It.usu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
94% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
59% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.75 s
File size
27.70 kB
Words
295
Media files
3
Number of links
17 internal / 61 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Information Technology | USU
The length of the page title is perfect. (269 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Information Technology Department at USU supports the mission and vision of Utah State University by providing technical expertise and customer service to faculty, staff and students. Get help with your password, software, hardware and more.
The meta description is too long: 1533 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
Language defined in meta tags: 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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
authorUtah State University
languageen
robotsfollow, all
revisit-after5 days
DescriptionThe Information Technology Department at USU supports the mission and vision of Utah State University by providing technical expertise and customer service to faculty, staff and students. Get help with your password, software, hardware and more.
langen
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://it.usu.edu/index
og:imageEmpty
og:titleInformation Technology
og:descriptionThe Information Technology Department at USU supports the mission and vision of Utah State University by providing technical expertise and customer service to faculty, staff and students. Get help with your password, software, hardware and more.
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 295 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
14.9% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 10.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (10). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: mon-thur:
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
...bs4/images/logos/utah-state-logo-350.pngUtah State University
...assets/bs4/images/logos/u-state-logo.pngUState logo
...bs4/images/logos/utah-state-logo-350.pngUtah State University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Get IT Help
The H1 heading is too short (11 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Get IT Help
H2 Search Utah State University:
H2 Common Topics
H2 CONTACT US
H2 FALL & SPRING HOURS
H2 SUMMER HOURS
H2 SEMESTER BREAK HOURS
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 (61) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.usu.edu/privacy/New window External Subdomain privacy and cookie policy
https://it.usu.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.usu.edu/apply/External Subdomain Apply
https://www.usu.edu/visit/External Subdomain Visit
https://www.usu.edu/advancement/External Subdomain Give
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/External Subdomain Calendar
https://www.usu.edu/azindex/External Subdomain A-Z Index
https://directory.usu.edu/External Subdomain Directory
https://library.usu.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://my.usu.edu/External Subdomain MyUSU
https://www.usu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Utah State University
https://it.usu.edu/Information Technology
https://www.usu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT UState logo
https://it.usu.edu/index.phpText duplicate Information Technology
https://aggietime.usu.edu/External Subdomain AggieTime
https://banner.usu.edu/External Subdomain Banner
https://bft.usu.edu/External Subdomain Big File Transfer (BFT)
https://guest.usu.edu/External Subdomain Eduroam/University WiFi
https://box.usu.edu/External Subdomain Box
/z-old-bs3-labs/campus-tech-re...Subdomain Campus Tech Resources
https://usu.instructure.com/External Subdomain Canvas
https://it.usu.edu/mfa/index.phpMicrosoft MFA
https://myid.usu.edu/External Subdomain MyID
https://mytech.usu.edu/External Subdomain MyTech | Find My Technician
https://mytime.usu.edu/External Subdomain MyTime
https://my.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate MyUSU
https://servicenow.usu.edu/External Subdomain ServiceNow
https://usu.onthehub.com/WebSt...External Subdomain Software | Home Use
https://software.usu.edu/External Subdomain Software | USU Licensing
http://usucard.usu.edu/htm/man...External Subdomain USU Card
https://www.usu.edu/map/External Subdomain USU Map
https://it.usu.edu/it_teams.phpAbout
https://www.usu.edu/apply/External Subdomain Text duplicate Apply
https://www.usu.edu/visit/External Subdomain Text duplicate Visit
https://www.usu.edu/giving/External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/External Subdomain Text duplicate Calendar
https://www.usu.edu/azindex/External Subdomain Text duplicate A-Z Index
https://directory.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://library.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Libraries
https://my.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate MyUSU
https://mylivechat.com/chatnos...External Live Chat
https://myid.usu.edu/External Subdomain Password Help
https://it.usu.edu/labs/index.phpComputer Labs
https://usu.service-now.com/us...External Subdomain Wireless Connections
/service-desk.phpService Desk
/studentemail.phpStudent Email
/data-storage.phpData Storage
/studentemail.phpText duplicate Student Email
https://mytech.usu.edu/External Subdomain Get help with my USU computer
https://www.usu.edu/admissions...External Subdomain Contact USU Admissions
https://usu.service-now.com/us...External Subdomain Get help with my USU email
/service-desk.phpGet live technical support
https://it.usu.edu/mfa/index.phpLearn about Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
https://usu.service-now.com/ag...External Subdomain Connect through the Virtual Private Network (VPN)
https://usu.onthehub.com/WebSt...External Subdomain Purchase software for home use
https://software.usu.edu/External Subdomain Get software for office use
https://it.usu.edu/webGet help with my USU website
/labs/campus-tech-resources.phpFind other campus tech resources (i.e. printing, power cords, laptop rentals, etc.)
https://goo.gl/maps/cbxcyqQ5C3...External 820 N 1200 E Logan UT 84322
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/h...External Subdomain holidays
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/h...External Subdomain Text duplicate holidays
https://www.usu.edu/calendar/h...External Subdomain Text duplicate holidays
https://myid.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Password Help
https://it.usu.edu/labs/index.phpText duplicate Computer Labs
https://usu.service-now.com/us...External Subdomain Wireless
/service-desk.phpText duplicate Service Desk
https://www.usu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Utah State University
https://www.usu.edu/map/External Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://www.usu.edu/search/External Subdomain Search USU
https://www.usu.edu/campus-lif...External Subdomain Campus Safety
https://jobs.usu.edu/External Subdomain Jobs
https://www.usu.edu/contact/External Subdomain Contact
https://www.usu.edu/copyright/External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.usu.edu/copyright/...External Subdomain Anchor Copyright
https://www.usu.edu/privacy/External Subdomain Privacy
https://accessibility.usu.edu/External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.usu.edu/equity/non...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination
https://a.cms.omniupdate.com/1...External Subdomain Admin

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://it.usu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.75 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 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (28 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 26 Nov 2024 19:26:10 GMT
serverApache/2.4.58 (Ubuntu)
cache-controlprivate, max-age=0, must-revalidate
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
p3ppolicyref="http://www.usu.edu/p3p/p3p.xml", CP="NON CURa TIA"
access-control-allow-origin*
content-length6831
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 207 referring domains.
This page has 783 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 157 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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it.usu.edu
Information Technology | USU
The Information Technology Department at USU supports the mission and vision of Utah State University by providing technical expertise and customer service to faculty, staff and students. Get help with your password, software, hardware and more.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
USU71%Check
Help62%Check
Get62%Check
Get Help62%Check
Information58%Check
Technology58%Check
Information Technology58%Check
Utah54%Check
State54%Check
Utah State54%Check
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