Ysu.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
63% 
Page quality
49% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
35.50 kB
Words
180
Media files
5
Number of links
48 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
YSU | Home
The page title is too short. (114 pixels of 580 max pixel length) 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://ysu.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)
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

NameValue
msvalidate.01B29BC28DFC7CDAC1C49623F0F15FDCF0
generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
msapplication-TileColor#ffffff
msapplication-TileImage/ms-icon-144x144.png
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:urlhttps://ysu.edu/
twitter:titleYSU
og:site_nameYSU
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://ysu.edu/
og:titleYSU
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-dns-prefetch-controlon

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 180 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
13.3% of the text are stop words.
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)
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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...tes/default/files/home/EGCC_Homepage.pngWelcome EGCC! Start your application today!
...emes/ysu/images/ysu-logo-transparent.svgYoungstown State University Logo
...rketing_communications/arrow_explore.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ting_communications/YSU_ICON_NEG_RGB.pngKnow Y

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H4 Search
H5 Get Started
H5 Learn More
H6 News
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 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ysu.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://ysu.edu/a-z-indexA - Z Index
https://ysu.edu/faculty-staffFaculty & Staff Directory
/offices-departmentsOffices & Departments
https://explore.ysu.edu/egccExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT Welcome EGCC! Start your application today!
https://ysu.edu/eventsEvents
https://interland3.donorperfec...External Subdomain Give
https://ysu.edu/penguin-portalPenguin Portal
/admissions/apply-to-ysuApply Now
/admissions/plan-a-visitVisit
/admissions/request-informationRequest Info
https://ysu.edu/IMG-ALT Youngstown State University Logo
https://ysu.edu/about-ysuAbout YSU
https://ysu.edu/academicsAcademics
https://ysu.edu/admissionsAdmissions
https://ysu.edu/student-lifeStudent Life
/tuition-financial-aidTuition & Financial Aid
https://ysu.edu/about-ysuText duplicate About YSU
https://ysu.edu/academicsText duplicate Academics
https://ysu.edu/admissionsText duplicate Admissions
https://ysu.edu/student-lifeText duplicate Student Life
/tuition-financial-aidText duplicate Tuition & Financial Aid
https://ysu.edu/penguin-portalText duplicate Penguin Portal
https://exploreysu.com/know-yExternal IMG-ALT Know Y
https://exploreysu.com/know-yExternal [ Get to Know Y ]
/admissions/apply-to-ysuGet Started
/tuition-financial-aidLearn More
https://ysu.edu/newsView All
/news/governor-appoints-two-ne...Governor appoints two new members to YSU Board of Trustees
https://facebook.com/youngstow...External Facebook
https://instagram.com/youngsto...External Instagram
https://twitter.com/youngstown...External Twitter
https://ysu.edu/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
https://ysu.edu/campus-mapCampus Map
/directions-to-campusDirections To Campus
https://ysu.edu/alumni-engagementAlumni
http://www.ysusports.com/External Subdomain Athletics
https://ysu.edu/a-z-indexA-Z Index
/student-affairs/dean-of-stude...Campus Free Speech
/academic-success-centerResch Academic Success Center
https://ysu.edu/faculty-staffDirectory
/university-administrationDivisions
https://ysu.edu/human-resources/Employment
https://ysu.edu/eventsText duplicate Events
http://ysufoundation.com/External Giving to YSU
http://maag.ysu.edu/External Subdomain Maag Library
https://ysu.edu/newsNews
https://ysu.edu/penguin-portalText duplicate Penguin Portal
/registrars-office/request-tra...Request a Transcript
https://ysu.edu/ysu-policeSafety
https://ysu.teamdynamix.com/TD...External Subdomain Technology Support
https://ysu.edu/web-helpWebsite Help
/content/document-plugins*Required Document Plugins
/gainful-employmentGainful Employment
/financial-aid-and-scholarship...HEERF I Website Reporting
/financial-aid-and-scholarship...HEERF II Grants to Students Reporting
/financial-aid-and-scholarship...HEERF III Grants to Students Website Reporting
/student-consumer-informationStudent Consumer Information
https://ysu.edu/accessibilityDigital Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ysu.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 0.72 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateTue, 04 Jun 2024 21:20:19 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length9346
x-drupal-cacheMISS
access-control-allow-origin*
access-control-allow-credentialstrue
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
link<https://ysu.edu/>; rel="canonical",<https://ysu.edu/>; rel="shortlink"
cache-controlpublic, max-age=86400
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
etag"1717481187-1"
last-modifiedTue, 04 Jun 2024 06:06:27 GMT
x-request-idv-9426b8dc-2238-11ef-8939-9fb36438eabf
x-ah-environmentprod
age54831
viavarnish
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits7178
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
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 6,289 referring domains.
This page has 217,115 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,531 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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/
Disallow: /sites/default/files/webform/
# 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
Disallow: /mergehack.txt
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /node/edit/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
Disallow: /directory/a-z/*
Disallow: /directory/dept/*
Disallow: /directory/student-org/*
# 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/
Disallow: /?q=directory/a-z/*
Disallow: /?q=directory/dept/*
Disallow: /?q=directory/student-org/*
# User Agent Specifics
User-agent: AHC/*
Disallow: /
# User-agent: blackboardally
# Disallow: /calendar-node-field-event-date/
# Disallow: /events/
# Disallow: /event-calendar?*

Search preview

ysu.edu
YSU | Home

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
YSU59%Check
edu46%Check
Get38%Check
Search38%Check
Started38%Check
Learn38%Check
News38%Check
new38%Check
Youngstown36%Check
Know36%Check

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