Blogs.valpo.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.19 s
File size
38.50 kB
Words
259
Media files
8
Number of links
9 internal / 62 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Valpo Blogs
The page title is too short. (108 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://blogs.valpo.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
google-translate-customization50bedd726b25218f-7568e19dbcf0840e-g884b5dfa5b28e285-e
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 259 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
22.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 12.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...valpo/img/header/valpo_prestige_logo.pngValparaiso University
...valpo/img/header/header-ribbon-apply.pngApply to Valpo
...alpo/img/header/forever_valpo_ribbon.pngSupport Forever Valpo
...alpo/img/footer/global_locations_map.pngGlobal Locations Map
...themes/cws-valpo/img/footer/explore1.jpgExplore 1
...themes/cws-valpo/img/footer/explore2.jpgExplore 2
...themes/cws-valpo/img/footer/explore3.jpgExplore 3
...themes/cws-valpo/img/footer/explore4.jpgExplore 4

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to Valpo Blogs!
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to Valpo Blogs!
H4 Empty heading
There are too few (9) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (62) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://browsehappy.com/External upgrade your browser
http://www.enable-javascript.com/External Subdomain enable JavaScript
http://browsehappy.com/External Text duplicate upgrade your browser
http://www.valpo.edu/forevervalpoExternal Subdomain Forever Valpo >>
http://www.valpo.edu/foreverva...External Subdomain Annual Giving Challenge >>
http://www.valpo.edu/forevervalpoExternal Subdomain Forever Valpo
http://www.valpo.edu/foreverva...External Subdomain Annual Giving Challenge
https://securelb.imodules.com/...External Subdomain Make a Gift
http://www.valpo.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Valparaiso University
http://www.valpo.edu/admission...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Apply to Valpo
http://www.valpo.edu/foreverva...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Support Forever Valpo
http://www.valpo.edu/admission...External Subdomain apply to Valpo Apply to Valpo
https://www.valpo.edu/foreverv...External Subdomain Give to Valpo Give to Valpo
http://www.valpo.edu/about/External Subdomain About
https://www.valpo.edu/academicsExternal Subdomain Academics
https://www.valpo.edu/college-...External Subdomain Arts & Sciences
https://www.valpo.edu/college-...External Subdomain Business
https://www.valpo.edu/christ-c...External Subdomain Christ College
https://www.valpo.edu/college-...External Subdomain Engineering
https://www.valpo.edu/graduate...External Subdomain Graduate School
https://www.valpo.edu/law/External Subdomain Law
https://www.valpo.edu/college-...External Subdomain Nursing & Health Professions
http://www.valpo.edu/studentlife/External Subdomain Student Life
http://www.valpo.edu/admission/External Subdomain Admission
http://valpoathletics.com/External Athletics
http://www.valpo.edu/vuca/External Subdomain The Arts
http://www.valpo.edu/advwelcome/External Subdomain Alumni
http://www.valpo.edu/advwelcomeExternal Subdomain Alumni & Friends
http://www.valpo.edu/admission/External Subdomain Future Students
http://www.valpo.edu/gateway/c...External Subdomain Current Students
http://www.valpo.edu/gateway/f...External Subdomain Faculty & Staff
http://www.valpo.edu/gateway/p...External Subdomain Parents & Family
http://www.valpo.edu/External Subdomain Home
/featured-blog/Subdomain About Valpo Blogs
https://blogs.valpo.edu/faq/Subdomain F.A.Q.
/featured-blog/Subdomain ABOUT
/featured-blog/Subdomain No Text
https://blogs.valpo.edu/faq/Subdomain Text duplicate F.A.Q.
https://blogs.valpo.edu/faq/Subdomain No Text
/about/wp-signup.phpSubdomain &nbspRegister
/wp-login.phpSubdomain &nbspAlready have an account? Sign in before registering a new blog.
http://www.valpo.edu/admission...External Subdomain Apply Online
https://admission.valpo.edu/re...External Subdomain Request Info
http://www.valpo.edu/admission...External Subdomain Visit Campus
http://www.valpo.edu/study-abr...External Subdomain Global Locations
http://www.valpo.edu/study-abr...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Global Locations Map
http://www.valpo.edu/virtualtour/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Explore 1
http://www.valpo.edu/virtualtour/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Explore 2
http://www.valpo.edu/virtualtour/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Explore 3
http://www.valpo.edu/virtualtour/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Explore 4
http://www.valpo.edu/cas/External Subdomain College of Arts & Sciences
http://www.valpo.edu/cob/External Subdomain College of Business
http://www.valpo.edu/engineering/External Subdomain College of Engineering
http://www.valpo.edu/nursing/External Subdomain College of Nursing & Health Professions
http://www.valpo.edu/christcol...External Subdomain Christ College - The Honors College
http://www.valpo.edu/grad/External Subdomain Text duplicate Graduate School
http://www.valpo.edu/law/External Subdomain Law School
http://www.valpo.edu/directory...External Subdomain People / Offices
http://www.valpo.edu/about/map...External Subdomain Maps / Directions
http://library.valpo.edu/External Subdomain Library
http://www.valpo.edu/chapel/External Subdomain Chapel
https://valpocareers.silkroad....External Subdomain Employment
http://blogs.valpo.edu/alert/Subdomain Campus Alerts
http://valpo.edu/copyright/External Privacy Policy
http://www.valpo.edu/about/con...External Subdomain Website Feedback
http://www.facebook.com/valpar...External Subdomain No Text
http://twitter.com/valpouExternal No Text
http://www.linkedin.com/groups...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.flickr.com/photos/v...External Subdomain No Text
http://www.youtube.com/user/valpoExternal Subdomain No Text
http://instagram.com/valparais...External No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://blogs.valpo.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The used PHP version is outdated and may be a security risk.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.19 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 02 Jul 2024 08:06:32 GMT
serverApache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
x-powered-byPHP/5.3.3
link<https://blogs.valpo.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
connectionclose
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 671 referring domains.
This page has 1,859 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 174 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->

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KeywordResultRecheck
Valpo82%Check
Valpo Blogs78%Check
Blogs75%Check
Forever Valpo62%Check
apply Valpo60%Check
Give Valpo58%Check
Valparaiso University Blogs52%Check
Welcome50%Check
edu48%Check
Forever43%Check
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