My.vanderbilt.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
53% 
Page structure
77% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
17% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.71 s
File size
16.40 kB
Words
192
Media files
1
Number of links
6 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
my.vanderbilt.edu | Vanderbilt University
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Home. If you are a faculty member in need of a my.vanderbilt.edu website, please contact Digital Strategies. If you need a website to place course-related content online, please visit the Brightspace resources page. If you have questions, or need assistance regarding an existing my.vanderbilt.edu site, please open a Help Desk ticket with Digital Strategies.
The meta description is too long: 2189 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://my.vanderbilt.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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionHome. If you are a faculty member in need of a my.vanderbilt.edu website, please contact Digital Strategies. If you need a website to place course-related content online, please visit the Brightspace resources page. If you have questions, or need assistance regarding an existing my.vanderbilt.edu site, please open a Help Desk ticket with Digital Strategies.
keywords, vanderbilt, vanderbilt university, nashville, research, university, news
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:urlhttps://my.vanderbilt.edu/
twitter:titleHome
twitter:descriptionIf you are a faculty member in need of a my.vanderbilt.edu website, please contact Digital Strategies. If you need a website to place course-related content online, please visit the Brightspace resources page. If you have questions, or need assistance regarding an existing my.vanderbilt.edu site, please open a Help Desk ticket with Digital Strategies.
twitter:site@VanderbiltU
twitter:creator@VanderbiltU
twitter:image:srchttps://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wp0/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18085310/vanderbilt-generic-gold.jpg
og:titleHome
og:typearticle
og:urlhttps://my.vanderbilt.edu/
og:descriptionIf you are a faculty member in need of a my.vanderbilt.edu website, please contact Digital Strategies. If you need a website to place course-related content online, please visit the Brightspace resources page. If you have questions, or need assistance regarding an existing my.vanderbilt.edu site, please open a Help Desk ticket with Digital Strategies.
og:site_nameVanderbilt University
og:imagehttps://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wp0/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/18085310/vanderbilt-generic-gold.jpg
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 192 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
22.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 12.25 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 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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

Video URLWidthHeight
...yPR7sDTo85X0&rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0300150

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
my.vanderbilt.edu
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 my.vanderbilt.edu
H3 Resources
H4 Your Vanderbilt
H4 Quick Links
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (6) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/Subdomain Home
/terms-of-service/Subdomain Terms of Service
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/Subdomain my.vanderbilt.edu
https://web.vanderbilt.edu/help/External Subdomain Digital Strategies
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/bri...New window External Subdomain visit the Brightspace resources page
https://web.vanderbilt.edu/help/New window External Subdomain Help Desk
/wp-admin/my-sites.phpSubdomain Login to your site
http://web.vanderbilt.edu/word...External Subdomain VU WordPress Theme Info
http://web.vanderbilt.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Digital Strategies
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni/External Subdomain Alumni
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/stu...External Subdomain Current Students
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/fac...External Subdomain Faculty & Staff
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/isss/External Subdomain International Students
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/External Subdomain Media
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/fami...External Subdomain Parents & Family
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/pro...External Subdomain Prospective Students
https://research.vanderbilt.edu/External Subdomain Researchers
http://www.vucommodores.com/External Subdomain Sports Fans
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/com...External Subdomain Visitors & Neighbors
http://vu.edu/peoplefinderExternal PeopleFinder
http://www.library.vanderbilt....External Subdomain Libraries
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/External Subdomain News
http://events.vanderbilt.edu/External Subdomain Calendar
https://vanderbilt.edu/map/External Maps
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ato...External Subdomain A-Z
/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http...Subdomain ©
http://web.vanderbilt.edu/External Subdomain Site Development: Digital Strategies (Division of Communications)
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/acc...External Subdomain Accessibility information

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://my.vanderbilt.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The used PHP version is outdated and may be a security risk.
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The used PHP version is outdated and may be a security risk.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
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 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (16 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 16 Nov 2024 14:15:26 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
serverApache/2.4.58 (Amazon) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/5.6.40
x-powered-byPHP/5.6.40
x-pingbackhttps://my.vanderbilt.edu/xmlrpc.php
link<https://my.vanderbilt.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
set-cookie178 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,226 referring domains.
This page has 398,904 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,265 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Home. If you are a faculty member in need of a my.vanderbilt.edu website, please contact Digital Strategies. If you need a website to place course-related content online, please visit the Brightspace resources page. If you have questions, or need assistance regarding an existing my.vanderbilt.edu site, please open a Help Desk ticket with Digital Strategies.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
vanderbilt94%Check
edu90%Check
Vanderbilt University71%Check
resources55%Check
Brightspace resources53%Check
resources page53%Check
existing my.vanderbilt.edu53%Check
my.vanderbilt.edu site53%Check
Brightspace resources page52%Check
site51%Check
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