Hub.salford.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
15% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.78 s
File size
41.70 kB
Words
259
Media files
1
Number of links
14 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Connecting Researchers-
The length of the page title is perfect. (231 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)
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
generatorWordPress 6.6.2
article:modified_time2024-11-01T09:21:00+00:00
langen-us
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleConnecting Researchers-
og:descriptionUniversity of Salford’s Hub is a research environment which brings together PhD students, researchers and external partners from different fields and disciplines. The main goal of the Hub is to support the learning process of PhD students, and the collaborative ventures of researchers across the University, by providing a flexible space for discussion and development […]
og:urlhttps://hub.salford.ac.uk/
og:site_nameThe Hub
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 259 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
42.9% 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.
6 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 22.88 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 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 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
...emes/salford-2020/assets/images/logo.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Hub!
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the Hub!
H2 Guides
H2 Getting a site
H2 News
H2 Search The Hub
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to the content
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/Subdomain The Hub
http://hub.salford.ac.uk/Subdomain Home
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/sites/Subdomain Sites
http://hub.salford.ac.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/sites/Subdomain Text duplicate Sites
https://wordpress.org/support/...External URL anchor text
Getting started https://wordpress.org/support/article/new-to-wordpress-where-to-start/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beg...New window External Subdomain How to use the Gutenberg editor
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beg...New window External Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-use-the-new-wordpress-block-editor/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beg...New window External Subdomain How to optimise images for web
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beg...New window External Subdomain URL anchor text
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/speed-wordpress-save-images-optimized-web/
https://www.salford.ac.uk/webt...New window External Subdomain Service Now system (staff link only)
/blog/2020/04/01/archived-sites/Subdomain Archived Sites
/blog/2020/04/01/archived-sites/Subdomain Read more: Archived Sites
/blog/2020/04/01/introducing-g...Subdomain Introducing Gutenberg
/blog/2020/04/01/introducing-g...Subdomain Read more: Introducing Gutenberg
/blog/category/news/Subdomain See all news articles
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/terms/Subdomain Terms & Conditions of Use
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate The Hub
https://hub.salford.ac.uk/Anchor To the top ↑ Up ↑

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://hub.salford.ac.uk/"
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 very slow (1.78 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 13 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 02 Nov 2024 16:45:59 GMT
serverApache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/7.3.20
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests;
x-powered-byPHP/7.3.20
link<https://hub.salford.ac.uk/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 310 referring domains.
This page has 897 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 275 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://hub.salford.ac.uk/wp-sitemap.xml

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

# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

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Connecting Researchers-

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Hub66%Check
Search50%Check
Welcome50%Check
Salford48%Check
Researchers46%Check
Connecting46%Check
site38%Check
Guides38%Check
Getting38%Check
get38%Check
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