Umaine.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
82% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
69% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.89 s
File size
378.40 kB
Words
1048
Media files
21
Number of links
125 internal / 70 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The University of Maine
The length of the page title is perfect. (215 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
UMaine is the state's premier public university and is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (808 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://umaine.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

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dc.descriptionUMaine is the state's premier public university and is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast.
dc.relationhttps://umaine.edu/
dc.sourcehttps://umaine.edu/
dc.languageen_US
descriptionUMaine is the state's premier public university and is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast.
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twitter:cardsummary
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twitter:descriptionUMaine is the state's premier public university and is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast.
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og:site_nameThe University of Maine
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleThe University of Maine
og:descriptionUMaine is the state's premier public university and is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast.
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og:image:width1012
og:image:height1257
og:image:altA photo of a group of people standing on Maine's Mall
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1048 words. That's ok.
27.8% 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.
11 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 17.24 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" 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 21 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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
...ds/sites/2/2023/12/Video-thumbnail-3.jpgA photo of a group of people standing on Maine's Mall
...tes/2/2023/12/mall-aerial-9-1024x666.jpgA photo of UMaine's Mall during the Student Organization Fair
...2/2023/12/Machias-mobile2-1-1024x824.jpgA photo of people on a sailboat
...s/sites/2/2023/12/Academics-feature2.jpgA photo of a person holding a beaker in a lab
...uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Art-feature2.jpgA photo of a student artist painting on a canvas
.../uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Fieldwork-2.jpgA photo of three people conducting fieldwork in the snow
...ploads/sites/2/2023/12/R1-feature-v4.jpgA photo of two people conducting blueberry research in a field
...ploads/sites/2/2023/12/ASCC-feature2.jpgA photo of three people working in the ASCC
...23/12/Campus-life-feature-2-824x1024.jpgA photo of a student rock climbing on an indoor wall
.../sites/2/2023/12/Community2-1024x824.jpgA photo of students having fun on UMaine's Mall in winter
.../sites/2/2023/12/Athletics2-1024x824.jpgA photo from a UMaine football game
...tes/2/2023/12/News-feature2-824x1024.jpgA photo of the Winslow Hall cupola on a foggy morning
...ent/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/logo-289.pngThe logo for X
.../2024-Commencement-homepage-1024x824.jpgA photo of a graduate holding a diploma at Commencment
...2024/05/3D-printer-ASCC-news-feature.jpgA photo of UMaine's new 3D printer
...Bear-Advantage-news-feature-1024x578.jpgA photo of people sitting at a table and one at a podium
.../2/2024/04/Alfond-Arena-news-feature.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/footer.pngNo alt attribute provided
Video URLWidthHeight
...ids.umaine.edu/umaine-banner-2024-02.mp4

