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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

100%

Page quality

72%

Page structure

100%

Link structure

86%

Server

87%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.67 s

File size

50.00 kB

Words

417

Media files

Number of links

39 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 2 Tasks

Meta specifications 100% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Admission | Arizona State University

The length of the page title is perfect. (323 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

Arizona State University is a top ranked research university. You’ll join a community that will help you explore your interests and learn new skills.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (885 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://admission.asu.edu/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

(Somewhat important)

Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en

Server location: Canada

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

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

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

(Somewhat important)

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	Arizona State University is a top ranked research university. You’ll join a community that will help you explore your interests and learn new skills.
google-site-verification	a_iGOETTW5z7kgaJQOksbuGnWLlO0T7CyORjv8r1dy8
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
cmsversion	Webspark2:2.15.3
lang	en
X-Name-of-Distro	Webspark2:2.15.3
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 72% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

There are only 417 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.

35.5% of the text are stop words.

Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!

Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.

5 paragraphs were found on this page.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

There are no duplicates on the site.

The average number of words per sentence of 18.27 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

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

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...pz146/files/2022-08/success-results.jpeg	No alt attribute provided
... V3 FINAL_1080x1080 for WHITE 150ppi.png	repeatedly ranked #1
...c/2025-07/fafsa-online.jpg?itok=CuRlrT8c	FAFSA online
...24-09/ASU-EndorsedLogo.png?itok=3Qs59k0-	ASU logo
.../webspark/asu_footer/img/footer-rank.png	Repeatedly ranked #1 on 20+ lists in the last 3 years

Video URL	Width	Height
...07/admissions_home_final_.mp4 (720p).mp4

Page structure 100% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Arizona State University Admission

The H1 heading is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Arizona State University Admission
H2	An inclusive academic powerhouse
H2	Admission information for
H2	The benefits of living in metro Phoenix
H2	What kind of college student are you?
H2	Take the next step
H3	Cost and financial aid

Link structure 86% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

1 links don't have an anchor text.

The number of internal links is ok.

None of the anchor texts is too long.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 17 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
/apply/first-year		First-year
/apply/transfer		Transfer
/apply/graduate		Graduate
/apply/international		International
/visiting		Visiting
https://asuonline.asu.edu/?_ga...	External Subdomain	Online
/campus-life/phoenix		Living in metro Phoenix
/cost-aid		No Text
/student-experience-quiz?fname...	Subdomain	Take the quiz
https://www.asu.edu/	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT ASU logo
https://www.facebook.com/Futur...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://twitter.com/FutureSunD...	External	No Text
https://www.instagram.com/Futu...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@futur...	External Subdomain	No Text
/report-web-site-problem		Report a website problem
https://admission.asu.edu/contact		Contact Us
https://admission.asu.edu/	Anchor	First-year Students
/apply/first-year		Overview
/apply/first-year/admission		Steps and Requirements
/cost-aid/resident-first-year		Cost and Aid
/apply/first-year/homeschool		Homeschooled and Virtual High School Students
/apply/nondegree		Nondegree First-year
/apply/first-year/readmission		Readmission
/visiting		Visiting University Students
/contact/undergraduate		Contact Your Rep
https://admission.asu.edu/	Anchor	Transfer and Second Bachelor Students
/apply/transfer	Text duplicate	Overview
/apply/transfer/admission	Text duplicate	Steps and Requirements
/cost-aid/resident-transfer	Text duplicate	Cost and Aid
/apply/transfer/transferring-c...		Transferring Credits
/apply/transfer/MyPath2ASU		Pathway Programs
/contact/undergraduate	Text duplicate	Contact Your Rep
https://admission.asu.edu/	Anchor	Graduate Students
/apply/graduate	Text duplicate	Overview
/apply/graduate/admission	Text duplicate	Steps and Requirements
/cost-aid/graduate	Text duplicate	Cost and Aid
/apply/graduate/student-resources		Resources
/graduate/nondegree		Nondegree Graduate
/apply/graduate/admitted		Admitted Students
/contact/graduate	Text duplicate	Contact Your Rep
https://admission.asu.edu/	Anchor	International Students
/apply/international	Text duplicate	Steps and Requirements
/apply/international/student-visa		Student Visa
/apply/international/admitted/...		Orientation
https://admission.asu.edu/contact	Text duplicate	Contact Your Rep
https://www.asu.edu/about/loca...	External Subdomain	Maps and Locations
https://cfo.asu.edu/applicant	External Subdomain	Jobs
https://search.asu.edu/?search...	External Subdomain	Directory
https://www.asu.edu/about/contact	External Subdomain	Contact ASU
https://my.asu.edu/	External Subdomain	My ASU
https://www.asu.edu/rankings	External Subdomain	IMG-ALT Repeatedly ranked #1 on 20+ lists in the last 3 years
https://www.asu.edu/about/copy...	External Subdomain	Copyright and Trademark
https://accessibility.asu.edu/...	External Subdomain	Accessibility
https://www.asu.edu/about/privacy	External Subdomain	Privacy
https://www.asu.edu/about/term...	External Subdomain	Terms of Use
https://www.asu.edu/emergency	External Subdomain	Emergency

Server configuration 87% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://admission.asu.edu/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.67 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 (50 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:27:46 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-encoding	gzip
cache-control	max-age=2764800, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modified	Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:41:51 GMT
vary	Cookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-xss-protection	1; mode=block
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000
expect-ct	max-age=86400
x-drupal-cache	MISS
x-request-id	v-29742006-730e-11f0-bae7-e74831c29b6f
x-ah-environment	01live
via	varnish
x-cache	HIT
x-cache-hits	26
cf-cache-status	REVALIDATED
server	cloudflare
cf-ray	96e7dd751d7702e1-CDG
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 68 referring domains.

This page has 109 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 64 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

Links from Wikipedia

Arizona State University

You can find more links using Wikipedia search

Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
#
# 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.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
# 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
# ASU-SSO CAS URLs
Disallow: /caslogout
# ASU-SSO CAS URLs
Disallow: /caslogout
# Admission site customization
Disallow: /hsasureps-new*
Disallow: /future-request*
Disallow: /future-student-request*
Disallow: /international-competency*
Disallow: /taxonomy*
Disallow: /program/*
Disallow: /newsletters*
Disallow: /aas-bas/*

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admission.asu.edu

Admission | Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a top ranked research university. You’ll join a community that will help you explore your interests and learn new skills.

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Admission	79%	Check
University	73%	Check
Arizona	73%	Check
State	73%	Check
Arizona State University	73%	Check
Research University	60%	Check
American University	54%	Check
ASU	50%	Check
new	46%	Check
learn	46%	Check
community	46%	Check
New American	40%	Check
student	38%	Check
Phoenix	38%	Check
college	38%	Check
academic	38%	Check
metro	38%	Check
Cost	38%	Check
aid	38%	Check
Metro Phoenix	38%	Check
living	38%	Check
financial	38%	Check
kind	38%	Check
Financial Aid	38%	Check
inclusive	38%	Check

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Task list of SEO Improvements 2 Tasks

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Page quality 72% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 100% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 86% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 87% achieved

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HTTP Response Header

External factors 100% achieved

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