It.psu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.31 s
File size
158.40 kB
Words
272
Media files
6
Number of links
17 internal / 37 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Information Technology – Penn State
The length of the page title is perfect. (331 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Penn State IT offers innovative services and support for students, faculty, and staff, enhancing infrastructure and administrative systems for a seamless experience.
The meta description is too long: 1005 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.it.psu.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

NameValue
descriptionPenn State IT offers innovative services and support for students, faculty, and staff, enhancing infrastructure and administrative systems for a seamless experience.
keywordsEmpty
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorSites At Penn State 6.4.4 - http://sites.psu.edu/
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www.it.psu.edu/files/2024/04/cropped-cropped-psu-icon-192x192-1-d0580add819515e8-1-270x270.png
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 272 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.6% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" 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)
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
...eit/files/2021/07/Penn-State-IT-Mark.pngNittany Lion shield logo with the words Penn State
/files/2021/08/Penn-State-Go-iPhone-11.pngPenn State Go iPhone 11 screenshot of the appPenn-State-Go-iPhone-11
/files/2021/08/Apple-Download-Button.pngApple App Store buttonApple-Download-Button
...2021/08/Google-Play-Download-Button-.pngGoogle Play App Store buttonGoogle-Play-Download-Button-
/files/2023/04/psu-mark-footer.pngNittany Lion Shield Penn State Mark
...sets/images/shared/we-are-penn-state.svgWe Are Penn State

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Information Technology
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Information Technology
H2 Service Status
H2 IT Helps You Succeed
H3 Connect to Tech
H3 Secure & Protected
H3 Teaching & Learning
H3 24/7 Support
H3 Penn State Go
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (37) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.it.psu.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT Nittany Lion shield logo with the words Penn State
https://www.it.psu.edu/services/Subdomain Services
A-TITLE Services
https://www.it.psu.edu/services/Subdomain All Services
https://www.it.psu.edu/students/Subdomain Students
https://www.it.psu.edu/faculty/Subdomain Faculty
https://www.it.psu.edu/staff/Subdomain Staff
/researchers/Subdomain Research Tools and Services at Penn State: Empowering Faculty and Researchers
/services-loginsSubdomain Service Logins
A-TITLE Service Logins
https://psu.instructure.com/New window External Subdomain Canvas
https://login.microsoftonline....New window External Subdomain Office 365
https://accounts.google.com/New window External Subdomain Google Workspace
https://psu.mediaspace.kaltura...New window External Subdomain Kaltura
https://lnkd.in/eQJ_t26New window External LinkedIn Learning
https://lionpath.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain LionPATH
https://simba.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain SIMBA
https://sites.psu.edu/wp-login...New window External Subdomain Sites at Penn State
https://app.tophat.com/loginExternal Subdomain Top Hat
https://worklion.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain WorkLion
https://psu.zoom.us/profileNew window External Subdomain Zoom
/get-connectedSubdomain Get Connected
A-TITLE Get Connected
https://accounts.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Change my Penn State Account Password
https://wireless.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Connect to Wi-Fi
https://accounts.psu.edu/mfaNew window External Subdomain Set up Multifactor Authentication
https://www.it.psu.edu/software/Subdomain Software
A-TITLE Software
https://security.psu.edu/External Subdomain Security
https://sites.psu.edu/pennstat...External Subdomain Support
A-TITLE Support
https://www.it.psu.edu/support/Subdomain Get Support
https://pennstate.service-now....New window External Subdomain Service Status
https://pennstate.service-now....New window External Subdomain Open a Support Ticket
https://pennstate.service-now....New window External Subdomain Knowledge Base
https://itld.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Get Training
https://www.it.psu.edu/about/Subdomain About
https://pennstateoffice365.sha...New window External Subdomain University IT Strategic Plan
/telephony-transformation-proj...Subdomain Telephony Transformation Project
/students/employment/Subdomain Student Employment
https://www.it.psu.edu/news/Subdomain News
https://www.it.psu.edu/search/Subdomain Search
A-TITLE Search
https://pennstate.service-now....New window External Subdomain Help Desk
https://www.it.psu.edu/students/Subdomain Connect to Tech
https://security.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Secure & Protected
https://tlt.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Teaching & Learning
https://help.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain 24/7 Support
https://mobile.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Penn State Go
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Apple App Store button
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Google Play App Store button
https://www.psu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Nittany Lion Shield Penn State Mark
A-TITLE Penn State
https://www.psu.edu/web-privac...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://policy.psu.edu/policie...External Subdomain Non Discrimination
https://www.psu.edu/accessibil...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://policy.psu.edu/policie...External Subdomain Equal Opportunity
https://www.psu.edu/legal-stat...External Subdomain Legal Statements
https://www.psu.edu/copyright-...External Subdomain The Pennsylvania State University ©
https://sites.psu.edu/pennstat...External Subdomain Login
https://pennstateoffice365.sha...External Subdomain PSIT Intranet

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.it.psu.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 is slow (1.31 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (158 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serveropenresty
dateSat, 08 Jun 2024 03:36:42 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
last-modifiedSat, 08 Jun 2024 02:48:46 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=1269, must-revalidate
varyCookie
link<https://www.it.psu.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-bypass-reason0
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 89 referring domains.
This page has 1,789 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 77 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 10 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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www.it.psu.edu
Information Technology – Penn State
Penn State IT offers innovative services and support for students, faculty, and staff, enhancing infrastructure and administrative systems for a seamless experience.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
State68%Check
Penn68%Check
Penn State68%Check
Tech66%Check
Information Technology Penn State64%Check
Information62%Check
Technology62%Check
Information Technology62%Check
State University51%Check
Support50%Check
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