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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

79%

Page quality

64%

Page structure

41%

Link structure

93%

Server

92%

External factors

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.55 s

File size

49.70 kB

Words

313

Media files

Number of links

27 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 6 Tasks

Remove unnecessary words like welcome messages from your H1 heading.Very important!
Only use 1 H1 Heading in your text.Very important!
Review and improve the page title.Important!
The page title should be better suited to the content of the page.Important!
Review and improve the H1 heading.Important!
Improve the page response time.Tip!

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Meta specifications 79% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Career Services | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University

The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 831 pixels long. Optimize title

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Career Services site offers resources, advising and more for undergraduate and graduate students.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (918 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://careerservices.columbian.gwu.edu/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

(Somewhat important)

Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en

Server location: Canada

The following language is defined by HTML: en

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

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.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

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

Name	Value
description	The GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Career Services site offers resources, advising and more for undergraduate and graduate students.
abstract	The GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Career Services site offers resources, advising and more for undergraduate and graduate students.
keywords	gw, george washington university, gwu, gw, gw university, george washington, dc universities, dc colleges, education, higher education
generator	Varbase
referrer	origin
rights	©2025 Career Services \| Columbian College of Arts & Sciences . All rights reserved.
google-site-verification	281qsbd4CnNj6AaYU5K1RLZOjUoGn_2pBurGHAyp7lw
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
apple-mobile-web-app-capable	yes
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
lang	en
twitter:card	summary_large_image
twitter:description	The GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Career Services site offers resources, advising and more for undergraduate and graduate students.
twitter:title	Career Services \| Columbian College of Arts & Sciences \| The George Washington University
twitter:image	https://centraldata.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs4176/files/2021-12/gw_open_graph.png
og:site_name	Career Services \| Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
og:type	website
og:url	https://careerservices.columbian.gwu.edu/
og:title	Career Services \| Columbian College of Arts & Sciences \| The George Washington University
og:description	The GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Career Services site offers resources, advising and more for undergraduate and graduate students.
og:image	https://centraldata.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs4176/files/2021-12/gw_open_graph.png
og:image:url	https://centraldata.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs4176/files/2021-12/gw_open_graph.png
og:image:alt	The George Washington University Logo
x-ua-compatible	ie=edge
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 64% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content

There are only 313 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

29.4% of the text are stop words.

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

5 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 23.75 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

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.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.

Image SEO

This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...gwu_blocks/images/gw-header-image-53.png	Career Services \| Columbian College of Arts & Sciences site logo
...om/gwu_content_types/img/gw_mono_0_0.png	GW Home
/themes/custom/vartheme_bs4/logo-print.png	Career Services \| Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
...o_Career_Services_2024.png?itok=wUqqmTLx	Collage of students presenting a research poster, working in a lab coat in a physics lab, and talking with a career counselor
data:[...] Base64	Collage of students presenting a research poster, working in a lab coat in a physics lab, and talking with a career counselor
...6/files/2024-09/gw_tspppa082621-0007.png	Collage of students presenting a research poster, working in a lab coat in a physics lab, and talking with a career counselor
...aduate_up_2018_wla-2n0a9050_1080x720.jpg	Collage of students presenting a research poster, working in a lab coat in a physics lab, and talking with a career counselor
...les/zaxdzs5176/files/2024-09/quote_2.png	Collage of students presenting a research poster, working in a lab coat in a physics lab, and talking with a career counselor
...zs4681/files/2022-12/gw-footer-image.png	The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Page structure 41% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Home

The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.

Too many H1 headings

The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.

The H1 heading is too short (4 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	Home
H1	Career Services at Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
H2	Career Services Events
H2	Student Services
H3	Resources for Undergraduate Students
H3	Resources for Graduate Students
H3	Explore Job Search Resources
H3	Talk to a Career Advisor
H3	Find a Job On-Campus
H3	Find an Internship or Job Off-Campus

