Gwc.gsrc.ucla.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.94 s
File size
11.30 kB
Words
395
Media files
2
Number of links
24 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Graduate Writing Center | Graduate Writing Center
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (452 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 395 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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 16.38 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, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 138 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"for in-person appointments, please bring one printout of your writing project to the appointment (one ..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...erlooking-wilson-plaza.jpg?itok=rogiEvneOverlooking Wilson Plaza
...s/logos/ucla-graduate-writing-center.svgUCLA Graduate Writing Center

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Graduate Writing Center
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Graduate Writing Center
H2 Workshops and Thesis Support Programs
H2 Writing Consultation Appointments
H3 How Do I Schedule an Appointment?
H3 What Happens at a Writing Consultation Appointment?
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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://gwc.gsrc.ucla.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
http://www.ucla.edu/External Subdomain UCLA
https://gwc.gsrc.ucla.edu/Graduate Writing Center
/gwc-introView 5-minute video intro to the GWC.
/workshopsworkshops and programs
/programs/dissdissertation "boot camps"
/programsthesis support
/appointmentsSchedule an Appointment
/philosophyGraduate Writing Center Consulting Philosophy
/policiesGraduate Writing Center Policies
/consultantsMeet the Graduate Writing Consultants
/appointmentsHandshake appointment system
/policiesGWC policies page
/appointmentsWriting Appointments
/workshopsWorkshops
/programsThesis Writing Support
/resourcesResources and Links
/locationLocation
/philosophyOur Philosophy
/policiesOur Policies
/consultantsOur Consultants
/dept-infoInfo for Departments
/about-usAbout Us
https://gwc.gsrc.ucla.edu/IMG-ALT UCLA Graduate Writing Center
/locationGraduate Writing Center Location
https://gsrc.ucla.edu/External Subdomain Graduate Student Resource Center
https://www.instagram.com/ucla...External Subdomain Instagram @uclagwc
https://twitter.com/uclaGWCExternal Twitter @uclaGWC
https://www.facebook.com/UCLAG...External Subdomain Facebook @UCLAGSRC
https://www.universityofcalifo...External Subdomain University of California
https://www.bso.ucla.edu/External Subdomain Emergency
https://www.ucla.edu/accessibi...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.ucla.edu/terms-of-useExternal Subdomain Privacy & Terms of Use
https://www.facebook.com/UCLA/External Subdomain Facebook @UCLAhousing
https://www.instagram.com/ucla/External Subdomain Instagram @uclahousing
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain Linkedin @ucla
https://x.com/uclaExternal X @ucla
https://www.youtube.com/user/UCLAExternal Subdomain YouTube @ucla
https://www.tiktok.com/@ucla?l...External Subdomain TikTok @ucla
https://story.snapchat.com/@uc...External Subdomain Snapchat @uclaofficial

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://gwc.gsrc.ucla.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 0.94 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 (11 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=180, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1754320630"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedMon, 04 Aug 2025 15:17:10 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionssameorigin
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe3-b-676d768d85-7nzrn
x-styx-req-idb05f9943-72d8-11f0-a1c8-7e071ee014bd
age56
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
dateWed, 06 Aug 2025 23:28:42 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-kigq8000053-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230152-FRA, cache-fra-eddf8230167-FRA, cache-fra-eddf8230167-FRA
x-cacheMISS, HIT, MISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0, 0, 0
x-timerS1754522923.710031,VS0,VE110
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
content-length4129
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 95 referring domains.
This page has 122 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 32 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# 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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Writing74%Check
Graduate Writing71%Check
Writing Center71%Check
Graduate Writing Center70%Check
Graduate65%Check
Center65%Check
Writing Consultation61%Check
Thesis Writing58%Check
writing consultants56%Check
UCLA50%Check
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