Usu.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
67% 
Page quality
62% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
22% 
Server
69% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.89 s
File size
57.10 kB
Words
944
Media files
18
Number of links
161 internal / 37 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome To Utah State University
The title contains the word Welcome To! More content should be covered in the title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Founded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's only land grant institution, serving over 28,000 students in Logan and around the state at Statewide Campuses, as well as at USU Eastern. Known for its robust and cutting edge research, Utah State challenges students to pursue academic opportunities that will change the world.
The meta description is too long: 2019 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
Language defined in meta tags: 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

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languageen
robotsfollow, all
revisit-after5 days
authorUtah State University
descriptionFounded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's only land grant institution, serving over 28,000 students in Logan and around the state at Statewide Campuses, as well as at USU Eastern. Known for its robust and cutting edge research, Utah State challenges students to pursue academic opportunities that will change the world.
keywordsUSU, Utah State University, Utah State, aggies, colleges, education, future students, students, faculty, staff, visitors, alumni, about the USU, academics, research, arts, outreach, athletics, give to USU, degrees, majors, research, higher, school
copyrightUtah State University
og:urlhttps://www.usu.edu
og:site_nameUtah State University
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleWelcome To Utah State University
twitter:descriptionFounded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's only land grant institution, serving over 28,000 students in Logan and around the state at Statewide Campuses, as well as at USU Eastern. Known for its robust and cutting edge research, Utah State challenges students to pursue academic opportunities that will change the world.
twitter:site@USUAggies
og:titleWelcome To Utah State University
og:typewebsite
og:descriptionFounded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's only land grant institution, serving over 28,000 students in Logan and around the state at Statewide Campuses, as well as at USU Eastern. Known for its robust and cutting edge research, Utah State challenges students to pursue academic opportunities that will change the world.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 944 words. That's ok.
19% of the text are stop words.
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 13.58 words is good.
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 (24). We recommend using a maximum of 19 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: may
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
/assets/bs4/images/logos/u-state-logo.svgUState logo
...ets/bs4/images/logos/utah-state-logo.svgUtah State University logo
/assets/bs4/images/logos/u-state-logo.svgUState logo
...ets/bs4/images/logos/utah-state-logo.svgUtah State University logo
...banners/360/USU_01_Online_University.jpgUSU #11 Best Online Bachelor's Programs in the Nation
...ets/bs4/images/logos/utah-state-logo.svgUtah State University logo
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/impact/assets/header.m4v

