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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
64.60 kB
Words
897
Media files
8
Number of links
38 internal / 18 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | U-M Office of the Provost
The length of the page title is perfect. (340 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://provost.umich.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
theme-color#00274c
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.7.2
langen-us
og:imagehttps://provost.umich.edu/wp-content/themes/creative-wp-theme/img/og-image.jpg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 25.68 words is high.
This page contains 897 words. That's ok.
32.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
18 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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 18 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
...nt/themes/creative-wp-theme/img/logo.pngOffice of the Provost
.../creative-wp-theme/img/inverted-logo.pngOffice of the Provost
...2022/08/Engineering-Students-715x615.jpgdecorative
...2/09/Anti-Racism-Initiatives-365x365.jpgConversation at a conference
/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Rectangle-9.jpgTwo people talking
...content/uploads/2022/07/Rectangle-10.jpgLarge gathering of people sitting at round tables listening to a presentation
...9/Initiatives-homepage-image-cropped.jpgpeople in conversation
.../themes/creative-wp-theme/img/blockm.pngUniversity of Michigan Block M

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Carrying U-M's academic vision into the future
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Carrying U-M's academic vision into the future
H2 News & Communications
H2 Vice Provost Areas
H2 Faculty Resources
H2 Initiatives
H3 Office of the Provost launches Student Success Initiative »
H3 U-M takes proactive measures related to federal funding »
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 18 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://provost.umich.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://sexualmisconduct.umich...External Subdomain Report Sexual Misconduct Discrimination and Harassment
https://facultyhandbook.provos...External Subdomain Faculty Handbook
https://provost.umich.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Office of the Provost
/about-the-office/Subdomain About the Office
/vice-provost-areas/Subdomain Vice Provost Areas
/resources-policies/Subdomain Resources & Policies
/initiatives/Subdomain Initiatives
https://provost.umich.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Office of the Provost
/about-the-office/Subdomain Text duplicate About the Office
/vice-provost-areas/Subdomain Text duplicate Vice Provost Areas
/resources-policies/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources & Policies
/initiatives/Subdomain Text duplicate Initiatives
https://sexualmisconduct.umich...External Subdomain Text duplicate Report Sexual Misconduct Discrimination and Harassment
https://facultyhandbook.provos...External Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty Handbook
/about-the-office/laurie-mccau...Subdomain Meet the Provost
/about-the-office/news-communi...Subdomain All news and communications
https://record.umich.edu/artic...External Subdomain Office of the Provost launches Student Success Initiative »
https://record.umich.edu/artic...External Subdomain U-M takes proactive measures related to federal funding »
/vice-provost-areas/Subdomain All vice provost areas
/vice-provost-areas/academic-b...Subdomain Academic and Budgetary Affairs
/vice-provost-areas/academic-f...Subdomain Academic and Faculty Affairs
/vice-provost-areas/academic-a...Subdomain Academic Affairs–Graduate Studies
/vice-provost-areas/biosciences/Subdomain Biosciences Initiative
/vice-provost-areas/diversity-...Subdomain Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
/vice-provost-areas/engaged-le...Subdomain Engaged Learning
/vice-provost-areas/enrollment...Subdomain Enrollment Management
/sustainability-and-climate-ac...Subdomain Sustainability and Climate Action
/vice-provost-areas/undergradu...Subdomain Undergraduate Education
/resources-policies/faculty-re...Subdomain All faculty resources
/resources-policies/faculty-re...Subdomain Recruitment, Hiring, & Retention »
/resources-policies/faculty-re...Subdomain Promotion, Tenure, & Review »
/resources-policies/faculty-re...Subdomain Honors & Awards »
/initiatives/Subdomain All Initiatives
/initiatives/anti-racism/Subdomain Anti-Racism Initiatives
/about-the-office/dei-plan-pro...Subdomain DEI Plan – Provost’s Office
/initiatives/early-tenure-trac...Subdomain Faculty Research Support initiative
https://interprofessional.umic...External Subdomain Interprofessional Health Education
https://studentlife.umich.edu/...External Subdomain Student Mental Health
/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FI...Subdomain Student Success
/initiatives/past-initiatives/Subdomain Past Initiatives
https://www.google.com/maps/di...External Subdomain Directions
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
/about-the-office/Subdomain Text duplicate About the Office
/vice-provost-areas/Subdomain Text duplicate Vice Provost Areas
/resources-policies/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources & Policies
/initiatives/Subdomain Text duplicate Initiatives
https://spg.umich.edu/policy/6...External Subdomain Policy on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct
https://sexualmisconduct.umich...External Subdomain Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Reporting and Resources
https://facultyhandbook.provos...External Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty Handbook
https://umich.edu/External U-M Gateway
https://spg.umich.edu/policy/2...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination Policy Notice
https://accreditation.umich.edu/External Subdomain INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION
https://regents.umich.edu/External Subdomain The Regents of the University of Michigan
https://creative.umich.edu/External Subdomain Michigan Creative
https://vpcomm.umich.edu/External Subdomain Office of the Vice President for Communications

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://provost.umich.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 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (65 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 12 Mar 2025 09:06:59 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
cache-controlpublic, max-age=300, s-maxage=7200
link<https://provost.umich.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
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x-cacheHIT, MISS
x-cache-hits4, 0
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varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
last-modifiedWed, 12 Mar 2025 08:05:08 GMT
cf-cache-statusHIT
set-cookie275 Characters
expect-ctmax-age=86400, enforce
referrer-policysame-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
servercloudflare
cf-ray91f22383bbd7d139-CDG
content-encodinggzip
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
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 55 referring domains.
This page has 84 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 50 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://provost.umich.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Provost70%Check
U-M66%Check
U-M Office60%Check
Provost Areas55%Check
Office52%Check
academic50%Check
Carrying50%Check
vision50%Check
future50%Check
Initiative44%Check
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