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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.11 s
File size
77.20 kB
Words
415
Media files
22
Number of links
66 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - USC Viterbi School of Engineering
The length of the page title is perfect. (378 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://illumin.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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 415 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.3% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
21 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H3 Pedal to the Metal, and the Computer: The Engineering Behind Analog and Digital Guitar Pedals
H3 Hidden Layers: The Keys to Data Transmission on the Internet
H3 Internet Micro-Satellites: Filling the Sky and Connecting the World
H3 Looking Inside the Digital Wallet: The Future of Payments
H3 From Metal Frames to Aerodynamic Marvels: Engineering Innovation in Road Biking
H3 Man vs. Machine: Testing Machine Learning through Playing Video Games
H3 Serving up Some Knowledge: The Physics of Tennis
H3 Cotton Candy: Carnival Snack to Medical Wonder
H3 Inside a Slot Machine
H3 The Chemistry Behind Moisturizers
H3 The Frisbee
H3 From Curbs to Code: Using Modern Digital Technology to Confront Homelessness
H3 How to Engineer a Record-Breaking Swimsuit
H3 Netflix’s Recommendation Systems: Entertainment Made for You
H3 The Future of Surfing
H3 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A Look Into Google’s DeepDream
H3 Encrypt the Future – Quantum Cryptography
H4 Statement on Use of Generative AI Tools in Illumin Magazine
H5 Most Popular
H5 Featured Posts
H5 Search
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
8 links don't have an 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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://illumin.usc.edu/Anchor Skip to content
/pedal-to-the-metal/Subdomain Pedal to the Metal, and the Computer: The Engineering Behind Analog and Digital Guitar Pedals
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/hidden-layers-the-keys-to-dat...Subdomain Hidden Layers: The Keys to Data Transmission on the Internet
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/internet-micro-satellites-fil...Subdomain Internet Micro-Satellites: Filling the Sky and Connecting the World
A-TITLE Internet Micro-Satellites: Filling the Sky and Connecting the World
/looking-inside-the-digital-wa...Subdomain Looking Inside the Digital Wallet: The Future of Payments
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/from-metal-frames-to-aerodyna...Subdomain From Metal Frames to Aerodynamic Marvels: Engineering Innovation in Road Biking
A-TITLE From Metal Frames to Aerodynamic Marvels: Engineering Innovation in Road Biking
https://illumin.usc.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT USC Viterbi School of Engineering
https://illumin.usc.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate USC Viterbi School of Engineering
https://illumin.usc.edu/Subdomain Home
https://illumin.usc.edu/articles/Subdomain Articles
https://illumin.usc.edu/about-us/Subdomain About Us
https://illumin.usc.edu/contact/Subdomain Contact
/submission/Subdomain Submission
https://illumin.usc.edu/articlesNo Text
/editors-note-volume-xxiv-issu...Subdomain No Text
/ai-policy/Subdomain Statement on Use of Generative AI Tools in Illumin Magazine
/category/electrical-engineering/Subdomain Electrical Engineering
/category/volume-xxv/issue-ii-...Subdomain Issue II
/category/music/Subdomain Music
/category/volume-xxv/Subdomain Volume XXV
/pedal-to-the-metal/Subdomain Text duplicate Pedal to the Metal, and the Computer: The Engineering Behind Analog and Digital Guitar Pedals
/pedal-to-the-metal/Subdomain May 3, 2025
/hidden-layers-the-keys-to-dat...Subdomain Text duplicate Hidden Layers: The Keys to Data Transmission on the Internet
/hidden-layers-the-keys-to-dat...Subdomain Text duplicate May 3, 2025
/internet-micro-satellites-fil...Subdomain Text duplicate Internet Micro-Satellites: Filling the Sky and Connecting the World
/internet-micro-satellites-fil...Subdomain Text duplicate May 3, 2025
/looking-inside-the-digital-wa...Subdomain Text duplicate Looking Inside the Digital Wallet: The Future of Payments
/looking-inside-the-digital-wa...Subdomain Text duplicate May 3, 2025
/from-metal-frames-to-aerodyna...Subdomain Text duplicate From Metal Frames to Aerodynamic Marvels: Engineering Innovation in Road Biking
/from-metal-frames-to-aerodyna...Subdomain Text duplicate May 3, 2025
/man-vs-machine-testing-machin...Subdomain No Text
/category/computer-science/Subdomain Computer Science
/category/entertainment/Subdomain Entertainment
/category/volume-xix/issue-iii...Subdomain Issue III
/category/lifestyle/Subdomain Lifestyle
/category/most-popular/Subdomain Most Popular
/category/volume-xix/Subdomain Volume XIX
/man-vs-machine-testing-machin...Subdomain Man vs. Machine: Testing Machine Learning through Playing Video Games
/man-vs-machine-testing-machin...Subdomain July 1, 2019June 15, 2021
/serving-up-some-knowledge-the...Subdomain No Text
/serving-up-some-knowledge-the...Subdomain Serving up Some Knowledge: The Physics of Tennis
/serving-up-some-knowledge-the...Subdomain April 9, 2019June 15, 2021
/cotton-candy-carnival-snack-t...Subdomain No Text
/cotton-candy-carnival-snack-t...Subdomain Cotton Candy: Carnival Snack to Medical Wonder
/cotton-candy-carnival-snack-t...Subdomain May 5, 2012June 15, 2021
/inside-a-slot-machine/Subdomain No Text
/inside-a-slot-machine/Subdomain Inside a Slot Machine
/inside-a-slot-machine/Subdomain November 10, 2010June 15, 2021
/the-chemistry-behind-moisturi...Subdomain No Text
/the-chemistry-behind-moisturi...Subdomain The Chemistry Behind Moisturizers
/the-chemistry-behind-moisturi...Subdomain December 4, 2003June 15, 2021
/the-frisbee/Subdomain No Text
/the-frisbee/Subdomain The Frisbee
/the-frisbee/Subdomain May 2, 2003June 15, 2021
/from-curbs-to-code-using-mode...Subdomain From Curbs to Code: Using Modern Digital Technology to Confront Homelessness
/from-curbs-to-code-using-mode...Subdomain August 28, 2023October 9, 2023
/how-to-engineer-a-record-brea...Subdomain How to Engineer a Record-Breaking Swimsuit
/how-to-engineer-a-record-brea...Subdomain October 24, 2022October 9, 2023
/netflixs-recommendation-syste...Subdomain Netflix’s Recommendation Systems: Entertainment Made for You
/netflixs-recommendation-syste...Subdomain February 14, 2022October 30, 2023
/the-future-of-surfing/Subdomain The Future of Surfing
/the-future-of-surfing/Subdomain October 26, 2018June 15, 2021
/do-androids-dream-of-electric...Subdomain Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A Look Into Google’s DeepDream
/do-androids-dream-of-electric...Subdomain March 21, 2017October 30, 2023
/encrypt-the-future-quantum-cr...Subdomain Encrypt the Future – Quantum Cryptography
/encrypt-the-future-quantum-cr...Subdomain April 30, 2014February 23, 2018
https://wordpress.org/New window External WordPress
https://odiethemes.com/themes/...New window External MagazineBook
https://www.facebook.com/illum...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/illuminmag...New window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/usci...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://illumin.usc.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.11 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 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 56 referring domains.
This page has 61 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 54 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Crawl-delay: 10

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