Sites.psu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
83% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.59 s
File size
111.60 kB
Words
273
Media files
4
Number of links
9 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Sites at Penn State | Create websites easily with WordPress
The length of the page title is perfect. (540 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Sites at Penn State is a WordPress website publishing service hosted and supported by CampusPress.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://sites.psu.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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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
descriptionExplore Sites at Penn State: Easy web creation with WordPress, tailored tools by CampusPress, and robust support for all skill levels.
keywordssites at penn state, penn state wordpress, wordpress, penn state websites, penn state blogs, penn state sites, penn state web, penn state campuspress, penn state drupal, penn state hax
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorSites At Penn State 6.5.5 - http://sites.psu.edu/
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0
google-site-verification-7ZmHXux7sB3m8NOus9ElpK3BLDPWYtR-s49coc2ME8
msapplication-TileImagehttps://sites.psu.edu/files/2024/04/cropped-cropped-psu-icon-192x192-1-112dc1d94ad1eb25-270x270.png
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 273 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
36.3% 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.
6 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 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 104 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"giving students, faculty, and staff the ability to manage websites regardless of their experience level."
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
/files/2023/03/Penn-State-Mark.pngNittany Lion Shield Penn State MarkPenn-State-Mark
/files/2023/03/Penn-State-Mark.pngNittany Lion Shield Penn State Mark
/files/2015/05/psu-mark-footer.pngNittany Lion Shield Penn State Mark
/files/2023/09/we-are-penn-state.svgText image that says: We Are Penn State

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Create websites easily with WordPress
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Create websites easily with WordPress
H2 Discover Sites at Penn State
H2 Get In Touch
H3 Getting Started
H3 How To
H3 Training
H3 Total Users
H3 Total Sites
H3 About
H3 Privacy Policy
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (9) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 25 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://sites.psu.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Nittany Lion Shield Penn State Mark
https://sites.psu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Nittany Lion Shield Penn State Mark
https://sites.psu.edu/support/Subdomain Support
/official-sites/Subdomain Official Sites
https://status.campuspress.com/External Subdomain Service Status
https://campuspress.com/change...External Updates
/wp-login.phpSubdomain Log In
/wp-login.phpSubdomain Text duplicate Log In
/?join-network=1Subdomain Anchor Create a Website
https://campuspress.com/External CampusPress
https://campuspress.com/docs/s...External Contact Support
https://pennstate.service-now....External Subdomain Getting Started
https://pennstate.service-now....External Subdomain creating and managing a new site
https://docs.campuspress.com/enExternal Subdomain How To
https://docs.campuspress.com/enExternal Subdomain documentation
https://itld.psu.edu/services/...External Subdomain Training
https://itld.psu.edu/External Subdomain IT Learning and Development
https://itld.psu.edu/services/...External Subdomain self-paced resources
https://pennstate.qualtrics.co...External Subdomain request training
https://www.campuspress.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate CampusPress
https://it.psu.edu/External Subdomain Penn State IT
https://wordpress.org/External WordPress
https://security.psu.edu/aware...New window External Subdomain Penn State policies and guidelines
https://policy.psu.edu/policie...External Subdomain Penn State IT Web Services Policy
https://www.psu.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Nittany Lion Shield Penn State Mark
A-TITLE Penn State
https://campuspress.com/contac...External Contact Us
https://www.psu.edu/web-privac...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://policy.psu.edu/policie...External Subdomain Non Discrimination
https://www.psu.edu/accessibil...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://policy.psu.edu/policie...External Subdomain Equal Opportunity
https://www.psu.edu/legal-stat...External Subdomain Legal Statements
https://www.psu.edu/copyright-...External Subdomain The Pennsylvania State University ©
https://sites.psu.edu/wp-admin/Subdomain Login
/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http...Subdomain Text duplicate Log In

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sites.psu.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 of 0.59 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (112 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serveropenresty
dateSun, 14 Jul 2024 19:41:06 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://sites.psu.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-bypass-reason0
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 14,861 referring domains.
This page has 125,653 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 9,365 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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