Scl.cornell.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
84% 
Page structure
86% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.28 s
File size
36.90 kB
Words
576
Media files
7
Number of links
79 internal / 33 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Student & Campus Life | Cornell University
The length of the page title is perfect. (383 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Cornell University Student and Campus Life serves all students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – and strives to promote an educational environment where you can thrive in pursuit of your academic and personal goals.
The meta description is too long: 1423 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://scl.cornell.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
descriptionCornell University Student and Campus Life serves all students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – and strives to promote an educational environment where you can thrive in pursuit of your academic and personal goals.
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GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleStudent & Campus Life | Cornell University
twitter:descriptionCornell University Student and Campus Life serves all students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – and strives to promote an educational environment where you can thrive in pursuit of your academic and personal goals.
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og:site_nameStudent & Campus Life | Cornell University
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://scl.cornell.edu/
og:titleStudent & Campus Life | Cornell University
og:descriptionCornell University Student and Campus Life serves all students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – and strives to promote an educational environment where you can thrive in pursuit of your academic and personal goals.
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X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 576 words. That's ok.
21% 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.
4 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 18.67 words is good.
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=1.0" 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)
3 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
...nell/bold_cornell_logo_simple_b31b1b.svgCornell University
...ovein_0-(1).jpg?h=df8df334&itok=xcFMyoQYExterior photo of Willard Staight Hall with welcome signage for new students and families.
...ining Story.jpg?h=8e0d4be9&itok=CgQVzimWCornell Dining team member plates a dish as part of a training session
...-banner-1_0.png?h=76c528b5&itok=B2ZliNgqA person in an apron holds up a sheet pan with vegetable chunks
...172969aa77c.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=fLl78OEWNo alt attribute provided
...322c0f9a4b5.jpg?h=a6967b5f&itok=hiJ-0aZjNo alt attribute provided
...322c0f9a4b5.jpg?h=a6967b5f&itok=hiJ-0aZjNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Cornell University
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Cornell University
H2 Student & Campus Life
H2 Campus Updates
H2 Welcome
H2 News
H2 Events
H2 Our Cornell Story
H2 Quick Links
H2 Student & Campus Life Duplicate text
H3 Helpful Links
H3 Cornell preparing to welcome new, returning students
H3 Limited eatery hours on Friday, August 16th for All Staff Training
H3 Staff Stories: Chloe Greenhalgh
H3 Residence Halls Open
H3 Friends of Cornell Football Golf Outing and Kick Off Dinner 2024
H3 Friends of Cornell Football Golf Outing and Kick Off Dinner 2024 Duplicate text
H3 Grace Elmore
H3 Sydney Moore
H3 Additional Resources
H3 Health
H3 Pages For
H3 Events Duplicate text
H3 More
H3 Follow us on:
H4 Big Red volleyball standout advocates for women in sports
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 (33) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://scl.cornell.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.cornell.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Cornell University
https://scl.cornell.edu/staffStaff
https://scl.cornell.edu/alumniAlumni
/cornellfamiliesFamilies
https://securelb.imodules.com/...External Subdomain Give
/about-scl/report-incident-or-...Report an Incident
https://scl.cornell.edu/Home
https://scl.cornell.edu/about-sclAbout SCL
/about-scl/awards-fundingAwards & Funding
/about-scl/contact-student-cam...Contact Us
https://scl.cornell.edu/DOSSubdomain Office of the Dean of Students
/about-scl/meet-scl-senior-lea...Meet the Leadership
/about-scl/undergraduate-stude...Undergraduate Student Leadership Council
/about-scl/campus-emergency-up...Campus Emergency Updates
/about-scl/report-incident-or-...Report an Incident or Concern
/studentemploymentStudent Employment
/about-scl/campus-life-operati...Campus Life Operations Updates
/belonging-support-servicesBelonging & Support Services
https://scl.cornell.edu/DOSText duplicate Office of the Dean of Students
/thecentersCenters for Student Equity, Empowerment, and Belonging
/studentconductOffice of Student Conduct and Community Standards
/student-supportStudent Support and Advocacy Services
/health-wellnessHealth & Wellness
https://www.cornellbigred.com/External Subdomain Cornell Athletics
/recreation/cornell-fitness-ce...Subdomain Cornell Fitness Centers
https://www.golfatcornell.com/External Subdomain Cornell Golf Course
https://health.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Cornell Health
https://scl.cornell.edu/coeCornell Outdoor Education
/recreation/cornell-fitness-ce...Subdomain Cornell Rec and Fitness Centers
https://scl.cornell.edu/peSubdomain Physical Education
https://sds.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Student Disability Services
/student-supportSubdomain Text duplicate Student Support and Advocacy Services
/residential-lifeResidential Life
/residential-life/student-serv...Service Centers and Mail
A-TITLE Service Center locations and student mail
/residential-life/community-ce...Community Centers
/residential-life/diningDining
/residential-life/housingHousing
/get-involvedGet Involved
