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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
44% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.12 s
File size
97.80 kB
Words
562
Media files
15
Number of links
37 internal / 69 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Washington State University | Washington State University
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (525 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
Washington State University —a top research university dedicated to improving lives—unlocks possibilities for students and serves the public good 6 campuses11 academic collegesExtension offices in all 39 Washington counties4 research and extension centers What's Happening At WSU A new approach to climatechange adaptation Communities on the frontlines of climate changeshould take the lead on strategies.
The meta description is too long: 2575 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://wsu.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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descriptionWashington State University —a top research university dedicated to improving lives—unlocks possibilities for students and serves the public good 6 campuses11 academic collegesExtension offices in all 39 Washington counties4 research and extension centers What's Happening At WSU A new approach to climatechange adaptation Communities on the frontlines of climate changeshould take the lead on strategies.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 42.83 words is high.
This page contains 562 words. That's ok.
21.7% 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.
11 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
14 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
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...ampus-photo-17-scaled-e1661442335869.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...tle-Seahawks-mascot-WSU-VetMed-bkgrd.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...tes/625/2023/03/iStock-1188704402_wp.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Washington State University
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Washington State University
H2 Quick Links
H2 WSU Campuses
H2 What’s Happening At WSU
H2 The WSU Difference
H2 Connect With Cougs
H3 Seahawks mascot has successful surgery at WSU
H3 Study finds anxiety behind the joy of “JOMO”
H3 Cosmic Crisp® cracks the top 10
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (69) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://wsu.edu/Anchor Skip to menu
https://wsu.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://wsu.edu/Washington State University
https://wsu.edu/No Text
https://wsu.edu/campuses/Visit WSU
https://wsu.edu/request-info/Request Info
https://wsu.edu/new/admissions/Anchor Apply
https://foundation.wsu.edu/giv...External Give
https://wsu.edu/Home
https://wsu.edu/about/About
https://wsu.edu/academics/Academics
https://wsu.edu/admissions/Admissions
https://wsu.edu/research/Research
https://wsu.edu/athletics/Athletics
https://wsu.edu/campuses/Campuses
https://wsu.edu/Text duplicate Home
https://wsu.edu/about/Text duplicate About
https://wsu.edu/academics/Text duplicate Academics
https://wsu.edu/admissions/Text duplicate Admissions
https://wsu.edu/research/Text duplicate Research
https://wsu.edu/athletics/Text duplicate Athletics
https://wsu.edu/campuses/Text duplicate Campuses
https://wsu.instructure.com/External Subdomain Canvas
https://my.wsu.edu/External myWSU
https://wsu.edu/jobs/Jobs
https://account.wsu.edu/External Password Reset
https://zzusis-utilities.wsu.e...External Class schedules
https://wsubookie.bncollege.com/External Subdomain The Bookie
https://workday.wsu.edu/External Workday Login
https://email.wsu.edu/External Email Login
http://registrar.wsu.edu/acade...External Academic Calendar
https://wsu.edu/admission/Applying to WSU
https://foundation.wsu.edu/giv...External Give to WSU
https://pullman.wsu.edu/External Pullman
https://spokane.wsu.edu/External Spokane
https://tricities.wsu.edu/External Tri-Cities
https://vancouver.wsu.edu/External Vancouver
https://everett.wsu.edu/External Everett
https://everett.wsu.edu/External Global
https://wsu.edu/rfi/Request information
https://wsu.edu/campuses/Visit
https://wsu.edu/admissions/Anchor Text duplicate Apply
https://wsu.edu/about/Learn more about WSU
https://pullman.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Pullman
https://pullman.wsu.edu/External Explore WSU Pullman
https://spokane.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Spokane
https://spokane.wsu.edu/External Explore WSU Spokane
https://tricities.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Tri-Cities
https://tricities.wsu.edu/External Explore WSU Tri-Cities
https://vancouver.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Vancouver
https://vancouver.wsu.edu/External Explore WSU Vancouver
https://everett.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Everett
