 516
x-cache-groupnormal
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray94de6c8c385702bb-CDG
content-encodingbr
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 6,442 referring domains.
This page has 1,161,626 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,642 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

Crawl-delay: 10
# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.berkeley.edu/sitemap_index.xml
# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

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www.berkeley.edu
Home - University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Berkeley92%Check
UC Berkeley79%Check
California46%Check
Leaders46%Check
push46%Check
Events38%Check
Information38%Check
Congratulations38%Check
Class38%Check
content36%Check
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