Bumc.bu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
5% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.93 s
File size
73.20 kB
Words
250
Media files
4
Number of links
36 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Boston University Medical Campus
The length of the page title is perfect. (313 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://www.bumc.bu.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimal-ui
google-site-verificationwsG-2utbwve7SjoABld9gKrsX-2JDYPMREj2SnwHmos
copyright© 2024 Boston University
last-updated2023-10-05T09:17:21-04:00
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
ClearTypetrue
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 250 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 28.6 words is high.
23.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimal-ui" 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)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...0/schools-MED-ChobanianAvedisian-002.jpgimage of students at whitecoat ceremony
/files/2019/11/schools_GMS.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/files/2019/12/schools_SPH.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/2021/03/Landing-dental-275-x-281-A.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
July 2024 Avedisian & Chobanian School of Medicine Faculty Promotions
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 July 2024 Avedisian & Chobanian School of Medicine Faculty Promotions
H1 BU’s Framingham Heart Study Gets New Director
H1 June 2024 SPH Faculty Appointments & Promotions
H3 Welcome to the BU Medical Campus
H3 Calendar
H3 Recent News
H3 Quick Links
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/Subdomain Boston University Medical Campus
http://www.bu.edu/emd/External Subdomain Emergency & Safety
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/Anchor Menu
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/Anchor Search
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/about/Subdomain About
A-TITLE Navigate to: About
/about/boston-university-medic...Subdomain BUMC Factsheet
A-TITLE Navigate to: BUMC Factsheet
/about/building-index/Subdomain Building Index
A-TITLE Navigate to: Building Index
/about/bumc-organizational-chart/Subdomain BUMC Organizational Chart
A-TITLE Navigate to: BUMC Organizational Chart
/about/maps-parking-directions/Subdomain Maps, Parking, Directions
A-TITLE Navigate to: Maps, Parking, Directions
/about/institutional-master-plan/Subdomain Institutional Master Plan
A-TITLE Navigate to: Institutional Master Plan
/about/committees/Subdomain BUMC Committees
A-TITLE Navigate to: BUMC Committees
/about/bumcprovost/Subdomain BUMC Provost
A-TITLE Navigate to: BUMC Provost
/about/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
A-TITLE Navigate to: Contact Us
/academics/Subdomain Academics
A-TITLE Navigate to: Academics
/bumc-research/Subdomain Research
A-TITLE Navigate to: Research
/community/Subdomain Community
A-TITLE Navigate to: Community
/resources/Subdomain Resources
A-TITLE Navigate to: Resources
/resources/student-resources/Subdomain Student Resources
A-TITLE Navigate to: Student Resources
/resources/faculty-resources1/Subdomain Faculty Resources
A-TITLE Navigate to: Faculty Resources
/resources/services/Subdomain General
A-TITLE Navigate to: General
http://www.bu.edu/emd/External Subdomain Text duplicate Emergency & Safety
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/Subdomain IMG-ALT image of students at whitecoat ceremony
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/New window Subdomain No Text
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/New window Subdomain No Text
https://www.bu.edu/sph/New window External Subdomain No Text
http://www.bu.edu/dental/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/Subdomain Medicine
https://www.bu.edu/sph/External Subdomain Public Health
http://www.bu.edu/dental/External Subdomain Dental Medicine
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/Subdomain Graduate Medical Sciences
https://www.bmc.org/External Subdomain Boston Medical Center
/art-days-gallery-2021/Subdomain No Text
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/calendar/Calendar
/calendar/?eid=29885510SepClinical Neuroscience Grand Rounds
/calendar/?eid=29875110SepExplore the South End Walking Tour
/calendar/?eid=29689510SepSingular Genomics Seminar: G4 & G4X Platforms (Hybrid)
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/news/Recent News
/2024/09/05/july-2024-avedisia...Subdomain July 2024 Avedisian & Chobanian School of Medicine Faculty Promotions
/2024/07/24/bus-framingham-hea...Subdomain BU’s Framingham Heart Study Gets New Director
/2024/07/16/june-2024-sph-facu...Subdomain June 2024 SPH Faculty Appointments & Promotions
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/library/Subdomain Alumni Medical Library
http://www.bu.edu/today/External Subdomain BU Today
http://www.bu.edu/brink/External Subdomain The Brink
http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/External Subdomain Bostonia
https://www.bu.edu/hr/External Subdomain Human Resources
https://datastudio.google.com/...External Subdomain Live COVID Publication Dashboard
http://www.bu.edu/External Subdomain Boston University
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Subdomain Boston University Medical Center
/about/contact-us/Subdomain Contact
http://www.bu.edu/directoryExternal Subdomain Directory

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bumc.bu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
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 of 0.93 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.
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (73 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
connectionclose
dateSat, 07 Sep 2024 11:58:51 GMT
servernginx/1.18.0
set-cookie178 Characters
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
link<https://www.bumc.bu.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
x-backendwordpress
x-upstreamwordpress
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 56a77d6c9e6b49fa4179a99507a9582e.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P6
x-amz-cf-idjaUtL_SJLwJ9nCBQ-g3DyBD4JllaeEajyYmlr3aeD6fO2iiWq3Vs_Q==
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 11,140 referring domains.
This page has 217,646 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,399 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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KeywordResultRecheck
Faculty54%Check
Promotions54%Check
Chobanian52%Check
Avedisian52%Check
School52%Check
Chobanian Avedisian52%Check
Medical50%Check
Campus50%Check
Medicine50%Check
Medical Campus50%Check
  
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