Usability.yale.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.04 s
File size
32.30 kB
Words
287
Media files
0
Number of links
11 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Usability & Web Accessibility | Create useful, usable websites that meet the needs of your audience
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 891 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://usability.yale.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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=10, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes
generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 287 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.2% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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 16 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, maximum-scale=10, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes" 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 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)
Usability & Web Accessibility
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Usability & Web Accessibility
H1 Home Page
H2 Understanding Your User
H2 Usability Best Practices
H2 Usability Evaluation
H2 Web Accessibility
H2 Work with Us
H2 Our Favorite Usability Resources
H2 Our Favorite Accessibility Resources
H2 Yale ITS Services
H2 Contact
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 14 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://usability.yale.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale University
https://usability.yale.edu/Usability & Web Accessibility
A-TITLE Home
/understanding-your-userUnderstanding Your User
/usability-best-practicesUsability Best Practices
/usability-evaluationUsability Evaluation
/web-accessibilityWeb Accessibility
/understanding-your-userUnderstanding Your User Understanding what users hope to get out of your sites
/usability-best-practicesUsability Best Practices Design considerations for making sure your sites meet user needs
/usability-evaluationUsability Evaluation Validating whether sites and designs are actually easy to use
/web-accessibilityWeb Accessibility Technical resources for ensuring sites can be used by everyone, regardless of impairment
https://yale.service-now.com/i...External Subdomain Usability Consulting and Research
A-TITLE https://yale.service-now.com/it?id=service_offering&sys_id=6d688dcd6fbb31007ee2abcf9f3ee40b
https://yale.service-now.com/i...External Subdomain Accessibility Consulting, Tools and Training
A-TITLE https://yale.service-now.com/it?id=service_offering&sys_id=7efed370db8b1300df80a5094b96192a
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...External Subdomain Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
https://www.nngroup.com/External Subdomain Nielsen Norman Group
http://webaim.org/External WebAIM
http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/External Subdomain Web Accessibility Tutorials
http://wave.webaim.org/External Subdomain WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale
/web-accessibility/accessibili...Subdomain Accessibility at Yale
http://www.yale.edu/privacy-po...External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://yale.service-now.com/i...External Subdomain Website Consultation and Build
https://yale.service-now.com/i...External Subdomain Text duplicate Usability Consulting and Research
https://yale.service-now.com/i...External Subdomain Text duplicate Accessibility Consulting, Tools and Training
https://yale.service-now.com/i...External Subdomain Website Consulting and Build

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://usability.yale.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 excellent with 0.04 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlpublic, max-age=21600
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
etagW/"1736498206-0"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 10 Jan 2025 08:36:46 GMT
link<https://usability.yale.edu/>; rel="canonical",<https://usability.yale.edu/>; rel="shortlink"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31622400
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe4-a-76756898c4-xpmd8
x-styx-req-id06f01cd3-cf2e-11ef-a007-8e3f0a04c2d9
dateFri, 10 Jan 2025 11:03:15 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100067-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230057-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits16, 0
x-timerS1736506995.364366,VS0,VE5
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
age8789
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length10837
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 953 referring domains.
This page has 979,850 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 546 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

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
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
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/

# Biblio module rules to prevent recursive searches by bots.
Disallow: /biblio/export/
Disallow: /biblio?*
Disallow: /biblio?page=*&*
Disallow: /publications/export/
Disallow: /publications?*
Disallow: /publications?page=*&*
Disallow: /user/*/biblio*
Allow: /biblio?page=*
Allow: /publications?page=*

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Usability75%Check
Usability Web71%Check
Usability Web Accessibility70%Check
Accessibility66%Check
Web66%Check
Web Accessibility66%Check
Web Sites56%Check
Web Content52%Check
Accessibility Checker52%Check
Yale50%Check

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