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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
59% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
577.50 kB
Words
854
Media files
18
Number of links
114 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Anderson University
The length of the page title is perfect. (253 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Anderson University is a Christian, liberal arts institution. We invite students to come as they are, and discover who they are meant to be.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (844 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://anderson.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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 854 words. That's ok.
36.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
15 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.47 words is good.
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.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (577.5 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=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 17 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Jesus. you. Anderson.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Jesus. you. Anderson.
H2 The Anderson You is worth becoming.
H2 COMMENCEMENT
H2 Events for Future Ravens
H2 Arrive as Anyone. Become you.
H2 Anderson University News + Events
H2 The Anderson You
H3 How Drew Beechler Turned Himself Into a Tech CEO
H3 A Look Back on the Fleeting and Beautiful Twilight of College
H4 VISIT
H4 APPLY
H4 GIVE
H4 MAY 4 | 2 P.M.
H4 More
H4 Campus
H4 Resources
H4 Academics
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.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 22 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://anderson.edu/IMG-ALT Anderson University
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https://anderson.edu/give/Give
https://anderson.edu/No Text
/admissions/visit/VISIT ANDERSON
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https://anderson.edu/give/GIVE TO ANDERSON
https://anderson.edu/about/About
/about/mission-vision/Mission & Vision
/about/traditions/Traditions
/about/strategic-plan/Strategic Plan
https://anderson.edu/about/blog/News
/about/president/Leadership
/give/about-giving/Advancement
https://anderson.edu/alumni/Alumni
/about/campus-facts/Campus Facts
https://anderson.edu/admissions/Admissions
/admissions/contact/Request Info
https://anderson.edu/depositDeposit
/admissions/undergrad-admissions/Undergraduate
/admissions/transfers/Transfers
/admissions/adult/Adults
/admissions/graduate/Graduate
/admissions/international/International
/admissions/admitted/Admitted Students
/admissions/financial-aid/Financial
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/admissions/financial-aid/grants/Grants
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/academics/adult-graduate/fina...Adult & Graduate Tuition
/admissions/financial-aid/stud...Student Accounts
/admissions/financial-aid/stud...Raven Return
https://anderson.edu/academics/Academics
/academics/majors/Majors A-Z
/academics/adult-degrees/Text duplicate Adults
/academics/adult-graduate/Text duplicate Graduate
https://careeracceleration.and...External Subdomain Certificates
/academics/support/Advising Support
/academics/support/Academic Support
/academics/honors/Honors Program
/academics/study-abroad/Study Away
/student-life/Student Life
https://athletics.anderson.edu/External Subdomain Athletics
/student-life/orientation/New Students
/student-life/residence/Residence Life
/spiritual-life/Spiritual Life
/student-life/tri-s/Tri-S
/student-life/commuter/Commuters
/student-life/counseling/Counseling Services
/student-life/intercultural-en...Intercultural Engagement
/commencement/LEARN MORE
/current-students/Current Students
/parents-families/Parents & Families
/student-life/first-year-success/First Year Success
/21st-century-scholars/21st Century Scholars
/arts-entertainment-calendar/Arts & Concerts
/hr/faculty-staff-employment/Employment
https://anderson.edu/calendar/Calendar
https://anderson.edu/directory/Directory
/about/directions/Map & Directions
/admissions/spanish-admissions/Español
/diversity-at-au/Diversity At AU
https://anderson.edu/coronavirus/Coronavirus
https://anderson.edu/start-quizMajors Quiz
/admissions/pre-college-progra...Summer Camps
/admissions/pre-college-programs/Pre-College
/student-life/welcome-weekend/Welcome Weekend
/admissions/virtual-experiences/Virtual Experiences
https://anderson.edu/sale/Sale
https://anderson.edu/admissions/Future Ravens Start Here
https://anderson.edu/start-quizMy College Career Quiz
https://anderson.edu/start-quizSTART QUIZ
https://anderson.edu/visitVISIT
https://anderson.edu/applicationAPPLY
https://anderson.edu/depositDEPOSIT
/commencement/INFO
/commencement/Anchor LIVESTREAM
/about/directions/DIRECTIONS
/admissions/admitted/Admitted Student Checklist
https://anderson.edu/calendar/More Events
/admissions/visit/Schedule A Visit
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read more
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https://anderson.edu/give/Text duplicate GIVE TO ANDERSON
https://athletics.anderson.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Athletics
https://anderson.edu/calendar/Text duplicate Calendar
https://anderson.edu/directory/Text duplicate Directory
/hr/faculty-staff-employment/Text duplicate Employment
https://anderson.okta.com/home...External Subdomain AccessAU
https://anderson.instructure.c...External Subdomain Canvas
https://anderson.okta.com/External Subdomain Okta
https://anderson.edu/hr/policies/Policies
/student-life/residence/Housing
https://anderson.edu/wellness/Wellness Center
https://anderson.edu/galleries/Galleries & Exhibits
https://auravensgear.com/External Bookstore
https://anderson.edu/security/Security
https://anderson.edu/hr/titleix/Title IX
https://anderson.edu/academics/Academic Programs
/registrar/undergraduate-catalog/Undergraduate Catalog
/academics/adult-graduate/cata...Graduate Catalog
https://anderson.edu/registrar/University Registrar
https://library.anderson.edu/External Subdomain Nicholson Library
/about/provost/Provost
https://anderson.edu/academics/Our Academics
https://maps.google.com/?q=110...New window External Subdomain 1100 E. 5th St., Anderson, IN 46012
/about/directionsText duplicate Map & Directions
https://www.facebook.com/ander...New window External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Facebook
https://twitter.com/AndersonUNew window External Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on X
https://www.instagram.com/ande...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/A...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Youtube
https://anderson.edu/IMG-ALT Anderson University Flame
https://anderson.edu/directory/Text duplicate Directory
/accreditation/Accreditation
/accessibility/Accessibility
/privacy-legal/Privacy/Legal

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://anderson.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.91 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 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (578 kB).
This page does not require any CSS files.

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,404 referring domains.
This page has 20,893 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,582 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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

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anderson.edu
Home - Anderson University
Anderson University is a Christian, liberal arts institution. We invite students to come as they are, and discover who they are meant to be.

Most important keywords

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

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ANDERSON95%Check
Anderson University83%Check
University68%Check
Anderson Indiana68%Check
Christian University56%Check
Students48%Check
Arts46%Check
discover46%Check
college45%Check
Visit43%Check
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