Compsci.colostate.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
60% 
Link structure
26% 
Server
54% 
External factors
96% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.10 s
File size
122.00 kB
Words
665
Media files
14
Number of links
110 internal / 69 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Computer Science | CSU – Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 938 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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://compsci.colostate.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

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robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorJupiter - Computer Science Child Theme 20200922.1
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 665 words. That's ok.
15.2% 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.
6 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 18.8 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...s/sites/17/2018/07/slider-csbuilding.jpgThe CSU Computer Science Building at nightComputer Science Building at Colorado State University
.../uploads/sites/17/2025/06/talk-to-us.pngINTERESTED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE? TALK TO US.
...s/sites/17/2021/11/grad-program-grid.pngApply to the Graduate Program
...sites/17/2025/03/craig-partridge-mpi.pngCraig Partridge, member of Max Planck Institute advisory board
.../2024/05/abhimanyu-chawla-dapa-award.pngDistinguished Administrative Professional Award winner Abhimanyu Chawla
...17/2025/04/sudeep-pasricha-bog-award.pngProfessor Sudeep Pasricha, recpient of CSU Board of Governors Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
.../2021/11/fortune-2022-best-online-ms.pngFortune Magazine Best Online Master's
...025/05/shrideep-pallickara-npd-award.pngProfessor Shrideep Pallickara, winner of N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation
...s/17/2025/05/spring-2025-news-digest.pngHomeHome
.../2021/05/iconmonstr-facebook-3-240-1.pngFacebook Logo
...021/05/iconmonstr-instagram-13-240-1.pngInstagram Logo
...7/2021/05/iconmonstr-youtube-3-240-1.pngYouTube Logo
...ello-csu/assets/img/csu-full-stacked.svgColorado State University
Video URLWidthHeight
...ube.com/embed/s1G-QMNzk84?feature=oembed367275

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Colorado State University
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
There are 30 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Colorado State University
H1 Calendar
H1 Announcements
H1 News Digest
H1 Find Us
H2 College of Natural Sciences
H2 Department of Computer Science
H3 INTERESTED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE? TALK TO US.
H3 Apply to the Graduate Program
H3 Craig Partridge, member of Max Planck Institute advisory board
H3 Distinguished Administrative Professional Award winner Abhimanyu Chawla
H3 Professor Sudeep Pasricha, recpient of CSU Board of Governors Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
H3 Fortune Magazine Best Online Master's
H3 Professor Shrideep Pallickara, winner of N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation
H3 Participants sought for study on virtual reality and nature
H3 The Tomoa Skip: CSU researchers analyze the new move that revolutionized speed climbing
H3 CSU students help USDA, NASA and Amazon Web Services at hackathon event
H3 Q&A with computer science and theatre alumnus Robert Longo
H3 Department Contact Details
H3 Stay Connected
H3 Contact Details
H4 NEWS
H4 Map
H4 In-person Hours
H4 Telephone
H4 Fax
H4 Email
H4 Facebook
H4 Instagram
H4 Youtube
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 (69) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://colostate.edu/External Colorado State University
https://www.natsci.colostate.edu/External Subdomain College of Natural Sciences
https://compsci.colostate.edu/Department of Computer Science
/about/Subdomain About
/news/Subdomain News
/people/Subdomain People
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/BMAC/External Subdomain Colloquium
/facilities-centers/Subdomain Facilities & Centers
/employment/Subdomain Employment
/policies-resources/Subdomain Policies & Resources
/building-directory/Subdomain Building Directory
/contact-us/Subdomain Contact Us
https://sna.cs.colostate.edu/External Subdomain IT Help
/research/Subdomain Research
/people/Subdomain Text duplicate People
/research-funding/Subdomain Research Funding
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Collaborate
https://cybersecurity.colostat...External Subdomain Cybersecurity Center
https://spatial.colostate.edu/...External Subdomain XSD Center
/publications/Subdomain Publications
/technical-reports/Subdomain Technical Reports
/future-students/Subdomain Future Students
/admitted-students/Subdomain Admitted Students
/advising/Subdomain Advising
/degrees/Subdomain Degrees
/courses/Subdomain Courses
/scholarships-fellowships/Subdomain Scholarships & Fellowships
/get-involved/Subdomain Get Involved
/faq/Subdomain FAQ
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://admissions.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Apply to CSU
/undergraduate-students/Subdomain Undergraduate Students
/advising/Subdomain Text duplicate Advising
/degrees/Subdomain Text duplicate Degrees
/courses/Subdomain Text duplicate Courses
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Involved
https://amplify.colostate.edu/New window External Subdomain Learning Community
/scholarships-fellowships/Subdomain Text duplicate Scholarships & Fellowships
/undergraduate-students/career...Subdomain Career Resources
/accelerated-master-of-science/Subdomain Accelerated Masters Program