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
USU #11 Best Online Bachelor's Programs in the Nation
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 37 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 USU #11 Best Online Bachelor's Programs in the Nation
H2 Search Utah State University:
H2 Academics
H2 EXPLORE DEGREES
H2 REQUEST INFO
H2 SCHEDULE A VISIT
H2 TUITION & COST
H2 COLLEGES & SCHOOLS
H2 APPLY
H2 Utah State is Statewide and Online
H2 Utah State Today
H2 Utah State Events
H2 Aggies Create Impact
H2 Discover our Research
H2 Who We Are
H2 Want to learn more about USU?
H2 FOLLOW US
H2 ABOUT USU
H2 EDUCATION
H2 RESOURCES
H2 Quick Links
H3 Loan Repayment Restart: What Every Former Student Needs to Know
H3 Sharing Their Story: Writers Play Vital Role in USU Student Tech Startup
H3 USU Student Nutrition Access Center Opens Monthly Mobile Food Pantry
H3 Grant Cardon Named Interim Dean of Newly Combined College
H3 USU Honors Student Selected as National Editor for Undergrad Research Journal UReCA
H3 From Flames to Flow: Utah Water Research Lab Unraveling Streamflow Changes Post-Wildfire
H3 Highlights Exhibition
H3 2025 Utah Conference on Community Engagement
H3 Cache Children's Choir presents PEACE!
H3 Open Forum - Sr. Vice President of Undergraduate Affairs Candidate - David Graham
H3 Aetna Webinar – Making Your Doctor’s Visit Count
H3 Open Forum - Sr. Vice President of Undergraduate Affairs Candidate - Scott Fritzen
H3 USU Honors Student Selected as National Editor for Undergrad Research Journal UReCA Duplicate text
H3 From Flames to Flow: Utah Water Research Lab Unraveling Streamflow Changes Post-Wildfire Duplicate text
H3 Bridging Worlds: USU Physicists Develop Novel Test of the Holographic Principle
H3 USU UWLP Releases Research on Utah Women and Finances
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 (37) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.usu.edu/privacy/Subdomain privacy and cookie policy
https://www.usu.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.usu.edu/apply/Subdomain Apply
https://www.usu.edu/visit/Subdomain Visit
https://www.usu.edu/advancement/Subdomain Give
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/Subdomain Calendar
https://www.usu.edu/azindex/Subdomain A-Z Index
https://directory.usu.edu/External Subdomain Directory
https://library.usu.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://my.usu.edu/External Subdomain MyUSU
https://www.usu.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT UState logo
https://www.usu.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Utah State University logo
https://www.usu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT UState logo
https://www.usu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Utah State University logo
https://www.usu.edu/about/Meet Utah State
/about/fast-facts/Fast Facts
/about/leadership/Leadership
/about/history/History and Traditions
/inclusive-excellence/Subdomain Inclusive Excellence
https://www.usu.edu/about/alumni/Notable Alumni
https://www.usu.edu/today/Subdomain Utah State Today
https://www.usu.edu/magazine/Subdomain Utah State Magazine
https://www.usu.edu/pressroom/Subdomain Pressroom
https://www.usu.edu/expertsSubdomain USU Experts
https://www.usu.edu/visit/Visit Campus
https://statewide.usu.edu/loca...External Subdomain Statewide Campuses
https://eastern.usu.edu/External Subdomain USU Eastern
https://www.usu.edu/map/Subdomain Maps
https://www.usu.edu/location/Cache Valley and Utah
https://www.usu.edu/contact/Contact USU
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/Subdomain Calendars
https://www.usu.edu/directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://jobs.usu.edu/External Subdomain Employment
https://www.usu.edu/advancement/Subdomain Giving
https://www.usu.edu/apply/How to Apply
https://www.usu.edu/visit/Subdomain Campus Tours
https://www.usu.edu/admissions/Subdomain Undergraduate Admissions
https://gradschool.usu.edu/External Subdomain School of Graduate Studies
https://study.usu.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate International Admissions
https://concurrent.usu.edu/External Subdomain Concurrent Enrollment
/admissions/costs-and-aid/Subdomain Anchor Tuition and Fees
https://www.usu.edu/financialaid/Subdomain Financial Aid
https://www.usu.edu/scholarships/Subdomain Scholarships
https://gradschool.usu.edu/costs/External Subdomain Graduate Funding
/calendar/academic/Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://catalog.usu.edu/External Subdomain Online Catalog
https://catalog.usu.edu/conten...External Subdomain Dates and Deadlines
/registrar/registration/payment/Subdomain Tuition and Payment
/registrar/registration/Subdomain Register for Classes
/registrar/records/access/Subdomain Transcript Requests
/admissions/whatsnext/Subdomain Next Steps
/admissions/enrollment-depositSubdomain Enrollment Confirmation
/admissions/deferment/Subdomain Deferment
https://www.usu.edu/parents/Subdomain Parent & Family Resources
https://www.usu.edu/orientation/Subdomain New Student Orientation
https://www.usu.edu/academics/Learning at Utah State
