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Admissions | College Search | College Confidential

Real, unfiltered guidance on applying to college and exploring majors and careers.

https://www.collegeconfidential.com/

2 high issues

6.1%

4 medium issues

12.1%

3 low issues

9.1%

24 tests passed

72.7%

0.39 seconds

35.99 kB

30 resources

Secure

Seo

Title

The title tag is perfect.

Admissions | College Search | College Confidential

Meta description

The meta description tag is good.

Real, unfiltered guidance on applying to college and exploring majors and careers.

Headings

Only one h1 tag should be present on the webpage.

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Content keywords

The content has relevant keywords.

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Image keywords

There are 22 images with missing alt attributes.

Images

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SEO friendly URL

The URL is SEO friendly.

https://www.collegeconfidential.com/

404 page

The website has 404 error pages.

https://www.collegeconfidential.com/404-9cec5a7c390b7478937426cc68664fd0

Robots.txt

The webpage can be accessed by search engines.

Noindex

The webpage does not have a noindex tag set.

In-page links

The webpage contains more than 150 links.

Internals

130

Externals

Language

The webpage has the language declared.

en

Favicon

The webpage has a favicon.

https://a.collegeconfidential.com/images/ic_cc_180.png

Performance

Text compression

The HTML file is compressed.

Load time

The webpage loaded in 0.39 seconds.

Page size

The size of the HTML webpage is 35,993.00.

HTTP requests

There are fewer than 30 HTTP requests on the webpage.

JavaScripts

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-189739-2
https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js
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CSS

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap
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https://a.collegeconfidential.com/cc.css

Images

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Image format

There are 2 images that are not using the AVIF, WebP format.

Images

https://certify.alexametrics.com/atrk.gif?account=x4iQv1IbQ820bv
https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=33484913&cv=3.6.0&cj=1

JavaScript defer

The are 5 javascript resources without the defer attribute.

JavaScripts

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DOM size

The DOM size is optimal.

The HTML file has 887 DOM nodes.

Security

HTTPS encryption

The webpage uses HTTPS encryption.

The HTML file has https://www.collegeconfidential.com/ DOM nodes.

Mixed content

There are no mixed content resources on the webpage.

Server signature

The webpage has a public server signature.

nginx/1.23.1

Unsafe cross-origin links

The webpage has 8 unsafe cross-origin links.

Links

https://bit.ly/3nz4Ncw
https://bit.ly/2ZvRrpE
https://www.act.org/content/act/en/register-for-the-act.html?utm_source=cc&utm_medium=globalbanner&utm_campaign=act&utm_content=aprmay
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https://twitter.com/collegeconfide
https://www.facebook.com/collegeconfide/
https://www.instagram.com/collegeconfidential/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/college-confidential

Plaintext email

The webpage does not contain any plaintext emails.

Miscellaneous

Structured data

The webpage has structured data.

Open Graph

Twitter

Meta viewport

The webpage has a meta viewport tag set.

width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=0

Character set

The webpage has a charset value set.

utf-8

Sitemap

The website has sitemaps.

Sitemaps

https://www.collegeconfidential.com/sitemap.xml
https://www.collegeconfidential.com/sitemap-main.xml
https://www.collegeconfidential.com/sitemap-colleges.xml
https://www.collegeconfidential.com/sitemap-articles.xml

Social

The webpage has 4 social links.

Twitter

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Facebook

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Instagram

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Content length

The webpage has 1,591 words.

Text to HTML ratio

The text to HTML ratio is under 10%

The text to HTML ratio is 6%.

Inline CSS

The webpage contains inline CSS code.

Attributes

display:none
background-image: url(https://a.collegeconfidential.com/images/img_popup.png)
margin-right: 16px;
background-image: url('https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/img_hero.webp')
background-image: url('https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/img_community_alt-min.webp')
background-image: url('https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/img_lists-min.webp')
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background-image: url('https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/img_journey-min.webp')
background-image: url('https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/img_students-min.webp')
padding-top: 64px; padding-bottom: 64px
max-width: 760px;
background-image: url(https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/img_collegeplanning_dark.webp)
border-radius: 8px;
border-radius: 8px;
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background-image: url(https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/texas-min.webp);
background-image: url(https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/florida-min.webp);
background-image: url(https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/new-york-min.webp);
background-image: url(https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/illinois-min.webp);
background-image: url(https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/pennsylvania-min.webp);
background-image: url(https://m.collegeconfidential.com/original_images/ohio-min.webp);
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margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-top: 8px
font-weight: normal; margin:0;

Deprecated HTML

There are no deprecated HTML tags on the webpage.