Iu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
73% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.77 s
File size
130.20 kB
Words
575
Media files
15
Number of links
20 internal / 30 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Indiana University
The page title is too short. (162 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
One of America’s leading research universities, Indiana University has campuses and medical centers located across Indiana. Our work improves lives. Our impact is global. Our vision is excellence.
The meta description is too long: 1217 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.iu.edu/index.html
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsmax-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionOne of America’s leading research universities, Indiana University has campuses and medical centers located across Indiana. Our work improves lives. Our impact is global. Our vision is excellence.
iddde902b6814f4e10489b88955014e66d
langen
og:urlhttps://www.iu.edu/index.html
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-Compatibleie=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 575 words. That's ok.
32.7% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 23.86 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 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 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
...-reputation/ai/homepage-overview-ai.webpA female student stands next to a table where an older woman sits looking back at her. A white robot stands on the table next to both of the women, the student holds a controller and a microphone sits on the table. A large IU Trident stands behind the student.
...ences_homepage_no-trident_1440x1440.webpKei Kawata stands with a high school player on a football field holding a brain while a scrimmage takes place in the background.
...d-reputation/home/homepage-research.webpA researcher looks through a microscope in her lab.
...and-reputation/home/homepage-health.webpA medical student looks over a patients charts with her instructor.
...ampaign/homepage-defaultcard-filter.webp${sideAltImg}
..._brand-reputation/brand/ar-filter-qr.jpg${qrImngAlt}
/images/home/marcus-scott.jpgAn IU student works on a laptop outside at dusk
/images/home/students-on-campus.jpgThree students sit under a tree, smiling and talking
https://www.iu.edu/images/home-research.jpgStudent drops research sample into tube.
/images/impact/global-impact-promo.jpgFlags from various nations on display at the IU Indianapolis Campus Center.
..._Screenshot_2024-09-04_at_10.26.06AM.pngCover of “The Playbook for Enhancing Indiana’s Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce”
...15027_20190828_CIB__fake_news_ER_015.jpgA man stands in front of a screen showing thousands of connection points between users on social media
...3499_6308eeaecf237_olki93cfm9_actual.jpgA red diploma cover that reads “Indiana University” with the IU seal.
data:[...] Base64Download on the App Store
data:[...] Base64Get it on Google Play

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Bring on tomorrow
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Bring on tomorrow
H2 Explore stories about
H2 Put IU in the picture
H2 Pursue your passion or explore the possibilities
H2 Find your ideal campus life at IU
H2 See how IU is leading research
H2 Be part of a university that makes a global impact
H2 IU news and events
H2 Explore IU
H2 Download the IU Mobile app
H2 Social media
H2 Additional resources
H3 New playbook addresses shortage of mental and behavioral health workers in Indiana
H3 $7.5 million grant to guard against AI-driven misinformation
H3 Indiana University awards its millionth degree
H3 IU Admissions
H3 Explore cost, financial aid, and scholarships
H3 Indiana University
H3 Services
H3 Email
H3 Find
H3 Library
H3 Resources
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 too many external links (30) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.iu.edu/index.htmlAnchor Skip to main content
https://www.iu.edu/index.htmlIndiana University
/about/features/index.htmlSee how we are creating tomorrow
/about/features/brain-health.htmlBrain Science
/about/features/research.htmlResearch
/about/features/healthcare.htmlHealthcare
https://www.iu.edu/life-at-iu9 campuses
https://www.iu.edu/academics930+ academic programs
https://www.iu.edu/admissions90,000+ students
/impact/global-impact.htmlSubdomain 170 countries represented
https://alumni.iu.edu/External Subdomain 790,000+ alumni
https://www.instagram.com/ar/9...External Subdomain Get the filter
/academics/index.htmlExplore IU academics
/life-at-iu/index.htmlExplore life at IU
https://research.impact.iu.edu...External Subdomain Explore IU's research impact
https://global.iu.edu/presence...External Subdomain Explore IU's global impact
https://news.iu.edu/External Subdomain All news stories
https://events.iu.edu/External Subdomain View IU events
https://news.iu.edu/live/news/...External Subdomain New playbook addresses shortage of mental and behavioral health workers in Indiana
https://news.iu.edu/live/news/...External Subdomain $7.5 million grant to guard against AI-driven misinformation
https://news.iu.edu/live/news/...External Subdomain Indiana University awards its millionth degree
/admissions/index.htmlIU Admissions
/cost-financial-aid/index.htmlExplore cost, financial aid, and scholarships
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Download on the App Store
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Get it on Google Play
https://www.facebook.com/India...External Subdomain Facebook for IU
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Linkedin for IU
https://twitter.com/IndianaUnivExternal Twitter for IU
https://www.instagram.com/iubl...External Subdomain Instagram for IU
https://www.youtube.com/user/iuExternal Subdomain Youtube for IU
/about/contact.htmlContact us
https://www.myiu.org/give-now?...External Subdomain Give now
https://uits.iu.edu/askiuExternal Subdomain Have a question? AskIU
https://canvas.iu.edu/External Subdomain Canvas
https://one.iu.edu/External Subdomain One.IU
https://uits.iu.edu/services/a...External Subdomain Exchange
https://kb.iu.edu/d/apfiExternal Subdomain About Email at IU
https://directory.iu.edu/External Subdomain People Directory
https://jobs.iu.edu/External Subdomain Jobs at IU
/nondiscrimination/index.htmlNon-discrimination Notice
https://iucat.iu.edu/External Subdomain IUCAT
https://diversity.iu.edu/External Subdomain Diversity
https://uits.iu.edu/External Subdomain IT Services
https://kb.iu.edu/External Subdomain Knowledge Base
https://protect.iu.edu/External Subdomain Protect IU
https://accessibility.iu.edu/a...External Subdomain Accessibility
/college-scorecard.htmlCollege Scorecard
/privacy/index.htmlPrivacy Notice
/copyright/index.htmlCopyright
https://www.iu.edu/index.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate Indiana University

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.iu.edu/index.html"
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 very slow (1.77 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.
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (130 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 06 Sep 2024 00:13:13 GMT
serverApache
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000
upgradeh2
connectionUpgrade, close
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
access-control-allow-origin*
x-frame-optionsDENY
content-length29128
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie100 Characters
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 669 referring domains.
This page has 69,666 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 526 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Allow: /campaigns/

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /campaigns/


User-agent: *
Disallow: /president/communications/vip-updates/index.html
Disallow: /tomorrow/
Disallow: /_archive/
Disallow: /_css/
Disallow: /_dev/
Disallow: /_includes/
Disallow: /_internal/
Disallow: /_js/
Disallow: /_links/
Disallow: /_php/
Disallow: /_shared/
Disallow: /error/
Disallow: /gwassets/
Disallow: /machform/
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: /search/index.html
Disallow: /search/index.htm
Disallow: /search/index.shtml
Sitemap: https://www.iu.edu/sitemap.xml

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Indiana University
One of America’s leading research universities, Indiana University has campuses and medical centers located across Indiana. Our work improves lives. Our impact is global. Our vision is excellence.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
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Indiana68%Check
Indiana University68%Check
Research University62%Check
Research54%Check
campus54%Check
impact52%Check
global52%Check
work52%Check
Global Impact52%Check
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