It.purdue.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
55% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
23.10 kB
Words
194
Media files
2
Number of links
20 internal / 58 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Purdue University IT
The length of the page title is perfect. (253 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)
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
dateTue, 21 Jan 2025 16:41:34 -0500
msapplication-TileColor#c28e0e
theme-color#ffffff
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 194 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 7.5 words is low.
12.9% of the text are stop words.
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)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...purdue.edu/purdue/images/PU-H.svgPurdue University
...purdue.edu/purdue/images/PU-V.svgPurdue University

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
H2 Lost phone? New phone?
H2 Need help with Duo?
H2 Purdue IT Service Portal
H2 Our Popular Services
H2 Help & Support
H2 Join the Conversation
H2 Resources
H2 Communication
H2 Campus
H2 Information
H2 People
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 (58) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Academics
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Admissions
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Current Students
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Athletics
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain About
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Careers
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Prospective Students
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Research and Partnerships
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Apply
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/External Subdomain News
https://www.purdue.edu/president/External Subdomain President
https://www.purdueteamstore.com/External Subdomain Shop
https://www.purdue.edu/visit/External Subdomain Visit
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Give
https://www.purdue.edu/emergency/External Subdomain Emergency
https://www.purdue.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Purdue University
https://it.purdue.edu/index.phpInformation Technology
https://it.purdue.edu/index.phpHome
/services/index.phpServices
/support/index.phpSupport
/about/index.phpText duplicate About
/newsroom/articles/250107-new-...Use our guide to get reconnected quickly
https://service.purdue.edu/TDC...New window External Subdomain Find answers to your Duo and Login questions
https://service.purdue.edu/External Subdomain Report Issues. Submit Requests. Find answers.
/services/new-to-purdue.phpNew to Purdue?
/login/index.phpPurdue Login
/services/passwords.phpUpdate password
/facilities/instructionallabs/...Student Printing
/services/wifi.phpWi-Fi
https://boilerbot.purdue.edu/External Subdomain BoilerBot
/services/brightspace.phpBrightspace
/services/microsoft-office-365...Microsoft Office 365
/services/vpn.phpVirtual Private Network (VPN)
/services/index.phpView All Services
/help/index.phpService Desk
https://it.purdue.edu/ai/Subdomain Artificial Intelligence
/help/ResNet.phpResNet
/newsroom/index.phpPurdue IT Newsroom
https://service.purdue.edu/TDC...External Subdomain Purdue IT Knowledge Base
https://twitter.com/PurdueITExternal Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://one.purdue.edu/External Subdomain OneCampus Portal
https://purdue.brightspace.com...External Subdomain Text duplicate Brightspace
https://www.purdue.edu/boilerc...External Subdomain BoilerConnect
https://portal.office.com/External Subdomain Office 365
https://outlook.office.com/External Subdomain Outlook
https://mypurdue.purdue.edu/External Subdomain myPurdue
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Faculty & Staff
https://www.purdue.edu/hrExternal Subdomain Human Resources
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Careers
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...External Subdomain Colleges & Schools
https://www.purdue.edu/directory/External Subdomain Directory
https://www.purdue.edu/campus_...External Subdomain Campus Map
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroo...External Subdomain Purdue Today
https://calendar.purdue.edu/External Subdomain Calendar
https://www.lib.purdue.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://www.purdue.edu/physica...External Subdomain Construction
https://www.purdue.edu/treasur...External Subdomain Tuition Calculator
https://www.purdue.edu/hr/CHL/External Subdomain Center for Healthy Living
https://www.purdue.edu/hotline/External Subdomain Purdue Hotline
https://www.purdue.edu/diversi...External Subdomain Diversity and Inclusion
https://www.purdue.edu/ethics/External Subdomain Ethics and Compliance
https://www.it.purdue.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Information Technology
https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/po...External Subdomain Annual Security Report
https://www.purdue.edu/timely-...External Subdomain Timely Warnings
https://www.facebook.com/Purdu...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/lifeatpurdueNew window External Text duplicate Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/P...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/life...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.pinterest.com/life...New window External Subdomain Pinterest
https://www.snapchat.com/add/l...New window External Subdomain Snapchat
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/p...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LinkedIn
https://www.purdue.edu/securep...New window External Subdomain Copyright
https://www.purdue.edu/accessi...New window External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...New window External Subdomain EA/EO University
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...New window External Subdomain Integrity Statement
https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://it.purdue.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 0.60 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 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (23 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 14 Feb 2025 06:02:59 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length4650
connectionclose
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie146 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=0
cache-controlno-cache
expires-1
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 60 referring domains.
This page has 1,130 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 53 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 3
Disallow: /~
Disallow: /pmm-templates/

#
# Discovery Park
#
#   Updated by Jakob Knigga (jknigga) 9/21/2017
#
Disallow: /discoverypark/bdmce/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/bdmce/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/bioscience/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/bioscience/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/birck/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/birck/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/c3bio/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/c3bio/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/caid/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/caid/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/climate/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/climate/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/drug-discovery/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/drug-discovery/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/energy/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/energy/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/environment/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/environment/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/food/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/food/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/igsdi/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/igsdi/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/nextrans/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/nextrans/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/pillars/integrative-neuroscience-center/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/pillars/integrative-neuroscience-center/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/pillars/pi4d/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/pillars/pi4d/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/ppri/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/ppri/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/rche/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/rche/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/vaccine/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/vaccine/news/
Disallow: /discoverypark/wghi/events/
Disallow: /discoverypark/wghi/news/

#
# Gradschool
#
Disallow: /gradschool/gsdb/

#
# HHS
#
#    Updated by Lisa Stein 1/27/2017 - FP 764035
#
Disallow: /hhs/hdfs/r28j51xz/

#
# Vet
#
#    Updated by Osmar Lopez 5/29/2019 - FP 1114881
#
Disallow: /vet/application
Disallow: /vet/badges
Disallow: /vet/blocks
Disallow: /vet/building-directory
Disallow: /vet/campaign-emails
Disallow: /vet/courses
Disallow: /vet/ctr/files/documents/CTR-Research-Information.pdf
Disallow: /vet/ctr/files/documents/CTR-Translational-Research.pdf
Disallow: /vet/dvm/admissions/files/Insiders Guide.pdf
Disallow: /vet/dvmconnect
Disallow: /vet/epubs
Disallow: /vet/files/includes
Disallow: /vet/fileshare
Disallow: /vet/intranet
Disallow: /vet/pcop/videos
Disallow: /vet/scheduler
Disallow: /vet/secure
Disallow: /vet/sharepoint
Disallow: /vet/supportpvm
Disallow: /vet/sureshmittal
Disallow: /vet/test
Disallow: /vet/vtconnect
Disallow: /vet/vth/files/documents/181108-rDVM-Fall-Mailing.pdf

#   Updated by Wright Frazier 4/8/2020 - FP 1289068

Disallow: /vet/addl/covid19partners/

#
# Site Map
#
Sitemap: https://www.purdue.edu/sitemap.xml 
#
# Added College of Science sitemap.xml file per Nina Haghighi - FP 1719630
#
Sitemap: https://www.purdue.edu/science/sitemap.xml

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KeywordResultRecheck
Purdue65%Check
Purdue University56%Check
help43%Check
Service43%Check
Service Desk40%Check
Services38%Check
Information38%Check
Support38%Check
phone38%Check
New38%Check
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