yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.73 s

File size

56.40 kB

Words

773

Media files

11

Number of links

54 internal / 22 external

Meta specifications 70% achieved

Title

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Yard and Garden

The page title is too short. (155 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

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Find current home gardening information about plant care, plant recommendations, growing & harvesting, pest management, and household pests written by Iowa State University Extension specialists in the Departments of Horticulture and Plant Pathology, Entomology & Microbiology.

The meta description is too long: 1751 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description

Meta Description

Crawlability

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There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

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https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

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Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en

Server location: United States of America

The following language is defined by HTML: en

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

Page URL

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No parameters were found in the URL.

No session ID was found in the URL.

The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
description	Find current home gardening information about plant care, plant recommendations, growing & harvesting, pest management, and household pests written by Iowa State University Extension specialists in the Departments of Horticulture and Plant Pathology, Entomology & Microbiology.
google-site-verification	hIwGa2sYcnVBav6D8_Jm_jdG1ctrBlOHl2bLD3FxEU0
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
lang	en
twitter:card	summary
twitter:title	Yard and Garden
twitter:image	https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/profiles/iastate8/images/Iowa-State-University-default-image-600x315.png
twitter:image:alt	Iowa State University
og:site_name	Yard and Garden
og:type	website
og:url	https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/home
og:title	Yard and Garden
og:image	https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/profiles/iastate8/images/Iowa-State-University-default-image-600x315.png
og:image:type	image/png
og:image:width	600
og:image:height	315
og:image:alt	Iowa State University
charset	utf-8

Page quality 90% achieved

Content

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This page contains 773 words. That's ok.

29.6% 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.

14 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 17.23 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

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This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

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No Apple touch icon is specified.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 15 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

Additional markup

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No additional page markup was found.

HTTPS

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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
/files/isu-extension-wordmark%20copy.png	Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
...2/20200417_snow079 (1).JPG?itok=i8MjSqUZ	Iowa State University's Campanile surrounded by snow covered trees
...ublic/2025-01/IMG_9859.jpg?itok=CsdP5AVS	Red blooms of cyclamen
... AdobeStock_419157064.jpeg?itok=tRI7YDPb	ZZ houseplant.
.../2025-01/seed packets.JPEG?itok=OLPfdB9P	Various vegetable seed packets.
...AdobeStock_1152183917.jpeg?itok=ue7iDmym	A garden rake incorporating soil amendments.
...ning Map with Legend_0.png?itok=BDkbCdHB	2025 Master Gardener volunteer orientation schedule by county.
...rdenerisueo_cmyk (1)_0.png?itok=05gB-JMx	Iowa Master Gardener logo.
...02/Growing Amaryllis_0.JPG?itok=cozs2O1U	Growing Amaryllis
...023-11/podcast-graphic.jpg?itok=9RaB5-l0	Garden Variety Podcast
...niversity-logo-with-tagline-sci-tech.svg	Iowa State University logo

Page structure 30% achieved

H1 heading

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Home

The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.

Too many H1 headings

The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.

The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

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Some headings occur twice on the page.

There are 26 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Home
H1	Yard and Garden
H2	Quick Links
H2	Main
H2	Quick Links Duplicate text
H2	Timely Topics
H2	Resources
H2	Featured Publication
H2	Yard and Garden News
H2	Wild-harvested Mushroom Certification Class Set for Spring
H2	Yard and Garden: Caring for Sansevieria
H2	Monarch and Pollinator Habitat Workshop Series to Be Held in February and March
H2	Iowa Gardening Newsletter
H2	Garden Variety Podcast
H2	Social media
H2	Footer Primary
H2	Footer Quick Links
H2	Quick Links Duplicate text
H2	Yard and Garden (formerly Horticulture and Home Pest News)
H2	Legal and Privacy Links
H3	Trending Topics
H3	Easy Low-Maintenance Houseplants
H3	Tips for Purchasing Seeds
H3	How to Change Your Soil's pH
H3	Applications Open for Spring 2025 Master Gardener Volunteer Training
H3	Registration is Open for the 2025 Home Gardening Webinar Series

