Jmu.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
83% 
Page quality
77% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.21 s
File size
115.30 kB
Words
784
Media files
32
Number of links
97 internal / 30 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
James Madison University - JMU
The length of the page title is perfect. (298 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
James Madison University
The meta description is too short. (166 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionJames Madison University
dateThu, 30 Jan 2025 07:000:16 -0500
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langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleJames Madison University
twitter:descriptionJames Madison University
twitter:imagehttps://www.jmu.edu/_images/default/JMUopengraphimage.jpg
og:titleJames Madison University
og:descriptionJames Madison University
og:image//www.jmu.edu/_images/default/JMUopengraphimage.jpg
og:urlhttps://www.jmu.edu/index.shtml
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 784 words. That's ok.
23.7% 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.
13 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 23.38 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 amount of tags is very high (18). We recommend using a maximum of 16 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: more articles >
Some tags are too long. With 85 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"women's basketball: balanced scoring leads dukes to 77-60 victory at georgia southern"
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/jmucmsfiles/images/jmu-wordmark-white.pngwebsite wordmark
/_images/_buttons/link-indicator-down.pngNo alt attribute provided
...nge-stacked-rgb-white-jmugold-mobile.svgBeing the Change
/_images/homepage/explore-programs.jpgPhoto of students in a lab
...eatured-stories/mia-buswell-featured.jpgPortrait of Mia Buswell, a JMU student, at her internship in Washington, DC.
...d-stories/positive-outcomes-featured.jpgStudents working in a nursing lab
/_images/arts/beck-172x103.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
...ws/2025/li-mfc-research-lede-172x103.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
/_images/news/2025/lab-school-172x103.jpgDecorative thumbnail for article
/_images/default/thumbnails/1.jpgDecorative thumbnail for article
...ews/2021/2021vita-lead-image-172x103.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
/_images/arts/enriching-172x103.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
...search-highlights/thumb_matt_theater.jpgDecorative thumbnail for article
/_images/arts/online-museum-172x103.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
...ages/arts/piece_the_way_home-172x103.jpgDecorative thumbnail for article
/_images/arts/forbes-open-house-172.jpgDecorative thumbnail for article
...ti_Barnes_vs_Georgia_Southern_012925.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
...th=/images/2025/1/29/barber_spardlin.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
...ath=/images/2025/1/29/Quad_Fall_2024.jpgDecorative thumbnail for article
...th=/images/2025/1/29/SoftballRelease.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
...ge_path=/images/2025/1/28/cc_preview.pngDecorative thumbnail for article
...d/social-media-icons/purple/facebook.pngFacebook
.../social-media-icons/purple/instagram.pngInstagram
...ed/social-media-icons/purple/threads.pngThreads
...ed/social-media-icons/purple/twitter.pngTwitter
...d/social-media-icons/purple/you-tube.pngYouTube
.../social-media-icons/40px/facebook-bw.pngFacebook link
...d/social-media-icons/40px/twitter-bw.pngTwitter link
.../social-media-icons/40px/you-tube-bw.pngYoutube link
...social-media-icons/40px/instagram-bw.pngInstagram link
...images/rwd-footer/jmu-logo-grey-2018.pngJames Madison University logoLogo for James Madison University
Video URLWidthHeight
/_images/homepage/homepage-video-winter.mp4100%auto

