It.hms.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.16 s
File size
40.70 kB
Words
220
Media files
5
Number of links
47 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
HMS IT
The page title is too short. (69 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://it.hms.harvard.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)
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

NameValue
google-site-verificationICWZfYIppMfuBoTQHoivJf3P61UsTOhs_lFUJRkFmzU
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@harvardmed
twitter:titleInformation Technology
twitter:creator@harvardmed
og:urlhttps://it.hms.harvard.edu/information-technology
og:titleInformation Technology
ImageToolbarfalse
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 220 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.
No paragraphs were detected.
18.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
/sites/default/files/hero-images/it.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ault/files/2024-09/serverroom750x435.jpgServer room showing exposed server racks with a blue tint and the green lights of servers powered on
...files/2024-11/importantannouncement.jpegNewspaper with headline "Important Announcement"
.../files/2024-11/adobestock_351094996.jpegRed raffle ticket "Winner"
...ed/harvardmedical/images/footer-logo.svgHarvard Medical School

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Featured news
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Featured news
H2 Mobile Main Navigation
H2 Mobile Utility Navigation
H2 Utility Navigation
H2 Main navigation
H2 Upcoming network upgrades for improved speed and reliability
H2 Recommendations for the responsible use of generative AI
H2 Register your new devices for access to the HMS network
H2 1Password replaces LastPass as Harvard's password manager
H2 Security requirements for the HMS and HSDM community
H2 Upcoming data center relocation
H2 Spencer R. Pruitt named chief information officer
H2 IT survey raffle winner announced
H2 Upcoming events
H2 Footer
H3 Transfer your LastPass passwords to 1Password
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://it.hms.harvard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
/servicesSoftware and services
/account-managementAccount management
/information-securityInformation security
https://it.hms.harvard.edu/aboutAbout
/get-helpGet help
/getting-startedGetting started
https://it.hms.harvard.edu/newsNews
https://it.hms.harvard.edu/A-TITLE Home
/get-helpText duplicate Get help
/getting-startedText duplicate Getting started
https://it.hms.harvard.edu/newsText duplicate News
/servicesText duplicate Software and services
/servicesView all
/services?title&field_departme...Subdomain Administrative systems
/services?title&field_departme...Subdomain Communication and productivity
/services?title&field_departme...Subdomain Creative tools
/services?title&field_departme...Subdomain Research and data science
/services?title&field_departme...Subdomain Teaching and learning
/account-managementText duplicate Account management
/account-management/hms-accountHMS account
/account-management/reset-your...Reset your password or unlock your HMS account
/account-management/hms-accoun...HMS account for guests
/service/hms-email-accountHMS email account
/account-management/harvardkeyHarvardKey
https://www.campusservicecente...External Subdomain Harvard University ID (HUID)
/information-securityText duplicate Information security
/our-services/information-secu...Subdomain Anchor Security requirements
/information-security/security...Security software
/information-security/network-...Network access security
/service/security-assessmentsSecurity assessments
/service/vpnVPN
/information-security/two-fact...Two-factor authentication (2FA)
/information-security/liaisonsSecurity liaisons
https://it.hms.harvard.edu/aboutText duplicate About
/about/leadershipLeadership
/about/departmentsDepartments
/about/policies-and-guidelinesPolicies and guidelines
/news/upcoming-network-upgrade...Learn more
/our-services/information-secu...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
/our-services/information-secu...Subdomain Register your devices
/news/1password-replaces-lastp...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
/information-securitySubdomain Secure your devices
/news/upcoming-data-center-rel...September 18, 2024 Upcoming data center relocation
IMG-ALT Server room showing exposed server racks with a blue tint and the green lights of servers powered on
/news/spencer-r-pruitt-named-c...October 23, 2024 Spencer R. Pruitt named chief information officer
IMG-ALT Newspaper with headline "Important Announcement"
/news/it-survey-raffle-winner-...November 6, 2024 IT survey raffle winner announced
IMG-ALT Red raffle ticket "Winner"
https://it.hms.harvard.edu/newsSubdomain View all news
/it-calendarView all events
https://hms.harvard.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Harvard Medical School
http://www.facebook.com/Harvar...New window External Subdomain Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/Harvard...New window External Subdomain twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain linkedin
http://www.instagram.com/Harva...New window External Subdomain instagram
https://www.youtube.com/harvar...New window External Subdomain youtube
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://hms.harvard.edu/privac...External Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://it.hms.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 0.16 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (41 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=300, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1731602292"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedThu, 14 Nov 2024 16:38:12 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe4-b-7f998d8f5-4fjpw
x-styx-req-id144654f6-a349-11ef-bfda-bae5eca63a2a
dateFri, 15 Nov 2024 21:10:21 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100079-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230114-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits3, 0
x-timerS1731705021.448429,VS0,VE119
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
age225
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length10122
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 123 referring domains.
This page has 383 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 106 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
HMS66%Check
new56%Check
Harvard54%Check
News52%Check
HMS account52%Check
Featured50%Check
Harvard University44%Check
Navigation43%Check
main43%Check
Network43%Check
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