Undergradresearch.wustl.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
77% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.54 s
File size
85.10 kB
Words
623
Media files
9
Number of links
63 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Office of Undergraduate Research | Washington University in St. Louis
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 631 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://undergradresearch.wustl.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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 623 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!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 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 17.24 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 23 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
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)
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

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Office of Undergraduate Research
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Office of Undergraduate Research
H2 Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium
H2 Get started in research
H2 Department & Program Pathways into Research
H2 Plan your summer research experience
H2 Explore OUR funding opportunities
H2 About Our Office
H2 Spotlight
H2 upcoming events
H2 Have questions about undergraduate research?
H3 Summer Research Programs
H3 Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium Duplicate text
H3 Symposium Poster Design Workshop
H3 Summer Research Opportunities Fair
H3 Humanities Research Assitantships
H3 Humanities Research Assitantships Duplicate text
H3 2024 Midstates Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium in Biological Sciences and Psychology
H3 Quick Links
H3 Additional information
H3 Follow Us
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 15 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to content
https://artsci.washu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Washington University in St. Louis
/Office of Undergraduate Research
/getting-startedStart Here
/find-your-discipline-and-inte...Find Your Discipline and Interests
/finding-mentorFinding a Mentor
/department-program-pathways-r...Department & Program Pathways into Research
/research-ambassadorsResearch Ambassadors
/seek-funding-programsSeek Funding & Programs
/academic-year-undergraduate-r...Academic Year Undergraduate Research Award (AYURA)
/conference-travel-awardConference Travel Award
/biosurf-programBioSURF Program
/summer-research-awardSummer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA)
/living-earth-collaborative-su...Living Earth Collaborative (LEC) Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA)
/pulitzer-centers-internationa...Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship
/seek-funding-programsSubdomain Anchor Research for Academic Credit or Pay
/research-opportunitiesResearch Opportunities
/share-your-researchShare Your Research
/share-your-researchSubdomain Anchor OUR Symposium
/share-your-researchSubdomain Anchor OUR Publications
/connect-ourContact Us
/resourcesStudent Resources
/support-undergraduate-researchSubdomain Support Undergraduate Research
https://artsci.wustl.edu/applyNew window External Subdomain Apply Today
/Home
/connect-ourSubdomain Anchor About OUR
/eventsUpcoming Events
/news-opportunitiesRecent News
/support-undergraduate-researchSupport OUR
https://artsci.wustl.edu/New window External Subdomain Arts & Sciences
https://gradstudies.artsci.wus...New window External Subdomain Graduate Studies in A&S
/fall-2024-undergraduate-resea...Subdomain Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium
/fall-2024-undergraduate-resea...Subdomain Learn More
/start-hereSubdomain Get started in research
/start-hereSubdomain Text duplicate Start Here
/department-program-pathways-r...Subdomain Text duplicate Department & Program Pathways into Research
/department-program-pathways-r...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/research-opportunitiesSubdomain Plan your summer research experience
/research-opportunitiesSubdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://ourwustl.smapply.io/pr...External Subdomain Explore OUR funding opportunities
https://ourwustl.smapply.io/pr...External Subdomain Apply Now
/getting-startedGet Started
/seek-funding-programsFunding & Programs
/research-ambassadorsText duplicate Research Ambassadors
/share-your-researchText duplicate Share Your Research
/connect-ourText duplicate Contact Us
/resourcesResources
/support-undergraduate-researchDonate
/seek-funding-programsNew window Subdomain Summer Research Programs
/seek-funding-programsSubdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/eventsSee More Events
/events/fall-2024-undergraduat...November 01, 202410:00 AM Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium Frick Forum (1st floor of Bauer/Knight Halls) Registration open! View Event
/events/symposium-poster-desig...October 03, 20245:30 PM Symposium Poster Design Workshop Jubel 120 View Event
/events/summer-research-opport...November 14, 20245:00 PM Summer Research Opportunities Fair Risa Commons Discover WashU undergraduate research programs for Summer 2025! View Event
/news/categories/379Students
/news/categories/1Research
/news/categories/11Opportunities
/Anchor Read the Story
/news/categories/379Text duplicate Students
/news/categories/1Text duplicate Research
/news/categories/11Text duplicate Opportunities
https://complitandthought.wust...New window External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
/news/categories/379Text duplicate Students
/news/categories/1Text duplicate Research
/news/categories/11Text duplicate Opportunities
/news/2024-midstates-consortiu...Text duplicate Read the Story
/connect-ourMake an Appointment
/resourcesText duplicate Resources
/eventsEvents
/people/allOur People
https://artsci.washu.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Arts & Sciences
https://gradstudies.artsci.wus...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Graduate Studies in A&S
https://www.instagram.com/wash...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/washu...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://x.com/washuartsciNew window External Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/@washu...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/showc...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://washu.edu/External Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://undergradresearch.wustl.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.54 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.
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 23 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (85 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 51 referring domains.
This page has 10,839 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 48 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
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User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
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Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Research72%Check
Undergraduate Research67%Check
Undergraduate66%Check
Office66%Check
Undergraduate Research Symposium58%Check
summer research55%Check
Research Opportunities55%Check
Undergraduate Research Award54%Check
research programs53%Check
Research Projects53%Check

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