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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
67% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.16 s
File size
107.60 kB
Words
787
Media files
25
Number of links
31 internal / 76 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Stanford University
The page title is too short. (173 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. Catalyzing discovery, accelerating solutions, sustaining life on Earth, and preparing students for active citizenship.
The meta description is too long: 1079 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.stanford.edu/
There is more than one canonical link on this page.
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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robotsmax-image-preview:large
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twitter:site@Stanford
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og:titleStanford University
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og:typewebsite
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X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 32.6 words is high.
This page contains 787 words. That's ok.
30.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
14 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 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" 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 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
19 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 44 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Search Stanford:
H2 Main Content
H2 A Societal Mission
H2 Campus News
H2 Academics
H2 Profile of Meet Ecy King
H2 Research
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Health Care
H2 Profile of Meet Nadia Hemmat
H2 Campus Life
H2 Athletics
H2 Admission
H3 COP28: Stanford experts on ‘loss and damage’ and other topics to watch at the U.N. climate summit
H3 Big cities foster economic segregation
H3 The fallacy of sunk costs
H3 Maternal vaccination against COVID-19 lowered risk of preterm births
H3 How to talk to your doctor about antibiotics
H3 As if you had a choice
H3 Undergraduate Education
H3 Graduate Education
H3 Driving impact
H3 Seven schools in which to pursue your passions
H3 Meet Ecy King
H3 Stanford Medicine
H3 Stanford Health Care
H3 Stanford Children's Health
H3 Meet Nadia Hemmat
H3 Student Life
H3 Arts & Culture
H3 Recreation & Wellness
H3 Home of Champions
H3 Olympic Excellence
H3 Multidimensional Impact
H3 Explore the possibilities of a Stanford education as you map out your college journey.
H3 Stanford meets the full financial need of every admitted undergrad who qualifies for assistance.
H3 Schools
H3 Departments
H3 Research Duplicate text
H3 Health Care Duplicate text
H3 Online Learning
H3 About Stanford
H3 Admission Duplicate text
H3 Resources
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 (76) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.stanford.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.stanford.edu/Stanford University
/student-gateway/Students
/faculty-staff-gateway/Faculty & Staff
http://parents.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Families
https://visit.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Visitors
http://alumni.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Alumni
https://www.stanford.edu/news/News
https://www.stanford.edu/events/Events
/academics/Academics
/research/Research
/health-care/Health Care
/campus-life/Campus Life
/admission/Admission
https://www.stanford.edu/about/About
https://campus-map.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Map
https://profiles.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Profiles
https://www.stanford.edu/Anchor Explore Stanford
https://www.stanford.edu/about/More about Stanford
https://sustainability.stanfor...External Subdomain No Text
https://sustainability.stanfor...External Subdomain COP28: Stanford experts on ‘loss and damage’ and other topics to watch at the U.N. climate summit
https://news.stanford.edu/2023...External Subdomain No Text
https://news.stanford.edu/2023...External Subdomain Big cities foster economic segregation
https://med.stanford.edu/news/...External Subdomain No Text
https://med.stanford.edu/news/...External Subdomain The fallacy of sunk costs
https://news.stanford.edu/2023...External Subdomain No Text
https://news.stanford.edu/2023...External Subdomain Maternal vaccination against COVID-19 lowered risk of preterm births
https://scopeblog.stanford.edu...External Subdomain No Text
https://scopeblog.stanford.edu...External Subdomain How to talk to your doctor about antibiotics
https://stanfordmag.org/conten...External No Text
https://stanfordmag.org/conten...External As if you had a choice
https://news.stanford.edu/repo...External Subdomain More campus news
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate Education
https://vpge.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Graduate education
https://lifelonglearning.stanf...External Subdomain Lifelong Learning
http://med.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Medicine
http://www.law.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Law
http://humsci.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Humanities & Sciences
http://engineering.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Engineering
http://ed.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Education
https://sustainability.stanfor...External Subdomain Sustainability
http://gsb.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Business
/academicsMore about academics
https://news.stanford.edu/repo...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
More
https://www.stanford.edu/researchMore about research
http://events.stanford.edu/External Subdomain More events
https://med.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Medicine
https://stanfordhealthcare.org/External Stanford Health Care
https://stanfordchildrens.org/External Stanford Children's Health
/health-care/More about health care
https://news.stanford.edu/repo...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
http://studentaffairs.stanford...External Subdomain Student Affairs
http://arts.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Arts
https://rec.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Recreation & Wellness
/campus-life/More about campus life
https://gostanford.com/sports/...External National Championships
https://gostanford.com/news/20...External Medals
https://gostanford.com/sports/...External Athlete Stories
https://gostanford.com/External More about athletics
/admissionMore about admission
https://www.facebook.com/stanfordExternal Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/stanfordExternal Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/stan...External Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/stanfordExternal YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...External Subdomain iTunes U
A-TITLE iTunes U
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Business
https://ed.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Education
https://engineering.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Engineering
https://humsci.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Humanities & Sciences
https://law.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Law
https://med.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Medicine
https://sustainability.stanfor...External Subdomain Text duplicate Sustainability
/list/academic/Departments A - to Z
/list/interdisc/Interdisciplinary Programs
/list/research/Research Centers A - to Z
http://library.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://stanfordhealthcare.org/External Text duplicate Stanford Health Care
https://www.stanfordchildrens....External Text duplicate Stanford Children's Health
https://online.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Online
https://facts.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Facts
/about/historyHistory
https://wasc.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Accreditation
https://admission.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate
https://gradadmissions.stanfor...External Subdomain Graduate
https://financialaid.stanford....External Subdomain Financial Aid
https://campus-map.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Campus Map
https://community.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Community Engagement
https://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Directory
https://profiles.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Profiles
/admissionApplying
https://visit.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Visiting
https://giving.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Giving
https://careersearch.stanford....External Subdomain Careers
http://facultypositions.stanfo...External Subdomain Faculty Positions
https://www.stanford.edu/contactContact
https://www.stanford.edu/Text duplicate Stanford University
https://www.stanford.edu/Stanford Home
https://visit.stanford.edu/plan/External Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://www.stanford.edu/search/Search Stanford
https://emergency.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Info
/site/terms/Terms of Use
A-TITLE Terms of use for sites
/site/privacyPrivacy
A-TITLE Privacy and cookie policy
https://uit.stanford.edu/secur...External Subdomain Copyright
A-TITLE Report alleged copyright infringement
https://adminguide.stanford.ed...External Subdomain Trademarks
A-TITLE Ownership and use of Stanford trademarks and images
https://studentservices.stanfo...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination
A-TITLE Non-discrimination policy
/site/accessibility/Accessibility
A-TITLE Report web accessibility issues

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.stanford.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.16 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (108 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://www.stanford.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
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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 42,313 referring domains.
This page has 8,439,430 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 28,693 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 24700 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://www.stanford.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

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www.stanford.edu
Stanford University
One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. Catalyzing discovery, accelerating solutions, sustaining life on Earth, and preparing students for active citizenship.

Most important keywords

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Stanford70%Check
Stanford University59%Check
students for lives55%Check
Research54%Check
Life54%Check
Student52%Check
Research Education48%Check
Campus Life48%Check
Research Center47%Check
Students46%Check
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