/academics/colleges/Colleges and Schools
https://statewide.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Statewide Campuses
https://www.usu.edu/online/Subdomain USU Online
https://apply.studyabroad.usu....External Subdomain Study Abroad
https://www.usu.edu/honors/Subdomain Honors Program
/degrees-majors/Subdomain Degree Finder
/degrees-majors/browse/?l=unde...Subdomain Majors and Minors
/degrees-majors/browse/?l=grad...Subdomain Graduate Programs
/degrees-majors/browse/?s=29Subdomain Online Degrees
/degrees-majors/browse/?techni...Subdomain Professional and Technical Education
https://www.usu.edu/advising/Subdomain Advising
/academic-support/Subdomain Academic Support
https://www.usu.edu/veterans/Subdomain Veterans Resources Center
https://www.usu.edu/ais/Subdomain Academic Success Programs
https://www.usu.edu/drc/Subdomain Disability Resources Center
/career-design-center/Subdomain Career Design Center
/calendar/academic/Subdomain Text duplicate Academic Calendar
https://catalog.usu.edu/External Subdomain Academic Catalog
https://library.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Libraries
https://www.usu.edu/commencementSubdomain Graduation
https://www.usu.edu/arts-culture/Subdomain Anchor Museum and Collections
https://www.usu.edu/campus-life/Experience USU
/campus-life/living/Living on Campus
/campus-life/health-and-wellness/Health and Wellness
/campus-life/safety/Safety at Utah State
/campus-life/involvement/Get Involved
https://utahstateaggies.com/External Athletics
/campus-life/recreation/Recreation
https://www.usu.edu/arts-culture/Arts and Culture
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/Subdomain Events Calendar
/involvement/clubs/Subdomain Clubs and Organizations
/student-affairs/Subdomain Student Affairs
/aggiewellness/Subdomain Aggie Wellness
/student-affairs/involvementSubdomain Involvement
/community-engagement/Subdomain Center for Community Engagement
/student-affairs/wellnessSubdomain Wellness
/research-innovation/Research
https://utahstateaggies.com/External Text duplicate Athletics
https://extension.usu.edu/External Subdomain Extension
/prospective-students/Prospective Students
/current-students/Current Students
https://www.usu.edu/parents/Parents
/faculty-staff/Faculty and Staff
https://www.usu.edu/advancement/Subdomain Donors
https://www.usu.edu/alumni/Subdomain Alumni & Friends
https://www.usu.edu/questions/Ask USU
https://www.usu.edu/apply/Subdomain Text duplicate Apply
https://www.usu.edu/visit/Subdomain Text duplicate Visit
https://www.usu.edu/advancement/Subdomain Text duplicate Give
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/Subdomain Text duplicate Calendar
https://www.usu.edu/azindex/Subdomain Text duplicate A-Z Index
https://directory.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://library.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Libraries
https://www.usu.edu/myusu/Subdomain Text duplicate MyUSU
https://www.usu.edu/academics/Explore Academics
/degrees-majors/Subdomain EXPLORE DEGREES
/request-information/REQUEST INFO
https://www.usu.edu/visit/SCHEDULE A VISIT
/admissions/costs-and-aid/Subdomain TUITION & COST
/academics/colleges/COLLEGES & SCHOOLS
https://www.usu.edu/apply/APPLY
https://statewide.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Statewide Campuses
https://online.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate USU Online
/today/section/university-affa...UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
/today/story/loan-repayment-re...Loan Repayment Restart: What Every Former Student Needs to Know
/today/story/loan-repayment-re...Read Story
/today/section/business-society/BUSINESS & SOCIETY
/today/story/sharing-their-sto...Sharing Their Story: Writers Play Vital Role in USU Student Tech Startup
/today/story/sharing-their-sto...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/story/usu-student-nutri...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/business-society/Text duplicate BUSINESS & SOCIETY
/today/story/usu-student-nutri...USU Student Nutrition Access Center Opens Monthly Mobile Food Pantry
/today/story/grant-cardon-name...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/university-affa...Text duplicate UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
/today/story/grant-cardon-name...Grant Cardon Named Interim Dean of Newly Combined College
/today/story/usu-honors-studen...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/arts-humanities/ARTS & HUMANITIES
/today/story/usu-honors-studen...USU Honors Student Selected as National Editor for Undergrad Research Journal UReCA
/today/story/from-flames-to-fl...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/land-environment/LAND & ENVIRONMENT
/today/story/from-flames-to-fl...From Flames to Flow: Utah Water Research Lab Unraveling Streamflow Changes Post-Wildfire
https://www.usu.edu/today/More Stories
/calendar/?id=95149Highlights Exhibition
/calendar/?id=941652025 Utah Conference on Community Engagement
/calendar/?id=94477Cache Children's Choir presents PEACE!
/calendar/?id=95134Open Forum - Sr. Vice President of Undergraduate Affairs Candidate - David Graham
