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Meta information
87% 
Page quality
91% 
Page structure
93% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.27 s
File size
171.60 kB
Words
599
Media files
18
Number of links
72 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Stanford Report
The page title is too short. (143 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (334 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://news.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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 599 words. That's ok.
25.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
10 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 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" 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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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

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...22/171652/20250521_Lucy_Duckworth-11.jpgOpen video Image of Lucy Duckworth meeting with Professor Lisa Kay Solomon to discuss and review a proof of her book, Notes from the Farm. in a modal
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home Page
The H1 heading is too short (9 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home Page
H2 Along with Stanford news and stories, show me:
H2 Meet Lucy Duckworth, ’25
H2 A game-changing way to treat stroke
H2 ‘The current strategy for dealing with drug resistance is like Whac-A-Mole’
H2 Study reveals how our bones are repaired by stem cells
H2 Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visits SLAC to explore groundbreaking innovations
H2 Researchers use machine learning to improve gene therapy
H2 Research Matters
H2 In the news
H2 Upcoming events
H2 University News
H2 Research & Scholarship
H2 On Campus
H2 Student Experience
H3 How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained
H3 Jet lag doesn’t have to ruin your trip. Here’s what you can do
H3 Lunchtime Curator Talk | Dwelling with Kathryn Cua and Jorge Eduardo Sibaja
H3 Senior Recital: Daiki Nakajima & Ethan Buck
H3 Data Best Practices: 100 - Bash and the Unix shell
H3 2025 Spring FILMPROD114 Screening
H3 OMAC Graduation Celebration
H3 The Stanford Cello Choir
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 (29) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://news.stanford.edu/Anchor Skip to content
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/university-newsSubdomain University News
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/on-campusSubdomain On Campus
/student-experienceSubdomain Student Experience
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/in-the-newsSubdomain In the News
/university-updatesSubdomain University Updates
/announcementSubdomain Announcements
/news-archiveSubdomain Recent Stories
https://news.stanford.edu/contactSubdomain Contact
/subscribeSubdomain Subscribe
/media-contactsSubdomain Media Contacts
/press-centerSubdomain Press Center
https://community.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain Community Engagement
https://admission.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain Admissions
https://giving.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain Giving
https://events.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain Events
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/stories/2025/05/secretary-ene...Subdomain Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visits SLAC to explore groundbreaking innovations
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/stories/2025/06/machine-learn...Subdomain Researchers use machine learning to improve gene therapy
/research-and-scholarship/topi...Subdomain Text duplicate Science & Engineering
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https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain Jet lag doesn’t have to ruin your trip. Here’s what you can do
https://events.stanford.edu/External Subdomain View allUpcoming events
https://events.stanford.edu/ev...External Subdomain Lunchtime Curator Talk | Dwelling with Kathryn Cua and Jorge Eduardo Sibaja
https://events.stanford.edu/ev...External Subdomain Senior Recital: Daiki Nakajima & Ethan Buck
https://events.stanford.edu/ev...External Subdomain Data Best Practices: 100 - Bash and the Unix shell
https://events.stanford.edu/ev...External Subdomain 2025 Spring FILMPROD114 Screening
https://events.stanford.edu/ev...External Subdomain OMAC Graduation Celebration
https://events.stanford.edu/ev...External Subdomain The Stanford Cello Choir
https://news.stanford.edu/Subdomain Stanford Report Home
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/research-and-scholarship/topi...Subdomain Text duplicate Science & Engineering
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/student-experience/topic/ment...Subdomain Mental Health
https://news.stanford.edu/videoSubdomain Text duplicate Videos
https://news.stanford.edu/profileSubdomain Text duplicate Community Profiles
/in-the-newsSubdomain Text duplicate In the News
/university-updatesSubdomain Text duplicate University Updates
/announcementSubdomain Text duplicate Announcements
/news-archiveSubdomain Text duplicate Recent Stories
https://news.stanford.edu/contactSubdomain Text duplicate Contact
/subscribeSubdomain Text duplicate Subscribe
/media-contactsSubdomain Text duplicate Media Contacts
/press-centerSubdomain Text duplicate Press Center
https://community.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Community Engagement
https://admission.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Admissions
https://giving.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Giving
https://events.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Events
https://news.stanford.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Stanford University
https://www.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Home
https://visit.stanford.edu/plan/External Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://www.stanford.edu/search/External Subdomain Search Stanford
https://emergency.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Info
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...External Subdomain Privacy
https://uit.stanford.edu/secur...External Subdomain Copyright
https://adminguide.stanford.ed...External Subdomain Trademarks
https://bulletin.stanford.edu/...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...External Subdomain Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://news.stanford.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 excellent with 0.27 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (172 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 357 referring domains.
This page has 2,079 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 323 different ip addresses.

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