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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.01 s
File size
92.90 kB
Words
749
Media files
24
Number of links
59 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
The length of the page title is perfect. (383 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Information from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. Also information from MSU AgBioResearch and MSU Extension.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (986 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.canr.msu.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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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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twitter:cardsummary
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 749 words. That's ok.
22.6% 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.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 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 19.81 words is good.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 95 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"august 24, 2025 1:00pm – 4:00pm msu horticulture gardens, 1066 bogue st, east lansing, mi 48824"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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)
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
H2 New climate resiliency program to address long-term plant agriculture challenges in Michigan
H2 News
H2 Events
H2 In the News
H2 College Information
H2 Students & Families
H2 Resources
H2 Reports & Publications
H3 Michigan State University's Bert Cregg named to Christmas Tree Growers Hall of Fame
H3 MSU Extension’s Ben Phillips receives Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents
H3 MSU hosts tour of new Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center
H3 Innovative forest conservation program in Brazil yeilds environmental and agricultural benefits
H3 Packaging reimagined: Ying Liu’s mission to create a sustainable tomorrow
H3 CANR-Europe Partnership Forum explores strategic collaboration in agricultural research, education and extension
H3 Bee Palooza
H3 2025 CANR OCAB Graduate Student Welcome
H3 Welcome Back MSU 4-H Alumni Reception
H3 It’s moo-ving day for dairy cattle at Michigan State University
H3 Farming under solar panels? MSU researchers test a new model for Michigan agriculture
H3 World Cup watch: MSU students, staff ready for global competition, to showcase sod
H3 MSU researcher receives $500k grant to future-proof Michigan forests
H3 Pitch Perfect: FIFA teams with turf gurus to create fields for Club World Cup, World Cup
H3 College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Duplicate text
H4 College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Duplicate text
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://msu.edu/External IMG-ALT Michigan State University
https://www.canr.msu.edu/indexCollege of Agriculture & Natural Resources
https://www.canr.msu.edu/aboutAbout
/academicsAcademics
https://www.canr.msu.edu/outreachOutreach
https://www.canr.msu.edu/researchResearch
https://www.canr.msu.edu/globalInternational
/alumni_donors/giving_to_canr/Giving
/news/new-climate-resiliency-p...New climate resiliency program to address long-term plant agriculture challenges in Michigan
/news/new-climate-resiliency-p...Trivial anchor text
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https://www.canr.msu.edu/Home
/news/bert-cregg-named-to-chri...Michigan State University's Bert Cregg named to Christmas Tree Growers Hall of Fame
/news/ben-phillips-distinguish...MSU Extension’s Ben Phillips receives Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents
/news/msu-hosts-tour-of-new-da...MSU hosts tour of new Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center
/news/innovative-forest-conser...Innovative forest conservation program in Brazil yeilds environmental and agricultural benefits
/news/packaging-reimagined-yin...Packaging reimagined: Ying Liu’s mission to create a sustainable tomorrow
/news/canr-europe-partnership-...CANR-Europe Partnership Forum explores strategic collaboration in agricultural research, education and extension
https://www.canr.msu.edu/newsView complete listing
/events/msu-beepalooza-2025Bee Palooza
/events/ocab-graduate-student-...2025 CANR OCAB Graduate Student Welcome
/events/msu-welcome-week-4-h-a...Welcome Back MSU 4-H Alumni Reception
https://www.canr.msu.edu/eventsText duplicate View complete listing
https://apnews.com/article/dai...External It’s moo-ving day for dairy cattle at Michigan State University
https://radio.wcmu.org/local-r...External Subdomain Farming under solar panels? MSU researchers test a new model for Michigan agriculture
https://www.michiganfarmnews.c...External Subdomain World Cup watch: MSU students, staff ready for global competition, to showcase sod
https://www.wzzm13.com/article...External Subdomain MSU researcher receives $500k grant to future-proof Michigan forests
https://www.miamiherald.com/sp...External Subdomain Pitch Perfect: FIFA teams with turf gurus to create fields for Club World Cup, World Cup
/in-the-newsText duplicate View complete listing
/academics/about_canr/About CANR
/academics/departments/Departments
/about/canr-leadership/Leadership
/about/chairs-directorsChairs & Directors
/about/deans-officeDean's Office
/academics/office-of-academic-...Academic & Student Affairs
https://www.canr.msu.edu/ocab/Office of Culture, Access and Belonging
/about/canr-offices-unitsOffices & Units
/facultystaff/Faculty & Staff
/academics/future-students/Future Students
/academics/study/Areas of Study
/academics/future-students/col...College Visits
/academics/undergraduate/under...Undergraduate Majors & Minors
/iat/indexInstitute of Agricultural Technology
/academics/graduate/graduate_p...Graduate Programs
/academics/careers/Career Services
https://msu.edu/together-we-will/External MSU Together We Will
/academics/courses/policiesMSU Policies & Procedures
/diversity/support-resources-f...Sexual Assault & Relationship Misconduct Resources
/academics/careers/employerHiring CANR Students (Employers)
/alumni/alumni/Alumni
/outreach/Extension Programs
/alumni/publications/In the Field: CANR Magazine
/project-greeen/legislative-su...Project GREEEN Annual Report
https://www.canr.msu.edu/maaa/Michigan Alliance for Animal Agriculture Report
/research/legislative-report/Legislative Reports: MSU Extension, AgBioResearch
https://www.youtube.com/user/m...External Subdomain IMG-ALT follow us on youtube
https://twitter.com/CANRatMSUExternal IMG-ALT follow us on twitter
https://www.facebook.com/CANRa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT follow us on facebook
http://instagram.com/canratmsuExternal IMG-ALT follow us on instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain IMG-ALT follow us on linkedin
https://msu.edu/External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Michigan State University
https://www.canr.msu.edu/contactContact Information
/sitemap?siteContext=academicsSitemap
/accessibilityAccessibility
https://www.canr.msu.edu/privacyPrivacy
http://msu.edu/External msu.edu
https://civilrights.msu.edu/po...External Subdomain Notice of Nondiscrimination
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcemen...External Subdomain 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
https://msu.edu/External IMG-ALT Michigan State University green logo graphic
https://www.canr.msu.edu/indexText duplicate College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
https://www.canr.msu.edu/Text duplicate Home
https://www.canr.msu.edu/aboutText duplicate About
/academicsText duplicate Academics
https://www.canr.msu.edu/outreachText duplicate Outreach
https://www.canr.msu.edu/researchText duplicate Research
https://www.canr.msu.edu/globalText duplicate International
/alumni/indexText duplicate Giving
https://www.facebook.com/share...External Subdomain Share
IMG-ALT share this on facebook
https://twitter.com/share?url=...External Tweet
IMG-ALT share this on twitter
https://pinterest.com/pin/crea...External Save
IMG-ALT save to Pinterest
https://www.linkedin.com/share...External Subdomain Text duplicate Share
IMG-ALT share this on linkedin

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.canr.msu.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.01 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 fine (93 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,407 referring domains.
This page has 1,988 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 325 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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