Making.stanford.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
71% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
87% 
External factors
21% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.68 s
File size
64.80 kB
Words
469
Media files
11
Number of links
40 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
making@stanford
The page title is too short. (160 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://making.stanford.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
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og:site_namemaking@stanford
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og:urlhttps://making.stanford.edu/
og:titlemaking@stanford
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 469 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 22.36 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...1/files/2022-08/making-at-stanford_1.pngmaking@stanford
...dia/image/banner_rm1_0.jpg?itok=o2J7zmiOTwo students, a young woman and a young man, look intensely at a wooden machine
..._machine_04.jpg?h=bec9e20a&itok=DgYb8gWqUsing a hand-powered knitting machine
...er-scaled_0.jpg?h=de0648f4&itok=hbx7R6AQNo alt attribute provided
...170601-0973.jpg?h=5d85b1d2&itok=si1cQYUZNo alt attribute provided
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...edited-19_0.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=5QS1Vj6KNo alt attribute provided
...orkshop_1_0.jpg?h=19f14c2c&itok=TXQHh1iWNo alt attribute provided
...361/files/2022-09/making-at-stanford.pngmaking@stanford
Video URLWidthHeight
...9YBqbi81tijp-sDEciIiWukOoCuhuwwejhHnV_AE200113

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 Providing Stanford students with opportunities to learn through physical design and making.
H2 Making Spaces
H2 Making Classes
H2 Funding Programs
H2 Philanthropic Support
H2 News & Events
H3 Students Dive into Dynamic Discoveries Through Independent Studies
H3 Spring 2024 Funding Round
H3 making@stanford Sparks Student Making in Academic Year 2023-2024
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 17 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://making.stanford.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://making.stanford.edu/Anchor Skip to secondary navigation
https://stanford.edu/External Stanford University (link is external)
https://making.stanford.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT making@stanford
/making-spacesMaking Spaces
/fundingFunding
/resourcesResources
/resources/making-classesMaking Classes
/resources/service-providersService Providers
/resources/student-clubsStudent Clubs
/resources/process-guidesProcess Guides
/resources/process-guides/lase...Laser Cutting
/resources/process-guides/lase...Design for Laser Cutting
/resources/process-guides/lase...Starter Projects
/resources/process-guides/sewingSewing
/resources/process-guides/sewi...Design for Sewing
https://making.stanford.edu/aboutAbout
/about/principlesPrinciples
/about/problemsProblems
/about/prioritiesPriorities
/about/programsPrograms
/about/peoplePeople
/about/people/core-teamCore Team
/about/people/executive-committeeExecutive Committee
/about/people/making-councilMaking Council
https://making.stanford.edu/jobsJobs
https://making.stanford.edu/newsNews
/making-spacesFind Making Spaces
/resources/making-classesSee the classes
/fundingLearn more about funding opportunities
https://engineering.stanford.e...External Subdomain Learn more about how to support the initiative
/news/students-dive-dynamic-di...Subdomain Students Dive into Dynamic Discoveries Through Independent Studies
/news/fundingText duplicate Funding
/news/studentsStudents
/news/spring-2024-funding-roundSubdomain Spring 2024 Funding Round
/news/fundingText duplicate Funding
/news/announcementsAnnouncements
/news/makingstanford-sparks-st...Subdomain making@stanford Sparks Student Making in Academic Year 2023-2024
/news/fundingText duplicate Funding
/news/announcementsText duplicate Announcements
https://making.stanford.edu/Subdomain making@stanford making@stanford is generously supported by Autodesk
IMG-ALT making@stanford
/saml/login?destination=/?modu...Nofollow Login
https://mailman.stanford.edu/m...External Subdomain Join the instructor/staff mailing list for funding announcements
https://mailman.stanford.edu/m...External Subdomain Join the student mailing list
https://makingstanford.slack.com/External Subdomain making@stanford Slack workspace
https://www.instagram.com/maki...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Stanford University (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/Nofollow External Subdomain Stanford Home (link is external)
https://visit.stanford.edu/bas...Nofollow External Subdomain Maps & Directions (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/search/Nofollow External Subdomain Search Stanford (link is external)
https://emergency.stanford.edu/Nofollow External Subdomain Emergency Info (link is external)
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...Nofollow External Subdomain Terms of Use (link is external)
A-TITLE Terms of use for sites
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...Nofollow External Subdomain Privacy (link is external)
A-TITLE Privacy and cookie policy
https://uit.stanford.edu/secur...Nofollow External Subdomain Copyright (link is external)
A-TITLE Report alleged copyright infringement
https://adminguide.stanford.ed...Nofollow External Subdomain Trademarks (link is external)
A-TITLE Ownership and use of Stanford trademarks and images
https://non-discrimination.sta...Nofollow External Subdomain Non-Discrimination (link is external)
A-TITLE Non-discrimination policy
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...Nofollow External Subdomain Accessibility (link is external)
A-TITLE Report web accessibility issues

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://making.stanford.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 0.68 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 (65 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-length11279
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
last-modifiedWed, 06 Nov 2024 18:13:24 GMT
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accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlpublic, max-age=60
expiresSat, 16 Nov 2024 02:24:31 GMT
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varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 7 referring domains.
This page only has 123 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 7 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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: *
Crawl-delay: 30
# 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
# Block saml paths links
Disallow: /sso/login
Disallow: /saml_login
Disallow: /saml/login
Disallow: /saml/acs
# Block Femtosearch
User-agent: FemtosearchBot
Crawl-Delay: 120
Disallow: /
# Block SemrushBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-Delay: 120
Disallow: /

Search preview

making.stanford.edu
making@stanford

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Stanford70%Check
making stanford69%Check
Making67%Check
Stanford University53%Check
Making Spaces51%Check
Making Classes51%Check
hands-on making50%Check
making education50%Check
Student44%Check
students44%Check

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