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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
67% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.05 s
File size
116.10 kB
Words
296
Media files
2
Number of links
46 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Canvas
The page title is too short. (139 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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)
https://canvas.rutgers.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)
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
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
tec-api-versionv1
tec-api-originhttps://canvas.rutgers.edu
msapplication-TileImage/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-Shield_Favicon-270x270.png
article:modified_time2024-11-18T21:37:29+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Canvas
og:urlhttps://canvas.rutgers.edu/
og:site_nameCanvas
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 296 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
16.9% 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 9.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/ru-assets/ru-shield.svgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2019/09/canvas-white.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Canvas
H2 The official learning management system for teaching and learning at Rutgers
H2 External Apps
H3 Latest News
H3 Information for Instructors
H3 Information for Students
H3 Resources and Documentation
H3 Instructors
H3 Students
H3 Latest News Duplicate text
H3 Documentation
H3 Contact Canvas Help
H4 Feature Release: W.W. Norton Publishing LTI 1.3
H4 Feature Release: Kaltura Media Player
H4 Canvas Feature Options Now Available
H4 Content Management
H4 Synchronous Meeting
H4 Publishers & Textbooks
H4 Multimedia
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://canvas.rutgers.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.rutgers.edu/New window External Subdomain Rutgers.edu
https://canvas.rutgers.edu/Subdomain Canvas
https://rutgers.instructure.co...External Subdomain Canvas NetID Login
https://rutgers.instructure.co...External Subdomain Canvas Email Login
https://canvas.rutgers.edu/Subdomain Home
/instructors/Subdomain Instructors
/instructors/getting-started-i...Subdomain Getting Started In Canvas
/instructors/request-a-course/Subdomain Request a Course Site
/instructors/course-readiness-...Subdomain Course Readiness Checklist
/instructors/training-opportun...Subdomain Training Opportunities
/documentation/instructors/Instructor Documentation
/students/Subdomain Students
/students/getting-started-in-c...Subdomain Text duplicate Getting Started In Canvas
/students/faq-students/Subdomain Frequently Asked Questions
/documentation/students/Student Documentation
/external-apps/Subdomain External Apps
/canvas-help/Subdomain Canvas Help
/documentation/Subdomain Documentation
/canvas-help/accessibility/Subdomain Accessibility
/status-alerts/Subdomain Status & Alerts
https://status.instructure.com/External Subdomain Canvas Status
https://it.rutgers.edu/alerts/External Subdomain Rutgers IT Alerts
/2025/05/15/feature-release-w-...Subdomain May 15, 2025 Feature Release: W.W. Norton Publishing LTI 1.3
/2025/05/13/kaltura-media-play...Subdomain May 13, 2025 Feature Release: Kaltura Media Player
/2025/05/13/canvas-feature-opt...Subdomain May 13, 2025 Canvas Feature Options Now Available
https://canvas.rutgers.edu/newsView All News
/instructors/getting-started-i...Subdomain Information for Instructors Teaching instructions for those utilizing Canvas for your courses.
/students/getting-started-in-c...Subdomain Information for Students Learn how to access and utilize your courses this semester.
/documentation/Subdomain Resources and Documentation Resources and documents for the Canvas LMS and Rutgers.
/external-apps/?ext_search&ext...Subdomain Content Management Box, LabArchives, Lynda, Scorm, UDOIT, YouTube
/external-apps/?ext_search&ext...Subdomain Synchronous Meeting BigBlueButton, Cisco Webex, Zoom, Microsoft Teams Meetings
/external-apps/?ext_search&ext...Subdomain Publishers & Textbooks Box, LabArchives, Lynda, Scorm, UDOIT, YouTube
/external-apps/?ext_search&ext...Subdomain Multimedia BigBlueButton, Cisco Webex, Zoom, Microsoft Teams Meetings
/instructors/getting-started-i...Subdomain Getting Started in Canvas
/instructors/request-a-course/Subdomain Text duplicate Request a Course Site
/instructors/request-a-course/...Subdomain Live Course Sites
/instructors/request-a-course/...Subdomain Sandbox Course Site
/course-migration/migrate-a-co...Subdomain Migrate a Course
/instructors/course-readiness-...Subdomain Text duplicate Course Readiness Checklist
/instructors/training-opportun...Subdomain Text duplicate Training Opportunities
/students/getting-started-in-c...Subdomain Text duplicate Getting Started in Canvas
/students/faq-students/Subdomain Text duplicate Frequently Asked Questions
/2025/05/15/feature-release-w-...Feature Release: W.W. Norton Publishing LTI 1.3
/2025/05/13/kaltura-media-play...Feature Release: Kaltura Media Player
/2025/05/13/canvas-feature-opt...Canvas Feature Options Now Available
https://canvas.rutgers.edu/newsView More News
/documentation/Subdomain All Documentation
/canvas-help/Subdomain Text duplicate Canvas Help
/canvas-help/accessibility/Subdomain Text duplicate Accessibility
https://canvas.rutgers.edu/Subdomain No Text
https://rutgers.edu/site-resou...External Copyright ©2025
https://rutgers.edu/External Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
https://it.rutgers.edu/it-acce...New window External Subdomain Report an accessibility barrier

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://canvas.rutgers.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 excellent with 0.05 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (116 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlpublic, max-age=86400
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://canvas.rutgers.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe2-a-65b77f78df-nhblb
x-styx-req-id29528783-34ba-11f0-97ff-5222abcb0f3f
x-tec-api-originhttps://canvas.rutgers.edu
x-tec-api-roothttps://canvas.rutgers.edu/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-versionv1
dateMon, 19 May 2025 14:50:00 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100157-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230029-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT
x-cache-hits14, 0
x-timerS1747666201.852600,VS0,VE6
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
age2740
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
content-length40607
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 130 referring domains.
This page has 491 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 112 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://canvas.rutgers.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

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# END YOAST BLOCK

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KeywordResultRecheck
Canvas68%Check
Canvas Help54%Check
Rutgers50%Check
Documentation47%Check
Instructors47%Check
Students47%Check
edu46%Check
News43%Check
management43%Check
Feature43%Check
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