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Meta information
76% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.57 s
File size
35.60 kB
Words
556
Media files
15
Number of links
47 internal / 68 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The length of the page title is perfect. (558 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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
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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 556 words. That's ok.
26.3% 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.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.42 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=1.0, user-scalable=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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
https://ls.wisc.edu/images/uw-crest.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/800-Block-State-St-Winter-1600x800.jpg800 Block State St Winter 1600x800
...ter_none_ns/Graduation-Bucky-800x240.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ns/APIDA-Heritage-Month-2025-800x240.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...-of-Words-White-Raimey-Oates-900x384.jpgWomen of Words White Raimey Oates 900x384
...avorite-sitcoms-screenshots2-900x384.jpgResearching your favorite sitcoms screenshots2 900x384
...r-Evers-Tour-Humanities-2025-900x384.jpgGovernor Evers Tour Humanities 2025 900x384
...aching-Award-winners-collage-900x384.jpg2025 Distinguished Teaching Award winners collage 900x384
...none_ns/WI-Idea-72-County-LS-450x459.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ter_none_ns/Sohi-Gurindar-15-450x459.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...inging-for-fences-LSMagazine-450x459.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ueling-Discovery-2024-Cover-1600x353.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ter_none_ns/BascHill_Jeff19_1600x353.jpgNo alt attribute provided
https://ls.wisc.edu/images/uw-crest.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images/uw-logo-footer.svgLink to University of Wisconsin-Madison home page