Link structure 93% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 19 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
/	Anchor	Skip to main content
/	Subdomain	IMG-ALT Career Services \| Columbian College of Arts & Sciences site logo
/	Subdomain	Career Services Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
/		IMG-ALT GW Home
/undergraduate		Undergraduate
/alumni		Alumni
/faculty		Faculty
/graduate		Graduate
/news-events		News & Events
/minute-mentor-podcast		Minute Mentor Podcast
/undergraduate	Text duplicate	Undergraduate
/alumni	Text duplicate	Alumni
/faculty	Text duplicate	Faculty
/graduate	Text duplicate	Graduate
/news-events	Text duplicate	News & Events
/minute-mentor-podcast	Text duplicate	Minute Mentor Podcast
/undergraduate		undergraduate
/graduate		graduate
/alumni		alumni
/node/66		Image IMG-ALT Collage of students presenting a research poster, working in a lab coat in a physics lab, and talking with a career counselor
/undergraduate		Resources for Undergraduate Students
/node/51	Text duplicate	Image IMG-ALT Collage of students presenting a research poster, working in a lab coat in a physics lab, and talking with a career counselor
/graduate		Resources for Graduate Students
/news-events		More News & Events
/minute-mentor-podcast	Text duplicate	Minute Mentor Podcast
https://careerservices.gwu.edu/	New window External Subdomain	The Center for Career Services
https://careerservices.gwu.edu...	New window External Subdomain	Explore Job Search Resources
https://careerservices.gwu.edu...	New window External Subdomain	Talk to a Career Advisor
https://careerservices.gwu.edu...	New window External Subdomain	Find a Job On-Campus
https://careerservices.gwu.edu...	New window External Subdomain	Find an Internship or Job Off-Campus
https://www.facebook.com/gwuco...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.instagram.com/gwuc...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://twitter.com/gwucolumbian	External	No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...	External Subdomain	No Text
/undergraduate		Undergraduate Career Resources
/graduate		Graduate Career Resources
https://www.gwu.edu/?utm_mediu...	New window External Subdomain	IMG-ALT The George Washington University, Washington, DC
https://campusadvisories.gwu.e...	New window External Subdomain	Campus Advisories
https://compliance.gwu.edu/equ...	New window External Subdomain	EO/Nondiscrimination Policy
https://www.gwu.edu/privacy-no...	New window External Subdomain	Website Privacy Notice
https://www.gwu.edu/contact-gw...	New window External Subdomain	Contact GW
https://accessibility.gwu.edu/...	New window External Subdomain	Accessibility
https://www.gwu.edu/terms-use?...	New window External Subdomain	Terms of Use
https://www.gwu.edu/copyright?...	New window External Subdomain	Copyright
https://accessibility.gwu.edu/...	New window External Subdomain	Report a Barrier to Accessibility

Server configuration 92% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://careerservices.columbian.gwu.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 0.55 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 (50 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:07:34 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
cache-control	max-age=2764800, public, s-maxage=86400
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modified	Wed, 18 Jun 2025 04:17:56 GMT
vary	Cookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-request-id	v-360a04f0-4bfb-11f0-857b-afa2fc252842
x-ah-environment	02live
via	varnish
x-cache	HIT
x-cache-hits	16
cf-cache-status	MISS
server	cloudflare
cf-ray	951e71903fa9bb42-CDG
content-encoding	gzip
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 0% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

We didn't find any backlinks to this page.

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: *
# 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

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Career Services | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The Ge...

The GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Career Services site offers resources, advising and more for undergraduate and graduate students.

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Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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Services	86%	Check
Career Services	86%	Check
Columbian	75%	Check
Career Resources	72%	Check
Columbian College	69%	Check
GW Columbian College	66%	Check
College	63%	Check
Arts	62%	Check
Sciences	62%	Check
Career Coaching	62%	Check
Development Services	62%	Check
Graduate	61%	Check
Arts Sciences	61%	Check
resources	59%	Check
undergraduate students	57%	Check
students	56%	Check
Undergraduate	55%	Check
Liberal Arts	48%	Check
Online resources	48%	Check
Washington	47%	Check
offers	46%	Check
careers	46%	Check
Washington University	44%	Check
Job	43%	Check

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Careerservices.columbian.gwu.edu - SEO Checker

Task list of SEO Improvements 6 Tasks

Meta specifications 79% achieved

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Page structure 41% achieved

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Link structure 93% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 92% achieved

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External factors 0% achieved

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