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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
52% 
Page quality
72% 
Page structure
40% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
69% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.90 s
File size
40.30 kB
Words
672
Media files
21
Number of links
34 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Columbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 779 pixels long. Optimize title
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)
http://e3bcolumbiaed1.wpenginepowered.com/
The canonical link points to a different domain.
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/E3BColumbia/
article:modified_time2019-04-26T16:54:30+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Columbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
og:urlhttp://e3bcolumbiaed1.wpenginepowered.com/
og:site_nameColumbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
og:imagehttps://e3b.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Columbia_DefaultShareImage.png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 4 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: E3B’s mission is to educate a new generation of scientists and practit...
The average number of words per sentence of 26.52 words is high.
This page contains 672 words. That's ok.
37.6% 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.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Some tags are too long. With 107 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"congratulations to e3b ma student myles davis who won 3rd place at the gsas master’s synthesis competi..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
15 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
/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CU-200.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/E3B-logo.pngColumbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology DepartmentColumbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/E3B-logo.pngColumbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology DepartmentColumbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
...ploads/2019/02/background-Melancholy.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ris-integrifolia-in-an-alpine-meadow.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ground-Spring-thaw-at-Toolik-Lake-AK.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/2019/02/Background-The-Last-Camera.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...t/uploads/2023/10/Lourdes-Greenhouse.jpg
Insecure Content		No alt attribute provided
.../SynThesis/SynThesis-1.jpg?itok=wu1Fap-ASynThesis 1
/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/subway1.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/library1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/2015/10/schermerhorn_overlay.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lion1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...bia-e3b/assets/img/footer/top-btn-bg.pngReturn to Top
...ntent/uploads/2015/09/find-us-button.pngFind Us!
...t/uploads/2018/01/social-facebook-50.pngNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2018/01/social-twitter-50.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../uploads/2018/01/social-instagram-50.pngNo alt attribute provided
...t/uploads/2018/01/social-linkedin-50.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/E3B-logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/2015/09/accessibility.pngAccessibility

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Columbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department Columbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Columbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department Columbia University Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
H1 Our Mission
H1 Our Mission Duplicate text
H1 Our Mission Duplicate text
H1 Our Mission Duplicate text
H1 In Memoriam
H2 News & Updates
H2 From the Field
H2 Prospective Students
H3 Stay up-to-date with the latest news from the department
H3 Congratulations to E3B MA student Myles Davis who won 3rd place at the GSAS Master’s SynThesis competition!
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 18 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://e3b.columbia.edu/Anchor Skip Navigation
http://www.columbia.edu/External Subdomain No Text
/faculty-documents/Faculty
https://e3b.columbia.edu/courses/Courses
https://giving.columbia.edu/gi...New window External Subdomain Giving
/faculty-documents/Text duplicate Faculty
https://e3b.columbia.edu/courses/Text duplicate Courses
https://giving.columbia.edu/gi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Giving
https://e3b.columbia.edu/Subdomain Home
https://e3b.columbia.edu/about/Subdomain About
https://e3b.columbia.edu/faculty/Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty
/e3b-community/Subdomain E3B Community
/students/current/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate
/students/current/post-baccala...Subdomain Post-Baccalaureate
/students/current/ma/Subdomain M.A.
/students/current/phd/Subdomain Ph.D.
https://e3b.columbia.edu/alumni/Subdomain Alumni
/post-docs/Subdomain Post-Docs
https://e3bgradstudents.wixsit...External Subdomain Graduate Student Association
/resources/Subdomain Resources
/resources/Subdomain Student Resources
/resources/what-we-teach/Subdomain What We Teach
/seminar-schedules/Subdomain E3B Seminars
/students/prospective/undergra...Subdomain Prospective – Undergraduate
/students/prospective/post-bac...Subdomain Prospective – Post-Baccalaureate
/students/prospective/ma/Subdomain Prospective – M.A.
/students/prospective/phd/Subdomain Prospective – Ph.D.
/ruth-defries-elected-to-natio...Subdomain […] Read More
/departmental-statement-on-eth...Subdomain Text duplicate […] Read More
/scientists-reconstruct-extinc...Subdomain Text duplicate […] Read More
/erich-eberhard-in-columbia-ma...Subdomain Text duplicate […] Read More
/news-and-updates/More News
http://e3bcolumbiaed1.wpengine...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.gsas.columbia.edu/...New window External Subdomain GSAS Master’s SynThesis competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
HERE
/field-notes/More From the Field
http://e3bcolumbiaed1.wpengine...External Subdomain Text duplicate Undergraduate
http://e3bcolumbiaed1.wpengine...External Subdomain Post- Baccalaureate
http://e3bcolumbiaed1.wpengine...External Subdomain Master of Arts
http://e3bcolumbiaed1.wpengine...External Subdomain Doctor of Philosophy
https://e3b.columbia.edu/Anchor IMG-ALT Return to Top
https://e3b.columbia.edu/about/IMG-ALT Find Us!
https://www.facebook.com/E3BCo...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Follow Columbia E3B on Facebook
https://twitter.com/E3BColumbiaNew window External A-TITLE Follow Columbia E3B on Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/e3bc...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Follow Columbia E3B on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/in/e3...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Follow Columbia E3B on LinkedIn
https://e3b.columbia.edu/courses/Text duplicate Courses
https://e3b.columbia.edu/No Text
/site-map/Site Map
http://www.columbia.edu/node/5...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Accessibility
http://www.columbia.edu/New window External Subdomain Columbia University
http://sheltoninteractive.com/New window External A Shelton Interactive Site

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://e3b.columbia.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 0.90 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 (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 05 Sep 2024 16:16:55 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
link<https://e3b.columbia.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheablebot
cache-controlmax-age=10800, must-revalidate
x-cacheMISS
x-cache-groupbot
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
servercloudflare
cf-ray8be786c6ddb1381f-FRA
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 155 referring domains.
This page has 248 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 138 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

Sitemap: https://e3b.columbia.edu/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://e3b.columbia.edu/sitemap.rss

# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://e3b.columbia.edu/sitemap_index.xml
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# END YOAST BLOCK

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Columbia79%Check
Columbia University72%Check
Columbia University Ecology70%Check
Biology Department69%Check
Department68%Check
Environmental Biology Department68%Check
Ecology65%Check
Environmental Biology65%Check
Environmental64%Check
Evolution64%Check
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