Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
92% 
Page quality
36% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.71 s
File size
110.80 kB
Words
382
Media files
9
Number of links
83 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | Boston University
The length of the page title is perfect. (274 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (859 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.bu.edu/homepage-alt/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
copyright© 2024 Boston University
descriptionBoston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
last-updated2020-02-04T07:49:33-04:00
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langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:descriptionBoston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
twitter:titleHomepage | Boston University
twitter:site@BU_Tweets
twitter:creator@BU_Tweets
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og:typearticle
og:titleHomepage | Boston University
og:descriptionBoston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
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og:site_nameBoston University
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ClearTypetrue
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 382 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 31.5 words is high.
15.4% of the text are stop words.
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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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
.../shs-trainer-buniverse-feat-1200x826.jpgPhoto: A female athletic trainer kneeling and watching as an athlete does a stepping exercise
/home/img/buhp-marsh-bg.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/home/img/buhp-marsh-hed.svgNo alt attribute provided
/home/img/call-her-daddy-feat-1024x684.jpgPhoto: A screenshot from a "Call Her Daddy" podcast in which Alex Cooper, sitting on a chair on the left, is talking with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is on the right.
...mg/double-reproductive-feat-1024x684.jpgPhoto: Young Black woman sitting on a couch with her hands holding her stomach. She looks exasperated. There is a glitch overlay on the image
/home/img/24-1449-CTE-025_crop-1024x684.jpgPhoto: Michael Alosco, CTE Center codirector and associate professor of neurology, and Thor Stein, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine. Alosco wears a blue blazer and tan pants while Stein wears a purple shirt and gray pants.
/home/img/icon-buhp-rhett.pngNo alt attribute provided
/home/img/icon-buhp-hub.svgNo alt attribute provided
/home/img/icon-buhp-giving.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Live Services from Marsh Chapel
The H1 heading is perfect.
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 Live Services from Marsh Chapel
H3 Coming Full Circle: Former BU Women’s Soccer Player Is Now Helping Injured Terrier Athletes
H3 BU Athletics
H3 BU Hub
H3 Giving
H4 Admissions
H4 Academics
H4 Research
H4 Global
H4 Campus Life
H4 About BU
H4 Listen every Sunday at 11 a.m., or download past services anytime
H4 Three BU Alums—Alex Cooper, Howard Stern, Bill Whitaker—Land Interviews Kamala Harris
H4 A Double Threat to Reproductive Health: Environmental Contaminants and a Lack of Access to Healthcare
H4 Can CTE Be Diagnosed in Life?
H6 Resources for:
H6 University Publications
H6 Resources for: Duplicate text
H6 Resources for: Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an 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 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.bu.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.bu.edu/Subdomain Boston University
/admissions-overview/Subdomain Admissions
http://www.bu.edu/academicsSubdomain Academics
https://www.bu.edu/researchResearch
https://www.bu.edu/alumni/giving/Subdomain Giving
https://search.bu.edu/External Subdomain Search
https://search.bu.edu/External Subdomain Search Boston University...
/admissions-overview/Subdomain Text duplicate Admissions
http://www.bu.edu/admissionsSubdomain Undergraduate
/grad/admission-funding/Subdomain Graduate
http://www.bu.edu/international/Subdomain International
http://www.bu.edu/transfer/Subdomain Transfer
http://www.bu.edu/finaid/Subdomain Financial Aid
http://www.bu.edu/extended/Subdomain Extended Ed
http://www.bu.edu/academics/Subdomain Text duplicate Academics
/academics/schools-colleges/Subdomain Schools/Colleges
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/External Subdomain Medical Campus
/academics/degree-programs/Subdomain Degree Programs
/academics/bulletin/Subdomain Bulletin (Catalog)
http://www.bu.edu/summer/Subdomain Summer Term
http://www.bu.edu/digital/Subdomain Digital Learning
https://www.bu.edu/researchText duplicate Research
http://www.bu.edu/research/cf/Subdomain Centers/Institutes
http://www.bu.edu/library/Subdomain Libraries
/researchsupport/Subdomain Research Support
/research/aboutus/award/Subdomain Awards
/researchsupport/project-lifec...Subdomain Funding
/urop/students/on-campus-oppor...Subdomain For Undergrads
http://www.bu.edu/global/Subdomain Global
/global/identity/Subdomain Global Identity
http://www.bu.edu/abroad/Subdomain Study Abroad
/global/study-research/Subdomain Study & Research
http://www.bu.edu/global/support/Subdomain Program Support
/global/where-are-we/Subdomain Where Are We?
https://www.bu.edu/campus-life/Subdomain Campus Life
/campus-life/student-life/Subdomain Student Life
/chapel/religion/Subdomain Religious Life
/campus-life/calendars/Subdomain Calendars
/campus-life/buarts/Subdomain Arts
/campus-life/terrier-athletics/Subdomain Athletics
http://www.bu.edu/fitrec/Subdomain FitRec Center
http://www.bu.edu/agganis/Subdomain Agganis Arena
https://bu.bncollege.com/External Subdomain Barnes & Noble at BU
http://www.bu.edu/sustainability/Subdomain Sustainability
https://www.bu.edu/about/Subdomain About BU
http://www.bu.edu/trustees/Subdomain Trustees
https://www.bu.edu/about/admin/Subdomain Administration
/community-inclusion/Subdomain Community & Inclusion
http://www.bu.edu/hr/Subdomain Employment
http://www.bu.edu/tech/Subdomain Technology
http://www.bu.edu/news/Subdomain Public Relations
/diversity-officer/Subdomain Senior Diversity Officer
/about/office-list/Subdomain All Offices
https://www.bu.edu/mybu/Subdomain MyBU Student Portals
/provost/faculty-affairs/facul...Subdomain Faculty
http://www.bu.edu/staff/Subdomain Staff
http://www.bu.edu/parentsprogram/Subdomain Parents
http://www.bu.edu/alumni/Subdomain Alumni & Friends
https://www.bu.edu/alumni/giving/Subdomain Text duplicate Giving
/about/contact-us/Contact Information
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/Subdomain No Text
https://www.bu.edu/today/Subdomain No Text
https://www.bu.edu/brink/Subdomain No Text
https://www.bu.edu/publicationsAll Publications
/articles/2024/former-bu-women...Subdomain Watch Video
https://www.bu.edu/mybu/Subdomain Text duplicate MyBU Student Portals
/provost/faculty-affairs/facul...Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty
http://www.bu.edu/staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Staff
http://www.bu.edu/parentsprogram/Subdomain Text duplicate Parents
http://www.bu.edu/alumni/Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni & Friends
/chapel/worship/sunday/howtoli...Subdomain Listen every Sunday at 11 a.m., or download past services anytime
/articles/2024/call-her-daddy-...Subdomain Three BU Alums—Alex Cooper, Howard Stern, Bill Whitaker—Land Interviews Kamala Harris
/articles/2024/a-double-threat...Subdomain A Double Threat to Reproductive Health: Environmental Contaminants and a Lack of Access to Healthcare
/articles/2024/can-cte-be-diag...Subdomain Can CTE Be Diagnosed in Life?
https://goterriers.com/External BU Athletics
https://www.bu.edu/hub/Subdomain BU Hub
https://www.bu.edu/alumni/giving/Subdomain Text duplicate Giving
https://www.bu.edu/mybu/Subdomain Text duplicate MyBU Student Portals
/provost/faculty-affairs/facul...Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty
http://www.bu.edu/staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Staff
http://www.bu.edu/parentsprogram/Subdomain Text duplicate Parents
http://www.bu.edu/alumni/Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni & Friends
https://twitter.com/BU_TweetsExternal Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/Bosto...External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/user/bu/External Subdomain Youtube
A-TITLE Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain Linked-In
A-TITLE Linked-In
/policies/boston-university-no...Subdomain Notice of Nondiscrimination
http://www.bu.edu/copyright/Subdomain © 2024 Trustees of Boston University
/policies/digital-privacy-stat...Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://www.bu.edu/disability/Subdomain Accessibility
http://www.bu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Boston University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.bu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.71 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 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 15 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (111 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html
content-length113441
connectionclose
dateMon, 14 Oct 2024 03:00:53 GMT
servernginx/1.18.0
last-modifiedMon, 14 Oct 2024 02:37:39 GMT
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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 51,005 referring domains.
This page has 1,798,897 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 31,678 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

