Software.usc.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
95% 
External factors
92% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.52 s
File size
67.20 kB
Words
279
Media files
0
Number of links
10 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Software Available to Campus
The length of the page title is perfect. (271 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://software.usc.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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorUSC Sites Sites 6.4.5 - http://sites.usc.edu/
mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-titleSoftware Available to Campus -
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 279 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
34.4% 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.
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 12.4 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" 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

No media files were found.

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
H3 Welcome to the USC Software Website
H3 Related Websites
H3 Customer Support Center
H3 About ITS
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 15 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://software.usc.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://itservices.usc.edu/vpn/External Subdomain URL anchor text
https://itservices.usc.edu/vpn/
https://itservices.usc.edu/abo...External Subdomain ITS Service Desk
https://usc.edu/External USC Website
https://software.usc.edu/Subdomain Software Available to Campus
A-TITLE Software Available to Campus
https://software.usc.edu/Subdomain Home
A-TITLE Home
/its-licensed-software/Subdomain ITS Supported Software
A-TITLE ITS Supported Software
/free-to-campus/Subdomain Free Software
A-TITLE Free Software
/all-software/Subdomain All Software
A-TITLE All Software
http://campuspress.local/clien...External Trivial anchor text
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A-TITLE Sample Page
https://itservices.usc.edu/vdiExternal Subdomain cloudapps.usc.edu
https://cio.usc.edu/External Subdomain Office of the CIO
https://carc.usc.edu/External Subdomain Center for Advanced Research Computing
https://itsusc.service-now.com...External Subdomain Report an Issue
https://itservices.usc.edu/con...External Subdomain Contact ITS
https://itservices.usc.edu/con...External Subdomain Location and Directions
https://itservices.usc.edu/con...External Subdomain Local IT Support
https://twitter.com/uscITServicesExternal @USCITServices
https://www.usc.edu/privacy-no...External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://eeotix.usc.edu/notice-...External Subdomain Notice of Non-Discrimination
https://accessibility.usc.edu/...External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
https://software.usc.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home
/its-licensed-software/Subdomain Text duplicate ITS Supported Software
A-TITLE ITS Supported Software
/free-to-campus/Subdomain Text duplicate Free Software
A-TITLE Free Software
/all-software/Subdomain Text duplicate All Software
A-TITLE All Software

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://software.usc.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 very slow (2.52 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (67 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serveropenresty
dateMon, 01 Jul 2024 06:34:55 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
last-modifiedMon, 01 Jul 2024 05:39:39 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=284, must-revalidate
varyCookie
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
link<https://software.usc.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheEXPIRED
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 very well linked from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 30 referring domains.
This page has 55 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 27 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.

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Software62%Check
USC Software56%Check
software available54%Check
USC50%Check
Free Software48%Check
available USC48%Check
Available46%Check
campus46%Check
edu46%Check
Site43%Check

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