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Report generated on 2025-04-22 at 11:05:32 (UTC +00:00).
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Your Guide to Affordable College Admissions & Merit Scholarships
Road2College provides tools, articles and services to help you find the right college at the right price. Get help with admissions, scholarships, and more.
https://www.road2college.com/
3 high issues
8.6%
6 medium issues
17.1%
5 low issues
14.3%
21 tests passed
60.0%
0.22 seconds
171.15 kB
88 resources
Secure
SEO
Title
The title tag must be between 1 and 60 characters.
The current title has 64 characters.
The title tag is the HTML element that specifies the title of the webpage. The title tag is displayed at the top of your browser, in the search results, as well as in the bookmarks bar.
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Google
Meta description
The meta description tag is good.
Road2College provides tools, articles and services to help you find the right college at the right price. Get help with admissions, scholarships, and more.
The meta description is an HTML tag that provides a short and accurate summary of the webpage. The meta description is used by search engines to identify a webpage's topic and provide relevant search results.
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Google
Headings
There is no h1 tag on the webpage.
The h tags represents the headings of the webpage. The h1 tag is the most important h tag, and describes the main topic of the page, while the rest of the tags describe the sub-topics of the webpage.
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Mozilla
Content keywords
The content has relevant keywords.
your guide to college admissions merit scholarships
The webpage's content should contain relevant keywords that can also be found in the title of the webpage.
Image keywords
There are 17 images with missing alt attributes.
  1. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/r2c-logo-150x46.png
  2. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20735'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  3. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/postcard_grads-img.jpg
  4. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202246%201879'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  5. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/index.png
  6. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20187%20194'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  7. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/stage-research.svg
  8. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20247%20208'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  9. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/stage-apply.svg
  10. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20251%20180'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  11. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/stage-compare.svg
  12. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20112%20192'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  13. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/stage-decide.svg
  14. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20237%20196'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  15. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/stage-pay.svg
  16. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20225%20193'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  17. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/stage-go.svg
The alt attribute specifies an alternate text for an image, if the image cannot be displayed. The alt attribute is also useful for search engines to identify the subject of the image, and helps screen readers describe the image.
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Google
SEO friendly URL
The URL is SEO friendly.
https://www.road2college.com/
The SEO friendly URLs are URLs that contain relevant keywords with the webpage's topic, and contain no special characters besides slashes and dashes.
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404 page
The website has 404 error pages.
The 404 webpage status informs the users and the search engines that a webpage is missing.
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Bing
Robots.txt
The webpage can be accessed by search engines.
A robots.txt file inform the search engines which links from the website can be accessed.
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Bing
Google
Noindex
The webpage does not have a noindex tag set.
The noindex tag instruct the search engines to not index the webpage.
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Bing
Google
In-page links
The webpage contains more than 150 links.
The in-page links should be kept at a minimum, to avoid issues with search engines not being able to crawl additional links from the webpage.
Language
The webpage has the language declared.
en-US
The lang attribute declares the webpage's language, helping search engines identify the language in which the content is written, and browsers to offer translation suggestions.
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Mozilla
Favicon
The webpage does not have a favicon.
The favicon is the icon that is being displayed in the browser's tab, when the webpage is being bookmarked, and sometimes even in search engine results.
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Google
Performance
Text compression
The HTML file is compressed.
The HTML filesize is 171.15 kB.
The text compression helps speeding up the webpage's load by compressing the HTML's content.
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Gzip
Brotli
Google
Load time
The webpage loaded in 0.22 seconds.
The load time indicates the HTML's total load time, and does not include the external resources, such as images, scripts, or other resources.
Page size
The size of the HTML webpage is 171.15 kB.
The page size indicates the HTML's total size, and does not include the external resources, such as images, scripts, or other resources.
HTTP requests
The webpage makes more than 50 HTTP requests.
The HTTP requests represents the number of external resources present on the webpage.
Image format
There are 39 images that are not using the AVIF, WebP format.
