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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
72% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.64 s
File size
136.30 kB
Words
582
Media files
5
Number of links
114 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 582 pixels long. 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)
https://smtd.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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 582 words. That's ok.
18.7% 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 19 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=1.0, user-scalable=0" 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 12 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
...ntent/uploads/2023/07/informal-white.pngMusic, Theatre and Dance
...t/uploads/2024/04/EXCELebration-2024.jpgFive people pose standing in the EXCEL Lab
...ploads/2024/04/Chris-Vrenna-Headshot.jpgChris Vrenna
...uploads/2024/04/Owen-Scales-featured.jpgOwen Scales studio headshot with yellow background
/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SMTD_white.pngNo alt attribute providedSMTD_white

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
School of Music Theater and Dance
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 School of Music Theater and Dance
H2 Find Your Path
H2 Featured Events
H2 News
H2 Tour & Explore
H2 Performances & Events
H2 Faculty & Research
H2 Engagement Programs
H2 Support SMTD
H2 You Should Know
H2 Social
H2 Contact Us
H2 Address
H3 Women Defining Themselves
H3 Opening Panel: George Shirley and the Army, Detroit Public Schools and Radio Host
H3 Welcome Concert: 2024 George Shirley Vocal Competition
H3 SMTD’s EXCEL Lab Announces Winners of 2024 EXCEL Prize and Other Awards
H3 Chris Vrenna to Join the Department of Performing Arts Technology
H3 Musical Theatre Student Owen Scales Receives 2024 Presser Award
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://smtd.umich.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Music, Theatre and Dance
https://smtd.umich.edu/Anchor U Search
https://smtd.umich.edu/eventsEvents Calendar
https://smtd.umich.edu/Anchor M
/admissions/Subdomain Admissions
/admissions/Subdomain Your Journey Begins Here
/admissions/undergraduate/find...Subdomain Explore Undergraduate Offerings
/admissions/graduate/graduate-...Subdomain Explore Graduate Offerings
/faculty-and-staff-directory/Subdomain Meet our Exceptional Faculty
/admissions/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate Admissions
/admissions/undergraduate/unde...Subdomain Degrees & Minors
/admissions/undergraduate/appl...Subdomain Apply
/admissions/undergraduate/affo...Subdomain Affording Your Education
/admissions/undergraduate/requ...Subdomain Pre-screening/Portfolios & Auditions/Interviews
/admissions/graduate/Subdomain Graduate Admissions
/admissions/graduate/graduate-...Subdomain Degrees & Certificates
/admissions/graduate/apply-grad/Subdomain Text duplicate Apply
/admissions/graduate/affording...Subdomain Text duplicate Affording Your Education
/admissions/graduate/auditions...Subdomain Text duplicate Pre-screening/Portfolios & Auditions/Interviews
/admissions/international-admi...Subdomain International Admissions
/smtd-experience/beyond-the-cu...Subdomain Beyond the Curriculum
/smtd-experience/excel-lab/Subdomain EXCEL Lab
/smtd-experience/global/Subdomain Global Experiences
/smtd-experience/health-wellness/Subdomain Health & Wellness
/departments/Subdomain Departments
/admissions/tour-and-explore-c...Subdomain Tour & Explore Campus
https://admissions.smtd.umich....External Subdomain College Fairs & Events
https://admissions.smtd.umich....External Subdomain Michigan Performing Arts College Fair
/admissions-statistics/Subdomain Admissions Statistics
/admissions/admissions-faq/Subdomain FAQ
/admissions/taking-smtd-classes/Subdomain Courses for All U-M Students
/admissions/new-students/Subdomain New Student Orientation
/performances-and-events/Subdomain Performances & Events
/performances-and-events/Subdomain About SMTD Performances
https://smtd.umich.edu/eventsCalendar
/department/university-product...Subdomain About University Productions
/events/?_viewing_options=37ac...Subdomain Livestream Performances
https://www.youtube.com/@UMICH...External Subdomain Performance Recordings
/23-24-season/Subdomain 2023-24 Performance Season
https://tickets.smtd.umich.edu...External Subdomain Buy Tickets
/maps-directions/Subdomain Maps & Directions
/smtd-experience/performance-o...Subdomain Performance Opportunities
https://docs.google.com/forms/...External Subdomain Usher with SMTD
https://smtd.umich.edu/faculty/Subdomain Faculty & Research
https://smtd.umich.edu/faculty/Subdomain SMTD Faculty
/news-stories/?_categories=fac...Subdomain Awards & Accolades
/faculty-and-staff-directory/Subdomain Faculty & Staff Directory
/news-stories/?_categories=fac...Faculty News
/research-collections/Subdomain Research Collections
https://www.lib.umich.edu/loca...External Subdomain Music Library
/research-collections/stearns-...Subdomain Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments
/research-initiatives/Subdomain Research Projects & Initiatives
/research-initiatives/American Music Institute
/research-initiatives/U-M Gershwin Initiative
/research-initiatives/piano-li...Subdomain Piano Literature Corner