https://everett.wsu.edu/External Explore Everett
https://online.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Global
https://online.wsu.edu/External Explore Global
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023...External No Text
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023...External Seahawks mascot has successful surgery at WSU
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023...External No Text
https://news.wsu.edu/press-rel...External No Text
https://news.wsu.edu/press-rel...External Study finds anxiety behind the joy of “JOMO”
https://news.wsu.edu/press-rel...External No Text
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023...External No Text
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023...External Cosmic Crisp® cracks the top 10
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023...External No Text
https://news.wsu.edu/External More news from WSU
https://wsu.edu/Anchor Skip Social Media Feed
https://curator.io/New window External Powered by Curator.io
https://pullman.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Pullman
https://spokane.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Spokane
http://tricities.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Tri-Cities
https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Vancouver
https://everett.wsu.edu/External Text duplicate Everett
http://globalcampus.wsu.edu/External Global Campus (online)
http://extension.wsu.edu/External Extension
https://wsu.edu/about/leadership/Leadership
https://wsu.edu/about/facts/WSU Facts
https://wsu.edu/about/accolades/Accolades
https://wsu.edu/?page_id=3367Statewide Impact
https://wsu.edu/about/services/Services
https://hrs.wsu.edu/jobs/External Text duplicate Jobs
https://foundation.wsu.edu/giv...External Text duplicate Give to WSU
/academics/degrees-majors/Degrees & Majors
https://online.wsu.edu/External Online courses and degrees
https://wsu.edu/academics/Anchor Undergraduate Education
https://wsu.edu/academics/Anchor Graduate Education
http://registrar.wsu.edu/acade...External Text duplicate Academic Calendar
https://libraries.wsu.edu/about/External WSU libraries
https://ip.wsu.edu/future-stud...External International students
https://catalog.wsu.edu/External Course catalog
https://accreditation.wsu.edu/External Accreditation
http://wsucougars.com/External Varsity Sports
http://urec.wsu.edu/imsportsExternal Intramural Sports
http://urec.wsu.edu/sportclubsExternal Sport Clubs
https://www.wsuathleticcamps.com/External Sport Camps
http://urec.wsu.edu/orcExternal Outdoor Recreation
http://urec.wsu.edu/External University Recreation
/intercollegiate-athletics-bud...Intercollegiate Athletics Budget
http://index.wsu.edu/External A-Z Index
http://news.wsu.edu/External News
http://map.wsu.edu/External Map
http://calendar.wsu.edu/External Events Calendar
https://policies.wsu.edu/prf/i...External Rule Making
https://access.wsu.edu/External Access
https://policies.wsu.edu/External Policies
https://portal.wsu.edu/External MyWSU
https://socialmedia.wsu.edu/External Follow WSU

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://wsu.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 slow (1.12 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 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (98 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateThu, 30 Mar 2023 06:17:05 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
connectionclose
varyAccept-Encoding
last-modifiedThu, 30 Mar 2023 06:10:34 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=209, must-revalidate
x-pingbackhttps://wsu.edu/xmlrpc.php
link<https://wsu.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsDENY
set-cookie93 Characters
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 63,248 referring domains.
This page has 9,588,426 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 40,668 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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

Sitemap: https://wsu.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://wsu.edu/sitemap.xml

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Washington State University | Washington State University
Washington State University —a top research university dedicated to improving lives—unlocks possibilities for students and serves the public good 6 campuses11 academic collegesExtension offices in all 39 Washington counties4 research and extension centers What's Happening At WSU A new approach to climatechange adaptation Communities on the frontlines of climate changeshould take the lead on strategies.

Most important keywords

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

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University73%Check
State73%Check
Washington State73%Check
State University73%Check
Washington State University73%Check
WSU70%Check
Research University60%Check
39 Washington60%Check
Happening55%Check
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