Secretary.howard.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
93% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.64 s
File size
31.10 kB
Words
506
Media files
10
Number of links
29 internal / 24 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | Howard University Office of the Secretary
The length of the page title is perfect. (487 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The origin and history of the Secretary of the University and the Board of Trustees are inextricably linked to the founding, growth, and evolution of Howard University.
The meta description is too long: 1013 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://secretary.howard.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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.11 words is high.
This page contains 506 words. That's ok.
29.4% 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.
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 10 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
...t-library/build/img/site-logo-white3.svgHoward Logo
...lic/2025-01/IbramKendi.png?itok=trH-IoeIIbram Kendi
...1/Untitled design (61).png?itok=-WvAGQNKHoward on Election Night
...Untitled design (63)_0.png?itok=A7T2w-MDKing speaks at Howard
...c/2025-01/bobby wagner.png?itok=qhaslLdtBobby Wagner Howard Student
...3-11-07 at 11.16.00 AM.png?itok=WFrDqCV1Screen Shot with Chadwick Boseman - Howard University Honoree
...3-11-27 at 12.32.38 PM.png?itok=JCSv1lHoImage of President Ben Vinson III, Ph.D. & Anthony K. Wutoh, Provost & Chief Academic Officer
...ic/2021-06/hu-panorama.jpg?itok=rVhzjlYQfish-eyed lens shot of Howard University campus building
.../2021-06/citigroup-day.jpg?itok=5iJ4pua2People gathered around a table during a discussion at the Citigroup day event
.../howard_clocktower_logo_white_footer.svgHoward Logo COAS

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage
H2 Secondary Navigation
H2 Office of the Secretary
H2 Main navigation
H2 Secondary Navigation Duplicate text
H2 Office of The Secretary
H2 Contact Us
H2 What's New at Howard University
H2 Announcements
H2 Howard University Policy Office
H2 Events
H2 Footer Primary
H3 Howard University Announces the Hiring of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi as Director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study
H3 Eli Lilly and Company Donates $1.1 Million to Howard University for Multiple Student Scholarships
H3 Howard University to Kick Off 2025 Season in the Orange Blossom Classic Against FAMU
H3 Howard Celebrates the Life of Alumnus Henry L. Marsh III, Richmond's First Black Mayor
H3 Twenty-Four Moments that Defined Howard in 2024
H3 Martin Luther King's Last Speech at Howard Provides Guidance for Today's Strikingly Similar Challenges
H3 Washington Commanders Captain Bobby Wagner is Winning on the Field and in the Howard Classroom
H3 Honorary Degree Recipients
H3 Governance Documents
H3 Resolutions
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 24 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://secretary.howard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://howard.edu/accessibili...External Web Accessibility Support
http://howard.edu/External IMG-ALT Howard Logo
/resolutions/death-resolutionsSubdomain Resolutions
https://giving.howard.edu/givenowExternal Subdomain Give
https://secretary.howard.edu/Office of the Secretary
/index.php/aboutAbout
/index.php/about/historical-li...List of Secretaries
/index.php/about/our-staffOur Staff
/index.php/home/about/governan...Governance Documents
/index.php/board-trusteesBoard of Trustees
/index.php/board-trustees/boar...Board Calendar
/index.php/board-trustees/comm...Committees of the Board
/index.php/board-trustees/hist...Historical Trustees List
/index.php/board-trustees/notesNotice of Board Actions
/index.php/board-trustees/trus...Trustee Emeriti
/index.php/policy-officePolicy Office
/index.php/policy-office/polic...Policy Documents
/index.php/policy-office/polic...Policy Categories
/index.php/policy-office/polic...Policy Definitions
/index.php/policy-office/polic...Policy FAQs
/index.php/honorary-degreesHonorary Degrees
/index.php/howard-university-b...Board of Visitors
/index.php/alumni-leadership-a...Alumni Leadership Academy
/index.php/board-trustees/trus...TCIAC
A-TITLE Trustee Candidate Identification Advisory Council
/index.php/board-trustees/tcia...TCIAC Nomination Form
A-TITLE TCIAC Nomination Form
/resolutions/death-resolutionsSubdomain Text duplicate Resolutions
https://giving.howard.edu/givenowExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Give
/contactSubdomain Send Us A Message
https://thedig.howard.edu/External Subdomain View More News
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-...New window External Subdomain View Featured Story
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-...New window External Subdomain Jan 30, 2025 Eli Lilly and Company Donates $1.1 Million to Howard University for Multiple Student Scholarships
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-...New window External Subdomain Jan 29, 2025 Howard University to Kick Off 2025 Season in the Orange Blossom Classic Against FAMU
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-...New window External Subdomain Jan 29, 2025 Howard Celebrates the Life of Alumnus Henry L. Marsh III, Richmond's First Black Mayor
https://thedig.howard.edu/External Subdomain View More Announcements
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-...New window External Subdomain Jan 21, 2025 Twenty-Four Moments that Defined Howard in 2024
IMG-ALT Howard on Election Night
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-...New window External Subdomain Jan 19, 2025 Martin Luther King's Last Speech at Howard Provides Guidance for Today's Strikingly Similar Challenges
IMG-ALT King speaks at Howard
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-...New window External Subdomain Jan 17, 2025 Washington Commanders Captain Bobby Wagner is Winning on the Field and in the Howard Classroom
IMG-ALT Bobby Wagner Howard Student
/honorary-degree-recipientsHonorary Degree Recipients Howard University acknowledges excellence and achievement by conferring honorary degrees to persons who have achieved distinction ...
IMG-ALT Screen Shot with Chadwick Boseman - Howard University Honoree
/about/governance-documentsSubdomain Governance Documents Key governance documents related to the incorporation of The Howard University in 1867, the work of the Howard University Board of Trust...
IMG-ALT Image of President Ben Vinson III, Ph.D. & Anthony K. Wutoh, Provost & Chief Academic Officer
/resolutions/death-resolutionsResolutions The Office of the Secretary receives requests for Death Resolutions to memorialize the passing of members of the Howard University community in t...
IMG-ALT fish-eyed lens shot of Howard University campus building
/policy-officeLearn More
https://events.howard.edu/External Subdomain View All Events
https://www.facebook.com/HowardU/New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/HowardUNew window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/howa...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www2.howard.edu/External Subdomain Howard
https://giving.howard.edu/External Subdomain Giving to Howard
https://admission.howard.edu/External Subdomain Admissions
https://www2.howard.edu/about/...External Subdomain Office of the President
https://www2.howard.edu/about/...External Subdomain HU Careers
https://howard.edu/accessibili...External Text duplicate Web Accessibility Support
A-TITLE Web Accessibility Support
http://howard.edu/External IMG-ALT Howard Logo COAS

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://secretary.howard.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 of 0.64 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 331 referring domains.
This page has 407 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 113 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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
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# 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
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Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
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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
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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
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Homepage | Howard University Office of the Secretary
The origin and history of the Secretary of the University and the Board of Trustees are inextricably linked to the founding, growth, and evolution of Howard University.

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Howard University Office67%Check
Homepage62%Check
Office61%Check
University Board58%Check
University Policy Office57%Check
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