Sib.illinois.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
9% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.89 s
File size
30.80 kB
Words
542
Media files
6
Number of links
52 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
SIB Home | School of Integrative Biology | UIUC
The length of the page title is perfect. (431 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://sib.illinois.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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GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 542 words. That's ok.
26.4% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 15.94 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 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 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
...blic/2024-09/Adam & Ed.jpg?itok=lnzf81ZkTwo men standing in a field holding bees
...valli Parade Photo.png.jpg?itok=TpK-tVG9A woman standing in front of the block I
...lic/2024-09/Slide1.png.jpg?itok=ivEcFPFpOrange photo with the School of Integrative Biology logo
...9/WUE front page photo.jpg?itok=STSfU-D3two men standing in front of plants.
.../public/2024-08/esther.jpg?itok=RhnZdB63 Entomology professor Esther Ngumbi studies how two varieties of tomato plants and tobacco hornworm larvae respond to flooding. The hornworm caterpillars are enclosed in plastic bags affixed to the tomato plants.
...medHonors24_story.jpeg.jpg?itok=_5inhm-A Alma Mater in front of Altgeld Hall

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
School of Integrative Biology
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 School of Integrative Biology
H1 Solve the challenges of tomorrow
H2 SIB News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 SIB Offices
H2 Departments
H2 Additional links
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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://sib.illinois.edu/sib-homeSubdomain Anchor Skip to main content
https://las.illinois.edu/External Subdomain College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
https://sib.illinois.edu/School of Integrative Biology
https://www.admissions.illinoi...External Subdomain Apply
/giving/giving-integrative-bio...Make a gift
https://sib.illinois.edu/Admissions
/admissions/undergraduate-admi...Undergraduate Admissions
/admissions/graduate-admissionsGraduate Admissions
/academicsAcademics
https://app.sib.illinois.edu/c...External Subdomain IB Courses
/academics/undergraduate-programsUndergraduate Programs
/academics/graduate-programsGraduate Programs
https://sib.illinois.edu/Departments
/departments/entomologyEntomology
/departments/evolution-ecology...Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
/departments/plant-biologyPlant Biology
https://sib.illinois.edu/researchResearch
https://sib.illinois.edu/News & Events
https://sib.illinois.edu/newsNews
/distinctionDistinction
/news-events/convocationConvocation
/news-events/newslettersNewsletters
/sibs-commitment-diversity-equ...Diversity
/diversity/sib-dei-resourcesSIB DEI Resources
/diversity/uiuc-campus-dei-res...UIUC Campus DEI Resources
/directoryDirectory
/directory/school-leadership-s...School Leadership and Staff
/directory/facultyFaculty
/directory/grad-studentsGraduate Students
/directory/business-and-facili...Business and Facilities Office
/directory/human-resourcesHuman Resources
/directory/information-technol...IT Office
https://sib.illinois.edu/Alumni
/alumni/alumni-getting-involvedAlumni - Getting Involved
/alumni/alumni-awardsAlumni Awards
/academicsExplore majors
/news/2024-09-24t130000/study-...Read article: Study: Good nutrition boosts honey bee resilience against pesticides, viruses
/news/2024-09-23t183054/interv...Read article: An interview with IB Honors 2024 Homecoming Court member
http://catalog.illinois.edu/un...External Subdomain IB Honors
https://homecoming.illinois.ed...External Subdomain 2024...
/news/2024-09-09t141854/sib-ki...Read article: SIB kickoff 2024
/news/2024-09-02t130000/cabbi-...Read article: CABBI team designs efficient bioenergy crops that need less water to grow
/news/2024-08-29t130000/drowni...Read article: Drowning tomatoes for science
/news/2024-06-12t000312/facult...Read article: Faculty members receive named scholar and professorship positions
https://sib.illinois.edu/newsRead more news
https://calendars.illinois.edu...External Subdomain View all events
/academics/undergraduate-programsUndergraduate
/academics/graduate-programsGraduate
/sibs-commitment-diversity-equ...Text duplicate Diversity
https://sib.illinois.edu/Text duplicate School of Integrative Biology
https://www.instagram.com/ibio...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/iBioI...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/iBioIllinoisExternal Twitter
https://las.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
/directoryContact SIB
/directory/business-and-facili...Business Office
/directory/human-resourcesText duplicate Human Resources
/directory/information-technol...Text duplicate IT Office
/departments/entomology/contac...Text duplicate Entomology
/departments/evolution-ecology...Text duplicate Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
/departments/plant-biology/con...Text duplicate Plant Biology
https://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://illinois.edu/resources...External © 2024 University of Illinois Board of Trustees
https://sib.illinois.edu/userLogin

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sib.illinois.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 of 0.89 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.
This page loads 9 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSun, 29 Sep 2024 20:19:58 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
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 website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 691 referring domains.
This page has 52,541 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 504 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

#
# 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: *
# 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.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

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
SIB66%Check
School63%Check
Integrative63%Check
Integrative Biology63%Check
Biology62%Check
IB Honors52%Check
Plant Biology49%Check
Illinois46%Check
edu46%Check
UIUC45%Check

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