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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.52 s
File size
187.00 kB
Words
702
Media files
4
Number of links
76 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Information Technology | University of Illinois Chicago
The length of the page title is perfect. (476 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Connecting, sharing, and informing the UIC Community of academic IT news, resources, events, and information.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (696 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
These Typos were found:
  • tranform => transform
This page contains 702 words. That's ok.
19.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 20.09 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 14 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
...46039841_Editorial_Use_Only-550x550.jpegZoom logo on smartphone
...60/2025/02/Shefali-Orbie-3-1-600x365.jpgShefali Mookencherry finalist slide
...025/01/AdobeStock_302255713-600x365.jpegStudents looking into laptop
...hot-2025-01-10-at-4.22.33-PM-600x365.pngBanner including UIC CIO Matt Riley and UIC CISO Shefali Mookenchery

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Information Technology
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Information Technology
H2 Zoom Phone Transition at UIC Heading link Copy link
H2 Access the 2025 Student Tech Guide
H2 Upcoming Events Heading link Copy link
H2 Recent News Heading link Copy link
H2 Testimonials/Quotes Heading link Copy link
H2 Contact
H2 Social Media Accounts
H2 UIC.edu links
H2 Campuses
H3 Intro to Python
H3 Data Viz with Python
H3 GenAI 101
H3 Making Online Learning Work for All: Title II Training and Education at UIUC
H3 Data Transfer and Workflow Management with Globus
H3 GenAI 102
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (29) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.uic.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.uic.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://it.uic.edu/Subdomain Information Technology
https://it.uic.edu/services/Services
/services/faculty-staff/Faculty & Staff
/services/student/Students
/services/ai-resources/Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resources
/services/status/Service Status
https://it.uic.edu/support/Support
/support/faculty-staff/Text duplicate Faculty & Staff
/support/student/Text duplicate Students
/support/it-staff/IT Staff
https://it.uic.edu/learning/Learning
https://it.uic.edu/researchers/Research
/researchers/acer/Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research (ACER)
/researchers/research-services/Research Services
/researchers/sparkbyte-computa...Computational Research Symposium
https://it.uic.edu/security/Security
/security/security-privacy-off...Security & Privacy Office
/security/it-security-program/IT Security Program
/security/awareness/Awareness
/about/itlc/functional-committ...Information Security Committee
https://training.knowbe4.com/l...New window External Subdomain Security Training
/security/policy/IT & Security Policy
/security/uic-cyber-guard/UIC Cyber Guard
https://it.uic.edu/accessibility/Digital Accessibility
/accessibility/digital-accessi...Digital Accessibility Services
/accessibility/byroles/Resources by Role Types
/accessibility/uic-accessibili...Accessibility Liaison
/accessibility/exception-review/IT Exception Review Request
/accessibility/digital-accessi...Digital Accessibility Events
https://it.uic.edu/about/About
/about/technology-solutions/Technology Solutions
/about/strategy/Strategy
/about/it-events/Calendar of Events
/about/communications/News & Communications
/about/career-opportunities/Careers
/security/policy/Policies
/about/it-community/IT Community
https://help.uic.edu/New window External Subdomain UIC Help Center
https://status.uic.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Service Status
/student-tech-guideStudent Tech Guide
http://uic.edu/External UIC.edu
http://maps.uic.edu/External Subdomain Campus Map
https://it.uic.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Information Technology
/news-stories/transforming-con...Subdomain Transforming Connectivity: The Daley Library Project
/news-stories/linkedin-learnin...Subdomain LinkedIn Learning January Spotlight: Learn to Plan and Do
/news-stories/harnessing-ai-fo...Subdomain UIC Leader Explores how AI can tranform learning languages
/news-stories/secure-data-infr...Subdomain Advancing Research at UIC: the launch of TERA
/news-stories/uics-landen-dixo...Subdomain UIC Recognized for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
/news-stories/zoom-phone-update/Subdomain Campus Shifting to a Sustainable Voice Communication System
/news-stories/supporting-inclu...Subdomain UIC Launches Accessibility Liaison Program