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Discover Your Tomorrow
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Discover Your Tomorrow
H1 Commencement Weekend
H1 UMaine, May 3–4 | UMaine Machias, May 5
H2 Fall 2024 Deposit Deadline Extension: June 1
H2 Commencement Weekend Duplicate text
H2 Become a Black Bear
H2 Success after graduation
H2 Discover your future career
H2 Research that drives progress
H2 Find your people here
H2 Get informed, stay connected
H3 Visit campus
H3 Scholarships
H3 Parents and family
H3 Explore UMaine’s regional campus in Machias
H3 Academic areas
H3 Majors and programs
H3 Affordability
H3 Global impact, local relevance
H3 Research center and institutes
H3 Community and events
H3 Maine’s NCAA DI program
H3 Recent news
H3 UMaine’s new 3D printer smashes former Guinness World Record to advance the next generation of advanced manufacturing
H3 Co-Enrollment program streamlines pathway to UMaine and UMaine Machias for community college students
H3 Maine Athletics announces renovation plans for Alfond Sports Arena and Walsh Hockey Center
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
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 too many external links (70) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://umaine.edu/Anchor Skip to main navigation
https://umaine.edu/Anchor Skip to site navigation
https://umaine.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://go.umaine.edu/apply/External Subdomain Apply to UMaine
https://umaine.edu/directory/A-Z
https://calendar.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Calendar
https://securelb.imodules.com/...External Subdomain Give
https://umaine.edu/campus-mapMap
https://umaine.edu/news/News
/hr/career-opportunities/Careers
https://my.umaine.edu/External Subdomain myUMaine
https://umaine.edu/IMG-ALT Link to University of Maine homepage
https://go.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Admissions
https://go.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Admissions
https://go.umaine.edu/apply/External Subdomain Apply
https://umaine.secure.force.co...External Subdomain Learn More
https://go.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate
https://go.umaine.edu/transfer...External Subdomain Transfer
https://umaine.edu/graduate/Graduate
/international/international-p...International
https://dll.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Lifelong Learning
https://umaine.edu/veterans/Veterans
https://machias.edu/admissions/External Machias Admissions
https://umaine.edu/stuaid/Financial Aid
/stuaid/aid-basics/Apply for Financial Aid
/stuaid/aid-basics/costs-at-um...Costs
https://go.umaine.edu/apply/sc...External Subdomain Scholarships
https://go.umaine.edu/visit/External Subdomain Visits, Tours and more
https://go.umaine.edu/visit/External Subdomain Visit UMaine
https://go.umaine.edu/counselors/External Subdomain For Counselors
https://go.umaine.edu/admitted/External Subdomain For Accepted Students
https://machias.edu/admissions...External Machias Campus
https://umaine.edu/campus-life/Campus Life
https://calendar.umaine.edu/External Subdomain What’s Happening
https://calendar.umaine.edu/ev...External Subdomain UMaine Calendar
/news/blog/category/campus-ann...Campus Announcements
https://umaine.edu/socialnetwork/Social Media
https://machias.edu/events/cat...External Events at UMM
https://umaine.edu/commencement/Commencement
/studentinvolvement/Community
https://umaine.edu/studentlife/Division of Student Life
https://umaine.edu/housing/Campus Living
https://umaine.sodexomyway.com/External Subdomain Dining
/campusrecreation/Recreation
https://umaine.edu/thearts/Arts
https://www.goblackbears.com/External Subdomain Athletics
/studentlife/parents-and-family/Parents and Family
https://umaine.edu/bursar/Bursar’s Office
/student-consumer-information/Student Consumer Information
/police/clery-annual-safety-re...Clery Safety and Security Report
https://umaine.edu/campus-map/Getting Around
https://umaine.edu/campus-map/Campus Map
https://umaine.edu/parking/Parking Services
/parking/visitors/Visitors
https://machias.edu/campus-life/External Machias Campus Life
https://umaine.edu/colleges/Academics
https://umaine.edu/colleges/Colleges
https://umaine.edu/edhd/College of Education and Human Development
https://umaine.edu/las/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
https://elh.umaine.edu/External Subdomain College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences
https://umaine.edu/graduate/Graduate School
https://honors.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Honors College
https://umaine.edu/business/Maine Business School
https://engineering.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Maine College of Engineering and Computing
https://umaine.edu/colleges/Learning Locations
https://online.umaine.edu/External Subdomain UMaine Online
https://machias.edu/External University of Maine at Machias
https://dll.umaine.edu/profess...External Subdomain Professional and Continuing Education
https://umaine.edu/earlycollege/Early College
https://extension.umaine.edu/c...External Subdomain Cooperative Extension
https://dmc.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Darling Marine Center
https://umaine.edu/studyabroad/Education Abroad
https://umaine.edu/current/Resources
https://go.umaine.edu/find-a-m...External Subdomain Majors and Programs
https://studentrecords.umaine....External Subdomain Student Records
http://catalog.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate Catalog
http://gradcatalog.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Graduate Catalog
https://library.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Fogler Library
https://calendar.umaine.edu/ev...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://umaine.edu/first-gen/First-generation Student Support
https://umaine.edu/adult-learner/Adult Learner Resources
https://umaine.edu/navigate/Navigate
/research-experiences/Research Learning Experiences
https://umaine.edu/research/Research
https://umaine.edu/research/Text duplicate Research
https://umaine.edu/portland/Portland Gateway
https://umaine.edu/medicine/Institute of Medicine
https://cugr.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Center for Undergraduate Research
https://umaine.edu/umss/Student Symposium
/research/research-centers-ins...Centers and Institutes
/research/research-news/Research News
/research/research-news/announ...Announcements
/research/mission/Vision and Mission
/research/research-report/Research Report
/research/about-us/Initiatives
https://umaine.edu/epscor/Maine EPSCoR
https://ai.umaine.edu/External Subdomain UMaine AI
https://umaine.edu/arctic/UMaine Arctic
https://arts.umaine.edu/External Subdomain UMaine Arts
https://umaine.edu/epic/Experiential Programs Innovation Central (EPIC)
https://umaine.edu/core/Coordinated Operating Research Entities (CORE)
https://umaine.edu/forest/UMaine FOREST
https://marine.umaine.edu/External Subdomain UMaine MARINE
https://umaine.edu/space/UMaine Space
/research/resources/Text duplicate Resources
