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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
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Page structure
95% 
Link structure
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Server
87% 
External factors
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SEO Score
Response time
5.53 s
File size
392.20 kB
Words
708
Media files
72
Number of links
142 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Compare the Best University Degrees Courses UK | Whatuni
The length of the page title is perfect. (544 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Find courses at top universities. Free, trusted advice to help you decide which university is best for you. The UK’s biggest student reviews site.
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Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.whatuni.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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Domain
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The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
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This page contains 708 words. That's ok.
24.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 14.33 words is good.
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Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
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This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
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HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

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H1 heading
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Everything you need to simplify your uni search
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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Heading structure

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None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 5 external links on this page.

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