Jacobsschool.ucsd.edu - SEO Checker

Sign up for free! PDF Export
Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.13 s
File size
46.60 kB
Words
918
Media files
16
Number of links
58 internal / 48 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Jacobs School of Engineering
The length of the page title is perfect. (335 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
langen
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

Automatically check jacobsschool.ucsd.edu including all subpages at once!

Try for free
Guaranteed free of charge during trial period.

Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 918 words. That's ok.
28.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
17 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 19.61 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
13 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...ult/files/UCSDLogo_JSOE_BlueGold_0_0.pngHome
.../uploads/news/2025/CPMVvsCCMV-TEASER.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/news/2025/Untitled design (2).pngNo alt attribute provided
.../2025/chem-cardio-wristband-TEASER-2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../Yip SciRo perspective rotator thumb.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...hake table wrap up thumb and rotator.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...5/lung-cancer-never-smokers-TEASER-2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../uploads/news/2025/CPMVvsCCMV-TEASER.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/news/2025/Untitled design (2).pngNo alt attribute provided
.../uploads/news/2025/iStock-1676453203.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../2025/chem-cardio-wristband-TEASER-2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../Yip SciRo perspective rotator thumb.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../img/logos/logo-YouTube_white-200x75.svgNo alt attribute provided
...files/2023-08/Flickr_wordmark-FFFFFF.svgNo alt attribute provided
...files/groups/all/img/jsoe_logo_white.pngjsoe_logo_white.png

