Web.mit.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
73% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.11 s
File size
46.40 kB
Words
428
Media files
7
Number of links
31 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The length of the page title is perfect. (392 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://tlecms.mit.edu/spotlight/supportive-robot
The canonical link points to a different domain.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
descriptionThe mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
langen
twitter:site:id15460048
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:site@mit
twitter:titleThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
fb:page_id126533127390327
og:site_nameMassachusetts Institute of Technology
og:sitehttp://web.mit.edu
og:typewebsite
og:titleThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
og:urlhttp://web.mit.edu
og:descriptionThe mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Pragmano-cache
Expires-1
cache-controlno-store
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 428 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
36.4% 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.
7 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 19.47 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...images/202505/MIT-ElderCare-Robot-SL.jpg6 photos show people using a prototype of the robot.
...mages/202505/MIT-cryptic-peptides-hm.jpgpancreatic cancer cells
/files/images/202505/HP-urschel.jpgJohn Urschel
/files/images/202505/Wound-care.jpgAndy Obst
...es/202505/MIT-Cancer-Ultrasound-hm_0.jpgWoman wears protoype device over clothing
/files/images/202505/MIT-Fyto-SLsub_0.jpgmachines and vats of green water
...ges/202505/MIT-This-is-MIT-SLsub_0_0.jpgKilian Court

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
H2 Spotlight: May 13, 2025
H3 Targeting pancreatic cancer
H3 From the NFL to MIT
H3 Filling gaps in wound care
H3 Earlier breast cancer detection
H3 Making farms more resilient
H3 Contributions to the nation
H4 May 13, 2025
H4 Share:
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (29) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://web.mit.edu/Anchor Skip to content ↓
https://web.mit.edu/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://web.mit.edu/educationEducation
https://web.mit.edu/researchResearch
https://web.mit.edu/innovationInnovation
/admissions-aidAdmissions + Aid
https://web.mit.edu/campus-lifeCampus Life
http://news.mit.edu/New window External Subdomain News
https://web.mit.edu/alumniAlumni
https://web.mit.edu/aboutAbout MIT
/building-a-better-worldGive
/admissions-aidText duplicate Admissions + Aid
https://web.mit.edu/campus-lifeText duplicate Campus Life
http://news.mit.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate News
https://web.mit.edu/alumniText duplicate Alumni
https://web.mit.edu/aboutText duplicate About MIT
/building-a-better-worldText duplicate Give
https://web.mit.edu/searchSearch
https://web.mit.edu/feedbackSuggestions or feedback?
http://news.mit.edu/2025/elder...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT 6 photos show people using a prototype of the robot.
https://darbelofflab.mit.edu/New window External Subdomain Mechanical engineers
http://news.mit.edu/2025/elder...New window External Subdomain Full story
https://twitter.com/share?url=...New window External Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/share...New window External Subdomain Facebook
http://news.mit.edu/2025/biolo...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT pancreatic cancer cells
http://news.mit.edu/2025/biolo...New window External Subdomain Targeting pancreatic cancer
http://news.mit.edu/news-clip/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT John Urschel
http://news.mit.edu/news-clip/...New window External Subdomain From the NFL to MIT
https://alum.mit.edu/slice/fil...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Andy Obst
https://alum.mit.edu/slice/fil...New window External Subdomain Filling gaps in wound care
http://news.mit.edu/news-clip/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Woman wears protoype device over clothing
http://news.mit.edu/news-clip/...New window External Subdomain Earlier breast cancer detection
http://news.mit.edu/2025/fyto-...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT machines and vats of green water
http://news.mit.edu/2025/fyto-...New window External Subdomain Making farms more resilient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Kilian Court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain Contributions to the nation
https://web.mit.edu/Text duplicate Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://web.mit.edu/educationText duplicate Education
https://web.mit.edu/researchText duplicate Research
https://web.mit.edu/innovationText duplicate Innovation
/admissions-aidText duplicate Admissions + Aid
https://web.mit.edu/campus-lifeText duplicate Campus Life
https://news.mit.edu/External Subdomain Newsnews.mit.edu
https://web.mit.edu/aboutText duplicate About MIT
https://web.mit.edu/alumniText duplicate Alumni
/building-a-better-worldText duplicate Give
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...External Subdomain 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA
https://web.mit.edu/visitmitVisit
https://whereis.mit.edu/External Subdomain Map
https://calendar.mit.edu/External Subdomain Events
/search/?redirect-origin=legac...People
https://careers.mit.edu/External Subdomain Careers
https://web.mit.edu/contactContact
https://web.mit.edu/privacyPrivacy
https://web.mit.edu/accessibilityAccessibility
https://socialmediahub.mit.edu/External Subdomain Social Media Hub
https://twitter.com/mitExternal MIT@twitter
https://www.facebook.com/MITnewsExternal Subdomain MIT@facebook
https://www.youtube.com/mitExternal Subdomain MIT@youtube
https://www.instagram.com/mit/External Subdomain MIT@instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.11 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serverApache
last-modifiedTue, 13 May 2025 04:01:36 GMT
etag"10e8d516-b987-6822c420"
accept-rangesbytes
x-cnectionclose
content-typetext/html
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
dateTue, 13 May 2025 10:23:26 GMT
content-length11737
connectionkeep-alive
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self' https://web.mit.edu https://www.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu http://www.mit.edu
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,104 referring domains.
This page has 85,143 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,322 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /afs/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /org/
Disallow: /activity/
Disallow: /contrib/
Disallow: /dept/
Disallow: /software/
Disallow: /bin/

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Massachusetts62%Check
Institute62%Check
Massachusetts Institute62%Check
Technology61%Check
cancer46%Check
Pancreatic Cancer45%Check
Breast Cancer44%Check
Earlier breast cancer detection42%Check
wound40%Check
Earlier38%Check
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