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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
89
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
1
PASS
5
INFO
1

Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data

Checks
7
5 PASS 1 REVIEW
B
Canonical URL
Minor issues
REVIEW
Minor issues
Warning::
No canonical tag found
Search engines will determine the canonical URL themselves, which may cause duplicate content issues.
No Canonical URL Set
Page URL https://auckland.ac.nz Canonical (not set)

Search engines will determine the canonical URL themselves, which may cause duplicate content issues.

Why this matters

Without a canonical, Google may treat each URL variant (with/without slash, with tracking params, http/https) as duplicate content and split ranking.

Learn more

A canonical link tells Google which URL is the 'real' one when multiple URLs serve identical content. Without it, link equity gets split across variants and none of them rank as well as a single canonical version would. One <link rel="canonical"> tag in <head> covers it.

Source: Google Search Central

A
Meta Tags
Title: 7 chars
PASS
Title: 7 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: YouTube
Warning::
Title is only 7 characters — consider expanding
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"YouTube"

7 characters Too short
Title: YouTube
H1: Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
Match: Very different
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)

Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.

Why this matters

Title and H1 disagree significantly — Google may treat one as the canonical topic and the other as off-topic, weakening ranking.

Learn more

Title is the SERP headline; H1 is the on-page headline. They should describe the same page. Large divergence (different topics, different keywords) signals confusion and Google may rewrite the title in SERP. Align both to the same primary topic.

Source: Google Search Central / on-page SEO

A
Content Depth
1665 words, Very Difficult
PASS
1665 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 1665 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 4%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 28)
1665 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 28

Text-to-HTML Ratio

4% text 96% HTML

11 KB / 282 KB

Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.

Why this matters

Informational: ratio of visible text bytes to total HTML bytes. Very low ratios suggest excessive markup overhead.

A+
Image SEO
22 images, 11 descriptive filenames
PASS
22 images, 11 descriptive filenames
Info::
11 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
11 descriptive
11 hash-based
0 generic
22 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
1769022440384.jpghash1
Current: 1769022440384.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1769022452816.jpghash1
Current: 1769022452816.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1756774385645.pnghash1
Current: 1756774385645.png
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.png
1757374519635.jpghash1
Current: 1757374519635.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1756867955033.jpghash1
Current: 1756867955033.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1772392460669.jpghash1
Current: 1772392460669.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1772404025187.jpghash1
Current: 1772404025187.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1776640831473.jpghash1
Current: 1776640831473.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1776641017114.jpghash1
Current: 1776641017114.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1776641264470.jpghash1
Current: 1776641264470.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg
1772923416595.jpghash1
Current: 1772923416595.jpg
Suggested: imageimg480lowjpg.jpg

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

A+
Schema Markup Audit
Per-type completeness vs Schema.org requirements + rich-result eligibility
PASS

No structured data detected

Without JSON-LD or microdata, this page can't qualify for any of Google's rich result formats. Even basic Organization or WebSite schema is a quick win.

Missing schema opportunities

  • moderate

    Event

    Page mentions an event (time element or event markup) that could be marked up as Event

    Events appear in dedicated event search and Google Events

Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
INFO
0 hreflang tags

No hreflang tags detected.

Hreflang tags are only needed for multilingual or multi-regional sites.

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