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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.04 s
File size
137.60 kB
Words
245
Media files
3
Number of links
59 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Page | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 749 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the 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://seas.harvard.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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
ImageToolbarfalse
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 245 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
17.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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 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)
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
...erWaterSampling-0057_0.jpg?itok=G4bG1dc0image of women standing in a river taking notes
...0 x 666 px).jpg?h=f7d9296c&itok=pOh9xFmiadult pushing child on bike outside
...lic/2024-10/IMG_8127_0.jpg?itok=4clfV5ObA man wearing a robotic exosuit and walking through a park

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Where Science and Engineering Converge
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Where Science and Engineering Converge
H2 Main navigation
H2 Information For
H2 Shortcuts
H2 Applied Mathematics
H2 Applied Physics
H2 Bioengineering
H2 Computer Science
H2 Electrical Engineering
H2 Environmental Science & Engineering
H2 Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
H2 Quantum Science & Engineering
H2 Master's in Data Science
H2 Master's in Computational Science and Engineering
H2 Master in Design Engineering
H2 MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
H2 Professional & Lifelong Learning
H2 Featured News
H2 Footer - Social Media Links
H2 Footer
H3 Cutting-edge science delivered direct to your inbox.
H3 Concerning levels of PFAS in fish miles away from large contamination source
H3 How do you remember how to ride a bike? Thank your cerebellum.
H3 Keeping humans in the loop of robotic design
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://seas.harvard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
/academicsSubdomain Academics
https://seas.harvard.edu/facultySubdomain Faculty & Research
/news/homeSubdomain News
http://harvardseas.enterprise....External Subdomain Events
/offices-servicesSubdomain Offices & Services
https://seas.harvard.edu/about-usSubdomain About Us
https://seas.harvard.edu/alumniSubdomain Alumni
/office-industry-partnershipsSubdomain Industry Partners & Recruiters
/prospective-studentsSubdomain Prospective Students
/about-us/employment-jobsSubdomain Employment & Jobs
/about-us/visit-usSubdomain Visit Us
https://community.alumni.harva...External Subdomain Make a Gift
https://seas.harvard.edu/No Text
/academicsExplore Our Programs
/applied-mathematicsApplied Mathematics
/applied-mathematics/bachelors...Undergraduate
/applied-mathematics/phd-appli...Graduate
/applied-physicsApplied Physics
/applied-physics/applied-physi...Text duplicate Graduate
/bioengineeringBioengineering
/bioengineering/bachelors-degr...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/bioengineering/bioengineering...Text duplicate Graduate
/computer-scienceComputer Science
/computer-science/bachelors-de...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/computer-science/graduate-pro...Text duplicate Graduate
/electrical-engineeringElectrical Engineering
/electrical-engineering/bachel...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/electrical-engineering/electr...Text duplicate Graduate
/environmental-science-enginee...Environmental Science & Engineering
/environmental-science-enginee...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/environmental-science-enginee...Text duplicate Graduate
/materials-science-mechanical-...Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
/materials-science-mechanical-...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/materials-science-mechanical-...Text duplicate Graduate
/quantum-science-engineeringQuantum Science & Engineering
/quantum-science-engineeringText duplicate Graduate
/masters-data-scienceMaster's in Data Science
/masters-computational-science...Master's in Computational Science and Engineering
/master-design-engineeringMaster in Design Engineering
/master-design-engineeringText duplicate Graduate
https://seas.harvard.edu/msmbaMS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
https://seas.harvard.edu/msmbaText duplicate Graduate
/professional-lifelong-learningProfessional & Lifelong Learning
/news/2024/10/concerning-level...IMG-ALT image of women standing in a river taking notes
/news/2024/10/concerning-level...Concerning levels of PFAS in fish miles away from large contamination source
/news?topic[561]=561Environment
/news?topic[1222]=1222Text duplicate Environmental Science & Engineering
/news/2024/10/how-do-you-remem...IMG-ALT adult pushing child on bike outside
/news/2024/10/how-do-you-remem...How do you remember how to ride a bike? Thank your cerebellum.
/news?topic[586]=586Text duplicate Bioengineering
/news?topic[576]=576Health / Medicine
/news/2024/10/keeping-humans-l...IMG-ALT A man wearing a robotic exosuit and walking through a park
/news/2024/10/keeping-humans-l...Keeping humans in the loop of robotic design
/news?topic[541]=541Text duplicate Computer Science
/news?topic[1223]=1223Text duplicate Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
/news?topic[531]=531Robotics
/news-eventsAll News
https://seas.harvard.edu/Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
https://www.facebook.com/hseasExternal Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/hseasExternal Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/harv...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/c/harv...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
/office-diversity-inclusion-an...Subdomain Diversity Mission
https://trademark.harvard.edu/...External Subdomain Trademark Notice
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Accessibility Policy
/privacy-policySubdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://seas.harvard.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 excellent with 0.04 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (138 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
access-control-allow-origin*
cache-controlmax-age=31536000, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1729100836"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedWed, 16 Oct 2024 17:47:16 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheMISS
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
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x-styx-req-idaedc9edf-8be6-11ef-b417-ee1d5065c24a
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,481 referring domains.
This page has 191,379 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,856 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
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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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