/research-initiatives/pccs/Subdomain Creativity & Consciousness Studies
/engagement-outreach/Subdomain Engagement & Outreach
/engagement-outreach/Subdomain Engagement & Outreach Overview
/engagement-outreach/Youth Programs
/engagement-outreach/youth-pro...Subdomain Michigan Youth Ensembles
/engagement-outreach/youth-pro...Subdomain MPulse Summer Performing Arts Institutes
/engagement-outreach/youth-pro...Subdomain Piano Pedagogy Laboratory Program
/engagement-outreach/youth-pro...Subdomain Michigan Youth Performing Arts Pre-College Program
/engagement-outreach/Adult Programs
/engagement-outreach/adult-pro...Subdomain Band Conducting and Pedagogy Workshop
/engagement-outreach/adult-pro...Subdomain The Beatles & You
/engagement-outreach/adult-pro...Subdomain Choral Conducting Symposium
/engagement-outreach/adult-pro...Subdomain NewBassoon Institute
/engagement-outreach/adult-pro...Subdomain String Educators Workshop
/engagement-outreach/adult-pro...Subdomain Singing Down the Barriers
/engagement-outreach/adult-pro...Subdomain Voices Valiant Adult Choir
/engagement-outreach/community...Subdomain Community Partnerships
/news-stories/Subdomain News
/news-stories/Subdomain News & Stories
/news-stories/?_categories=stu...Subdomain Student News
https://signup.e2ma.net/signup...External Subdomain Join Email List
https://smtd.umich.edu/muse/Subdomain Michigan Muse magazine
/muse/winter-2024/Subdomain Michigan Muse Winter 2024
https://docs.google.com/forms/...External Subdomain Submit an Update
https://smtd.umich.edu/giving/Subdomain Giving
https://smtd.umich.edu/giving/Subdomain Sustaining Excellence in the Performing Arts
https://smtd.umich.edu/giving/Ways to Give
https://smtd.umich.edu/giving/The Impact of Giving
https://leadersandbest.umich.e...External Subdomain Give a Gift Online
/about-smtd/Subdomain About
/about-smtd/Subdomain About SMTD
/about-smtd/Leadership
https://smtd.umich.edu/history/Subdomain Our History
/accreditation/Subdomain Accreditation
/smtd-experience/ann-arbor-mic...Subdomain Ann Arbor, Michigan
/departments/Subdomain Text duplicate Departments
/diversity-equity-inclusion/Subdomain Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
/facilities/Subdomain Facilities
/emergency-preparedness/Subdomain Emergency Preparedness
/facilities/Inclusive Spaces
/backstage/home/Subdomain SMTD Backstage: Internal Resources for Students & Employees
/alumni-board/Subdomain Alumni Board
/alumni-awards/Subdomain Alumni Awards
/news-stories/?_categories=alumniSubdomain Alumni News
https://smtd.umich.edu/contact/Subdomain Contact Us
/faculty-and-staff-directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty & Staff Directory
/admissions/undergraduate/Subdomain About Undergraduate Admissions
/admissions/graduate/Subdomain About Graduate Admissions
/event/11-may-2024/Subdomain Women Defining Themselves
/event/17-may-2024/Subdomain Opening Panel: George Shirley and the Army, Detroit Public Schools and Radio Host
/event/17-may-2024-2/Subdomain Welcome Concert: 2024 George Shirley Vocal Competition
https://smtd.umich.edu/eventsSee Calendar
/smtds-excel-lab-announces-win...Subdomain SMTD’s EXCEL Lab Announces Winners of 2024 EXCEL Prize and Other Awards
/chris-vrenna-to-join-the-depa...Subdomain Chris Vrenna to Join the Department of Performing Arts Technology
/musical-theatre-student-owen-...Subdomain Musical Theatre Student Owen Scales Receives 2024 Presser Award
/news-storiesSee More News
/admissions/tour-and-explore-c...Tour & Explore
/23-24-season/Text duplicate Performances & Events
https://smtd.umich.edu/faculty/Text duplicate Faculty & Research
/engagement-outreach/Engagement Programs
https://smtd.umich.edu/giving/Support SMTD
/backstage/home/Subdomain SMTD Backstage: Intranet
/departmentsText duplicate Departments
/about/emergency-preparedness/Text duplicate Emergency Preparedness
https://healthresponse.umich.edu/New window External Subdomain U-M COVID-19 Information
https://smtd.umich.edu/facilitiesFacilities & Rentals
https://umich.edu/External U-M Gateway
https://www.instagram.com/umic...New window External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/u...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Youtube
https://twitter.com/umichsmtdNew window External Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/umich...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on LinkedIn
https://open.spotify.com/user/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Spotify
https://smtd.umich.edu/contactContact
https://smtd.umich.edu/admissionsText duplicate Admissions
https://smtd.umich.edu/givingText duplicate Giving
https://tickets.smtd.umich.edu...External Subdomain Tickets
https://regents.umich.edu/External Subdomain Regents of the University of Michigan
https://procurement.umich.edu/...New window External Subdomain Boxcar Studio

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://smtd.umich.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.64 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 (136 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 1,943 referring domains.
This page has 29,520 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 898 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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School66%Check
Dance62%Check
Music Theatre59%Check
SMTD58%Check
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