Vcm.duke.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
36% 
External factors
15% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.59 s
File size
5.80 kB
Words
197
Media files
5
Number of links
4 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Virtual Computing Manager
The length of the page title is perfect. (247 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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
descriptionEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
csrf-paramauthenticity_token
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langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 197 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
39.1% 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 19.6 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" is provided.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...8e0da4dda3741eb5e522cc9b888410d2ee02.pngDuke logo home
...9f222353cc65556d66eaeb2f17ecc0b2689c.pngNo alt attribute provided
...200cc08014039db119de8b37727680104153.pngNo alt attribute provided
...69c4efaced000796714c1cbbf4160f6d0cfa.pngfooter-logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Duke University
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Duke University
H1 Welcome to Virtual Computing Manager!
H2 Virtual Machines (aka VMs)
H2 Virtual Software (aka Containers)
H3 Ask a VCM Question
H3 My Reservations
There are too few (3) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://vcm.duke.edu/Virtual Computing Manager
IMG-ALT Duke logo home
/users/auth/sso_authNofollow Log in
https://vcm.duke.edu/Home
https://vcm.duke.edu/helpHelp
https://oit.duke.edu/what-we-d...External Subdomain Link

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://vcm.duke.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.59 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.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 2 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (6 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection0
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-download-optionsnoopen
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
link</assets/ssiapp/application-128a7c573119a910536d8c72345335d3c490b02036e5aa15a5b319696ac5aa2e.css>; rel=preload; as=style; nopush,</assets/application-e363584f564396f87706fcfa770e05c94f8563fbe45b3afa7936723aea6a7d59.css>; rel=preload; as=style; nopush,</assets/application-39983b1e2b1958d93704680aacb14ec53f5793aa8fe3f5bb15e712a45fa5b519.js>; rel=preload; as=script; nopush,</assets/ssiapp/application-9251b06800a7dedb59c962c62bfbe2b7e69ac9c7244e70e2477499dbd6338b49.js>; rel=preload; as=script; nopush
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
etagW/"056dd5121b18940edcace5867b2c24a1"
cache-controlmax-age=0, private, must-revalidate
set-cookie70 Characters
x-request-id9c6cdf0c-1686-4f40-bdcf-5d58763a0f36
x-runtime0.009058
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
content-length5933
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 5 referring domains.
This page only has 14 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 5 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# See http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file
#
# To ban all spiders from the entire site uncomment the next two lines:
# User-agent: *
# Disallow: /

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Duke63%Check
Duke University57%Check
Virtual54%Check
Virtual Computing54%Check
Virtual Computing Manager53%Check
Computing50%Check
Manager50%Check
VCM50%Check
virtual software48%Check
aka43%Check
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