https://commencement.colostate...New window External Subdomain Commencement
/graduate-students/Subdomain Graduate Students
/degrees/Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Degrees
https://www.online.colostate.e...New window External Subdomain Online Masters Degree
/accelerated-master-of-science/Subdomain Text duplicate Accelerated Masters Program
/policies-resources/Subdomain Graduate Forms
/graduate-support/Subdomain Graduate Support
/scholarships-fellowships/Subdomain Text duplicate Scholarships & Fellowships
/undergraduate-students/career...Subdomain Text duplicate Career Resources
https://graduateschool.colosta...New window External Subdomain Graduate School Commencement
/graduate-application/Subdomain Apply to the Computer Science Graduate Program
/faculty-staff/Subdomain Faculty & Staff
/people/Subdomain Text duplicate People
/building-directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Building Directory
/policies-resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Policies & Resources
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Emeriti
/alumni-friends/Subdomain Alumni & Friends
/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/industry-partners/Subdomain Industry Partners
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Ways to Give
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...External Subdomain Foundations and Corporations
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Emeriti
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/people/Subdomain Text duplicate People
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/BMAC/External Subdomain Text duplicate Colloquium
/facilities-centers/Subdomain Text duplicate Facilities & Centers
/employment/Subdomain Text duplicate Employment
/policies-resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Policies & Resources
/building-directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Building Directory
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://sna.cs.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IT Help
/research/Subdomain Text duplicate Research
/people/Subdomain Text duplicate People
/research-funding/Subdomain Text duplicate Research Funding
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Collaborate
https://cybersecurity.colostat...External Subdomain Text duplicate Cybersecurity Center
https://spatial.colostate.edu/...External Subdomain Text duplicate XSD Center
/publications/Subdomain Text duplicate Publications
/technical-reports/Subdomain Text duplicate Technical Reports
/future-students/Subdomain Text duplicate Future Students
/admitted-students/Subdomain Text duplicate Admitted Students
/advising/Subdomain Text duplicate Advising
/degrees/Subdomain Text duplicate Degrees
/courses/Subdomain Text duplicate Courses
/scholarships-fellowships/Subdomain Text duplicate Scholarships & Fellowships
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Involved
/faq/Subdomain Text duplicate FAQ
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://admissions.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Apply to CSU
/undergraduate-students/Subdomain Text duplicate Undergraduate Students
/advising/Subdomain Text duplicate Advising
/degrees/Subdomain Text duplicate Degrees
/courses/Subdomain Text duplicate Courses
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Involved
https://amplify.colostate.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learning Community
/scholarships-fellowships/Subdomain Text duplicate Scholarships & Fellowships
/undergraduate-students/career...Subdomain Text duplicate Career Resources
/accelerated-master-of-science/Subdomain Text duplicate Accelerated Masters Program
https://commencement.colostate...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Commencement
/graduate-students/Subdomain Text duplicate Graduate Students
/degrees/Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Degrees
https://www.online.colostate.e...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Online Masters Degree
/accelerated-master-of-science/Subdomain Text duplicate Accelerated Masters Program
/policies-resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Graduate Forms
/graduate-support/Subdomain Text duplicate Graduate Support
/scholarships-fellowships/Subdomain Text duplicate Scholarships & Fellowships
/undergraduate-students/career...Subdomain Text duplicate Career Resources
https://graduateschool.colosta...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Graduate School Commencement
/graduate-application/Subdomain Text duplicate Apply to the Computer Science Graduate Program
/faculty-staff/Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty & Staff
/people/Subdomain Text duplicate People
/building-directory/Subdomain Text duplicate Building Directory
/policies-resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Policies & Resources
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Emeriti
/alumni-friends/Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni & Friends
/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/industry-partners/Subdomain Text duplicate Industry Partners
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Ways to Give
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...External Subdomain Text duplicate Foundations and Corporations
http://www.natsci.colostate.ed...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Emeriti
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/contact-us/Subdomain IMG-ALT INTERESTED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE? TALK TO US.
/contact-us/Subdomain Text duplicate INTERESTED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE? TALK TO US.
