Iowastater.iastate.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
60% 
Page quality
44% 
Page structure
99% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
73% 
External factors
24% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
25.10 kB
Words
226
Media files
16
Number of links
25 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Iowa Stater
The page title is too short. (104 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://iowastater.iastate.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
og:imagehttps://cdn.theme.iastate.edu/img/isu-wall.jpg
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
og:image:width720
og:image:height1080
og:image:altIowa State University
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 226 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.33 words is low.
23% 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)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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)
2 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
...stom/iowastater/img/Iowa_Stater_Logo.svgIowa Stater
...iowastater/img/ISU_Alumni_Logo_Color.svgIowa State University Alumni
...iowastater/img/ISU_Alumni_Logo_White.svgIowa State University Alumni
...ges/2024-10/Iowa Stater Fall 2024_67.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...owa Stater 2552x143628.jpg?itok=BiSSTltANo alt attribute provided
...owa Stater 2552x143673.jpg?itok=bA3_e0McKellie Blair, ISU alumni
.../iowastater/img/Cyclone_Stories_Logo.svgCyclone Stories
...owa Stater 2552x143635.jpg?itok=szV49AIhRandy Shaver, former Minnesota news anchor
.../iowastater/img/Cyclone_Stories_Logo.svgCyclone Stories
...owa Stater 2552x143650.jpg?itok=9gBNmXJnOLLI pickleball class
...owa Stater 2552x143615.jpg?itok=S4Ryu3IyAssistant Professor Lu Liu
...Class Notes 1076 x 620.jpg?itok=K1yGwpYTGraphic for Class Notes.
...ages/2024-11/Social Media 1080x10808.jpgISU Volleyball
...ages/2024-11/Social Media 1080x10802.jpgCyclone Welcome Weekend
...mages/2024-11/Social Media 1080x1080.jpgLegaCY Club Backpack
...niversity-logo-with-tagline-sci-tech.svgIowa State University of Science and Technology

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Uncovering a Legacy
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 Uncovering a Legacy
H2 Foundation for the Future
H2 Online Extras
H2 Connect with the ISU Alumni Association
H2 Ask Cy
H2 Quick Links
H2 Iowa Stater Magazine
H3 Seeding Innovation
H3 Shaver Signs Off
H3 Lifelong Learning
H3 Reliable Water in a Warming World
H3 Class Notes
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 links with a trivial 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 25 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://iowastater.iastate.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://iowastater.iastate.edu/IMG-ALT Iowa Stater
https://www.isualum.org/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Iowa State University Alumni
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...External Subdomain Become a Member
https://iowastater.iastate.edu/Anchor Toggle Menu
/issue/fall-2024Fall 2024
/past-issuesPast Issues
/innovationThe Hub
/athleticsAthletics
/traditionsTraditions
/campus-lifeCampus Life
/alumniAlumni
/searchSearch
https://www.isualum.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Iowa State University Alumni
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Become a Member
/fall-2024/article/uncovering-...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/fall-2024/article/foundation-...Read article
/issue/fall-2024See All Stories
/summer-2024/article/seeding-i...IMG-ALT Kellie Blair, ISU alumni
/summer-2024/article/seeding-i...Seeding Innovation
/summer-2024/article/shaver-signsIMG-ALT Randy Shaver, former Minnesota news anchor
/summer-2024/article/shaver-signsShaver Signs Off
/summer-2024/article/lifelong-...IMG-ALT OLLI pickleball class
/summer-2024/article/lifelong-...Lifelong Learning
/issue/fall-2024Text duplicate See All Stories
/fall-2024/article/reliable-wa...New window Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...New window External Subdomain Read the Class Notes
https://www.instagram.com/isua...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/i...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.facebook.com/isualumNew window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/isualumNew window External Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/IowaS...External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/iowa...External Subdomain Text duplicate Instagram
https://twitter.com/IowaStateUExternal Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/i...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.threads.net/@iowas...External Subdomain Threads
/aboutAbout
/past-issuesArchives
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...External Subdomain Class Notes
/fall-2024/article/patience-paysFrom the Editor
https://securelb.imodules.com/...External Subdomain Give to ISU
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Become a Member
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...External Subdomain Submit Class Notes
https://securelb.imodules.com/...External Subdomain ISUAA Members
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...External Subdomain Full Issue for Members
https://www.isualum.org/s/565/...External Subdomain Update Your Address
https://www.iastate.edu/discla...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.policy.iastate.edu...External Subdomain Non-discrimination Policy
https://www.digitalaccess.iast...External Subdomain Digital Access and Accessibility
https://www.iastate.edu/consum...External Subdomain Consumer Information

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://iowastater.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 of 0.63 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
This page loads 7 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (25 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 06 Jan 2025 06:51:14 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length6486
connectionkeep-alive
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expires-1
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
pragmano-cache
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 8 referring domains.
This page only has 10 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 8 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# 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

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
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: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# 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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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iowastater.iastate.edu
Iowa Stater

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Iowa65%Check
Stater65%Check
Iowa State65%Check
Iowa Stater65%Check
Iowa State University56%Check
State University52%Check
Legacy52%Check
Uncovering50%Check
iowastater48%Check
iastate46%Check
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