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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

100%

Page quality

57%

Page structure

100%

Link structure

47%

Server

77%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.54 s

File size

28.90 kB

Words

350

Media files

Number of links

27 internal / 38 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 2 Tasks

Meta specifications 100% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

The University of British Columbia

The length of the page title is perfect. (303 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (911 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)

No canonical link is specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

(Somewhat important)

Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en-ca

Server location: Canada

The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca

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)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

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
viewport	width=device-width
description	The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.
lang	en-ca
fb:pages	16761458703
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 57% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

There are only 350 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

The average number of words per sentence of 33.5 words is high.

28.9% 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.

3 paragraphs were found on this page.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.

At least one Apple touch icon is specified.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 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

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

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
...s/24077-dr_emmanuel_osei-1920x700_1x.jpg	Dr. Emmanuel Osei, Assistant Professor in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science
...he/images/24081-orchestra-370x370_1x.jpg	National Youth Orchestra of Canada
..._rec_north_fitness_centre-370x370_1x.jpg	Gym inside the Rec North Fitness Centre at UBC Vancouver
...4091-ubc_vancouver_campus-370x370_1x.jpg	UBC Vancouver campus
.../24121-dr_arig_al_shaibah-370x370_1x.jpg	Dr. Arig al Shaibah, Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion at UBC
...24116-sleeping_in_capsule-370x370_1x.jpg	Person sleeping in a capsule
...111-carrawburgh_mithraeum-370x370_1x.jpg	Remains of the Carrawburgh Mithraeum in England
...es/24106-stretching_woods-370x370_1x.jpg	Person stretching at a trail
...images/24101-newborn_baby-370x370_1x.jpg	newborn baby in the arms of an adult
..._brian-hayes_hannah_young-370x370_1x.jpg	Drs. Brian Hayes and Hannah Young

Page structure 100% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

The University of British Columbia

The H1 heading is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	The University of British Columbia
H2	Marquee
H2	Spotlight
H2	Connect with UBC
H2	Explore UBC
H3	3D-printed living lung tissue
H3	National Youth Orchestra of Canada at the Chan Centre
H3	Tips for your first visit to the Rec North Fitness Centre
H3	UBC researchers receive support through federal investments
H3	Advancing equity at UBC: A leadership Q&A on the StEAR Report
H3	What’s a healthy amount of sleep? It differs from one country to another
H3	What ancient meals reveal about Roman Britain
H3	Is it safe to exercise in extreme heat and smoky skies?
H3	Kindness counts—even to a five-day-old baby
H3	From medical school to medical leadership

Link structure 47% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

The number of internal links is ok.