/calendar/?id=94865Aetna Webinar – Making Your Doctor’s Visit Count
/calendar/?id=95135Open Forum - Sr. Vice President of Undergraduate Affairs Candidate - Scott Fritzen
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/All Events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Play
https://www.usu.edu/impact/Subdomain Aggie Impact
/today/story/usu-honors-studen...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/arts-humanities/Text duplicate ARTS & HUMANITIES
/today/story/usu-honors-studen...Text duplicate USU Honors Student Selected as National Editor for Undergrad Research Journal UReCA
/today/story/from-flames-to-fl...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/land-environment/Text duplicate LAND & ENVIRONMENT
/today/story/from-flames-to-fl...Text duplicate From Flames to Flow: Utah Water Research Lab Unraveling Streamflow Changes Post-Wildfire
/today/story/bridging-worlds-u...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/science-technol...SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
/today/story/bridging-worlds-u...Bridging Worlds: USU Physicists Develop Novel Test of the Holographic Principle
/today/story/usu-uwlp-releases...Text duplicate Read Story
/today/section/business-society/Text duplicate BUSINESS & SOCIETY
/today/story/usu-uwlp-releases...USU UWLP Releases Research on Utah Women and Finances
/research-innovation/Research and Innovation
https://www.usu.edu/about/Text duplicate Meet Utah State
/request-information/Request Information
http://www.facebook.com/UtahStateExternal Subdomain USU Facebook
http://twitter.com/USUAggiesExternal No Text
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ut...External Subdomain USU YouTube
http://instagram.com/usuaggiel...External USU Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain USU LinkedIn
https://www.usu.edu/contact/Contact
/about/at-a-glance/Quick Facts
https://www.usu.edu/today/Subdomain News
https://www.usu.edu/pressroom/Subdomain For Media
https://jobs.usu.edu/External Subdomain Career
https://www.usu.edu/degrees/Subdomain Find a Degree
/academics/colleges/Colleges & Schools
https://rgs.usu.edu/graduatesc...External Subdomain Graduate School
https://www.usu.edu/online/Subdomain Text duplicate USU Online
https://statewide.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Statewide Campuses
/calendar/academic/Subdomain Text duplicate Academic Calendar
https://catalog.usu.edu/External Subdomain University Catalog
https://library.usu.edu/External Subdomain Library
https://canvas.usu.edu/External Subdomain Canvas
https://it.usu.edu/service-desk/External Subdomain IT Service Desk
https://www.usu.edu/directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/Subdomain Events
https://www.usu.edu/visit/Text duplicate Visit Campus
https://www.usu.edu/maps/Subdomain Text duplicate Maps
https://www.usu.edu/advancement/Subdomain Text duplicate Giving
https://www.usu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Utah State University logo
https://www.usu.edu/map/Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://www.usu.edu/search/Subdomain Search USU
/campus-life/safety/Subdomain Campus Safety
https://jobs.usu.edu/External Subdomain Jobs
https://www.usu.edu/contact/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact
https://www.usu.edu/copyright/Subdomain Disclaimers
/copyright/index.cfmSubdomain Anchor Copyright
https://www.usu.edu/privacy/Subdomain Privacy
/accessibility/contact/Subdomain Accessibility
/equity/non-discriminationSubdomain Non-Discrimination

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.usu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 of 0.89 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 (57 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.26.3
dateSun, 11 May 2025 10:31:36 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
content-encodinggzip
set-cookie61 Characters
p3ppolicyref="https://www.usu.edu/p3p/p3p.xml", CP="NON CURa TIA"
access-control-allow-origin*
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,288 referring domains.
This page has 521,104 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 952 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

#robots file
User-agent: *

Disallow: /ust/print.cfm
Disallow: /nothinghere
Disallow: /nothinghere/calendar
Disallow: /nothinghere/cms
Disallow: /nothinghere/calendar/submit.php

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www.usu.edu
Welcome To Utah State University
Founded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's only land grant institution, serving over 28,000 students in Logan and around the state at Statewide Campuses, as well as at USU Eastern. Known for its robust and cutting edge research, Utah State challenges students to pursue academic opportunities that will change the world.

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State74%Check
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State University71%Check
USU Student68%Check
University65%Check
USU Eastern65%Check
Research63%Check
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