Cs.brown.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.62 s
File size
16.60 kB
Words
366
Media files
5
Number of links
64 internal / 35 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Brown University Department of Computer Science
The length of the page title is perfect. (458 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)
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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 366 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
16.7% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 16 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" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
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
https://cs.brown.edu/img/brownlogo.pngBrown Logo
...kshay.jpg__300x250_q85_subsampling-2.jpgMain Feature Image
https://cs.brown.edu/img/facebook.pngFacebook
https://cs.brown.edu/img/twitter.pngTwitter
https://cs.brown.edu/img/linkedin.pngLinked-in

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Introductory Courses
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Introductory Courses
H1 Undergraduate Program
H1 Master's Programs
H1 PhD Program
H1 Brown CS Blog
H1 Awards
H1 Events
H1 Brown CS News
H2 Information for:
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 (35) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.brown.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Brown Logo
https://www.brown.edu/aboutExternal Subdomain About Brown
https://www.brown.edu/academicsExternal Subdomain Academics
https://www.brown.edu/admissionExternal Subdomain Admission
https://www.brown.edu/researchExternal Subdomain Research
https://www.brown.edu/campus-lifeExternal Subdomain Campus Life
https://www.brown.edu/gateway/...External Subdomain Current Students
https://www.brown.edu/gateway/...External Subdomain Faculty
https://www.brown.edu/gateway/...External Subdomain Staff
https://www.brown.edu/gateway/...External Subdomain Families
https://www.brown.edu/gateway/...External Subdomain Alumni
https://www.brown.edu/gateway/...External Subdomain Friends & Neighbors
https://www.brown.edu/a-to-zExternal Subdomain A to Z Index
https://directory.brown.edu/External Subdomain People Directory
https://www.brown.edu/about/so...External Subdomain Social@Brown
A-TITLE Get Connected to the Brown Community
https://www.facebook.com/Brown...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/BrownUnive...External Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/s...External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://plus.google.com/100931...External Subdomain Google+
A-TITLE Google+
https://cs.brown.edu/Subdomain Computer Science
https://cs.brown.edu/about/About
https://cs.brown.edu/about/About the Department
/about/contacts.htmlContact
/about/directions/Directions
/about/partners/Partners
https://cs.brown.edu/about/rooms/Rooms
/about/system/Systems & Software
/about/conduit/Conduit
/about/diversity/Diversity
https://responsible.cs.brown.edu/External Subdomain Socially Responsible Computing
/about/positions/Positions / Jobs
https://cs.brown.edu/news/Brown CS News
https://cs.brown.edu/events/Events
https://blog.cs.brown.edu/External Subdomain Brown CS Blog
https://cs.brown.edu/people/People
https://cs.brown.edu/people/Our Community
/people/faculty/Text duplicate Faculty
/people/staff/Text duplicate Staff
https://cs.brown.edu/people/grad/Grad Students
/people/ugrad/Ugrad Students
/people/alums/Alums
https://cs.brown.edu/research/Text duplicate Research
https://cs.brown.edu/research/Research Links
/research/areas.htmlAreas
/research/pubs/Publications
/research/research-opportuniti...Opportunities For Visiting Students
https://cs.brown.edu/degrees/Degrees
https://cs.brown.edu/degrees/Degree Programs
/degrees/doctoral/Doctoral
/degrees/masters/Text duplicate Computer Science
/degrees/cybersecurity/Cybersecurity
/degrees/undergrad/Undergraduate
/degrees/interdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary
/degrees/misc/Miscellaneous
https://cs.brown.edu/courses/Courses
https://cs.brown.edu/courses/Course List
/courses/fac-sections/Sections
https://cs.brown.edu/courses/ta/TA Program
/about/diversity/Text duplicate Diversity
/about/diversity/Diversity & Inclusion
/about/diversity/who-we-are/Who We Are
/about/diversity/resources/Resources
/about/diversity/initiatives/Action Plan & Initiatives
/about/diversity/student-advoc...Student Advocates
/about/diversity/data-and-demo...Data And Demographics
/about/diversity/student-groups/Student Groups
https://cs.brown.edu/giving/Giving
/news/2024/08/05/akshay-naraya...Subdomain IMG-ALT Main Feature Image
