Udel.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
81% 
Link structure
5% 
Server
57% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
91.70 kB
Words
731
Media files
46
Number of links
106 internal / 41 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University of Delaware
The length of the page title is perfect. (204 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The University of Delaware is a diverse institution of higher learning, fostering excellence in research. UD has eight colleges, providing outstanding undergraduate, graduate and professional education, serving the local, regional, national and international communities.
The meta description is too long: 1645 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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)
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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og:descriptionThe University of Delaware is a diverse institution of higher learning, fostering excellence in research. UD has eight colleges, providing outstanding undergraduate, graduate and professional education, serving the local, regional, national and international communities.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
This page contains 731 words. That's ok.
27.2% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 72 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"want to get ahead or caught up with your coursework? here’s your chance."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
...in/graphics/udelLogoImages/logo-udel.pngUniversity of DelawareUniversity of Delaware
...ics/udelLogoImages/icon-header-visit.pngVisitVisit
...ics/udelLogoImages/icon-header-apply.pngApplyApply
...hics/udelLogoImages/icon-header-give.pngGiveGive
...cs/udelLogoImages/icon-header-search.pngSearchSearch
...ics/udelLogoImages/icon-header-visit.pngVisitVisit
...ics/udelLogoImages/icon-header-apply.pngApplyApply
...hics/udelLogoImages/icon-header-give.pngGiveGive
...cs/udelLogoImages/icon-header-search.pngSearchSearch
...ommon-clientlibs/img/ud-header-print.pngUniversity of Delaware Logo
...e screengrabs/Campus-Fall-111021-042.jpgFall campus sceneFall campus scene
...lloutfullimage.img.jpg/1633461236511.jpgThe Green on campus
...lloutfullimage.img.jpg/1627330880002.jpgMentor's Circle
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...cs/udelLogoImages/udaily-logo-header.pngUDaily
.../calloutValues.img.jpg/1671040578198.jpg
...columngenerator/par_0/image.img.jpg/udelstudents on The Green on a snowy winter day
...latforms/default/about/widget_footer.pngLocalist Online Calendar Software
...columngenerator/par_1/image.img.png/udelTwo students smiling on The GreenTwo students smiling on The Green
...r/globalfooter.img.png/1657631272168.pngud-monogram-2018ud-monogram-2018
...eople/students/footer-udinphotos-pfw.jpgView photo galleries of UD events, students, and our campus
.../students/footer-majorfinder-esports.JPGView available undergraduate majors
.../footer-graduate-program-finder-bmeg.jpgView available programs for graduate students
...es/main/graphics/socialIcons/twitter.pngTwitterTwitter
...s/main/graphics/socialIcons/facebook.pngFacebookFacebook
.../main/graphics/socialIcons/instagram.pngInstagramInstagram
...es/main/graphics/socialIcons/youtube.pngYoutubeYoutube
...ain/graphics/socialIcons/pininterest.pngPinterestPinterest
...s/main/graphics/socialIcons/linkedin.pngLinkedinLinkedin
...es/main/graphics/socialIcons/twitter.pngTwitterTwitter
...s/main/graphics/socialIcons/facebook.pngFacebookFacebook
.../main/graphics/socialIcons/instagram.pngInstagramInstagram
...es/main/graphics/socialIcons/youtube.pngYoutubeYoutube
...ain/graphics/socialIcons/pininterest.pngPinterestPinterest
...s/main/graphics/socialIcons/linkedin.pngLinkedinLinkedin
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Your future starts now. Become a Blue Hen.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
There are 32 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Your future starts now. Become a Blue Hen.
H2 Visit University of Delaware
H2 COVID-19 Updates
H2 Blue Hens in the hospitality jungle
H2 The latest news from the University of Delaware
H2 Today's Stories
H2 UD Among Best in the Nation
H2 Winter Session Registration Begins Now
H2 What's Trending @ UD
H2 Campus Events
H3 Apply Today >
H3 Undergraduate Admissions >
H3 Major Finder >
H3 Visit website
H3 University of Delaware alumni are ushering in a new era of hospitality.
H3 Read Full Rankings Announcement >
H3 Learn More about Winter Session >
H3 Social Media Directory >
H3 Events Calendar >
H3 UD's commitment to an equitable and inclusive environment
H3 EXPLORE
H3 ACADEMICS
H3 SERVICES
H3 CONNECT
H4 UD is nationally ranked, with award-winning faculty, a beautiful, vibrant campus, and opportunities to change the world in our campus labs and classrooms, or through internship and study abroad pro...
H4 Experience UD for yourself.
H4 UD's COVID-19 information website provides guidance for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
H4 Empty heading
H4 The quality of a University of Delaware education continues to win national recognition with UD advancing four slots to the rank of #89 among the nation’s best overall universities, according to U....
H4 Want to get ahead or caught up with your coursework? Here’s your chance.
