It.stonybrook.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
71% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
39.80 kB
Words
543
Media files
5
Number of links
45 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Beyond IT | Division of Information Technology
The length of the page title is perfect. (413 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://it.stonybrook.edu/beyond-it
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
The alternate link to the page itself is invalid.
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
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GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
langen
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 543 words. That's ok.
30.9% 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.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.88 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 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
...lt/files/stony-brook-university-logo.jpgHome
...es/2025-03/education-3.png?itok=2xHKvn0fGoogle plus
...5-03/interns-spring-25.png?itok=aJwIyV-2Students participating in IT internships
.../adobestock-423311976.jpeg?itok=-CA-ngPRDigital power skills
Video URLWidthHeight
...jlGOGI3v24yhiMnC4VVPdx45qmPknVSxgJcpMThU200113

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 Quick Links
H2 Main navigation
H2 A New Era of Digital Governance at Stony Brook
H2 News & Announcements
H2 We're Here To Help
H2 Initiatives & Teams
H2 University Footer Menu
H3 Get Assistance
H3 Learn something new
H3 Self Guided Support
H3 Visit a Tech Station
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://it.stonybrook.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
/services/solarSOLAR
/services/brightspaceBrightspace
/services/google-appsGoogle Workspace
/services/zoomZoom
https://help.stonybrook.edu/External Subdomain Submit a Ticket
https://it.stonybrook.edu/statusSystem Status
https://it.stonybrook.edu/searchSearch
https://it.stonybrook.edu/IMG-ALT Home
https://it.stonybrook.edu/Division of Information Technology
https://it.stonybrook.edu/Text duplicate Home
https://it.stonybrook.edu/newsNews
/services/catalogServices
https://it.stonybrook.edu/guidesIT Guides
/projectsProjects
/projectsPMO
/projects/frameworkFramework
/projects/rolesRoles
/projects/templatesTemplates
/about-usAbout Us
https://it.stonybrook.edu/helpHelp
/digital-governanceSubdomain Learn More
/articles/enhanced-google-work...Subdomain Discover What's New and Who Has Access
/articles/experience-it-spring...Subdomain Learn about our experiential education program
/articles/develop-your-digital...Subdomain Explore upcoming events!
https://it.stonybrook.edu/newsnews archives
A-TITLE News
https://it.stonybrook.edu/statusIT Systems Status Page
/services/itsmsubmit a help ticket
A-TITLE IT Service Portal
/services/itsmText duplicate Submit a Ticket
https://calendar.stonybrook.ed...External Subdomain events calendar
https://calendar.stonybrook.ed...External Subdomain Upcoming Events
/services/catalogBrowse Service Catalog
/services/tech-stationsSubdomain Make an appointment
/news/articles/hitting-our-str...Unveiling Digital Equity
/cio/recognitionLearn More About the Program
/about-us/student-employment-o...Learn more about Working in DoIT
/about-usOffice of the CIO
https://it.stonybrook.edu/newsNews Archives
/policiesPolicies
/about-us/org-chartOrg Chart
/about-us/directoryStaff Directory
/about-us/it-partnersIT Partners
/services/catalogService Catalog
https://it.stonybrook.edu/guidesText duplicate IT Guides
https://it.stonybrook.edu/helpText duplicate Help
/services/training-and-develop...Training & Development
https://it.stonybrook.edu/statusSystems Status
https://cybersecurity.stonybro...External Subdomain Secure Computing
https://cybersecurity.stonybro...External Subdomain Security Consulting
https://cybersecurity.stonybro...External Subdomain Security Policy & Compliance
https://cybersecurity.stonybro...External Subdomain Incident Response
http://go.stonybrook.edu/quick...External Subdomain Submit A Quick Ticket
https://docs.google.com/forms/...External Subdomain Accessibility Barrier
https://www.stonybrook.edu/com...External Subdomain Discrimination
https://www.stonybrook.edu/com...External Subdomain Sexual Misconduct
/casloginLogin

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://it.stonybrook.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.06 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 (40 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=3600, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1747256420"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedWed, 14 May 2025 21:00:20 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheMISS
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe2-b-7b5dbfcc48-xp8pl
x-styx-req-id72156cdc-3106-11f0-8db6-96d35c9c3aed
dateWed, 14 May 2025 21:00:21 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100035-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230025-FRA
x-cacheMISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0
x-timerS1747256420.132599,VS0,VE894
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
age0
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length10346
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 69 referring domains.
This page has 373 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 58 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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Brook52%Check
Stony Brook52%Check
Tech49%Check
Stony Brook University48%Check
Information46%Check
Division46%Check
Information Technology46%Check
Technology45%Check
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