# Directions for robots.  See this URL:
# http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html
# for a description of the file format.
# 2008-08-21
#####
# Here is where we override the default action

## Due to a bug in linklint, must first specify a disallow in order for 
## for all other directories to be allowed. Feel free to add other
## disallows below the first disallow line.

User-agent: LinkLint
Disallow: /workaroundForLinkLintRandomDirForConfig/ 

#####
# Allow W3C link Validator for /dev/ and /nisdev/
# skipping other dynamic content or private areas
# 2004-08-27 gaudette
#
User-agent: W3C-checklink
Disallow: /cms/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /htbin/
Disallow: /htbin.ph/
Disallow: /BUbin/
Disallow: /bubin/
Disallow: /testing/
Disallow: /TESTING/
Disallow: /IT/SoftwareDist/
Disallow: /it/SoftwareDist/
Disallow: /software/
Disallow: /SOFTWARE/
Disallow: /IT/new/
Disallow: /it/new/
Disallow: /nis/
Disallow: /nishd/
Disallow: /library/working/
Disallow: /library/WORKING/
Disallow: /reports/
Disallow: /bulletins/work/
Disallow: /admissions/test/
Disallow: /cas/oldsite/
Disallow: /MPA/
Disallow: /finaid/test/
Disallow: /naitest/
Disallow: /newswire/
Disallow: /practice/
Disallow: /providers/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /usc/test/
Disallow: /webcentral/output/
Disallow: /webmail/
Disallow: /alumni/portfolio/
Disallow: /dev/

