Courses.yale.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
93% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
72% 
External factors
69% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.99 s
File size
80.60 kB
Words
129
Media files
0
Number of links
0 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Search Yale Courses
The page title is too short. (189 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Yale Course Search is the official resource for viewing course offerings at Yale University.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (548 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
descriptionYale Course Search is the official resource for viewing course offerings at Yale University.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 129 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
13.2% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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 6 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
COURSE SEARCH
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 COURSE SEARCH
H2 Search Courses
H2 Welcome to Yale Course Search
H3 ADVANCED SEARCH
H3 WORKSHEETS
H3 Yale College Attributes
H3 Links
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://yub.yale.edu/New window External Subdomain Yale Hub
https://ivy.yale.edu/course-st...New window External Subdomain Course Demand Statistics
https://ivy.yale.edu/course-st...New window External Subdomain Discussion Section Statistics
https://bulletin.yale.edu/bull...New window External Subdomain Bulletins
https://canvas.yale.edu/New window External Subdomain Canvas
https://www.yale.edu/calendarsNew window External Subdomain Academic Calendars
https://sas.yale.edu/New window External Subdomain Student Accessibility Services
http://map.yale.edu/New window External Subdomain Campus Map
https://usability.yale.edu/web...New window External Subdomain Accessibility at Yale
https://registration.yale.edu/New window External Subdomain registration.yale.edu

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://courses.yale.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 of 0.99 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 (81 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 21 Oct 2026 14:13:35 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length17673
serverApache
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
last-modifiedTue, 20 Oct 2026 17:58:25 GMT
etag"1427b-65e49608af042-gzip"
accept-rangesbytes
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-frame-optionsDENY
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 23 referring domains.
This page only has 40 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 22 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

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COURSE94%Check
COURSE SEARCH87%Check
Yale Course Search86%Check
Yale82%Check
Search Yale81%Check
SEARCH80%Check
Search Yale Courses76%Check
Courses66%Check
Yale College64%Check
View51%Check
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