Brownbears.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
37% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.71 s
File size
330.20 kB
Words
433
Media files
35
Number of links
25 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Brown University Athletics - Official Athletics Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (473 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official athletics website for the Brown University Bears
The length of the meta description is perfect. (366 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 433 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
16.9% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (58). We recommend using a maximum of 9 tags for this page.
Some tags are too long. With 72 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"women’s soccer set to battle columbia in ivy league tournament semifinal"
The following tag is repeated too often: women’s soccer set to battle columbia in ivy league tournament semifinal
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

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...ticle.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpBrown Sends Five Sailors to Compete at the Singlehanded National Championships
...eview.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpMen's Swimming and Diving Starts Season with Two Road Meets
...GO_2020.png&width=60&height=60&type=webpYale
...Bench.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpVolleyball Hosts Harvard & Dartmouth for Final Home Weekend
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...eview.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpMen's Hockey Opens 2024-25 Season at Colgate, #6 Cornell
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...tilce.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpField Hockey To Play #2 Harvard in Semifinal of Ivy League Tournament
...ardlogo.png&width=60&height=60&type=webpHarvard (No. 2 seed)
...ceoff.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpNo. 14/14 Women's Hockey hosts Colgate and Cornell for Big Weekend
...te_2022.png&width=60&height=60&type=webpColgate
...rt-E8.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpBrown Bears Football Report: Episode 8
...ll071.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpWomen’s Soccer Set to Battle Columbia in Ivy League Tournament Semifinal
...ogo2024.png&width=60&height=60&type=webpColumbia
...ticle.jpg&width=540&height=304&type=webpBrown Sends Five Sailors to Compete at the Singlehanded National Championships
...orts.com/images/sng_2022/header_news.svgAthletes of the Week
...ts.com/images/sng_2022/header_videos.svgVideos
...img.com/vi/9Jsxh9Gfafg/maxresdefault.jpgBrown 2024 XC Ivy Heps Recap
...img.com/vi/xhabZkap8sY/maxresdefault.jpgWomen's Soccer vs. Yale Cinematic Recap
...img.com/vi/Up62-Ko509U/maxresdefault.jpgWomen's Soccer vs. Cornell Cinematic Recap
...img.com/vi/ktWlmgHn40o/maxresdefault.jpgHall of Fame 2024
...s.com/images/sng_2022/header_moments.svgMoments
...ts.com/images/sng_2022/parallax_text.svgGo Bruno
...ktop_.png&width=540&height=480&type=webpPromotional Image
...ktop_.png&width=540&height=480&type=webpPromotional Image
...ktop_.png&width=540&height=480&type=webpPromotional Image
...ktop_.png&width=540&height=480&type=webpPromotional Image
...ktop_.png&width=540&height=480&type=webpPromotional Image
...om/images/sng_2022/logo_main_updated.svgBrown University Athletics Logo
...m/images/sng_2022/footer_logo_school.pngBrown University Logo
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...com/images/sng_2022/footer_logo_ncaa.svgNCAA Logo
...com/images/sng_2022/footer_logo_ecac.svgECAC Hockey

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Brown University Athletics
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Brown University Athletics
H2 Brown Top Stories
H2 Brown additional stories
H2 Brown All Access Videos
H2 Brown Promotions
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (29) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://brownbears.com/Anchor Skip to main content
/news/2024/11/7/womens-soccer-...Women’s Soccer Set to Battle Columbia in Ivy League Tournament Semifinal
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch
https://goprincetontigers.com/...External Live Stats
https://tickets.princeton.edu/...External Subdomain Tickets
https://ivyleague.com/feature/...External Tournament Central
/news/2024/11/7/coed-sailing-b...Brown Sends Five Sailors to Compete at the Singlehanded National Championships
/news/2024/11/7/mens-swimming-...Men's Swimming and Diving Starts Season with Two Road Meets
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch (Yale)
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch (Princeton & Dartmouth Swim)
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch (Princeton & Dartmouth Dive)
/news/2024/11/7/womens-volleyb...Volleyball Hosts Harvard & Dartmouth for Final Home Weekend
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch (Harvard)
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch (Dartmouth)
/sidearmstats/wvball/summaryText duplicate Live Stats
/news/2024/11/7/mens-ice-hocke...Men's Hockey Opens 2024-25 Season at Colgate, #6 Cornell
/news/2024/11/7/field-hockey-t...Field Hockey To Play #2 Harvard in Semifinal of Ivy League Tournament
/news/2024/11/7/womens-ice-hoc...No. 14/14 Women's Hockey hosts Colgate and Cornell for Big Weekend
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch (Colgate)
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Watch (Cornell)
/sidearmstats/whockey/summaryText duplicate Live Stats
/news/2024/11/7/brown-bears-fo...Brown Bears Football Report: Episode 8
https://rss.art19.com/episodes...External Subdomain Listen Now
/news/2024/11/7/womens-soccer-...Text duplicate Women’s Soccer Set to Battle Columbia in Ivy League Tournament Semifinal
https://www.espn.com/watch/pla...External Subdomain Text duplicate Watch
https://goprincetontigers.com/...External Text duplicate Live Stats
https://tickets.princeton.edu/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Tickets
https://ivyleague.com/feature/...External Text duplicate Tournament Central
/news/2024/11/7/coed-sailing-b...Text duplicate Brown Sends Five Sailors to Compete at the Singlehanded National Championships
https://brownbears.com/archivesAll News
/news/2024/11/6/football-to-pl...Football to Play at Yale on Saturday
/news/2024/11/6/womens-tennis-...Phoebe Peus, Bella Hu, and Lindsey Hofflander Set to Compete at ITA Sectionals
/news/2024/11/6/womens-rugby-s...Women's Rugby Set to Play Dartmouth in NIRA Semi-Finals
/news/2024/11/6/field-hockey-p...Field Hockey Places Six on All-Ivy Teams
/news/2024/11/6/womens-soccer-...Ella Weil Named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Five Bears Earn All-Ivy Honors
/news/2024/11/6/mens-cross-cou...Hickey and Ahuja Earn Academic All-Ivy Honors
/news/2024/11/5/womens-ice-hoc...Cameron Sikich Earns Second ECAC Defender of the Week Honor
/news/2024/11/5/mens-ice-hocke...Tuesday’s 10: Lawton Zacher, Men's Hockey
https://brownbears.com/watchAll Videos
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https://tickets.brown.edu/athl...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Promotional Image
/socialaccounts.aspxText duplicate IMG-ALT Promotional Image
https://tickets.brown.edu/athl...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Promotional Image
https://tickets.brown.edu/athl...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Promotional Image
/socialaccounts.aspxText duplicate IMG-ALT Promotional Image
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https://ivyleague.com/New window External IMG-ALT Ivy League Logo
https://www.ncaa.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT NCAA Logo
https://ecachockey.com/sports/...New window External IMG-ALT ECAC Hockey
https://sidearmsports.com/term...New window External Terms of Service
https://www.sidearmsports.com/...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://sidearmsports.com/acce...New window External Accessibility
https://learfield.com/External No Text
https://sidearmsports.com/External No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://brownbears.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.71 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (330 kB).

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,300 referring domains.
This page has 12,195 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,418 different ip addresses.

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brownbears.com
Brown University Athletics - Official Athletics Website
The official athletics website for the Brown University Bears

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Brown95%Check
Brown University86%Check
Brown University Athletics82%Check
University Athletics80%Check
Athletics78%Check
Bears64%Check
University Athletics Official58%Check
Athletics Website51%Check
Official Athletics51%Check
Videos47%Check

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