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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
85% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.04 s
File size
575.80 kB
Words
831
Media files
17
Number of links
109 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Anderson University
The length of the page title is perfect. (251 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Anderson University is a Christian, liberal arts institution. We invite students to come as they are, and discover who they are meant to be.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (841 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://anderson.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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)
This page contains 831 words. That's ok.
36.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
15 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 15.3 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (575.8 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Jesus. you. Anderson.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Jesus. you. Anderson.
H2 2025
H2 WELCOME RAVENS
H2 The Anderson You is worth becoming.
H2 WELCOME WEEKEND
H2 Events for Future Ravens
H2 Arrive as Anyone. Become you.
H2 Anderson University News + Events
H2 The Anderson You
H3 AU Campus Stewardship & KWC Sale FAQ
H3 Connect with me
H4 VISIT
H4 APPLY
H4 GIVE
H4 Welcome Weekend
H4 More
H4 Campus
H4 Resources
H4 Academics
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.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://anderson.edu/IMG-ALT Anderson University
/admissions/visit/Visit
https://admissions.anderson.ed...External Subdomain Apply
https://anderson.edu/giveGive
https://anderson.edu/No Text
/admissions/visit/VISIT ANDERSON
https://admissions.anderson.ed...External Subdomain APPLY TO ANDERSON
https://anderson.edu/give/GIVE TO ANDERSON
https://anderson.edu/about/About
/about/mission-vision/Mission & Vision
/about/traditions/Traditions
/about/strategic-plan/Strategic Plan
https://anderson.edu/about/blog/News
/about/president/Leadership
https://anderson.edu/launch/Advancement
https://anderson.edu/alumni/Alumni
/about/campus-facts/Campus Facts
https://anderson.edu/admissions/Admissions
/admissions/contact/Request Info
https://anderson.edu/depositDeposit
/admissions/undergrad-admissions/Undergraduate
/admissions/transfers/Transfers
/admissions/adult/Adults
/admissions/graduate/Graduate
/admissions/international/International
/admissions/admitted/Admitted Students
/admissions/financial-aid/Financial
/admissions/financial-aid/fafs...How to Apply for the FAFSA
/admissions/financial-aid/scho...Scholarships
/admissions/financial-aid/grants/Grants
/admissions/financial-aid/net-...Net Price Calculator
/admissions/financial-aid/tuit...Undergraduate Tuition
/academics/adult-graduate/fina...Adult & Graduate Tuition
/admissions/financial-aid/stud...Student Accounts
https://anderson.edu/academics/Academics
/academics/majors/Majors A-Z
/academics/adult-degrees/Text duplicate Adults
/academics/adult-graduate/Text duplicate Graduate
/academics/au-certificate-prog...Certificates
/academics/support/Advising Support
/academics/support/Academic Support
/academics/honors/Honors Program
/academics/study-abroad/Study Away
/student-life/Student Life
https://athletics.anderson.edu/External Subdomain Athletics
/student-life/orientation/New Students SOAR
/student-life/residence/Residence Life
/spiritual-life/Spiritual Life
/student-life/tri-s/Tri-S
/student-life/commuter/Commuters
/student-life/counseling/Counseling Services
/student-life/welcome-weekend/WELCOME RAVENS
/current-students/Current Students
/parents-families/Parents & Families
/student-life/first-year-success/First Year Success
/21st-century-scholars/21st Century Scholars
/arts-entertainment-calendar/Arts & Concerts
/hr/faculty-staff-employment/Employment
https://anderson.edu/calendar/Calendar
https://anderson.edu/directory/Directory
/about/directions/Directions & Hotels
/admissions/spanish-admissions/Español
https://anderson.edu/coronavirus/Coronavirus
https://anderson.edu/start-quizMajors Quiz
/admissions/pre-college-progra...Summer Camps
/admissions/pre-college-programs/Pre-College
/student-life/welcome-weekend/Welcome Weekend
/admissions/virtual-experiences/Virtual Experiences
https://anderson.edu/sale/Sale
https://anderson.edu/admissions/Future Ravens Start Here
https://anderson.edu/start-quizMy College Career Quiz
https://anderson.edu/start-quizSTART QUIZ
https://anderson.edu/visitVISIT
https://anderson.edu/applicationAPPLY
https://anderson.edu/depositDEPOSIT
/student-life/welcome-weekend/LEARN MORE
/admissions/admitted/Admitted Student Checklist
https://anderson.edu/calendar/More Events
/admissions/visit/Schedule A Visit
/blog-stories/au-campus-stewar...AU Campus Stewardship & KWC Sale FAQ
/blog-stories/au-campus-stewar...Trivial anchor text
read more
/blog-stories/connect-with-me/IMG-ALT Connect with me
/blog-stories/connect-with-me/Text duplicate Connect with me
/blog-stories/connect-with-me/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
read more
https://anderson.edu/calendar/Text duplicate More Events
https://anderson.edu/start-quiz/Take the Quiz
/academics/majors/Text duplicate Majors A-Z
https://anderson.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Anderson University
/admissions/visit/Text duplicate VISIT ANDERSON
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https://anderson.edu/give/Text duplicate GIVE TO ANDERSON
https://athletics.anderson.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Athletics
https://anderson.edu/calendar/Text duplicate Calendar
https://anderson.edu/directory/Text duplicate Directory
/hr/faculty-staff-employment/Text duplicate Employment
https://anderson.okta.com/home...External Subdomain AccessAU
https://anderson.instructure.c...External Subdomain Canvas
https://anderson.okta.com/External Subdomain Okta
https://anderson.edu/hr/policies/Policies
https://anderson.edu/wellness/Wellness Center
https://anderson.edu/galleries/Galleries & Exhibits
https://auravensgear.com/External Bookstore
https://anderson.edu/security/Security
https://anderson.edu/hr/titleix/Title IX
/wp-content/uploads/1095-C-Del...Health Coverage
https://anderson.edu/academics/Academic Programs
/registrar/undergraduate-catalog/Undergraduate Catalog
/academics/adult-graduate/cata...Graduate Catalog
https://anderson.edu/registrar/University Registrar
https://library.anderson.edu/External Subdomain Nicholson Library
/about/provost/Provost
https://anderson.edu/academics/Our Academics
https://maps.google.com/?q=110...New window External Subdomain 1100 E. 5th St., Anderson, IN 46012
/about/directionsMap & Directions
https://www.facebook.com/ander...New window External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Facebook
https://twitter.com/AndersonUNew window External Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on X
https://www.instagram.com/ande...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/A...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Youtube
https://anderson.edu/IMG-ALT Anderson University Flame
https://anderson.edu/directory/Text duplicate Directory
/accreditation/Accreditation
/accessibility/Accessibility
/privacy-legal/Privacy/Legal

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://anderson.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.04 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 very large (576 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 515 referring domains.
This page has 2,909 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 317 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Home - Anderson University
Anderson University is a Christian, liberal arts institution. We invite students to come as they are, and discover who they are meant to be.

Most important keywords

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

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Anderson University83%Check
University68%Check
Anderson Indiana68%Check
Christian University56%Check
Students48%Check
campus46%Check
RAVENS46%Check
Arts46%Check
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