Castellano.sciences.ncsu.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
83% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
54% 
External factors
36% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.78 s
File size
87.50 kB
Words
272
Media files
6
Number of links
62 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Castellano Research Group
The length of the page title is perfect. (251 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Castellano Group - NCSU
The meta description is too short. (162 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://castellano.sciences.ncsu.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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 272 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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)
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" 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

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...s/98/2023/08/Spring-2023-Group-Photo.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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...logo-16by9-black-outline-jpeg-scaled.jpgNorth Carolina with light passing through Raleigh and a howling wolf
...s/sites/98/2022/01/CampusMap-300x249.pngMap of Centennial Campus
Video URLWidthHeight
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Castellano Research Group
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Castellano Research Group
H2 Latest Stories
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Connect with us on social
H2 Other Links
H2 Visit the Castellano Lab
H2 Check out the Castellano Group's Socials
H3 Publication Alert: Congratulations to Phil and Sarah on their Publication in Nature.
H3 Congrats to Sarah Kromer for passing her Prelim Exam!
H3 Congratulations to Emily for winning a poster award at ACS San Diego!
H3 Group Meeting
H3 Group Meeting Duplicate text
H3 Group Meeting Duplicate text
H3 Research
H3 People
H3 Publications
H3 Contact
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Subdomain Castellano Research Group
/Subdomain Home
/research/Subdomain Research
/research/first-row/Subdomain Earth Abundant Photosensitizers
/research/biolec/Subdomain BioLEC
/research/chase-2/Subdomain CHASE
/research/coherence/Subdomain Electronic and Nuclear Coherence in Dinuclear Pt(II) Complexes
/publications-2/Subdomain Publications
/people/fncastel/Subdomain Phil Castellano
/team/Subdomain Team
/group/everyone/Subdomain People
/alumni/Subdomain Alumni
/team/group-pets/Subdomain Group Pets
/virtual-tour/Subdomain Virtual Tour
/group-photos/Subdomain Group Photos
/events/Subdomain Events
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
/resources-and-links/Subdomain Resources and Links
/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
/research/first-row/Subdomain Text duplicate Earth Abundant Photosensitizers
/research/biolec/Subdomain Text duplicate BioLEC
/research/chase-2/Subdomain Text duplicate CHASE
/research/coherence/Subdomain Text duplicate Electronic and Nuclear Coherence in Dinuclear Pt(II) Complexes
/publications-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Publications
/people/fncastel/Subdomain Text duplicate Phil Castellano
/team/Subdomain Text duplicate Team
/group/everyone/Subdomain Text duplicate People
/alumni/Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni
/team/group-pets/Subdomain Text duplicate Group Pets
/virtual-tour/Subdomain Text duplicate Virtual Tour
/group-photos/Subdomain Text duplicate Group Photos
/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/resources-and-links/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources and Links
/2023/09/07/publication-alert-...Subdomain September 7, 2023 Publication Alert: Congratulations to Phil and Sarah on their Publication in Nature.
/2023/09/07/congrats-to-sarah-...Subdomain September 7, 2023 Congrats to Sarah Kromer for passing her Prelim Exam!
/2022/04/15/congratulations-to...Subdomain April 15, 2022 Congratulations to Emily for winning a poster award at ACS San Diego!
/events/Subdomain All Events
/event/group-meeting/2024-06-14/Subdomain Jun 14 Friday12:00 PM Group Meeting
/event/group-meeting/2024-06-21/Subdomain Jun 21 Friday12:00 PM Group Meeting
/event/group-meeting/2024-06-28/Subdomain Jun 28 Friday12:00 PM Group Meeting
/research/Subdomain Research Work in the Castellano group focuses on light-matter interactions. Curious to know more? Click here.
/group/everyone/Subdomain People Meet the Castellano Lab! Read more
/publications-2/Subdomain Publications Access our recent publications. Read our recent work here.
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Interested in contacting us or visiting the lab? Learn more
IMG-ALT North Carolina with light passing through Raleigh and a howling wolf
https://twitter.com/castellano...External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/cast...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
/virtual-tour/Subdomain Text duplicate Virtual Tour
/group-photos/Subdomain Text duplicate Group Photos
/team/group-pets/Subdomain Text duplicate Group Pets
/resources-and-links/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources and Links
https://twitter.com/FNCastella...External Tweets by FNCastellano
https://twitter.com/Castellano...External Tweets by CastellanoGroup
/Subdomain Department of Chemistry Home
https://maps.ncsu.edu/External Subdomain Anchor IMG-ALT Map of Centennial Campus
/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
/publications-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Publications
/people/fncastel/Subdomain Text duplicate Phil Castellano
/team/Subdomain Text duplicate Team
/virtual-tour/Subdomain Text duplicate Virtual Tour
/group-photos/Subdomain Text duplicate Group Photos
/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/resources-and-links/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources and Links
https://www.twitter.com/castel...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/cast...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://castellano.sciences.ncsu.edu/"
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 0.78 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 27 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 6 referring domains.
This page only has 11 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 6 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

Sitemap: https://castellano.sciences.ncsu.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

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