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Meta information
65% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
53% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
73% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.97 s
File size
112.60 kB
Words
471
Media files
12
Number of links
57 internal / 44 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Ethics - NCICU
The page title is too short. (137 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://ncicu.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 471 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
18.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Ethics
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (6 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Ethics
H2 Get to Know Your Independent Colleges and Universities
H3 Support NCICU Ethics Bowl and Student Scholarships
H3 You Can Afford a Private College!
H3 Thank Our Legislators
H3 NCICU Infographic
H3 Featured Partner
H6 The Independent College Fund of North Carolina provides student scholarship aid and enrichment programs.
H6 There is still time to fill out the FAFSA! State, federal and institutional aid is available.
H6 Thank NC Legislators for supporting grants for NC students at our colleges.
H6 NEWS
H6 EVENTS
H6 Link to video
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 (44) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ncicu.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://ncicu.org/IMG-ALT NCICU
https://ncicu.org/Text duplicate NCICU
https://ncicu.org/contact-us/Contact Us
https://twitter.com/NCICUhigheredNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
/support-hurricane-helene-reco...HURRICANE HELENE RECOVERY
https://ncicu.org/support-ncicu/SCHOLARSHIPS
https://ncicu.org/sponsorship/PROGRAMS
/business-affiliate-membership/BUSINESS AFFILIATES
https://ncicu.org/who-we-are/Who we are
/find-your-college/Find Your College
https://ncicu.org/quick-facts/Quick Facts
/board-of-directors/Board of Directors
https://ncicu.org/publications/Publications
https://ncicu.org/meet-our-staff/Meet Our Staff
/news-and-events/News & Events
https://ncicu.org/support-ncicu/Support NCICU
https://ncicu.org/give/The Independent College Fund of North Carolina
/icfnc-advisory-board/ICFNC Advisory Board
https://ncicu.org/sponsorship/Sponsorship
/donors-and-sponsors/Donors and Sponsors
/programs-and-meetings/Programs & Meetings
/administrative-group-meetings/Administrative Group Meetings
https://ncicu.org/ethics-bowl/NCICU Ethics Bowl
/ncicu-internship-luncheon/NCICU Internship Luncheon
/ncicu-counselors-tour/NCICU Counselors Tour
/undergraduate-research-sympos...Undergraduate Research Symposium
https://ncicu.org/grant-funded/Grant-Funded Programs
/making-college-affordable/Making College Affordable
/scholarships-and-grants/Grants and Scholarships
/how-financial-aid-is-determined/The Facts: How Financial Aid is Determined
/support-ncicu/star-scholarship/Student Teacher Assistance for Retention Scholarship
/online-and-adult-learning/Non-Traditional, Online, and Adult Program
/collaborative-partnerships/Collaborative Partnerships
/business-affiliates/Business Affiliates
/direct-contract-affiliates/Direct Contract Affiliates
/group-purchasing-programs/Group Purchasing Programs
/campus-buy-guide/Campus Buyers Guide
/articulation-agreements/Articulation Agreements
https://ncicu.org/my-future-nc/MyFutureNC
/business-affiliate-webinars/Collaborative Partners Webinars
/support-hurricane-helene-reco...Text duplicate HURRICANE HELENE RECOVERY
https://nccollegeconnect.com/External Unlock Opportunities
/find-your-college/Trivial anchor text
Click here
https://ncicu.org/support-ncicu/more >
/making-college-affordable/Text duplicate more >
/thank-your-legislator/Text duplicate more >
/2025/08/06/ncicu-expands-coll...NCICU Expands College Access through NC College Connect
/2025/07/18/ncicu-applauds-nor...NCICU Applauds North Carolina’s #1 Business Ranking, Thanks Lawmakers for Partnership
/who-we-are/ncicu-news/SEE ALL NEWS >
/2025/06/23/2026-ncicu-ethics-...2026 NCICU Ethics Bowl
/2025/06/23/2025-26-administra...2025-26 Administrative Group Meetings
/who-we-are/events/SEE ALL EVENTS >
https://ncicu.org/infographics/No Text
https://ncicu.org/infographics/Thank You to our Mentoring Program Directors!
https://nam04.safelinks.protec...New window External Subdomain Link to video
/direct-contract-affiliates/New window No Text
/find-your-college/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Click here
https://www.barton.edu/New window External Subdomain Barton College
https://belmontabbeycollege.edu/New window External Belmont Abbey College
https://www.bennett.edu/New window External Subdomain Bennett College
https://brevard.edu/New window External Brevard College
https://atriumhealth.org/educa...New window External Cabarrus College of Health Sciences
https://www.campbell.edu/New window External Subdomain Campbell University
https://catawba.edu/New window External Catawba College
https://www.chowan.edu/New window External Subdomain Chowan University
https://www.davidson.edu/New window External Subdomain Davidson College
https://duke.edu/New window External Duke University
https://www.elon.edu/New window External Subdomain Elon University
https://gardner-webb.edu/New window External Gardner-Webb University
https://www.greensboro.edu/New window External Subdomain Greensboro College
https://www.guilford.edu/New window External Subdomain Guilford College
https://www.highpoint.edu/New window External Subdomain High Point University
https://www.jcsu.edu/New window External Subdomain Johnson C. Smith University
https://www.lmc.edu/New window External Subdomain Lees-McRae College
https://www.lr.edu/New window External Subdomain Lenoir-Rhyne University
http://livingstone.edu/New window External Livingstone College
https://www.louisburg.edu/New window External Subdomain Louisburg College
https://www.mhu.edu/New window External Subdomain Mars Hill University
https://www.meredith.edu/New window External Subdomain Meredith College
http://www.methodist.edu/New window External Subdomain Methodist University
https://www.macuniversity.edu/New window External Subdomain Mid-Atlantic Christian University
https://www.montreat.edu/New window External Subdomain Montreat College
https://ncwc.edu/New window External NC Wesleyan University
https://www.pfeiffer.edu/New window External Subdomain Pfeiffer University
https://www.queens.edu/New window External Subdomain Queens University of Charlotte
https://www.st-aug.edu/New window External Subdomain Saint Augustine’s University
https://www.salem.edu/New window External Subdomain Salem College
https://www.shawu.edu/New window External Subdomain Shaw University
https://umo.edu/New window External University of Mount Olive
https://www.wfu.edu/New window External Subdomain Wake Forest University
https://www.warren-wilson.edu/New window External Subdomain Warren Wilson College
https://www.peace.edu/New window External Subdomain William Peace University
https://www.wingate.edu/New window External Subdomain Wingate University
https://ncicu.org/Home
https://ncicu.org/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://twitter.com/NCICUhigheredExternal No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ncicu.org/"
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 0.97 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 (113 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 193 referring domains.
This page has 746 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 84 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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