H4 Register now for Winter Session, a five-week term between UD’s fall and spring semesters. While Winter Session includes UD’s popular study abroad programs, this special session also offers many in-...
H4 The University of Delaware does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, marita...
H4 Office of Equity & Inclusion
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.
10 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 10 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (41) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.udel.edu/Anchor Skip to site content
https://www.udel.edu/home/IMG-ALT University of Delaware
/about/visit/?utm_source=homep...IMG-ALT Visit
A-TITLE Visit
/apply/?utm_source=homepage&ut...IMG-ALT Apply
A-TITLE Apply
/alumni-friends/give/?utm_sour...IMG-ALT Give
A-TITLE Give
https://my.udel.edu/External Subdomain MyUD
A-TITLE MyUD
http://www1.udel.edu/maps/External Subdomain Maps
A-TITLE Maps
http://www1.udel.edu/peoplesea...External Subdomain People Directory
A-TITLE People Directory
https://www1.udel.edu/mail/External Subdomain Email
A-TITLE Email
/faculty-staff/human-resources...Careers
A-TITLE Careers
https://library.udel.edu/External Subdomain Library
A-TITLE Library
https://www.udel.edu/home/a-z/A-Z Index
A-TITLE A-Z Index
https://www.udel.edu/udaily/News
A-TITLE News
https://events.udel.edu/External Subdomain Events
A-TITLE Events
/students/safety/Safety at UD
A-TITLE Safety at UD
/about/visit/?utm_source=homep...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Visit
A-TITLE Visit
/apply/?utm_source=homepage&ut...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Apply
A-TITLE Apply
/alumni-friends/give/?utm_sour...Text duplicate IMG-ALT Give
A-TITLE Give
https://my.udel.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate MyUD
A-TITLE MyUD
http://www1.udel.edu/maps/External Subdomain Text duplicate Maps
A-TITLE Maps
http://www1.udel.edu/peoplesea...External Subdomain Text duplicate People Directory
A-TITLE People Directory
https://www1.udel.edu/mail/External Subdomain Text duplicate Email
A-TITLE Email
/faculty-staff/human-resources...Text duplicate Careers
A-TITLE Careers
https://library.udel.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Library
A-TITLE Library
https://www.udel.edu/home/a-z/Text duplicate A-Z Index
A-TITLE A-Z Index
https://www.udel.edu/udaily/Text duplicate News
A-TITLE News
https://events.udel.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Events
A-TITLE Events
/students/safety/Text duplicate Safety at UD
A-TITLE Safety at UD
https://www.udel.edu/about/About UD
/about/leadership/Leadership
/about/mission/Mission
https://www.udel.edu/about/visit/Experience UD
/about/ud-state-delaware/UD and the State of Delaware
/about/history/History
/about/facts-figures/Facts & Figures
/about/ud-community/UD Community
/about/values/Values
https://www.udel.edu/apply/Prospective Students
/apply/career-outcomes/Success After UD
/apply/undergraduate-admissions/Undergraduate Admissions
http://grad.udel.edu/External Subdomain Graduate Admissions
http://www.pcs.udel.edu/External Subdomain Professional & Continuing Studies
http://online.udel.edu/External Subdomain Online Programs
https://www.udel.edu/students/Current Students
https://events.udel.edu/calend...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
/students/reslife/Housing
/students/student-financial-se...Finances & Aid
https://www.advising.udel.edu/External Subdomain Advising
/students/safety/Safety
/faculty-staff/Faculty & Staff
/content/udel/en/faculty-staff...Text duplicate Careers
/faculty-staff/experts/Experts
/faculty-staff/employee-resour...Employee Resources
/alumni-friends/Alumni & Friends
/alumni-friends/connect/Connect
/alumni-friends/give/Text duplicate Give
/alumni-friends/resources/Resources
/alumni-friends/about/About
/alumni-friends/delaware-first/Delaware First Campaign
https://www.udel.edu/academics/Academics
/academics/colleges/Colleges
https://library.udel.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Library
/academics/programs/Programs
/academics/global/UD Global
/research-innovation/Research & Innovation
https://research.udel.edu/External Subdomain Research at UD
/research-innovation/horn/Horn Entrepreneurship
/research-innovation/star/STAR Campus
/research-innovation/innovatio...Innovation Gateway
https://www.udel.edu/athletics/Athletics
http://www.bluehens.com/?utm_s...External BlueHens.com
/apply/undergraduate-admission...Reserve Your Place Schedule a Tour
IMG-ALT The Green on campus
https://youvis.it/t5C18fExternal Explore From Home Virtual Tour
IMG-ALT Mentor's Circle
/apply/undergraduate-admission...Apply Today >
/apply/undergraduate-admissions/Undergraduate Admissions >
/apply/undergraduate-admission...Major Finder >
/home/coronavirus/Visit website
/udaily/2022/december/hospital...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/hospital...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/hospital...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/hospital...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/customer...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/customer...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/timothy-...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/timothy-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/yelp-onl...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/yelp-onl...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/flying-h...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/flying-h...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/getting-...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/getting-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/gold-pla...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/gold-pla...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/the-grea...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/the-grea...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/magazine/Read More From the UD Magazine