https://umaine.edu/ora/Office of Research Administration
/research-compliance/Office of Research Compliance
/research-development/Office of Research Development
https://umaine.edu/arcsim/Advanced Research Computing, Security, and Information Management
https://umaine.edu/graduate/Graduate Studies
/research/marcom/Research Marketing and Communications
/research/organizational-chart/Organizational Chart
https://umaine.edu/about/About Us
https://umaine.edu/about/About UMaine
https://umaine.edu/president/President’s Office
https://umaine.edu/provost/Provost’s Office
https://umaine.edu/transforms/UMS Transforms UMaine
/about/mission-2/Mission
/about/quick-facts/Quick Facts
https://umaine.edu/news/UMaine News
/news/home/media-contacts/Contact Us / Media Inquiries
https://extension.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Community Outreach
https://extension.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Cooperative Extension
https://umainetoday.umaine.edu/External Subdomain UMaine Today Magazine
/alumniandgiving/Alumni and Giving
https://umaine.edu/conferences/Events and Hospitality
https://umaine.edu/150/Celebrating 150 years
https://umaine.edu/inspire/Strategic Partnerships and Innovation
https://umaine.edu/inspire/Office of Strategic Partnerships, Innovation, Resources and Engagement
/inspire/business-industry/Business and Industry
/inspire/office-of-strategic-p...Student Opportunities
/inspire/faculty-resources/Faculty Resources
https://umaine.edu/return/COVID-19 Updates
https://umaine.edu/directory/A to Z Directory
https://calendar.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate UMaine Calendar
https://securelb.imodules.com/...External Subdomain Give Now
https://umaine.edu/campus-map/UMaine Map
https://umaine.edu/news/Text duplicate UMaine News
/hr/career-opportunities/Career Opportunities
https://umaine.edu/portal/Text duplicate myUMaine
http://umaine.edu/facultystaff/Faculty and Staff Resources
http://umaine.edu/current/Student Resources
https://umaine.edu/titleix/Title IX Student Services
https://umaine.edu/emergencyEmergency Information
https://umaine.edu/police/UMaine Police
https://go.umaine.edu/deposit/External Subdomain Submit your deposit
https://umaine.edu/commencement/Text duplicate Learn More
https://umaine.edu/wintersession/No Text
https://umaine.edu/commencement/Learn more
https://youtu.be/WlBObk_f9GI?s...External No Text
https://go.umaine.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://go.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://go.umaine.edu/apply/External Subdomain Apply today
https://go.umaine.edu/visit/External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://go.umaine.edu/apply-20...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://go.umaine.edu/parents-...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://machias.edu/External Learn more about UMaine Machias
/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/20...IMG-ALT A photo of people on a sailboat
/research-experiences/Research Learning Experience
https://umaine.edu/colleges/Learn more about academics
https://umaine.edu/colleges/Text duplicate Learn more
https://go.umaine.edu/majors-a...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://umaine.edu/stuaid/Text duplicate Learn more
https://umaine.edu/research/Learn more about research
https://umaine.edu/research/r1/Text duplicate Learn more
/research/research-centers-ins...Text duplicate Learn more
https://calendar.umaine.edu/ev...External Subdomain campus events calendar
https://umaine.edu/campus-life/Learn more about campus life
https://umaine.edu/campus-life/No Text
https://umaine.edu/campus-life/Anchor Text duplicate Learn more
https://calendar.umaine.edu/External Subdomain View events
https://goblackbears.com/index...External Text duplicate Learn more
https://umaine.edu/news/Read news
https://www.instagram.com/univ...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Unive...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/UMaineExternal IMG-ALT The logo for X
/news/blog/2024/05/04/umaine-g...Read story
https://umaine.edu/news/Visit news website
/news/blog/2024/04/19/co-enrol...Text duplicate Read story
/news/blog/2024/04/19/co-enrol...Text duplicate Read story
/news/blog/2024/03/06/maine-at...Text duplicate Read story
https://umaine.edu/Anchor ⨉
https://www.facebook.com/Unive...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...External Subdomain YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
https://instagram.com/universi...External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://umaine.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Link to University of Maine homepage
https://go.umaine.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Apply
https://umaine.edu/current/Text duplicate Student Resources
/eo/disability-access/nondiscr...Nondiscrimination notice
https://www.maine.edu/privacy-...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
/police/clery-annual-safety-re...Text duplicate Clery Safety and Security Report
https://umaine.edu/return/New window COVID-19 health and safety guidance
https://umaine.edu/emergency/Emergency

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://umaine.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 0.89 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (378 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
last-modifiedSat, 18 May 2024 20:49:46 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=102, must-revalidate
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
varyCookie
link<https://umaine.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-tec-api-versionv1
x-tec-api-roothttps://umaine.edu/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-originhttps://umaine.edu
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 20,165 referring domains.
This page has 5,041,401 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,360 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 10672 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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

# Block search results
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /page/*/?s=
Disallow: /search

# For Events Calendar
Disallow: *post_type=tribe_events*
Disallow: *hide_subsequent_recurrences=*
Disallow: *tribe-bar-date=*
Disallow: *tribe-venue=*
Disallow: *eventDisplay=*
Disallow: *eventDate=*
Disallow: *paged=*
Disallow: *pagename=*
Disallow: *shortcode=*
Disallow: *ical=*
Disallow: *outlook-ical=*
Disallow: *related_series=*
Disallow: *tribe_geofence=*
Allow: /events/*
Allow: /event/*

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The University of Maine
UMaine is the state's premier public university and is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Maine81%Check
UMaine70%Check
Maine Public65%Check
Maine Machias63%Check
University59%Check
Discover59%Check
UMaine Machias57%Check
Research University56%Check
Public Research University53%Check
Research49%Check
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