Pics.upenn.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
20% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
0% 
External factors
69% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.76 s
File size
116.80 kB
Words
311
Media files
6
Number of links
35 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Learn more about The Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 638 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS) is a cross-disciplinary institute for the advancement of Penn research via high-performance computing.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (963 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://pics.upenn.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionThe Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS) is a cross-disciplinary institute for the advancement of Penn research via high-performance computing.
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tec-api-versionv1
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article:modified_time2024-05-15T18:21:52+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleLearn more about The Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)
og:descriptionThe Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS) is a cross-disciplinary institute for the advancement of Penn research via high-performance computing.
og:urlhttps://pics.upenn.edu/
og:site_namePenn Institute for Computational Science
og:imagehttps://pics.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/locustwalkheader-1-scaled.jpg
og:image:width2560
og:image:height712
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 311 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29.9% 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.
5 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 19.3 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...11/official-blue-logo-11-23-1024x434.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ds/2024/02/locustwalkheader-1-scaled.jpgStudents and faculty walking down Locust on a busy day
...36028200_ea3c70935e_c-e1716401947222.jpgCommencement 2024 2
...4/06/Blog-Featured-Images-2-edited-1.jpgJustin Cooke and George Park
...py-of-DSC_0101-scaled-e1713472450235.jpgSCMP students on beach
...-2023-Annual-Report-2-e1708457002288.pngpics annual report 2023

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to PICS!
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to PICS!
H1 Congratulations to Our Graduates!
H1 New Paper by Justin Cooke Advised by George Park
H1 SCMP Hiking Trip Highlights
H1 PICS Annual Report 2023: In Numbers
H4 Colloquia
H4 Workshops
H4 Certificate Program
H4 Scientific Computing M.S.E.
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 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://pics.upenn.edu/Subdomain No Text
/pics-strategic-plan/Subdomain About
/pics-core-faculty/Subdomain PICS Faculty
/associated-faculty/Subdomain Associated Faculty
/past-news-and-posts/Subdomain Past News
/masters-science-engineering-s...Subdomain Scientific Computing M.S.E.
/masters-science-engineering-s...Subdomain Overview
/masters-science-engineering-s...Subdomain SCMP Administration
/masters-science-engineering-s...Subdomain Useful Links
/welcome-to-the-scmp-program/Subdomain Enrolled Student Info
/certificate-of-advanced-scien...Subdomain Certificate
http://pics.upenn.edu/eventsSubdomain Events
/computational-science-opportu...Subdomain Opportunities
/pics-colloquium-series/Subdomain Colloquia
/past-workshops/Subdomain Workshops
/pics-annual-symposium/Subdomain Annual Symposium
/pics-contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
/apply-to-our-programs-scmp-as...Subdomain Apply
/congratulations-to-our-gradua...Nofollow Subdomain IMG-ALT Commencement 2024 2
/congratulations-to-our-gradua...Nofollow Subdomain Congratulations to Our Graduates!
/congratulations-to-our-gradua...Nofollow Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/justin-cooke-new-paper-publis...Nofollow Subdomain IMG-ALT Justin Cooke and George Park
/justin-cooke-new-paper-publis...Nofollow Subdomain New Paper by Justin Cooke Advised by George Park
/justin-cooke-new-paper-publis...Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/scmp-hiking-trip-cape-may/Nofollow Subdomain IMG-ALT SCMP students on beach
/scmp-hiking-trip-cape-may/Nofollow Subdomain SCMP Hiking Trip Highlights
/scmp-hiking-trip-cape-may/Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/pics-annual-report-2023/Nofollow Subdomain IMG-ALT pics annual report 2023
/pics-annual-report-2023/Nofollow Subdomain PICS Annual Report 2023: In Numbers
/pics-annual-report-2023/Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/pics-colloquium-series/New window Subdomain Learn More
/past-workshops/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/certificate-of-advanced-scien...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/masters-science-engineering-s...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://pics.upenn.edu/Subdomain Penn Institute for Computational Science
https://wordpress.org/Nofollow External WordPress

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://pics.upenn.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.76 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.
This page loads 14 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (117 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 26 Sep 2024 22:52:23 GMT
serverApache
link<https://pics.upenn.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://pics.upenn.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/8>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://pics.upenn.edu/>; rel=shortlink
x-tec-api-versionv1
x-tec-api-roothttps://pics.upenn.edu/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-originhttps://pics.upenn.edu
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 20 referring domains.
This page only has 36 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 20 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Contact CETS before modifying or removing this file

## For WordPress
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/*
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-includes/*
Disallow: /wp-content/*
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: ?replytocom*
Disallow: */comments-page-*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
 
Allow: /wp-content/cache/*
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*
Allow: /wp-content/themes/*
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/*
Allow: /wp-includes/js/*
Allow: /wp-includes/css/*
 
## For Events Calendar
Disallow: *post_type=tribe_events*
Disallow: *hide_subsequent_recurrences=*
Disallow: *tribe-bar-date=*
Disallow: *tribe-venue=*
Disallow: *eventDisplay=*
Disallow: *eventDate=*
Disallow: *paged=*
Disallow: *pagename=*
Disallow: *shortcode=*
Disallow: *ical=*
Disallow: *outlook-ical=*
Disallow: *related_series=*
Disallow: *tribe_geofence=*
Disallow: *tribe_organizer=*
 
Allow: /events/*
Allow: /event/*

## Sitemap generated by WordPress
Sitemap: https://pics.upenn.edu/sitemap_index.xml

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The Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS) is a cross-disciplinary institute for the advancement of Penn research via high-performance computing.

Most important keywords

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

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Penn71%Check
PICS Faculty65%Check
Penn Institute64%Check
PICS hosts64%Check
Institute58%Check
Computational Science58%Check
Penn research58%Check
Science56%Check
Computational56%Check
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