Artsci.k-state.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
70.50 kB
Words
316
Media files
3
Number of links
17 internal / 32 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
College of Arts and Sciences
The length of the page title is perfect. (261 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://artsci.k-state.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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1
theme-color#512888
format-detectiontelephone=no
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 316 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.5% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 13.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1" is provided.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...i-collage-homepage-masthead-1905x650.jpgK-State College of Arts and Sciences
...anding/5/images/wordmarks/ksu-purple.svgKansas State University
.../branding/5/images/degreestats-black.svgKansas Degree Statistics

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Understand Your World
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Understand Your World
H1 Understand Your World Duplicate text
H2 Recent News
H2 Upcoming events
H4 Hours, location and contact information
H6 More Arts and Sciences news
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.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (32) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://artsci.k-state.edu/Anchor Jump to main content
https://artsci.k-state.edu/Anchor Jump to footer
https://www.k-state.edu/External Subdomain Kansas State University
https://connect.k-state.edu/External Subdomain Connect
https://canvas.k-state.edu/External Subdomain Canvas
https://orgcentral.k-state.edu/External Subdomain OrgCentral
https://k-state.navigate.eab.com/External Subdomain Navigate
https://ksis.k-state.edu/External Subdomain KSIS
https://hris.k-state.edu/External Subdomain HRIS
https://webmail.k-state.edu/External Subdomain Webmail
https://connect.k-state.edu/External Subdomain Sign in
https://www.k-state.edu/direct...External Subdomain Browse A-Z
https://www.k-state.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://artsci.k-state.edu/College of Arts and Sciences
https://search.k-state.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.k-state.edu/admiss...External Subdomain Apply Now
https://www.k-state.edu/admiss...External Subdomain Request Info
https://www.k-state.edu/admiss...External Subdomain Text duplicate Apply Now
https://www.k-state.edu/admiss...External Subdomain Text duplicate Request Info
/academics/majors/index.htmlExplore All Programs
/academics/Subdomain Customizable academic opportunities Majors, minors, certificates and more
/academics/interdisciplinary/Subdomain Combine multiple interests Interdisciplinary programs
/about/diversity/Subdomain All are welcome A culture of inclusion
/research/undergraduate/Subdomain Practical experience that gives you an edge Student research opportunities
/about/news/More Arts and Sciences news
/academics/index.html20 departments encompassing the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences
/student-success/scholarships-...$2 million in scholarships awarded each year
/student-success/index.html10:1 student-to-faculty ratio
/about/profiles/alumni-dan-bil...Trivial anchor text
Read more
/about/profiles/alumni-rhonda-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://events.k-state.edu/dep...External Subdomain View all College of Arts and Sciences events
/about/news/index.htmlNewsSee what's happening in the College of Arts and Sciences
/about/departments/index.htmlDepartments and directoryView all departments and contact information.
https://www.k-state.edu/admiss...External Subdomain How to Apply
https://www.k-state.edu/admiss...External Subdomain Text duplicate Request Info
https://www.k-state.edu/admiss...External Subdomain Visit
https://www.facebook.com/KStat...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/KStateArtSciExternal No Text
https://www.instagram.com/ksta...External Subdomain No Text
https://artsci.k-state.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate College of Arts and Sciences
https://www.k-state.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Kansas State University
https://www.k-state.edu/contact/External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.k-state.edu/adviso...External Subdomain Emergency
https://www.k-state.edu/disclo...External Subdomain Statements and Disclosures
https://www.k-state.edu/about/...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://ksdegreestats.org/External IMG-ALT Kansas Degree Statistics
https://www.k-state.edu/disclo...External Subdomain KBOR Free Expression Statement
https://www.k-state.edu/about/...External Subdomain © Kansas State University
https://webcms.k-state.edu/External Subdomain Updated

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://artsci.k-state.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.60 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.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (71 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 17 Jan 2025 22:31:48 GMT
serverApache/2.4.62 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_apreq2-20101207/2.8.1
upgradeh2,h2c
connectionUpgrade
accept-rangesbytes
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
content-length18681
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 111 referring domains.
This page has 5,074 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 92 different ip addresses.

Search preview

artsci.k-state.edu
College of Arts and Sciences

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Arts70%Check
Sciences56%Check
Understand54%Check
World54%Check
College52%Check
k-state50%Check
edu48%Check
artsci48%Check
Social Sciences45%Check
Natural Sciences45%Check

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