/graduate-application/New window Subdomain IMG-ALT Apply to the Graduate Program
/graduate-application/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Apply to the Graduate Program
https://natsci.source.colostat...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Craig Partridge, member of Max Planck Institute advisory board
https://natsci.source.colostat...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Craig Partridge, member of Max Planck Institute advisory board
https://source.colostate.edu/c...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Distinguished Administrative Professional Award winner Abhimanyu Chawla
https://source.colostate.edu/c...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Distinguished Administrative Professional Award winner Abhimanyu Chawla
https://source.colostate.edu/c...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Professor Sudeep Pasricha, recpient of CSU Board of Governors Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
https://source.colostate.edu/c...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Professor Sudeep Pasricha, recpient of CSU Board of Governors Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
https://fortune.com/education/...New window External IMG-ALT Fortune Magazine Best Online Master's
https://fortune.com/education/...New window External Text duplicate Fortune Magazine Best Online Master's
https://source.colostate.edu/c...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Professor Shrideep Pallickara, winner of N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation
https://source.colostate.edu/c...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Professor Shrideep Pallickara, winner of N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation
/about/Subdomain ABOUT
A-TITLE About
/research/Subdomain RESEARCH
A-TITLE Research
/future-students/Subdomain FUTURE STUDENTS
A-TITLE Future Students
/facilities-centers/Subdomain FACILITIES & CENTERS
A-TITLE Facilities & Centers
/people/Subdomain PEOPLE
A-TITLE People
/employment/Subdomain EMPLOYMENT
A-TITLE Employment
/industry-partners/Subdomain INDUSTRY PARTNERS
A-TITLE Industry Partners
/contact-us/Subdomain CONTACT US
A-TITLE Contact Us
https://source.colostate.edu/p...External Subdomain Participants sought for study on virtual reality and nature
https://source.colostate.edu/p...External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://natsci.source.colostat...External Subdomain The Tomoa Skip: CSU researchers analyze the new move that revolutionized speed climbing
https://natsci.source.colostat...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://source.colostate.edu/c...External Subdomain CSU students help USDA, NASA and Amazon Web Services at hackathon event
https://source.colostate.edu/c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://natsci.source.colostat...External Subdomain Q&A with computer science and theatre alumnus Robert Longo
https://natsci.source.colostat...External Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://natsci.source.colostat...New window External Subdomain More Department News
A-TITLE Department Source
/employment/Subdomain OPEN POSITION: Academic Success Coordinator
/news/computer-science-news-di...Subdomain IMG-ALT Home
/news/Subdomain Read previous issues here
https://goo.gl/maps/VjuTjLoaXd...New window Nofollow External 279 Computer Science Building 1873 Campus Delivery Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1873
A-TITLE Google Map
https://www.facebook.com/CSUCo...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook Logo
A-TITLE CSU Computer Science Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/csuc...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram Logo
A-TITLE CSU Computer Science Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube Logo
A-TITLE CSU Computer Science YouTube
https://www.natsci.colostate.edu/External Subdomain www.natsci.colostate.edu
https://www.bmb.colostate.edu/New window External Subdomain Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
https://www.biology.colostate....New window External Subdomain Biology
https://www.chem.colostate.edu/New window External Subdomain Chemistry
https://compsci.colostate.edu/New window Subdomain Computer Science
https://mathematics.colostate....New window External Subdomain Mathematics
https://www.physics.colostate....New window External Subdomain Physics
https://psychology.colostate.edu/New window External Subdomain Psychology
https://statistics.colostate.edu/New window External Subdomain Statistics
https://give.colostate.edu/cam...New window External Subdomain GIVE NOW
https://www.colostate.edu/contactExternal Subdomain Contact CSU
https://admissions.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Apply to CSU
https://www.colostate.edu/acce...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://www.colostate.edu/disc...External Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.colostate.edu/equa...External Subdomain Equal Opportunity
https://www.colostate.edu/privacyExternal Subdomain Privacy Statement
http://www.colostate.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Colorado State University
https://compsci.colostate.edu/Anchor No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 (1.10 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.
This page loads 12 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (122 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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serverApache
varyAccept-Encoding,Cookie,User-Agent
cache-controlmax-age=3, must-revalidate
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-encodinggzip
content-length20402
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is very well linked from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 32 referring domains.
This page has 28,503 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 29 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
State78%Check
Colorado State72%Check
State University72%Check
Colorado State University70%Check
Computer58%Check
Science58%Check
CSU58%Check
Computer Science58%Check
CSU Department56%Check
Department54%Check

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