Cs.cmu.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
72% 
Page quality
31% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
676.30 kB
Words
410
Media files
1
Number of links
50 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
CMU School of Computer Science
The length of the page title is perfect. (307 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/index
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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 XHTML 1.1 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,shrink-to-fit=no,viewport-fit=cover
descriptionEmpty
langen
twitter:urlhttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/index
twitter:titleCMU School of Computer Science
twitter:descriptionEmpty
og:typearticle
og:urlhttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/index
og:titleCMU School of Computer Science
og:descriptionEmpty
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 410 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
15.9% 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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (676.3 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no,viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
/site-images/scs-logo-640.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
H1 CMU School of Computer Science
H2 Education
H2 Research
H2 News & Events
H2 About SCS
H2 Departments
H2 Recent News
H2 CMU Welcomes Human-First AI Revolution to Pittsburgh
H2 CSD, Texas A&M Researchers Protect AI of the Future
H2 CMU, NVIDIA Lead Joint Research Center for Robotics, Autonomy and AI
H2 Pittsburgh's AI-Powered Renaissance
H2 Biology Inspires Robotic Arm in NSF-Funded Project
H2 Former CMU Faculty Member Geoffrey Hinton Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Empty heading
H3 Undergraduate
H3 Master's
H3 Doctoral
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 too many external links (29) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://cs.cmu.edu/indexSubdomain Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
/overview-programsSubdomain Education Overview of Programs
/course-listings-departmentSubdomain Education Course Listings
http://exec.cs.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Education Executive Education
https://www.cmu.edu/online/cdsExternal Subdomain Education Online Graduate Certificate
/academics/undergraduate/programsSubdomain Education Programs
/academics/undergraduate/admis...Subdomain Education Admissions
/academics/undergraduate/gen-e...Subdomain Education General Education Requirements
/academics/undergraduate/polic...Subdomain Education Policies and Procedures
/academics/undergraduate/researchSubdomain Education Undergraduate Research and Honors Thesis
/academics/undergraduate/deans...Subdomain Education Dean's List
/academics/masters/programsSubdomain Text duplicate Education Programs
/academics/graduate-admissionsSubdomain Text duplicate Education Admissions
/academics/phd/indexSubdomain Education Overview
/academics/phd/programsSubdomain Text duplicate Education Programs
/academics/graduate-admissionsSubdomain Text duplicate Education Admissions
/academics/international-studentsSubdomain Education For International Students
/~scsfacts/studentawards.htmlSubdomain Education Student Awards
/about-scs/faculty-awardsSubdomain Education Faculty Awards
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/researchSubdomain Research Research at SCS
/publicationsSubdomain Research Selected Publications
/outreach/summer-research-oppo...Subdomain Research Student Research Opportunities
/about-scs/faculty-awardsSubdomain Research Faculty Awards
/people/achievements/newellSubdomain Research The Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence
https://cs.cmu.edu/news/indexSubdomain News & Events SCS News
https://scsdean.cs.cmu.edu/ale...External Subdomain News & Events Updates & Alerts
https://magazine.cs.cmu.edu/External Subdomain News & Events The Link Magazine
/news/scs-media-kit-press-cont...Subdomain News & Events Media Kit and Press Contacts
https://cs.cmu.edu/calendar/indexSubdomain News & Events Events Calendar
/events/scs-seminar-seriesSubdomain News & Events SCS Seminar Series
/scs-distinguished-lecture-seriesSubdomain News & Events SCS Distinguished Lecture Series
/about-scs/directions-maps-par...Subdomain About SCS Directions, Maps & Parking
/about-scs/scs-tour-policySubdomain About SCS Tour Policy
/about-scs/key-contactsSubdomain About SCS Key Contacts
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/directorySubdomain About SCS Directory
https://cs.cmu.edu/alumni/indexSubdomain About SCS Alumni Engagement
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/givingSubdomain About SCS Giving
https://cs.cmu.edu/outreach/indexSubdomain About SCS Outreach
https://cs.cmu.edu/dei/indexSubdomain About SCS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
https://scsdean.cs.cmu.edu/fac...External Subdomain About SCS Faculty Hiring
/about-scs/employment-scsSubdomain About SCS Employment at SCS
/scs-ece-career-center/indexSubdomain About SCS SCS Career Center
/about-scs/about-deanSubdomain About SCS About the Dean
/partnerships/indexSubdomain Partnerships
http://www.cbd.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department
https://csd.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Computer Science Department
http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Human-Computer Interaction Institute
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Language Technologies Institute
http://www.ml.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Machine Learning Department
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Robotics Institute
https://s3d.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Software and Societal Systems Department
http://scsdean.cs.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Dean's Business Office
https://cs.cmu.edu/alumni/indexSubdomain Departments Alumni Engagement
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~careers/Subdomain Departments Careers Office
https://computing.cs.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments Computing Facilities (Help Desk)
https://building.cs.cmu.edu/External Subdomain Departments SCS Building Facilities
https://give.cmu.edu/pmtx/gift...External Subdomain Give
https://scsdean.cs.cmu.edu/fac...External Subdomain SCS seeks qualified applicants for faculty positions. Learn more on our Faculty Hiring page.
/academics/overview-programsSubdomain See Our Programs
https://give.cmu.edu/pmtx/gift...External Subdomain Donate to SCS
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stori...External Subdomain October 18, 2024 CMU Welcomes Human-First AI Revolution to Pittsburgh
/news/2024/strengthening-scala...Subdomain October 17, 2024 CSD, Texas A&M Researchers Protect AI of the Future
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stori...External Subdomain October 15, 2024 CMU, NVIDIA Lead Joint Research Center for Robotics, Autonomy and AI
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stori...External Subdomain October 10, 2024 Pittsburgh's AI-Powered Renaissance
/news/2024/bio-inspired-handsSubdomain October 10, 2024 Biology Inspires Robotic Arm in NSF-Funded Project
/news/2024/hinton-nobel-prizeSubdomain October 8, 2024 Former CMU Faculty Member Geoffrey Hinton Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
https://cs.cmu.edu/news/indexSubdomain Read all News
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendarSubdomain See All Events
https://www.cmu.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.cmu.edu/legal/External Subdomain Legal Info
/about-scs/contactSubdomain Contact Us
http://www.facebook.com/pages/...External Subdomain Facebook
http://twitter.com/SCSatCMUExternal Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/scsa...External Subdomain Instagram
/news/feed.rssSubdomain RSS feed
https://www.qatar.cmu.edu/New window External Subdomain Qatar Campus
http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-val...New window External Subdomain Silicon Valley Campus

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cs.cmu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.85 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 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (676 kB).
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 20 Oct 2024 14:52:18 GMT
serverApache/2.4.37 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/1.1.1k
set-cookie52 Characters
x-powered-byPHP/8.0.30
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
transfer-encodingchunked
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 29,727 referring domains.
This page has 5,847,116 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 19,987 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

## This robots.txt file was copied verbatim from errico.srv.cs.cmu.edu on 2024-7-24, whis (along with krupa) has been serving it up to now.

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemanticScholarBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

#Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

#Yandex
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-Agent: trendictionbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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Most important keywords

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