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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
47% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
58% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.57 s
File size
213.60 kB
Words
233
Media files
4
Number of links
39 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
The length of the page title is perfect. (353 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
USC Institute for Creative Technologies is a Department of Defense UARC, sponsored by the Army, conducting award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Simulation, Gaming, and Virtual Humans.
The meta description is too long: 1617 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://ict.usc.edu/
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)
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 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

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descriptionUSC Institute for Creative Technologies is a Department of Defense UARC, sponsored by the Army, conducting award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Simulation, Gaming, and Virtual Humans.
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video:duration173
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langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleUSC Institute for Creative Technologies
twitter:descriptionUSC Institute for Creative Technologies is a Department of Defense UARC, sponsored by the Army, conducting award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Simulation, Gaming, and Virtual Humans.
twitter:site@usc_ict
twitter:creator@usc_ict
twitter:label1Written by
twitter:data1ICT Admin
twitter:label2Time to read
twitter:data237 minutes
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleUSC Institute for Creative Technologies
og:descriptionUSC Institute for Creative Technologies is a Department of Defense UARC, sponsored by the Army, conducting award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Simulation, Gaming, and Virtual Humans.
og:urlhttps://ict.usc.edu/
og:site_nameInstitute for Creative Technologies
og:updated_time2024-08-28T10:14:34-07:00
og:videohttps://www.youtube.com/embed/ST3bDZwVMUc
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 233 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
16.7% 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 20.8 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
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)
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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...ent/uploads/2024/04/USC_Viterbi-Logo.svgUSC Shield with USC Viterbi LogoUSC Viterbi Shield Logo
...ontent/uploads/2021/12/ICT-Logo-Full.svgUSC ICT Logo
...content/uploads/2023/04/viterbi-logo.svgUSC Viterbi Logoviterbi-logo
Video URLWidthHeight
...ube.com/embed/ST3bDZwVMUc?feature=oembed1080608

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Institute for Creative Technologies
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Institute for Creative Technologies
H2 Labs & groups
H3 Experience the Future
H4 Body Computing & Human Performance
H4 Intelligent Human Perception Lab
H4 Affective Computing
H4 Learning Sciences
H4 Medical Virtual Reality
H4 Mixed Reality Lab
H4 Modeling & Simulation
H4 Dialogue Group
H4 Narrative Group
H4 Vision & Graphics Lab
H4 Integrated Virtual Humans
H4 Social Simulation
H4 Human-inspired Adaptive Teaming Systems
H4 Geospatial Terrain Research
H4 Technology Evaluation Lab
H4 Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab
H5 ICT Accomplishments:
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://usc.edu/New window External IMG-ALT USC Shield with USC Viterbi Logo
https://ict.usc.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT USC ICT Logo
https://ict.usc.edu/Subdomain Home
https://ict.usc.edu/newsNews & Updates
https://ict.usc.edu/news/Subdomain News
https://ict.usc.edu/news/essays/Subdomain Essays
/news/press-portal/Subdomain Press Portal
https://ict.usc.edu/news/events/Subdomain Events
https://ict.usc.edu/research/Subdomain Research
/research/labs-groups/Subdomain Labs & Groups
/research/publications/Subdomain Publications
/research/projects/Subdomain Projects
https://ict.usc.edu/about-us/Subdomain About
https://ict.usc.edu/about-us/Subdomain Overview
/about-us/sponsorship/Subdomain Funding & Support
/about-us/leadership/Subdomain Leadership
/about-us/visiting-ict/Subdomain Visiting ICT
/about-us/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
https://ict.usc.edu/academics/Academics
https://ict.usc.edu/academics/Subdomain Graduate Program
/careers/internships/Subdomain Summer Internships
/academics/faculty/Subdomain Faculty
https://ict.usc.edu/reu/Subdomain REU Internships
https://ict.usc.edu/careers/Subdomain Careers
https://usccareers.usc.edu/sea...External Subdomain Employment Opportunities
/research/labs-groups/body-com...Subdomain Body Computing & Human Performance
/intelligent-human-perception-...Subdomain Intelligent Human Perception Lab
/research/labs-groups/affectiv...Subdomain Affective Computing
/research/labs-groups/learning...Subdomain Learning Sciences
/research/labs-groups/medical-...Subdomain Medical Virtual Reality
/research/labs-groups/mixed-re...Subdomain Mixed Reality Lab
/research/labs-groups/modeling...Subdomain Modeling & Simulation
/research/labs-groups/dialogue/Subdomain Dialogue Group
/research/labs-groups/narrativ...Subdomain Narrative Group
/research/labs-groups/vision-a...Subdomain Vision & Graphics Lab
/research/labs-groups/integrat...Subdomain Integrated Virtual Humans
/research/labs-groups/social-s...Subdomain Social Simulation
/research/labs-groups/human-in...Subdomain Human-inspired Adaptive Teaming Systems
/research/labs-groups/geospati...Subdomain Geospatial Terrain Research
/research/labs-groups/technolo...Subdomain Technology Evaluation Lab
/research/labs-groups/virtual-...Subdomain Virtual Human Therapeutics Lab
http://facebook.com/USCICTNew window External Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Facebook
http://twitter.com/usc_ictNew window External Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on X
http://youtube.com/uscictNew window External Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/usc_...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Instagram
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT USC Viterbi Logo

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ict.usc.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 is very slow (2.57 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 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (214 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 24 Sep 2024 19:04:36 GMT
serverApache/2.4.56 (Debian)
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubdomains
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
feature-policyfullscreen 'none'
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
link<https://ict.usc.edu/>; rel=shortlink
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
referrer-policyno-referrer
content-length34319
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,468 referring domains.
This page has 12,303 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,108 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://ict.usc.edu/sitemap_index.xml

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USC Institute for Creative Technologies
USC Institute for Creative Technologies is a Department of Defense UARC, sponsored by the Army, conducting award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Simulation, Gaming, and Virtual Humans.

Most important keywords

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USC80%Check
USC Institute79%Check
Technologies78%Check
Institute78%Check
Creative78%Check
Creative Technologies78%Check
ICT58%Check
Human54%Check
Virtual54%Check
Simulation54%Check
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