Canvas.colostate.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.61 s
File size
51.70 kB
Words
334
Media files
0
Number of links
42 internal / 40 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Canvas
The page title is too short. (68 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsmax-image-preview:large
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 334 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
17.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 9.75 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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empty heading
H2 Students & Instructors
H2 Non-Credit, Visitors, & Admins
H3 Announcements
H3 FAQs
H5 General Tools
H5 Course Tools
H5 Resources
H5 Popular Pages
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.
There are too many external links (40) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://canvas.colostate.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.colostate.edu/External Subdomain colorado state university CSU
https://canvas.colostate.edu/Subdomain A-TITLE Canvas Help Homepage
https://it.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Division of Information Technology
/students/Subdomain Students
/instructors/Subdomain Instructors
/iclicker/Subdomain iClicker
/support-by-role/Subdomain Support
https://eid.colostate.edu/eIDM...External Subdomain NetID questions or login concerns?
https://colostate.instructure....External Subdomain NetID Login
https://www.online.colostate.e...External Subdomain Non-credit support
https://colostate.instructure....External Subdomain Non-Credit Login
https://csusystem.status.fresh...External Subdomain CSU System IT status page
https://www.chhs.colostate.edu...New window External Subdomain Anthology Ally for accessibility enabled in Canvas
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection[email protected]
/canvas-quizzes/Subdomain Learn about New Quizzes
/iclicker/Subdomain iClicker Cloud
/iclicker/iclickerhelp/Subdomain Schedule iClicker Cloud training
https://www.google.com/chrome/External Subdomain Chrome
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...External Subdomain Firefox
https://community.canvaslms.co...External Subdomain Mac
https://community.canvaslms.co...External Subdomain PC
/email/Subdomain Setup e-mail and Canvas notifications
https://netid.colostate.edu/External Subdomain NetID
https://www.acns.colostate.edu...External Subdomain E-mail
https://www.acns.colostate.edu...External Subdomain Microsoft Office
https://mylearning.colostate.edu/External Subdomain MyLearning (Bridge)
https://ramweb.colostate.edu/External Subdomain RAMweb
https://ariesweb.colostate.edu/External Subdomain ARIESweb
https://accessibility.colostat...External Subdomain Accessibility
http://lib.colostate.edu/reserveExternal Subdomain Course Reserves
http://help.echo.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Echo360
https://tilt.colostate.edu/tes...External Subdomain Gradescope
https://tilt.colostate.edu/tes...External Subdomain Proctoring
http://writing.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Writing Studio
http://www.bookstore.colostate...External Subdomain Bookstore
https://www.acns.colostate.edu...External Subdomain Computer Labs
https://www.online.colostate.edu/External Subdomain CSU Online
https://disabilitycenter.colos...External Subdomain Disability Center
https://www.acns.colostate.edu...External Subdomain Help Desk
https://lib.colostate.edu/help...External Subdomain Libraries
http://ramtech.colostate.edu/External Subdomain RAMtech
http://tilt.colostate.edu/External Subdomain TILT
/iclicker/Subdomain Text duplicate iClicker
/instructor-support/Subdomain Instructor Support
/email/Subdomain Notifications and Email
/office-365/Subdomain Office 365
/student-support/Subdomain Student Support
https://admissions.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Apply to CSU
https://www.colostate.edu/contactExternal Subdomain Contact CSU
https://www.colostate.edu/disc...External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.colostate.edu/equa...External Subdomain Equal Opportunity
https://www.colostate.edu/priv...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://www.colostate.edu/acce...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://giving.colostate.edu/External Subdomain support colorado state university
https://canvas.colostate.edu/Subdomain Log In
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Students
/students/Subdomain Text duplicate Students
/student-support/Subdomain Text duplicate Student Support
/course-dates-for-students/Subdomain Course Access Dates
/instructors/Subdomain Text duplicate Instructors
/instructors/Subdomain Text duplicate Instructors
/instructor-support/Subdomain Text duplicate Instructor Support
/course-preparation/Subdomain Course Preparation
/enrollment-access/Subdomain Enrollment and Access
/course-content/Subdomain Course Content
/grades/Subdomain Assessments, Quizzes, & Grades
/external-tools/Subdomain External Tools
/training-handouts/Subdomain Training
/iclicker/Subdomain Text duplicate iClicker
/iclicker/Subdomain Text duplicate iClicker
/iclicker/student-information/Subdomain Student iClicker Information
/iclicker/iclicker-classic-sof...Subdomain Instructor iClicker Software
/iclicker/iclickersetup/Subdomain Instructor iClicker Setup
/iclicker/using-iclickers-at-csu/Subdomain Using iClickers at CSU
/iclicker/iclickerhelp/Subdomain iClicker Help
/support-by-role/Subdomain Text duplicate Support
/support-by-role/Subdomain Text duplicate Support
/browsers/Subdomain Browsers
/mobile/Subdomain Mobile Apps
/email/Subdomain Text duplicate Notifications and Email
https://status.instructure.com/External Subdomain Canvas System Status

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://canvas.colostate.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 of 0.61 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 (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 11 Dec 2025 21:53:17 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-encodingbr
varyAccept-Encoding
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
link<https://canvas.colostate.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
pragmano-cache
x-powered-byWP Engine
x-cacheableYES:15552000.000
cache-controlmax-age=15552000, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 1427149
x-cache-groupnormal
x-orig-cache-controlmax-age=15552000, must-revalidate
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
set-cookie286 Characters
servercloudflare
cf-ray9ac836c5a86adc8d-FRA
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 36 referring domains.
This page has 104 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 35 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

canvas.colostate.edu
Canvas

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Canvas62%Check
state51%Check
Tools47%Check
State University45%Check
Colorado State45%Check
Students43%Check
Course43%Check
Non-Credit43%Check
Instructors43%Check
Colorado State University43%Check

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