Link structure 93% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 22 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://www.extension.iastate....	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
/pidc		Submit a Sample
/ask-gardening-question		Ask a Question
/get-newsletter		Sign Up for Newsletter
/		Yard and Garden
/	Text duplicate	Yard and Garden
/trees-shrubs		Trees
/deciduous		Deciduous
/evergreen		Evergreen
/ornamental-plants-flowers		Flowers
/annuals		Annuals
/perennials		Perennials
/pollinators		Pollinators
/bulbs		Bulbs
/roses		Roses
/vines		Vines
/edible-plants		Edibles
/fruits-nuts		Fruits and Nuts
/vegetables-herbs		Vegetables and Herbs
/lawn-turf		Lawn
/houseplants-indoor-gardening		Houseplants
/basic-garden-management-maint...		Basics
/soils-fertilizing-composting		Soils, Fertilizing, & Composting
/problems-pests		Problems
/insects		Insects
/disease		Disease
/environmental		Environmental
/wildlife		Wildlife
/weeds		Weeds
/pidc	Text duplicate	Submit a Sample
/ask-gardening-question	Text duplicate	Ask a Question
/get-newsletter	Text duplicate	Sign Up for Newsletter
/trending-topics		What's Trending
/how-to/easy-low-maintenance-h...		Low-Maintenance Houseplants
/how-to/tips-purchasing-seeds		Purchasing Seeds
/how-to/how-change-your-soils-ph		Changing Soil's pH
/article/2025/01/applications-...		Master Gardener Volunteer Training
/article/2024/12/registration-...		Home Gardening Webinar Series
/articles		Recent News
/faq		FAQs
/encyclopedia-articles		Encyclopedia
/how-tos/topics		Care and How-To Articles
/publications		Publications
/people		Experts
/resources-other		Other Resources
https://store.extension.iastat...	External Subdomain	Download the Publication
https://www.extension.iastate....	External Subdomain	Wild-harvested Mushroom Certification Class Set for Spring
https://www.extension.iastate....	External Subdomain	Yard and Garden: Caring for Sansevieria
https://www.extension.iastate....	External Subdomain	Monarch and Pollinator Habitat Workshop Series to Be Held in February and March
/yard-and-garden-news-aggregator		More from Extension News
/get-newsletter		Sign Up
https://conta.cc/40zwGWN	External	View the Most Recent Issue
https://www.iowapublicradio.or...	External Subdomain	Explore latest episodes
https://www.facebook.com/ISUho...	External Subdomain	Facebook
https://twitter.com/ISU_HortNews	External	Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/iamas...	External Subdomain	Iowa Master Gardener Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/Integr...	External Subdomain	ISU IPM YouTube
/how-tos/topics		Care & How-To
/encyclopedia-articles	Text duplicate	Encyclopedia
/people	Text duplicate	Experts
/faq	Text duplicate	FAQs
/publications	Text duplicate	Publications
/resources-other		Resources
/pidc		Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic
https://www.hort.iastate.edu/	External Subdomain	Department of Horticulture
https://www.ppem.iastate.edu/	External Subdomain	Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology
https://www.extension.iastate....	External Subdomain	Extension and Outreach
https://store.extension.iastat...	External Subdomain	ISU Extension Store
https://www.extension.iastate....	External Subdomain	Master Gardener Program
https://www.iastate.edu/index	External Subdomain	A-Z Index
https://www.info.iastate.edu/	External Subdomain	Directory
https://www.iastate.edu/discla...	External Subdomain	Privacy Policy
https://www.policy.iastate.edu...	External Subdomain	Non-discrimination Policy
https://www.it.iastate.edu/tea...	External Subdomain	Digital Access and Accessibility
https://www.iastate.edu/consum...	External Subdomain	Consumer Information

Server configuration 76% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

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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.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.73 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 (56 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
server	nginx/1.24.0
date	Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:42:07 GMT
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content-length	10787
cache-control	max-age=3600, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	HIT
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
vary	Cookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
last-modified	Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:42:07 GMT
etag	"1738737727-gzip"
content-encoding	gzip
content-security-policy	frame-ancestors 'self' https://trends.ent.iastate.edu https://decisions.cropprotectionnetwork.org https://www.youtube.com https://vimeo.com https://maps.eddmaps.org https://plotly.com https://js.stripe.com
x-cached	MISS
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

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This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 1,369 referring domains.

This page has 3,993 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 674 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

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
#
# 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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Yard and Garden

Find current home gardening information about plant care, plant recommendations, growing & harvesting, pest management, and household pests written by Iowa State University Extension specialists in the Departments of Horticulture and Plant Pathology, Entomology & Microbiology.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Garden	81%	Check
Yard	66%	Check
Extension	61%	Check
State	61%	Check
Iowa State	58%	Check
State University Extension	57%	Check
State University	56%	Check
Iowa State University Extension	56%	Check
Iowa State University	55%	Check
State University Extension specialists	55%	Check
Iowa Gardening	55%	Check
Iowa	54%	Check
gardening	54%	Check
plant	54%	Check
growing	54%	Check
gardening information	52%	Check
Horticulture	50%	Check
pest	50%	Check
Plant Pathology	50%	Check
plant recommendations	50%	Check
growing harvesting	50%	Check
Pest Management	48%	Check
Iowa Master	48%	Check
information	46%	Check
current	46%	Check

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Page structure 30% achieved

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Link structure 93% achieved

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Server configuration 76% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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