/udaily/2022/december/holiday-...No Text
/udaily/2022/december/holiday-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/udaily/2022/december/basia-mo...How I Teach — Spanish
A-TITLE How I Teach — Spanish
/udaily/2022/december/student-...Chemical engineering community
A-TITLE Chemical engineering community
/udaily/2022/december/red-clay...Dig into nutrition
A-TITLE Dig into nutrition
/udaily/2022/december/economic...Lyons UD CEEE Economic Forecast
A-TITLE Lyons UD CEEE Economic Forecast
/udaily/2022/december/kidney-t...The perfect match
A-TITLE The perfect match
https://www.udel.edu/udaily/More UD News
/udaily/2022/september/ud-us-n...Read Full Rankings Announcement >
/academics/global/study-abroad/study abroad programs
/academics/special-sessions/Learn More about Winter Session >
/home/ocm/digital/social-media...Social Media Directory >
https://www.localist.com/?utm_...External IMG-ALT Localist Online Calendar Software
A-TITLE Widget powered by Localist Event Calendar Software
https://events.udel.edu/External Subdomain Events Calendar >
https://sites.udel.edu/oei/External Subdomain Office of Equity & Inclusion
https://www.udel.edu/udphotos/Explore UD in Photos
IMG-ALT View photo galleries of UD events, students, and our campus
A-TITLE Explore UD in Photos
/apply/undergraduate-admission...Undergraduate Major Finder
IMG-ALT View available undergraduate majors
A-TITLE Undergraduate Major Finder
/academics/colleges/grad/prosp...Graduate Program Finder
IMG-ALT View available programs for graduate students
A-TITLE Graduate Program Finder
https://www.udel.edu/home/UD Home
https://www.udel.edu/about/About Us
A-TITLE About Us
https://www.udel.edu/athletics/Text duplicate Athletics
A-TITLE Athletics
https://www.udel.edu/udaily/UDaily
A-TITLE UDaily
/apply/undergraduate-admission...Virtual Tour
A-TITLE Virtual Tour
/faculty-staff/human-resources...Employment
A-TITLE Employment
/apply/undergraduate-admissions/Text duplicate Undergraduate Admissions
A-TITLE Undergraduate Admissions
/academics/colleges/grad/Text duplicate Graduate Admissions
A-TITLE Graduate Admissions
/academics/colleges/Text duplicate Colleges
A-TITLE Colleges
https://library.udel.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Library
A-TITLE Library
/research-innovation/Research
A-TITLE Research
/home/legal-notices/accessibil...Accessibility Notice
A-TITLE Accessibility Notice
https://www1.udel.edu/peoplese...External Subdomain Text duplicate People Directory
A-TITLE People Directory
https://my.udel.edu/External Subdomain My UD
A-TITLE My UD
https://www1.udel.edu/police/External Subdomain Campus Safety
A-TITLE Campus Safety
https://www.udel.edu/home/a-z/A to Z Index
A-TITLE A to Z Index
/home/contact-ud/Contact Us
https://goo.gl/maps/kYvTqC5k5okExternal No Text
https://twitter.com/UDelawareExternal IMG-ALT Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/udela...External IMG-ALT Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/udel...External IMG-ALT Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/univde...External IMG-ALT Youtube
A-TITLE Youtube
https://www.pinterest.com/udel...External IMG-ALT Pinterest
A-TITLE Pinterest
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/s...External IMG-ALT Linkedin
A-TITLE Linkedin
https://twitter.com/UDelawareExternal Text duplicate IMG-ALT Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/udela...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/udel...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/univde...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Youtube
A-TITLE Youtube
https://www.pinterest.com/udel...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Pinterest
A-TITLE Pinterest
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/s...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Linkedin
A-TITLE Linkedin
/home/comments/Comments
/home/legal-notices/Legal Notices
/home/legal-notices/accessibil...Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.udel.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 of 0.88 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 loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (92 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlno-cache="set-cookie"
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
dateMon, 26 Dec 2022 14:23:21 GMT
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last-modifiedSat, 24 Dec 2022 18:51:11 GMT
serverApache
set-cookie164 Characters
varyHost,Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-dispatcherdispatcher1useast1
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-vhostpublish
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connectionkeep-alive
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 64,087 referring domains.
This page has 5,304,428 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 39,417 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares, comments and likes on Facebook.
Listed on Webwiki
(Nice to have)
This website is listed on Webwiki.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /images

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University of Delaware
The University of Delaware is a diverse institution of higher learning, fostering excellence in research. UD has eight colleges, providing outstanding undergraduate, graduate and professional education, serving the local, regional, national and international communities.

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