Huit.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
29% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.12 s
File size
288.50 kB
Words
397
Media files
2
Number of links
46 internal / 31 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Harvard University Information Technology
The length of the page title is perfect. (380 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://huit.harvard.edu/home
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)
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
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twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleHarvard University Information Technology
twitter:descriptionHarvard University Information Technology
og:typeuniversity
og:titleHarvard University Information Technology
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 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 397 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 50 words is high.
21.7% 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
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 8 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Harvard University Information Technology
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 51 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Harvard University Information Technology
H1 How can we help?
H1 Project Delivery Forum - Career Growth at Harvard
H1 Be alert for phishing attempts related to global IT outages
H1 Coming soon: New and improved Harvard AI Sandbox
H2 GA4 Tracking code
H2 99854390689df1234426bf79c8335106
H2 Service status & alerts
H2 ff79d7c3e6d394e890c8b927b857eb07
H2 e034b654f734476dfc409567b1a87b12
H2 Chat Chat with the HUIT Service Desk
H2 Call 617-495-7777
H2 Submit a ticket Request help from the HUIT Service Desk
H2 In-person Visit or make an appointment at the Walk-In Support Center
H2 99854390689df1234426bf79c8335106 Duplicate text
H2 Service status & alerts Duplicate text
H2 Report a problem
H2 Find tools & services
H2 Get started with IT
H2 News you can use
H2 Generative AI: guidelines, tools and resources
H2 More news
H2 Find Tools & Services
H2 Service Status
H2 Get Help
H2 About IT
H2 About the HUIT Website
H2 Other Resources
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H2 Styles 2023
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H2 126ca6a0542274bbab273edaddaacade
H2 6bf3f0ca5ef3d0ef397c8c5313f69619
H2 Qualtrics Style code
H2 d9c1402345fde99efe0b2f6c9893b9fa
H2 65d27f8bb5f31bb6e9d073714a978ffa
H3 HUIT Service Status
H3 Browse how-to and troubleshooting articles
H3 View our hours of operation
H3 Find service desks at Schools
H3 Check service status and subscribe to alerts
H3 Report a service disruption
H3 Report a security incident or online harassment
H3 Report a web accessibility concern
H3 Browse A-Z list
H3 Finance & Admin Apps
H3 IT Perks & Discounts
H3 For Students
H3 For Faculty & Researchers
H3 For Staff
H3 For Alumni
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 (31) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://huit.harvard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University Logo
http://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain HARVARD.EDU
https://huit.harvard.edu/Subdomain Harvard University Information Technology
https://huit.harvard.edu/Subdomain Find Tools & Services
/tools-and-servicesSubdomain Browse Tools & Services
https://huit.harvard.edu/financeSubdomain Finance & Admin Apps
https://huit.harvard.edu/studentsSubdomain For Students
https://huit.harvard.edu/facultySubdomain For Faculty & Researchers
https://huit.harvard.edu/staffSubdomain For Staff
https://alumni.harvard.edu/helpExternal Subdomain For Alumni
/it-perks-and-discountsSubdomain IT Perks & Discounts
https://huit.harvard.edu/Subdomain Report a Problem
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Report a Service Disruption
https://security.harvard.edu/r...External Subdomain Report a Security Incident
https://security.harvard.edu/r...External Subdomain Anchor Report Online Harassment
https://harvard.az1.qualtrics....External Subdomain Report a Web Accessibility Concern
https://huit.harvard.edu/Subdomain About IT
https://huit.harvard.edu/aboutSubdomain About HUIT
/policies-and-guidelinesSubdomain Policies
https://huit.harvard.edu/strategySubdomain Strategy
/it-communitySubdomain Community
https://huit.harvard.edu/news-0Subdomain News
/events-and-trainingSubdomain Events
https://status.huit.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Service Status
https://huit.harvard.edu/get-helpSubdomain Get Help
/search-huitSubdomain Search
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Chat Chat with the HUIT Service Desk
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Submit a ticket Request help from the HUIT Service Desk
/appointmentSubdomain In-person Visit or make an appointment at the Walk-In Support Center
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Browse how-to and troubleshooting articles
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain View our hours of operation
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Find service desks at Schools
https://status.huit.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Check service status and subscribe to alerts
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Report a service disruption
https://security.harvard.edu/r...External Subdomain Report a security incident or online harassment
https://harvard.az1.qualtrics....External Subdomain Report a web accessibility concern
/huit20/tools-and-servicesBrowse A-Z list
/huit20/financeText duplicate Finance & Admin Apps
/huit20/it-perks-and-discountsText duplicate IT Perks & Discounts
/huit20/studentsText duplicate For Students
/huit20/facultyText duplicate For Faculty & Researchers
/huit20/staffText duplicate For Staff
https://alumni.harvard.edu/helpExternal Subdomain Text duplicate For Alumni
http://eepurl.com/iLmKqQExternal Subscribe to the Digital Digest newsletter
https://huit.harvard.edu/aiSubdomain Learn about tools, resources, and initial guidelines for use
/news/project-delivery-forum-c...Subdomain Project Delivery Forum - Career Growth at Harvard
/news/be-alert-phishing-attemp...Subdomain Be alert for phishing attempts related to global IT outages
/news/coming-soon-new-and-impr...Subdomain Coming soon: New and improved Harvard AI Sandbox
https://huit.harvard.edu/news-0Subdomain View all news and updates
/tools-and-servicesText duplicate Browse Tools & Services
https://huit.harvard.edu/financeText duplicate Finance & Admin Apps
https://huit.harvard.edu/studentsText duplicate For Students
https://huit.harvard.edu/facultyText duplicate For Faculty & Researchers
https://huit.harvard.edu/staffText duplicate For Staff
https://alumni.harvard.edu/helpExternal Subdomain Text duplicate For Alumni
/it-perks-and-discountsText duplicate IT Perks & Discounts
https://status.huit.harvard.edu/External Subdomain View service status
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Text duplicate Report a service disruption
https://huit.harvard.edu/get-helpSubdomain Get help from HUIT
https://security.harvard.edu/r...External Subdomain Report a security incident
https://harvard.service-now.co...External Subdomain Text duplicate Find service desks at Schools
/huit20/aboutText duplicate About HUIT
https://hwpi.harvard.edu/os_fa...External Subdomain Organization chart
/huit20/policies-and-guidelinesText duplicate Policies
https://security.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Security
/huit20/strategyText duplicate Strategy
/huit20/it-communityText duplicate Community
/huit20/events-and-trainingText duplicate Events
/huit20/news-0Text duplicate News
/huit20/creditsCredits
https://intranet.huit.harvard....External Subdomain HUIT Staff Intranet
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Harvard.edu
/user?destination=home?admin_p...Admin Login
https://accessibility.harvard....External Subdomain Accessibility
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
https://www.harvard.edu/copyri...External Subdomain Report Copyright Infringement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://huit.harvard.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.12 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (289 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 726 referring domains.
This page has 1,526 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 470 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# 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

# Restrict all user agents from using search filters
User-agent: *
Disallow: *?f%5B*
Disallow: *&f%5B*
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

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

KeywordResultRecheck
HARVARD79%Check
Harvard University73%Check
Harvard University Information69%Check
Harvard University Information Technology68%Check
Information62%Check
Information Technology62%Check
HUIT58%Check
HUIT Service50%Check
EDU48%Check
HUIT Service Desk47%Check

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