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Explore our majors to find your passion.
H2 [Element: ]
H2 JMU on Instagram
H5 Featured Stories
H5 Washington Semester gives JMU student quite a jump
H5 JMU graduates succeed through intellect and action
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (30) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlSubdomain IMG-ALT website wordmark
/family/index.shtmlSubdomain Families
https://www.jmu.edu/alumniSubdomain Alumni
/gateway/students.shtmlSubdomain Students
/gateway/faculty-staff.shtmlSubdomain Faculty/Staff
/gateway/community.shtmlSubdomain Community
/give/index.shtmlSubdomain Giving
/news/index.shtmlSubdomain News
/events/index.shtmlSubdomain Events
/calendar/index.shtmlSubdomain Calendars
/healthcenter/index.shtmlSubdomain CAMPUS HEALTH
https://www.bkstr.com/jamesmad...External Subdomain BOOKSTORE
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Admissions
/about/index.shtmlAbout JMU
/about/fact-and-figures.shtmlFacts and Figures
/admissions/index.shtmlUndergraduate Admissions
/grad/index.shtmlGraduate Admissions
/pce/index.shtmlNon-traditional Admissions
/ubo/deposit-payments.shtmlPay Deposit
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Academics
/academics/undergraduate/major...Undergraduate Majors
/grad/programs/index.shtmlGraduate Programs
/research/index.shtmlResearch
/honors/index.shtmlHonors College
/global/abroad/index.shtmlStudy Abroad
/pce/index.shtmlProfessional & Continuing
/online/index.shtmlOnline Programs
/academics/libraries.shtmlLibraries
/career/index.shtmlCareer Planning
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Student Life
/student-life/index.shtmlOverview
/student-life/living-on-campus...Living on Campus
/student-life/clubs-organizati...Clubs & Organizations
/student-life/spirit-tradition...Spirit & Traditions
/student-life/about-harrisonbu...About Harrisonburg
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Visit
/admissions/visit/index.shtmlVisit JMU
/student-life/about-harrisonbu...Text duplicate About Harrisonburg
/map/index.shtmlCampus Map
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Tuition & Financial Aid
/admissions/tuition-financial-...Costs
/ubo/deposit-payments.shtmlPay Your Deposit
/financialaid/index.shtmlOffice of Financial Aid
/admissions/apply/scholarships...First-Year Scholarships
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Athletics
https://jmusports.com/External JMU Sports
/recreation/index.shtmlRecreation
/about/index.shtmlSubdomain About JMU ►
https://www.jmu.edu/moreinfowebSubdomain Get Info
/admissions/apply/index.shtmlApply
/admissions/visit/index.shtml?...Subdomain Text duplicate Visit JMU
/academics/index.shtmlExplore Programs
/admissions/explore/profiles/b...Subdomain Washington Semester gives JMU student quite a jump
IMG-ALT Portrait of Mia Buswell, a JMU student, at her internship in Washington, DC.
/news/2025/01/07-positive-care...Subdomain JMU graduates succeed through intellect and action
IMG-ALT Students working in a nursing lab
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Text duplicate News
A-TITLE This is a tab for the News feed.
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Text duplicate Events
A-TITLE This is a tab for the Events feed.
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Arts
A-TITLE This is a tab for the Arts feed.
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Sports
A-TITLE This is a tab for the Sports feed.
/news/arts/2025/01-28-beck.shtmlCreative research highlight: Dennis Beck
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
/news/2025/01/27-microbial-fue...JMU professor, students to design pioneering energy source
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
/news/2025/01/24-lab-school.shtmlLab School teaches by asking big questions
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
/news/2025/01/24-legislative-r...JMU to host legislative reception in Richmond
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
/news/2025/01/17_2025_vita.shtmlJMU to offer free tax preparation, e-file services
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
/news/index.shtmlMore Articles
/events/index.shtml[Element: ]
https://ems.jmu.edu/MasterCale...External Subdomain Jan 30
https://ems.jmu.edu/MasterCale...External Subdomain Feb 5
https://ems.jmu.edu/MasterCale...External Subdomain Feb 7
https://ems.jmu.edu/MasterCale...External Subdomain Feb 8
https://ems.jmu.edu/MasterCale...External Subdomain Text duplicate Feb 8
https://ems.jmu.edu/MasterCale...External Subdomain Feb 9
https://ems.jmu.edu/MasterCale...External Subdomain Feb 10
/events/index.shtmlMore Events
/news/arts/2025/01-24-forbes-e...Enriching young lives through the arts
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://www.jmu.edu/arts/Subdomain More Articles >
/news/arts/2025/01-23-scholars...Creative Scholarship Spotlight: Matt Pardo
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://www.jmu.edu/arts/Subdomain Text duplicate More Articles >
/news/arts/2024/11-14-museum-w...A Museum Without Walls
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://www.jmu.edu/arts/Subdomain Text duplicate More Articles >
/news/arts/2024/10-02_mac_furi...The Madison Art Collection and Furious Flower Poetry Center Collaborate on a Dynamic New Exhibition
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://www.jmu.edu/arts/Subdomain Text duplicate More Articles >
/news/arts/2024/08-21-forbes-o...Forbes Center welcomes public to free open house Aug. 31
IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://www.jmu.edu/arts/Subdomain Text duplicate More Articles >
https://www.jmu.edu/arts/Subdomain Text duplicate More Articles
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Women's Basketball: Balanced Scoring Leads Dukes to 77-60 Victory at Georgia Southern
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Men's Basketball: Barber: Dukes Look to Build on Success in Upcoming Homestand
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Baseball, Field Hockey, Football, Men's Basketball, Men's Golf, Men's Soccer, Men's Tennis, Softball, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Lacrosse, Women's Soc...
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Softball: A Trio of Dukes Tabbed to Preseason All-Sun Belt Team, JMU Picked Fifth in Preseason Coaches Poll
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Decorative thumbnail for article
https://jmusports.com/news/202...External Men's Basketball: Dukes Close January With Chanticleers Thursday Night
/give/index.shtmlGive to JMU ►
https://curator.io/New window External Powered by Curator.io
https://www.facebook.com/james...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/jame...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.threads.net/@james...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Threads
https://twitter.com/JMUExternal IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/dukedogtvExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtmlAnchor Back to Top
/directory/buildings/WILS.shtmlSubdomain Wilson Hall
https://www.facebook.com/james...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook link
https://www.twitter.com/JMUExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT Twitter link
https://www.youtube.com/dukedogtvExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT Youtube link
https://www.instagram.com/jame...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram link
/sitemap/index.shtmlSubdomain A-Z Index
A-TITLE A-Z Index link
/directory/index.shtmlSubdomain Directory
A-TITLE Directory link
/policies/web-privacy-statemen...Subdomain Privacy
A-TITLE Web Privacy Statement
/accessibility/index.shtmlSubdomain Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility link
https://jobs.jmu.edu/External Subdomain Jobs
A-TITLE JMU Job Portal link
/university-communications/soc...Subdomain Social Media
A-TITLE Social Media link
https://www.jmu.edu/mapSubdomain Maps
A-TITLE Maps link
/gateway/community.shtmlSubdomain Text duplicate Community
A-TITLE Community link
/about/index.shtmlSubdomain Text duplicate About JMU
/admissions/undergrad/index.shtmlSubdomain Text duplicate Admissions
https://www.jmu.edu/map/Subdomain Text duplicate Campus Map
https://www.jmu.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT James Madison University logo
A-TITLE JMU Homepage link
/contact-us.shtmlContact JMU
/university-communications/foi...FOIA
/financialaid/cares-act.shtmlCARES Act
/inclusion/title-ix/index.shtmlTitle IX Policies
A-TITLE Title IX Policies link
/budgetmgmt/student-consumer-i...Student Consumer Information
/police/clerycompliance/annual...Annual Security and Fire Safety Report
A-TITLE Annual Security and Fire Safety Report link
https://www.jmu.edu/Subdomain JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
A-TITLE James Madison University link