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Explore & Discover Why Choose L&S?
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Explore & Discover Why Choose L&S?
H2 L&S News
H2 Women of Words, Women of Influence
H2 Researching Your Favorite Sitcoms
H2 Future of Humanities, key facilities projects are focus of Governor’s campus tour
H2 Meet the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award winners
H2 How L&S impacts each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. Read More »
H2 Professor Gurindar Sohi wins prestigious Computer Pioneer Award Read More »
H2 Swinging for the Fences Read More »
H2 Read About L&S!
H2 Stay on Track with your Career Prep
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 (68) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.wisc.edu/New window External Subdomain University of Wisconsin–Madison
https://ls.wisc.edu/newsNews
http://www.supportuw.org/how-t...New window External Subdomain Give
https://my.wisc.edu/New window External Subdomain My UW
https://ls.wisc.edu/Subdomain College of Letters & Science University of Wisconsin-Madison
https://ls.wisc.edu/searchNo Text
https://ls.wisc.edu/about/why-lsSubdomain Why Choose L&S?
/learn-to-sift-and-winnowSubdomain fearless sifting and winnowing
/areas-of-studySubdomain Areas of Study
/prospective-studentsSubdomain Prospective Students
/current-studentsSubdomain Current Students
/current-students/commencementSubdomain Celebrating 2025 Spring Commencement
https://students.wisc.edu/apid...External Subdomain Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month
/news/women-of-words-women-of-...Subdomain IMG-ALT Women of Words White Raimey Oates 900x384
/news/women-of-words-women-of-...Subdomain Women of Words, Women of Influence
/news/women-of-words-women-of-...Subdomain Read More »
https://ls.wisc.edu/newsAll L&S News Stories
/news/researching-your-favorit...Subdomain IMG-ALT Researching your favorite sitcoms screenshots2 900x384
/news/researching-your-favorit...Subdomain Researching Your Favorite Sitcoms
/news/researching-your-favorit...Subdomain Text duplicate Read More »
https://ls.wisc.edu/newsText duplicate All L&S News Stories
https://news.wisc.edu/building...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Governor Evers Tour Humanities 2025 900x384
https://news.wisc.edu/building...External Subdomain Future of Humanities, key facilities projects are focus of Governor’s campus tour
https://news.wisc.edu/building...External Subdomain Text duplicate Read More »
https://ls.wisc.edu/newsText duplicate All L&S News Stories
https://news.wisc.edu/meet-the...External Subdomain IMG-ALT 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award winners collage 900x384
https://news.wisc.edu/meet-the...External Subdomain Meet the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award winners
https://news.wisc.edu/meet-the...External Subdomain Text duplicate Read More »
https://ls.wisc.edu/newsText duplicate All L&S News Stories
https://lsmagazine.wisc.edu/is...External Subdomain No Text
https://lsmagazine.wisc.edu/is...External Subdomain How L&S impacts each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. Read More »
https://cdis.wisc.edu/a-legacy...External Subdomain No Text
https://cdis.wisc.edu/a-legacy...External Subdomain Professor Gurindar Sohi wins prestigious Computer Pioneer Award Read More »
https://lsmagazine.wisc.edu/is...External Subdomain No Text
https://lsmagazine.wisc.edu/is...External Subdomain Swinging for the Fences Read More »
/alumni/sift-winnowSubdomain Sift & Winnow
https://lsmagazine.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Letters & Science
https://explore.wisc.edu/siftw...External Subdomain Read the Latest E-newsletter
/alumni/sift-winnowSubdomain Check out the E-newsletter Archive
https://uwmadison.co1.qualtric...External Subdomain Subscribe to the E-newsletter
/areas-of-studySubdomain 39 academic departments & professional schools
http://guide.wisc.edu/undergra...External Subdomain Anchor 65 undergraduate majors
http://guide.wisc.edu/graduate/External Subdomain Anchor 63 graduate majors
http://guide.wisc.edu/undergra...External Subdomain Anchor 44 undergraduate certificates
/current-studentsSubdomain 45% of total University enrollment
http://guide.wisc.edu/undergra...External Subdomain Anchor 65% of all undergraduate credit hours
/areas-of-studySubdomain 73 centers & institutes
https://go.madison.com/fueling...External Subdomain Fueling Discovery 2024: L&S + Wisconsin State Journal partnership
https://successworks.wisc.edu/New window External Subdomain SuccessWorks
https://successworks.wisc.edu/New window External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
here
https://www.supportuw.org/how-...External Subdomain Support L&S
https://ls.wisc.edu/Home
https://ls.wisc.edu/aboutSubdomain About L&S
https://ls.wisc.edu/about/wilcotsSubdomain About Dean Wilcots
/about/wilcots/the-latest-from...Subdomain Latest from Dean Wilcots
/about/inclusive-excellenceSubdomain Inclusive Excellence
/prospective-studentsSubdomain Text duplicate Prospective Students
/current-studentsSubdomain Text duplicate Current Students
/current-students/deans-ambass...Subdomain L&S Dean's Ambassadors
/areas-of-studySubdomain Text duplicate Areas of Study
/areas-of-study/arts-humanitiesSubdomain Arts & Humanities
/areas-of-study/cdisSubdomain Computer, Data & Information Sciences
/areas-of-study/sciencesSubdomain Natural, Physical & Mathematical Sciences
/areas-of-study/social-sciencesSubdomain Social Sciences
https://ls.wisc.edu/faculty-staffSubdomain For Faculty and Staff
/faculty-staff/directorySubdomain L&S Staff Directory
https://kb.wisc.edu/ls/External Subdomain L&S KB
/faculty-staff/ls-research-ser...Subdomain L&S Research Services
https://ls.wisc.edu/alumniSubdomain Alumni & Friends
/alumni/deans-circle-giving-so...Subdomain Dean's Circle Giving Society
https://ls.wisc.edu/newsL&S News
https://lsmagazine.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Letters & Science Magazine
/alumni/sift-winnowSubdomain Text duplicate Sift & Winnow
/irving-and-dorothy-levy-hallSubdomain Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall
https://ls.wisc.edu/newsText duplicate News
http://www.supportuw.org/how-t...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
https://my.wisc.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate My UW
https://www.instagram.com/uwma...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/UWMad...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/uwmadisonlsExternal No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain No Text
http://wisc.edu/External No Text
http://wisc.edu/External IMG-ALT Link to University of Wisconsin-Madison home page
https://www.instagram.com/uwma...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/UWMad...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/uwmadisonlsExternal No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain No Text
https://secfac.wisc.edu/academ...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://today.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Events Calendar
https://www.admissions.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Admissions & Recruitment
https://info.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Campus & Visitor Relations
https://students.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Student Life
https://www.housing.wisc.edu/External Subdomain University Housing
https://parent.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Parent & Family Program
https://advising.ls.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Academic Advising
https://successworks.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Career Advising: SuccessWorks
https://cae.ls.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Center for Academic Excellence
https://www.figs.wisc.edu/External Subdomain First-Year Interest Groups
https://honors.ls.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Honors Program
https://www.housing.wisc.edu/u...External Subdomain Residential Learning Communities
https://urs.ls.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate Research Scholars
https://www.studyabroad.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Study Abroad
https://scholarships.ls.wisc.edu/External Subdomain Scholarships
/faculty-staff/directorySubdomain STAFF DIRECTORY
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain Map
http://alerts.wisc.edu/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/uwma...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/uwmadisonlsExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/UWMad...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.wisc.edu/privacy-n...External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://www.wisc.edu/privacy-n...External Subdomain Cookie Notice

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ls.wisc.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.57 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSat, 05 Apr 2025 10:18:21 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length7265
x-powered-byCraft CMS
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 533 referring domains.
This page has 90,486 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 386 different ip addresses.

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