None of the anchor texts is too long.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are too many external links (38) on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.ubc.ca/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://www.ubc.ca/	Subdomain	The University of British Columbia A-TITLE The University of British Columbia (UBC)
https://www.ubc.ca/	Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia
https://www.ubc.ca/about/		About UBC
https://www.ubc.ca/our-campuses/		Our Campuses
https://www.ubc.ca/admissions/		Admissions
https://www.ubc.ca/academics/		Academics
/strategic-priorities/		Strategic Priorities
https://www.ubc.ca/research/		Research
https://www.ubc.ca/campus-life/		Campus Life
https://news.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	News
https://give.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	give UBC
/prospective-students/		Prospective Students
/undergraduate-students/		Undergraduate Students
/graduate-students/		Graduate Students
https://www.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/		Faculty & Staff
http://www.alumni.ubc.ca/	External Subdomain	Alumni
/community-partners/		Community Partners
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/07...	External Subdomain	3D-printed living lung tissue Innovation could transform how scientists study lung disease and develop new treatments Read More IMG-ALT Dr. Emmanuel Osei, Assistant Professor in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science
https://chancentre.com/events/...	External	IMG-ALT National Youth Orchestra of Canada
https://chancentre.com/events/...	External	National Youth Orchestra of Canada at the Chan Centre
https://recreation.ubc.ca/2025...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Gym inside the Rec North Fitness Centre at UBC Vancouver
https://recreation.ubc.ca/2025...	External Subdomain	Tips for your first visit to the Rec North Fitness Centre
https://research.ubc.ca/news/j...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT UBC Vancouver campus
https://research.ubc.ca/news/j...	External Subdomain	UBC researchers receive support through federal investments
https://www.facebook.com/unive...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://instagram.com/universi...	New window External	No Text
https://twitter.com/ubc	New window External	No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/ubc	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@univer...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://equity.ubc.ca/news-and...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Dr. Arig al Shaibah, Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion at UBC
/archives/?tags=campus		Campus
/archives/?tags=community		Community
/archives/?tags=people		People
https://equity.ubc.ca/news-and...	External Subdomain	Advancing equity at UBC: A leadership Q&A on the StEAR Report
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/05/wh...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Person sleeping in a capsule
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/05/wh...	External Subdomain	What’s a healthy amount of sleep? It differs from one country to another
https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/w...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Remains of the Carrawburgh Mithraeum in England
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/w...	External Subdomain	What ancient meals reveal about Roman Britain
https://beyond.ubc.ca/is-it-sa...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Person stretching at a trail
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://beyond.ubc.ca/is-it-sa...	External Subdomain	Is it safe to exercise in extreme heat and smoky skies?
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/07/ki...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT newborn baby in the arms of an adult
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/07/ki...	External Subdomain	Kindness counts—even to a five-day-old baby
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/06...	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Drs. Brian Hayes and Hannah Young
/archives/?tags=research	Text duplicate	Research
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/06...	External Subdomain	From medical school to medical leadership
https://www.ubc.ca/archives/		Explore More
/about/contact.html		Contact the Vancouver campus
/about/contact-okanagan.html		Contact the Okanagan campus
https://www.facebook.com/unive...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://instagram.com/universi...	New window External	No Text
https://twitter.com/ubc	New window External	No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/ubc	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@univer...	New window External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.ubc.ca/	Subdomain Text duplicate	The University of British Columbia
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/eme...	External Subdomain	Emergency Procedures
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/terms	External Subdomain	Terms of Use
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/cop...	External Subdomain	UBC Copyright
https://cdn.ubc.ca/clf/ref/acc...	External Subdomain	Accessibility

Server configuration 77% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://www.ubc.ca/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.

The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.54 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 (29 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length	6288
date	Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:02:27 GMT
x-ua-compatible	IE=edge
server	Apache/2.4.59 ()
x-powered-by	PHP/8.2.9
content-encoding	gzip
vary	Accept-Encoding
x-cache	Hit from cloudfront
via	1.1 24475cc722041223cf99f56b55432566.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop	FRA50-C1
x-amz-cf-id	0e3cSUkPsEJlBaebfOvbwFfZKZhjT0CsK4MJuHnAfB7BuOecffn8iw==
age	21328
x-xss-protection	1; mode=block
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
referrer-policy	strict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-options	nosniff
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 4,856 referring domains.

This page has 100,611 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 3,794 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_ADMIN/
Disallow: /_internal/
Disallow: /DEVL/
Disallow: /okanagan/facultystaff/bba
Disallow: /okanagan/itservices/service-catalogue/accounts/novell/imanager.html

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The University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
University	73%	Check
British	73%	Check
Columbia	73%	Check
British Columbia	73%	Check
UBC	63%	Check
Centre	58%	Check
UBC Search	58%	Check
Research	50%	Check
top	46%	Check
Rec	46%	Check
Campus	43%	Check
Vancouver	43%	Check
leadership	43%	Check
Vancouver Campus	43%	Check
sleep	42%	Check
Orchestra	42%	Check
North	42%	Check
Fitness	42%	Check
Okanagan Campus	41%	Check
Canada	40%	Check
equity	40%	Check
National	40%	Check
Youth	40%	Check
Okanagan	39%	Check
medical	38%	Check

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Task list of SEO Improvements 2 Tasks

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Page quality 57% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 100% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 47% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 77% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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