/news-stories/pathways-to-hpc/Subdomain Women in HPC: a UIC Professor's Journey
/news-stories/grammarly-for-ed...Subdomain Grammarly for Education Pilot Program
/news-stories/chicago-computes/Subdomain Introducing the Chicago Computes Program
/news-stories/top-10-strategic...Subdomain Explore UIC's Top 10 Strategic IT Efforts
/news-stories/nist-compliance/Subdomain UIC unlocks broader research data capabilities
/news-stories/new-data-storage/Subdomain New data storage resources for UIC researchers
https://it.uic.edu/support/Subdomain Get Support
/services/student/Subdomain Text duplicate Students
/services/faculty-staff/Subdomain Instructors
/services/faculty-staff/Subdomain Staff
/support/visitors/Subdomain Visitors
/support/it-staff/Subdomain Text duplicate IT Staff
https://help.uic.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate UIC Help Center
/services/status/Subdomain Text duplicate Service Status
https://it.uic.edu/Anchor Heading link
/about/strategy/initiatives/op...Subdomain Learn more
/student-tech-guideNew window Subdomain Access the 2025 Student Tech Guide
https://it.uic.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Heading link
/events/intro-to-r-programming...Subdomain Intro to Python
/events/intro-to-r-programming...Subdomain Data Viz with Python
/events/intro-to-r-programming...Subdomain GenAI 101
/events/making-online-learning...Subdomain Making Online Learning Work for All: Title II Training and Education at UIUC
/events/intro-to-r-programming...Subdomain Data Transfer and Workflow Management with Globus
/events/intro-to-r-programming...Subdomain GenAI 102
/about/it-events/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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https://it.uic.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Heading link
/news-stories/uics-shefali-moo...Subdomain UIC’s Shefali Mookencherry Nominated for 2025 ChicagoCISO ORBIE® Award Monday, February 3, 2025 Shefali Mookencherry, CISO and Chief Privacy Officer at the U...
IMG-ALT Shefali Mookencherry finalist slide
/news-stories/help-select-uics...Subdomain Help Select UIC's New Learning Management System to Best Serve Your Needs Tuesday, January 21, 2025 As educational institutions evolve, the tools and platfor...
IMG-ALT Students looking into laptop
/news-stories/uic-chief-inform...Subdomain UIC Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security Officer Give Cybersecurity Tips to Stay Safe Online Friday, January 10, 2025 Cybersecurity is a sh...
IMG-ALT Banner including UIC CIO Matt Riley and UIC CISO Shefali Mookenchery
/about/communications/all-news/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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https://it.uic.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Heading link
https://www.uic.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://it.uic.edu/support/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Support
https://uic.edu/External Text duplicate UIC.edu
https://catalog.uic.edu/ucat/a...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://uicflames.com/External Athletics
https://www.uic.edu/apps/depar...External Subdomain Campus Directory
https://disabilityresources.ui...External Subdomain Disability Resources
https://emergency.uic.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Information
https://today.uic.edu/eventsExternal Subdomain Event Calendar
https://uic.edu/about/job-oppo...External Job Openings
https://library.uic.edu/External Subdomain Library
https://maps.uic.edu/External Subdomain Maps
https://ready.uic.edu/digital-...External Subdomain UIC Safe Mobile App
https://today.uic.edu/External Subdomain UIC Today
https://uihealth.uic.edu/External Subdomain UI Health
https://dos.uic.edu/student-ve...External Subdomain Veterans Affairs
https://reportaconcern.uic.edu/External Subdomain Report a Concern
https://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://www.uillinois.edu/External Subdomain University of Illinois System
https://illinois.edu/External Urbana-Champaign
https://www.uis.edu/External Subdomain Springfield
https://www.uic.edu/External Subdomain Chicago

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://it.uic.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 very slow (3.52 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 (187 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 148 referring domains.
This page has 1,925 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 137 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /readme.html

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Information Technology | University of Illinois Chicago
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Information Security54%Check
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