Info.iastate.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
0% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.47 s
File size
11.50 kB
Words
111
Media files
5
Number of links
10 internal / 34 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome - Directory Information - Iowa State University
The length of the page title is perfect. (499 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)
The rules specified in the robots.txt file do not allow the access for the bingbot respectively the MSN-Bot.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 111 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
29.7% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 10.67 words is good.
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" is provided.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
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
/iastate-theme/img/sprite.png?v=1.4.69Iowa State University
/img/911-fire.png911 Fire
/img/911-police.png911 Police
/img/911-ambulance.png911 Ambulance
/iastate-theme/img/sprite.png?v=1.4.69Iowa State University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome
H2 Empty heading
H2 Emergency Assistance
H2 Non-Emergencies
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 too many external links (34) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.info.iastate.edu/Anchor Skip Navigation
https://login.iastate.edu/External Subdomain Sign Ons
http://info.iastate.edu/Subdomain Directory
http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/maps/External Subdomain Maps
http://www.iastate.edu/contact/External Subdomain Contact Us
http://www.iastate.edu/index/AExternal Subdomain Index
http://www.iastate.edu/index/A/External Subdomain A
http://www.iastate.edu/index/B/External Subdomain B
http://www.iastate.edu/index/C/External Subdomain C
http://www.iastate.edu/index/D/External Subdomain D
http://www.iastate.edu/index/E/External Subdomain E
http://www.iastate.edu/index/F/External Subdomain F
http://www.iastate.edu/index/G/External Subdomain G
http://www.iastate.edu/index/H/External Subdomain H
http://www.iastate.edu/index/I/External Subdomain I
http://www.iastate.edu/index/J/External Subdomain J
http://www.iastate.edu/index/K/External Subdomain K
http://www.iastate.edu/index/L/External Subdomain L
http://www.iastate.edu/index/M/External Subdomain M
http://www.iastate.edu/index/N/External Subdomain N
http://www.iastate.edu/index/O/External Subdomain O
http://www.iastate.edu/index/P/External Subdomain P
http://www.iastate.edu/index/Q/External Subdomain Q
http://www.iastate.edu/index/R/External Subdomain R
http://www.iastate.edu/index/S/External Subdomain S
http://www.iastate.edu/index/T/External Subdomain T
http://www.iastate.edu/index/U/External Subdomain U
http://www.iastate.edu/index/V/External Subdomain V
http://www.iastate.edu/index/W/External Subdomain W
http://www.iastate.edu/index/X/External Subdomain X
http://www.iastate.edu/index/Y/External Subdomain Y
http://www.iastate.edu/index/Z/External Subdomain Z
http://www.iastate.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Iowa State University
https://www.info.iastate.edu/Directory Information
/emergency/Emergency Numbers
https://www.info.iastate.edu/Individuals
/individuals/advancedAdvanced Search
/howto/How To
/howto/suppress/How To Suppress My Info
/individuals/advancedText duplicate Advanced Search
/emergency/more emergency numbers...
http://www.dps.iastate.edu/External Subdomain Department of Public Safety
http://www.iastate.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Iowa State University
http://www.iastate.edu/contact/External Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.info.iastate.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 slow (1.47 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 only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (12 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 08 Sep 2024 04:49:33 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length3503
connectionclose
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 324 referring domains.
This page has 2,729 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 305 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /individual/

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Welcome62%Check
State60%Check
Info58%Check
Iowa State55%Check
State University55%Check
Iowa State University52%Check
Directory46%Check
Information46%Check
Directory Information46%Check
Fire43%Check
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