Policy.iastate.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
64% 
Page quality
46% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.50 s
File size
20.40 kB
Words
182
Media files
2
Number of links
22 internal / 41 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Policy Library
The page title is too short. (123 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)
No canonical link is 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
GeneratorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 182 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
22.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 18.75 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 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
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
.../all/themes/iastate_theme/img/sprite.pngIowa State University
.../all/themes/iastate_theme/img/sprite.pngIowa State University

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 Browse by Category
H2 Handbooks & Manuals
H2 Other Resources
H2 New and Recently Updated Policies
H2 Policies in Development
H3 What's new and important for you to know?
H3 Consenting Relationships Policy Updates
H3 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Safe Harbor
H3 Submit Comments!
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 (41) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.policy.iastate.edu/Anchor Skip Navigation
http://cymail.iastate.edu/External Subdomain CyMail
http://outlook.iastate.edu/External Subdomain Outlook
http://canvas.iastate.edu/External Subdomain Canvas
http://accessplus.iastate.edu/External Subdomain AccessPlus
https://workday.iastate.edu/External Subdomain Workday
http://info.iastate.edu/External Subdomain Directory
http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/maps/External Subdomain Maps
http://www.iastate.edu/contact/External Subdomain Contact Us
http://www.iastate.edu/index/AExternal Subdomain Index
http://www.iastate.edu/index/A/External Subdomain A
http://www.iastate.edu/index/B/External Subdomain B
http://www.iastate.edu/index/C/External Subdomain C
http://www.iastate.edu/index/D/External Subdomain D
http://www.iastate.edu/index/E/External Subdomain E
http://www.iastate.edu/index/F/External Subdomain F
http://www.iastate.edu/index/G/External Subdomain G
http://www.iastate.edu/index/H/External Subdomain H
http://www.iastate.edu/index/I/External Subdomain I
http://www.iastate.edu/index/J/External Subdomain J
http://www.iastate.edu/index/K/External Subdomain K
http://www.iastate.edu/index/L/External Subdomain L
http://www.iastate.edu/index/M/External Subdomain M
http://www.iastate.edu/index/N/External Subdomain N
http://www.iastate.edu/index/O/External Subdomain O
http://www.iastate.edu/index/P/External Subdomain P
http://www.iastate.edu/index/Q/External Subdomain Q
http://www.iastate.edu/index/R/External Subdomain R
http://www.iastate.edu/index/S/External Subdomain S
http://www.iastate.edu/index/T/External Subdomain T
http://www.iastate.edu/index/U/External Subdomain U
http://www.iastate.edu/index/V/External Subdomain V
http://www.iastate.edu/index/W/External Subdomain W
http://www.iastate.edu/index/X/External Subdomain X
http://www.iastate.edu/index/Y/External Subdomain Y
http://www.iastate.edu/index/Z/External Subdomain Z
http://www.iastate.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Iowa State University
https://www.policy.iastate.edu/Policy Library
https://www.policy.iastate.edu/Home
/aboutAbout
/policyPolicy Index
/feedbackFeedback
/policy/academicsAcademics
A-TITLE Academics
/policy/business-administrationBusiness & Administration
A-TITLE Business & Administration
/policy/facilities-propertyFacilities & Property
A-TITLE Facilities & Property
/policy/information-technologyInformation & Technology
A-TITLE Information & Technology
/policy/personnel-conduct-huma...Personnel, Conduct & Human Relations
A-TITLE Personnel, Conduct & Human Relations
/policy/research-intellectual-...Research & Intellectual Property
A-TITLE Research & Intellectual Property
/policy/safety-healthSafety & Health
A-TITLE Safety & Health
/policy/student-lifeStudent Life
A-TITLE Student Life
/policy/inactiveInactive
A-TITLE Inactive
http://www.provost.iastate.edu...External Subdomain Faculty Handbook
http://www.grad-college.iastat...External Subdomain Graduate College Handbook
http://www.iowaregents.edu/pla...External Subdomain Regents Policy Manual
http://catalog.iastate.edu/External Subdomain University Catalog
/forms.phpUniversity Forms
http://records.policy.iastate....External Subdomain Records Retention Schedule
/ethics-hotlineISU Compliance and Ethics Hotline
/news/consenting-relationships...Consenting Relationships Policy Updates
/policy/relationshipsSubdomain policy
/news/fair-labor-standards-act...Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Safe Harbor
/flsaSubdomain Text duplicate policy
https://www.policy.iastate.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Iowa State University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.policy.iastate.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 is slow (1.50 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 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 14 Dec 2024 14:51:42 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length5705
connectionclose
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,041 referring domains.
This page has 316,910 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,931 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: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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www.policy.iastate.edu
Policy Library

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Policy62%Check
Policy Library54%Check
State50%Check
iastate48%Check
Policy Research48%Check
Library46%Check
edu46%Check
New43%Check
Policies43%Check
State University43%Check

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