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.jmu.edu/index.shtml"
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 (1.21 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 15 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 (115 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateThu, 30 Jan 2025 14:58:39 GMT
serverApache
accept-rangesbytes
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
access-control-allow-originhttps://jmu.cascadecms.com
content-length24318
connectionclose
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 247 referring domains.
This page has 2,407 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 227 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

# robots.txt for http://www.jmu.edu/
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Sitemap: https://www.jmu.edu/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_promote-reports/*
Disallow: /*/admitted-students/*
Disallow: /*/artistically-admitted-students/*

Disallow: /admissions/explore/apply/index.shtml
Disallow: /admissions/explore/info/index.shtml

Disallow: /barriers
Disallow: /breadcrumbs-test
Disallow: /cascade/docs/administration/*
Disallow: /cascadetest
Disallow: /cascade/test-pages/*
Disallow: /cascade-examples

Disallow: /catalog/9*
Disallow: /catalog/0*
Disallow: /catalog/10/*
Disallow: /catalog/11/*
Disallow: /catalog/12/*
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Disallow: /catalog/14/*
Disallow: /catalog/15/*
Disallow: /catalog/16/*
Disallow: /catalog/17/*
# there are no catalogs after 17

Disallow: /catalog/16/tuition-and-financial-aid/tuition-and-fees.shtml

Disallow: /centscholars/graduate-application.shtml
Disallow: /centscholars/undergraduate-application.shtml

Disallow: /cfi/career-development/overview_of_new_faculty_academy_at_jmu/
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /cisr/development/

Disallow: /commencement/_files

Disallow: /computing/archive
Disallow: /computing/email/dukes-password.shtml
Disallow: /computing/fsemailproject.shtml
Disallow: /computing/mockup
Disallow: /computing/news/archive
Disallow: /computing/old
Disallow: /computing/oldfileprint
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Disallow: /computing/sslvpn/index.shtml
Disallow: /computing/test

Disallow: /demotemplates

Disallow: /events/*/201*
Disallow: /events/*/2020
Disallow: /events/*/2021
Disallow: /events/*/2022
Disallow: /events/*/2023

Disallow: /events/201*/
Disallow: /events/2020/
Disallow: /events/2021/
Disallow: /events/2022/
Disallow: /events/2023/

Disallow: /faculty/faculty-affairs/faculty-credentialing/submit-transcripts.shtml

Disallow: /events/forbescenter/*
Disallow: /forbescenter/events/201*/
Disallow: /forbescenter/events/2020/
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Disallow: /forbescenter/events/2022/
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Disallow: /gradcatalog/9*/
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Disallow: /gradcatalog/13/
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Disallow: /gradcatalog/16/
Disallow: /gradcatalog/17/
# there are no gradcatalogs after 17

Disallow: /humanresources/totalcomp/index-test.shtml

Disallow: /ie/

Disallow: /index_emergency.shtml
Disallow: /index_mobilebutton.shtml
Disallow: /index_validation.shtml
Disallow: /index-jaj.shtml
Disallow: /index-jan-preview.shtml
Disallow: /index-no-flyover.shtml
Disallow: /index-test.shtml
Disallow: /index-emergency-test.shtml

Disallow: /jamie.shtml
Disallow: /jmuweb-test
Disallow: /madisoncentury
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: /monty/wm_library/MadMileposts.pdf

# old MRD site that should not be searchable but still has some web assets for 2012-2013 MRD site
Disallow: /music/mrd
Disallow: /newpresident/

Disallow /sponsoredprograms/private/

Disallow: /web_ssi/jQuery-Plugin-For-Responsive-Breadcrumbs-rCrumbs/demo 

Disallow: /wmra/

Disallow: /wm2
Disallow: /wm2move
Disallow: /wm2tools
Disallow: /wm2workshop

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Disallow: /z-demo

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