  1. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/r2c-column-mark-1.png
  2. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/r2c-logo-150x46.png
  3. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/logo_thenewyorktimes.png
  4. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/logo_money.png
  5. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/logo_usatoday.png
  6. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/logo_studentloanhero.png
  7. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/logo_cnba.png
  8. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20735'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  9. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/postcard_grads-img.jpg
  10. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  11. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/R2C-testi-01.png
  12. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  13. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/R2C-testi-05.png
  14. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  15. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/R2C-testi-04.png
  16. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  17. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/R2C-testi-02.png
  18. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  19. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/R2C-testi-03.png
  20. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  21. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/R2C-testi-04.png
  22. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202246%201879'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  23. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/index.png
  24. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20187%20194'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  25. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20247%20208'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  26. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20251%20180'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  27. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20112%20192'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  28. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20237%20196'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  29. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20225%20193'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  30. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20367%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  31. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/R2C-Website-Image-Articles-1200-x-630-88-450x450.jpg
  32. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20367%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  33. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/R2C-Website-Image-Articles-1200-x-630-87-450x450.jpg
  34. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20367%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  35. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/R2C-Website-Image-Articles-1200-x-630-86-450x450.jpg
  36. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20367%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  37. https://www.road2college.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/R2C-Website-Image-Articles-1200-x-630-82-450x450.jpg
  38. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20367%20367'%3E%3C/svg%3E
  39. data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20478%20145'%3E%3C/svg%3E
The images format represents the images that are not served in a next-generation file format. Images served in a next-generation format improve the webpage's load performance.
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Google
JavaScript defer
The defer attribute allows the browser to download the scripts in parallel and execute them after the webpage has been parsed, improving the webpage's load performance.
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Google
DOM size
There are more than 1,500 DOM nodes.
The DOM size indicates the number of nodes the HTML webpage has.
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Google
DOCTYPE
The webpage has the DOCTYPE declaration tag set.
html
The DOCTYPE declaration tag defines which version of HTML the webpage is using, making compliant browsers render the webpage properly.
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Security
HTTPS encryption
The webpage uses HTTPS encryption.
The HTTPS encryption helps protecting the user's security and privacy.
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Google
Mixed content
There are no mixed content resources on the webpage.
The mixed content is the content that is loaded over the HTTP connection while the webpage itself was loaded over HTTPS connection.
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Google
Server signature
The webpage has a public server signature.
cloudflare
The server signature is the public identity of a web server which contains information that could be used to exploit known vulnerabilities.
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Apache
Unsafe cross-origin links
HTST
The webpage does not have the HTTP Strict-Transport-Security header set.
The HTTP Strict-Transport-Security header is used to force the browser to use the HTTPS protocol when loading the webpage.
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Mozilla
Plaintext email
The webpage does not contain any plaintext emails.
Email addresses posted in public are likely to be fetched by crawlers and then collected in lists used for spam.
Miscellaneous
Structured data
The webpage has structured data.
The structured data tags help the search engines better understand the content of the webpage, and allows them to create rich snippets in search results.
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Twitter
Schema.org
Open Graph
Bing
Google
Meta viewport
The webpage has a meta viewport tag set.
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
The meta viewport tag instruct the browsers how to render the viewport of the webpage.
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Mozilla
Google
Character set
The webpage has a charset value set.
UTF-8
The meta charset tag specifies the character encoding, helping the browsers to better render the characters and symbols on the webpage.
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Mozilla
Sitemap
The website has sitemaps.
Sitemaps inform search engines about pages available for crawling on the website.
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Google
Social
The webpage has 9 social links.
Social media presence is becoming increasingly important as a ranking factor for search engines to validate a website's trustworthiness and authority.
Content length
The webpage has 7,502 words.
The content length represents the number of words found on the webpage. The webpage should contain a decent amount of words.
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Google
Text to HTML ratio
The text to HTML ratio is under 10%.
The text to HTML ratio is 9%.
The text to HTML ratio represents the percentage of actual text compared to the percentage of HTML code on the webpage.
Inline CSS
The webpage contains inline CSS code.
  1. display:none;visibility:hidden
  2. display: none;
  3. display: none;
  4. margin-bottom: 20px;
  5. display: inline-block
  6. display: inline-block
  7. font-weight: 400;
The style attribute contains CSS style rules that are applied to the element. Inline CSS code unnecessarily increases the webpage's size, and can be moved in an external CSS file.
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Mozilla
Deprecated HTML
There are no deprecated HTML tags on the webpage.
The deprecated tags represents the tags that are not supported HTML5 standard anymore, and could cause the webpage to be rendered incorrectly.
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W3C