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Meta information
61% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
61.30 kB
Words
655
Media files
6
Number of links
37 internal / 36 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Research at Penn State College of Medicine - Penn State College of Medicine Research
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 789 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://research.med.psu.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)
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

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og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleResearch at Penn State College of Medicine - Penn State College of Medicine Research
og:descriptionGet information on research programs, research support offices, core facilities and clinical research at Penn State College of Medicine.
og:urlhttps://research.med.psu.edu/
og:site_namePenn State College of Medicine Research
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charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 50.6 words is high.
This page contains 655 words. That's ok.
20.8% 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.
10 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" is provided.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 13 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
...emes/psucom-base/images/college_logo.pngPenn State College of Medicine
.../RES_109450_COM_Process-Map-1024x576.jpgGraphic representing a research process map
...ommon/images/penn-state-college-gray.pngPenn State College of Medicine, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo
...ommon/images/penn-state-hershey-gray.pngPenn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo
...mon/images/penn-state-childrens-gray.pngPenn State Health Children's Hospital, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo
...ws.org/common/images/penn-state-gray.pngPenn State, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo

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 Enhancing Health Through Discovery and Innovation
H2 Latest News
H2 Navigate the Research Lifecycle
H2 Connect with Resources and Expertise
H2 Office of the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
H3 Find a Collaborator
H3 Use Shared Resources
H3 Tap Additional Expertise
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 (36) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://med.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain College of Medicine Home
https://med.psu.edu/alumniNew window External Subdomain Alumni
https://hr.psu.edu/careersNew window External Subdomain Careers
https://pennstatehealthnews.or...New window External Events
https://secure.ddar.psu.edu/s/...New window External Subdomain Give Today
https://research.med.psu.edu/Subdomain Research
IMG-ALT Penn State College of Medicine
/about/Subdomain About Research
/departments/Subdomain Where Research Happens
/core-facilities/Subdomain Core Facilities
https://med.psu.edu/research-s...New window External Subdomain Research Support
/pure/Subdomain Researcher Directory
/innovation/Subdomain Industry Partnerships
https://pennstatehealthnews.or...New window External News
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About Research
/departments/Subdomain Text duplicate Where Research Happens
/core-facilities/Subdomain Text duplicate Core Facilities
https://med.psu.edu/research-s...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Research Support
/pure/Subdomain Text duplicate Researcher Directory
/innovation/Subdomain Text duplicate Industry Partnerships
https://pennstatehealthnews.or...New window External Text duplicate News
https://med.psu.edu/navigating...New window External Subdomain View the Research Process Map
/research-support/animal-resou...Subdomain Animal Resources
/research-support/biosafety/Subdomain Biosafety
/departments/medical-innovation/Subdomain Commercialization (Center for Medical Innovation)
https://med.psu.edu/research-c...New window External Subdomain Compliance
/research-support/conflict-of-...Subdomain Conflict of Interest
/core-facilities/Subdomain Core Facilities and Research Resources
/research-support/corporate-fo...Subdomain Corporate and Foundation Relations
/research-support/research-dev...Subdomain Funding Opportunities
/research-support/research-aff...Subdomain Research Affairs (ORA)
/research-support/research-dev...Subdomain Research Development
/pure/Subdomain Researcher Directory (Pure)
/research-support/research-qua...Subdomain Research Quality Assurance (RQA)
https://pennstatehealthnews.or...External View All Events
/departments/Subdomain Full Department List
https://www.pennstatehealth.or...New window External Subdomain Bone and Joint Institute
https://cancer.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Cancer Institute
https://ctsi.psu.edu/External Subdomain Clinical and Translational Science Institute
/departments/heart-vascular-in...Subdomain Heart and Vascular Institute
/departments/personalized-medi...Subdomain Institute for Personalized Medicine
/departments/neuroscience-inst...Subdomain Neuroscience Institute
/centers/Subdomain View All Centers
/research-support/crc/Subdomain Clinical Research Center
/research-support/guidebook/Subdomain Clinical Research Guidebook
/research-support/clinical-tri...Subdomain Clinical Trials Office
https://research.psu.edu/irbNew window External Subdomain Human Research Protection Program / IRB
https://ctsi.psu.edu/research-...New window External Subdomain CTSI Resources
https://studyfinder.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain StudyFinder
/research-support/star/Subdomain Study Tracking and Analysis for Research (STAR)
/physician-scientist-training-...Subdomain Physician-Scientist Training Program
https://med.psu.edu/md-phdNew window External Subdomain MD/PhD Program
https://med.psu.edu/postdocsNew window External Subdomain Postdoctoral Training
https://med.psu.edu/mastersNew window External Subdomain Master’s Programs
https://med.psu.edu/phdNew window External Subdomain PhD Programs
https://med.psu.edu/drphNew window External Subdomain DrPH Doctor of Public Health
/about/About the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
https://redcap.ctsi.psu.edu/su...New window External Subdomain Request Research Project Help
/corporate-engagement/Subdomain Corporate and Foundation Engagement Opportunities
https://secure.ddar.psu.edu/s/...New window External Subdomain Give to Research
https://pennstatehealthnews.or...External See all research news
https://med.psu.edu/navigating...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Graphic representing a research process map
https://pure.psu.edu/New window External Subdomain Find a Collaborator in Pure
https://research.med.psu.edu/pureNew window Update your Pure Profile
/core-facilitiesNew window Explore Core Facilities
/departmentsNew window Subdomain View Organizational Directory
https://hr.psu.edu/careersNew window External Subdomain View jobs
https://projects.med.psu.edu/a...New window External Subdomain Life in Hershey
https://med.psu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Penn State College of Medicine, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo
https://hmc.pennstatehealth.org/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo
https://childrens.pennstatehea...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Penn State Health Children's Hospital, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo
https://www.psu.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Penn State, with Penn State Nittany Lion logo
https://med.psu.edu/non-discri...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination
https://med.psu.edu/privacyExternal Subdomain Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://research.med.psu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.63 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 only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (61 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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serverApache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 304 referring domains.
This page has 8,154 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 262 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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