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Menu - JSOE
H2 We make bold possible
H2 News
H2 Prospective Undergraduates
H2 Prospective Master's Students
H2 Prospective PhD Students
H2 We power emerging industries
H2 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
H2 Photos and videos
H2 Did you know?
H4 Recent News
H5 Engineers Take a Closer Look at How a Plant Virus Primes the Immune System to Fight Cancer
H5 Celebrating the Life and Legacy of UC San Diego Bioengineering Pioneer David Gough
H5 Wristband Sensor Provides All-in-one Monitoring for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Care
H5 The Robot Will See You Now
H5 Engineers Shake Tallest Steel-framed Building Ever Tested on an Earthquake Simulator
H5 Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-smokers, New Study Finds
H5 Engineers Take a Closer Look at How a Plant Virus Primes the Immune System to Fight Cancer Duplicate text
H5 Celebrating the Life and Legacy of UC San Diego Bioengineering Pioneer David Gough Duplicate text
H5 For Tastier and Hardier Citrus, Researchers Built a Tool for Probing Plant Metabolism
H5 Wristband Sensor Provides All-in-one Monitoring for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Care Duplicate text
H5 The Robot Will See You Now Duplicate text
H6 July 25, 2025
H6 July 25, 2025 Duplicate text
H6 July 15, 2025
H6 July 10, 2025
H6 July 9, 2025
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 (48) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
/aboutAbout
/about/missionMission & Vision
/about/leadershipLeadership
/about/diversityDiversity
/about/rankingsRankings
/newsNews
/logosSubdomain Brand
/about/careersCareers
/about/historyHistory
/about/contactsContacts
/about/directionsMap and Directions
/prospective-studentsProspective Students
/prospective-students/undergra...Undergraduate Majors
/prospective-students/undergra...Prospective Undergraduates
/prospective-students/msProspective MS Students
/prospective-students/phdProspective PhD Students
https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/masMaster's for Working Professionals
/cosmosCosmos (pre-college)
/current-studentsCurrent Students
/ideaIDEA Engineering Student Center
/cap/job-internshipSubdomain Jobs and Internships
/envisionMaker Spaces
https://cgsd.ucsd.edu/index.htmlExternal Subdomain Global Sustainable Development
https://ige.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Entrepreneurship
/idea/current-undergraduates/u...Teams and Orgs
/current-students/culture-buil...Culture Building Programs
/facultySubdomain Faculty + Research
/faculty/profilesFaculty Profiles
/research/centers-institutesResearch Centers
/brochuresResearch Brochures
/faculty/nae-membersNAE Members
/faculty/endowed-chairsEndowed Chairs
/18NewEndowedChairs18 New Endowed Chairs
/faculty-scholars-and-fellowsFaculty Scholars and Fellows
/faculty/best-teacher-awardsBest Teacher Awards
/departmentsAcademic Departments
https://be.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Bioengineering
https://ne.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Chemical & Nano Engineering
https://cse.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Computer Science & Engineering
https://ece.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Electrical & Computer Engineering
https://mae.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
https://se.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Structural Engineering
/partner-with-usPartner with Us
/cap/industryIndustry
/alumniAlumni
/givingGiving
https://ige.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Entrepreneurs
http://fah.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain Franklin Antonio Hall
https://www.drupal.org/docs/us...New window External Subdomain User Guide
/rss.xmlSubdomain Subscribe to Home
/we-make-bold-possiblewhat we mean →
/newsAll News
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/e...External Subdomain No Text
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/e...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/c...External Subdomain No Text
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/w...External Subdomain No Text
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/w...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/t...External Subdomain No Text
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/t...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/e...External Subdomain No Text
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/e...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/a...External Subdomain No Text
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/a...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/prospective-students/undergra...Engineering at UC San Diego
/prospective-students/msMaster's Programs
/prospective-students/phdSubdomain PhD Programs
/emerging-industriesText duplicate what we mean →
/news/monthly-newsletterRead the Latest and Sign Up
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/e...New window External Subdomain Engineers Take a Closer Look at How a Plant Virus Primes the Immune System to Fight Cancer
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/e...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/c...New window External Subdomain Celebrating the Life and Legacy of UC San Diego Bioengineering Pioneer David Gough
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/c...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/f...New window External Subdomain For Tastier and Hardier Citrus, Researchers Built a Tool for Probing Plant Metabolism
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/f...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/w...New window External Subdomain Wristband Sensor Provides All-in-one Monitoring for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Care
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/w...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/t...New window External Subdomain The Robot Will See You Now
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/t...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/media-contactsWant more?
A-TITLE Additional media resources
https://www.youtube.com/user/J...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Jacobs School of Engineering on YouTube
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Jacobs School of Engineering photos and illustrations on Flickr
/about/rankingsSubdomain ranks the #10 engineering school in the nation
/we-make-bold-possibleSubdomain we make bold possible
https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/IMG-ALT jsoe_logo_white.png
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE link to LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/ucsa...External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE link to Instagram
https://bsky.app/profile/jacob...External Bluesky
A-TITLE link to Bluesky
http://www.facebook.com/UCSDJa...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE link to Facebook
https://twitter.com/UCSDJacobsExternal Twitter
A-TITLE link to Twitter
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Flickr
A-TITLE link to Flickr
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ja...External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE link to YouTube
/news/monthly-newsletterNew window Subdomain Subscribe to our newsletter
https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/JACOBS SCHOOL HOME
/prospective-students/undergra...New window PROSPECTIVE UNDERGRAD INFO
/facultyFACULTY DATABASE
/about/contactsCONTACT US
http://support.eng.ucsd.edu/New window External Subdomain JACOBS SCHOOL IT SUPPORT
http://soeadm.ucsd.edu/External Subdomain FOR FACULTY & STAFF
/logosLOGOS & BRANDING
http://www.ucsd.edu/directory/External Subdomain UC SAN DIEGO DIRECTORY
https://accessibility.ucsd.edu...New window External Subdomain Accessibility
https://ucsd.edu/about/privacy...New window External Privacy
https://ucsd.edu/about/terms-o...New window External Terms of Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://jacobsschool.ucsd.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 is very slow (2.13 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (47 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 08 Aug 2025 07:08:43 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length10414
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 246 referring domains.
This page has 1,846 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 138 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

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.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

Similar sites

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
School62%Check
Jacobs62%Check
Jacobs School62%Check
engineering school60%Check
Engineering54%Check
UC San49%Check
Engineering Student48%Check
UC San Diego47%Check
Structural Engineering46%Check
Science Engineering46%Check
Show more keywords and terms

Automatically check jacobsschool.ucsd.edu including all subpages at once!

Try for free
Guaranteed free of charge during trial period.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our site work and also for analytics and advertising purposes. You can enable or disable optional cookies as desired. See the following links for more information.

Contact | Privacy

We need these so the site can function properly

So we can better understand how visitors use our website

So we can serve you tailored ads and promotions