Gear.math.illinois.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
65% 
Page quality
64% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
45% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
8.30 kB
Words
356
Media files
0
Number of links
24 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
GEAR | Illinois
The page title is too short. (131 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Illinois' flagship public university, offering information for current and prospective students, alumni, and parents from a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.
The meta description is too long: 1090 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
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype XHTML 1.0 Transitional 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
KeywordsUniversity of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U of I, Illinois, Illini, University of Illinois home page
DescriptionIllinois' flagship public university, offering information for current and prospective students, alumni, and parents from a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 356 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.1% 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 20.21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page only loads 1 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Illinois
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Illinois
H1 GEAR
H2 Navigation
H2 COVID-19
H2 Visit GEARtown
H2 Empty heading
H3 E-mail, search functions, and current weather
H3 Main navigation
H3 Secondary navigation
H3 Acknowledgments
H3 GEAR Logo
H3 Need more information about GEAR?
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://illinois.edu/External No Text
http://www.maryland.edu/External Subdomain No Text
http://www.stanford.edu/External Subdomain No Text
http://gear.math.illinois.edu/Anchor No Text
/index.htmlHome
/people/executive/index.htmlPeople
/programs/index.htmlPrograms
/members/signin/index.htmlMembers Area
/events/index.htmlEvents
/events/Geometry-Groups-Dynami...GEAR Seminar
/events/videos.htmlVideos
/programs/opportunities.htmlOpportunities
/news/In the news
/members/signin/mapofnetwork/Maps of Network
/programs/short/index.htmlShort Term Visits
/programs/exchanges/index.htmlExchanges
/programs/workshops/index.htmlWorkshops
/programs/internships/index.htmlGraduate Internships
/programs/regs/index.htmlSummer REGS
/programs/retreats.htmlRetreats
/programs/workshops/logcabin-w...Log Cabin Workshops
http://gear.math.illinois.edu/Anchor No Text
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm...External Subdomain RNMS
/documents/GEAR-IntellectualFo...Trivial anchor text
here
/about/map/see map
/Test(New).htmlpromote
A-TITLE Test
/events/index.htmlText duplicate Events
/GEARtown.htmlGEARtown
https://old.math.illinois.edu/...External Subdomain high resolution version of the GEAR logo
http://www.math.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Department of Mathematics

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.22 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 1 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (8 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedWed, 12 May 2021 13:03:39 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
etag"8c6e453a2f47d71:0"
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-powered-byASP.NET
dateTue, 27 Aug 2024 03:55:40 GMT
content-length8463
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 58 referring domains.
This page has 113 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 49 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_mm/
Disallow: /_notes/
Disallow: /_baks/
Disallow: /MMWIP/

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: *.csi

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gear.math.illinois.edu
GEAR | Illinois
Illinois' flagship public university, offering information for current and prospective students, alumni, and parents from a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Illinois85%Check
GEAR63%Check
information50%Check
current50%Check
search50%Check
GEAR Logo50%Check
GEAR Network48%Check
Research46%Check
world46%Check
students46%Check
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