https://vivenu.com/seller/corn...External Athletic Ticketing
/get-involved/campus-activitiesCampus Activities
/get-involved/career-servicesCareer Services
A-TITLE Cornell Career Services - SCL
https://chimes.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Cornell Chimes
/get-involved/cornell-commitmentCornell Commitment
https://einhorn.cornell.edu/External Subdomain David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
/get-involved/university-eventsEvent Planning
https://recreation.athletics.c...External Subdomain Intramural Sports
/sorority-fraternity-lifeSorority & Fraternity Life
/get-involved/staff-volunteer-...Staff Volunteer Opportunities
/get-involved/student-leadershipStudent Leadership
/get-involved/tatkon-center-ne...Tatkon Center for New Students
/get-involved/virtual-engagementVirtual Engagement
/get-involved/volunteer-opport...Volunteer Opportunities
/news-eventsNews & Events
/news-events/eventsEvents
/news-events/newsNews
/ourcornellstoryStudent Stories
/residential-life/housing/hous...Subdomain Move-In Information
https://ccs.career.cornell.edu...External Subdomain Cornell Outcomes Dashboard
https://now.dining.cornell.edu...External Subdomain Find Where to Eat on Campus
/belonging-support-servicesSubdomain Belonging at Cornell
/student-supportSubdomain Text duplicate Student Support and Advocacy Services
/get-involved/career-servicesSubdomain Connect with Career Services
/residential-life/student-serv...Subdomain Student Service Centers & Mail Services
https://recreation.athletics.c...External Subdomain Fitness Center Hours
/news-events/news/More News
/news-events/news/cornell-prep...Cornell preparing to welcome new, returning students
IMG-ALT Exterior photo of Willard Staight Hall with welcome signage for new students and families.
/news-events/news/cornell-prep...New and returning students move in Aug. 19-25
/news-events/news/limited-hour...Limited eatery hours on Friday, August 16th for All Staff Training
IMG-ALT Cornell Dining team member plates a dish as part of a training session
/news-events/news/limited-hour...Plan ahead for lunch!
https://hr.cornell.edu/stories...External Subdomain Staff Stories: Chloe Greenhalgh
IMG-ALT A person in an apron holds up a sheet pan with vegetable chunks
https://hr.cornell.edu/stories...External Subdomain A “chef’s kiss” for Cornell Dining
/news-events/eventsMore Events
/news-events/events/residence-...Residence Halls Open 23 Aug
/news-events/events/friends-co...Friends of Cornell Football Golf Outing and Kick Off Dinner 2024 23 Aug
/news-events/events/friends-co...Text duplicate Friends of Cornell Football Golf Outing and Kick Off Dinner 2024 23 Aug
/news-events/news/through-art-...Subdomain Grace's Story
https://alumni.cornell.edu/cor...External Subdomain Sydney's Story
/ourcornellstoryMore Cornell Stories
https://now.dining.cornell.edu...External Subdomain Dining Hours
/residential-life/housingCornell Housing
https://www.cornellstore.com/External Subdomain Cornell Store
/get-involved/tatkon-center-ne...New Student Resources
https://gradschool.cornell.edu...External Subdomain Graduate Students
/parents-and-familiesParent Resources
/about-scl/awards-fundingScholarship and Awards
/studentconductStudent Conduct and Community Standards
/student-supportText duplicate Student Support and Advocacy Services
https://mentalhealth.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Mental Health at Cornell
https://health.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Cornell Health
https://health.cornell.edu/ser...External Subdomain Resources for Faculty and Staff
/staff-homepageText duplicate Staff
https://scl.cornell.edu/alumniText duplicate Alumni
/parents-and-familiesParents
https://securelb.imodules.com/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Give
/news-eventsText duplicate News & Events
http://www.cornellconcertserie...External Subdomain Cornell Concerts
/get-involvedCampus Groups
http://conferenceservices.corn...External Subdomain Event Planning Information
/get-involved/event-planning/r...Space Reservation Guide
https://vivenu.com/seller/corn...External University Tickets
/about-scl/meet-scl-senior-lea...Office of the Vice President
https://emergency.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Information
/studentconductSubdomain Text duplicate Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards
/about-scl/report-incident-or-...Text duplicate Report an Incident or Concern
https://titleix.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Title IX Office
https://cals.cornell.edu/ameri...External Subdomain Cornell Land Acknowledgement
https://vote.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Voter Information
/sub/contact-usContact Student & Campus Life
https://instagram.com/cornells...External No Text
https://youtube.com/channel/UC...External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Corne...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://scl.cornell.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 (1.28 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 (37 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
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x-drupal-cacheMISS
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x-ah-environmentprod
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accept-rangesbytes
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,003 referring domains.
This page has 2,355 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 683 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Student & Campus Life | Cornell University
Cornell University Student and Campus Life serves all students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – and strives to promote an educational environment where you can thrive in pursuit of your academic and personal goals.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Cornell93%Check
Cornell University85%Check
University74%Check
Student68%Check
Campus66%Check
Life66%Check
Campus Life66%Check
Student Campus Life66%Check
Cornell Store65%Check
Student Campus Life serves63%Check
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