/news/2024/08/05/akshay-naraya...Subdomain Akshay Narayan Joins Brown CS As Assistant Professor
/news/2024/07/23/ellie-pavlick...Subdomain Ellie Pavlick Receives A Distinguished Named Chair
/news/2024/08/12/deepti-raghav...Subdomain Deepti Raghavan Joins Brown CS As Assistant Professor
/news/2024/08/19/randall-bales...Subdomain Randall Balestriero Joins Brown CS As Assistant Professor
/news/2024/09/07/eli-upfal-and...Subdomain Eli Upfal And Co-Authors Win A STOC 30-Year Test Of Time Award
/degrees/undergrad/whatcourse/Introductory Courses Customized for students of all interests
/degrees/undergrad/Undergraduate Program Numerous opportunities to contribute to research and teaching
/degrees/masters/Master's Programs Computer Science and Cybersecurity degrees
/degrees/doctoral/PhD Program Strong research with low student-faculty ratios
https://blog.cs.brown.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Brown CS Blog
http://blog.cs.brown.edu/2024/...External Subdomain Providence's Airport Has Been Named The Country's Second Best
http://blog.cs.brown.edu/2024/...External Subdomain Providence Ranks Second On CNN's "America's Best Towns To Visit" List
http://blog.cs.brown.edu/2024/...External Subdomain Brown Is Third On Architectural Digest's List Of Most Beautiful American College Campuses
https://awards.cs.brown.edu/External Subdomain Awards
http://awards.cs.brown.edu/202...External Subdomain Brown CS PhD Student Alexander J. Gaidis Has Been Named A USENIX Security 2024 Distinguished Artifact Reviewer
http://awards.cs.brown.edu/202...External Subdomain Text duplicate Eli Upfal And Co-Authors Win A STOC 30-Year Test Of Time Award
http://awards.cs.brown.edu/202...External Subdomain Brown CS Master’s Student Yumeng Ma Receives An NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
https://cs.brown.edu/events/Text duplicate Events
https://events.brown.edu/live/...External Subdomain Data Matters Seminar: “Models-Context-Scale: AI and the Humanities;” a new Collaborative Humanities Lab
https://events.brown.edu/compu...External Subdomain Metric Distortion in Social Choice
https://events.brown.edu/live/...External Subdomain Chips War? Global Production Networks and Geopolitics in the Post-Pandemic US and East Asia
https://cs.brown.edu/news/Text duplicate Brown CS News
/news/2024/09/20/brown-cs-phd-...Text duplicate Brown CS PhD Student Alexander J. Gaidis Has Been Named A USENIX Security 2024 Distinguished Artifact Reviewer
/news/2024/09/07/eli-upfal-and...Text duplicate Eli Upfal And Co-Authors Win A STOC 30-Year Test Of Time Award
/news/2024/08/27/brown-cs-mast...Text duplicate Brown CS Master’s Student Yumeng Ma Receives An NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
/about/directions/Map & Directions
/about/contacts/Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/Brown...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Facebook
http://twitter.com/BrownCSDeptExternal Text duplicate IMG-ALT Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
http://www.linkedin.com/groups...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Linked-in
/login/?next=/Sign In

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://cs.brown.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.62 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 only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (17 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.22.1
dateMon, 23 Sep 2024 16:18:22 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
expiresMon, 23 Sep 2024 16:18:12 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, private
content-security-policymedia-src *; frame-src *; frame-ancestors 'self' *.screencloud.com; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-hashes' *.apis.google.com www.googletagmanager.com www.google-analytics.com cse.google.com www.google.com connect.facebook.net extend.vimeocdn.com; img-src *; default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' www.google-analytics.com
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
varyAccept-Language, Cookie
content-languageen
set-cookie83 Characters
content-encodinggzip
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 4,265 referring domains.
This page has 199,329 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,535 different ip addresses.

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Brown70%Check
Brown CS62%Check
Brown University59%Check
Joins Brown CS55%Check
Brown CS As55%Check
Brown University Department55%Check
Joins Brown CS As52%Check
Brown CS As Assistant52%Check
Courses50%Check
Introductory50%Check
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