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# default action - currently it allows access to most of the site
# skipping dynamic content or private areas
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User-agent: gsa-crawler
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cms/
Disallow: /htbin/
Disallow: /htbin.ph/
Disallow: /BUbin/
Disallow: /bubin/
Disallow: /testing/
Disallow: /TESTING/
Disallow: /IT/SoftwareDist/
Disallow: /it/SoftwareDist/
Disallow: /software/
Disallow: /SOFTWARE/
Disallow: /IT/new/
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Disallow: /nisdev/
Disallow: /bulletins/work/
Disallow: /admissions/test/
Disallow: /cas/oldsite/
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Disallow: /finaid/test/
Disallow: /naitest/
Disallow: /newswire/
Disallow: /practice/
Disallow: /providers/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /usc/test/
Disallow: /webcentral/output/
Disallow: /webmail/
Disallow: /alumni/portfolio/
Disallow: /dbin/dos/ocs/
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /wbur/arts/
Disallow: /wbur/connection/
Disallow: /wbur/herenow/
Disallow: /wbur/livingonearth/
Disallow: /wbur/miscellaneous/
Disallow: /wbur/onpoint/
Disallow: /wbur/special_projects_unit/
Disallow: /wbur/wburnews/
Disallow: /wbur/woi/
Disallow: /link/
Disallow: /home-media/
# BUniverse exclusions added by kgrin on 2010-04-26
Disallow: /buniverse/add/
Disallow: /buniverse/admin/
Disallow: /buniverse/buniverse1/
Disallow: /buniverse/contact/
Disallow: /buniverse/cron/
Disallow: /buniverse/data/
Disallow: /buniverse/delete/
Disallow: /buniverse/edit/
Disallow: /buniverse/embed/
Disallow: /buniverse/login/
Disallow: /buniverse/logout/
Disallow: /buniverse/messages/
Disallow: /buniverse/my-videos/
Disallow: /buniverse/search/
Disallow: /buniverse/support/
Disallow: /buniverse/util/
Disallow: /buniverse/viewed/
Disallow: /buniverse/vote/
Disallow: /buniverse/youtube/
Disallow: /summer/archive/

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# Emergency change 2012-02-14 bfenster, in response to incident
User-agent: 008
Disallow: / 

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# Emergency change 2014-11-17 bfenster, in response to incident
User-agent: Netsparker
Disallow: / 


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# default action - currently it allows access to most of the site
# skipping dynamic content or private areas
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /cms/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /htbin/
Disallow: /htbin.ph/
Disallow: /BUbin/
Disallow: /bubin/
Disallow: /testing/
Disallow: /TESTING/
Disallow: /IT/SoftwareDist/
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Disallow: /software/
Disallow: /SOFTWARE/
Disallow: /IT/new/
Disallow: /it/new/
Disallow: /nis/
Disallow: /library/working/
Disallow: /library/WORKING/
Disallow: /reports/
Disallow: /nisdev/
Disallow: /bulletins/work/
Disallow: /admissions/test/
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Disallow: /practice/
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Disallow: /usc/test/
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Disallow: /alumni/portfolio/
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Disallow: /wbur/wburnews/
Disallow: /wbur/woi/
Disallow: /link/
Disallow: /home-media/
# BUniverse exclusions added by kgrin on 2010-04-21
Disallow: /buniverse/add/
Disallow: /buniverse/admin/
Disallow: /buniverse/buniverse1/
Disallow: /buniverse/contact/
Disallow: /buniverse/cron/
Disallow: /buniverse/data/
Disallow: /buniverse/delete/
Disallow: /buniverse/edit/
Disallow: /buniverse/embed/
Disallow: /buniverse/login/
Disallow: /buniverse/logout/
Disallow: /buniverse/messages/
Disallow: /buniverse/my-videos/
Disallow: /buniverse/search/
Disallow: /buniverse/support/
Disallow: /buniverse/util/
Disallow: /buniverse/viewed/
Disallow: /buniverse/vote/
Disallow: /buniverse/youtube/
# academics/summer archive exclusions added by kgrin on 2011-07-17
Disallow: /academics/archive/
Disallow: /summer/archive/
Crawl-delay: 15

Search preview

www.bu.edu
Homepage | Boston University
Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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Boston University60%Check
Boston58%Check
Services54%Check
service54%Check
Marsh52%Check
Research50%Check
Campus50%Check
Live50%Check
Chapel50%Check

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