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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
13% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.48 s
File size
80.20 kB
Words
619
Media files
23
Number of links
58 internal / 70 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Department of Computer Science : University of Rochester
The length of the page title is perfect. (525 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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

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viewportwidth=device-width
generatorCascade CMS
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og:titleDepartment of Computer Science
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.cs.rochester.edu
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 619 words. That's ok.
18.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 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 18.38 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 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 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
rochester.edu/assets/images/ur-logo.svgRochester shield
/assets/images/slider/oculus_0333_l.jpgPerson holding oculus headset
...ges/slider/vista_collaboratory_072_l.jpgFive people using the VISTA Collaboratory screen
...images/slider/kearns_ub_robots_210_l.jpgcomputer screen filled with numbers
/assets/images/news-feature/gildea_acl.jpgDan Gildea headshot
...es/news-feature/benjamin_valpey_nasa.jpgBenjamin holding up paper award on conference stage
...es/news-feature/screening-parkinsons.jpgElder lady sitting in front of laptop and Alexa
...images/news-feature/comparch_podcast.jpgMini globe sitting on top of a computer chip
...ages/news-feature/letten_ehsan_hoque.jpgEhsan Hoque
.../images/news-feature/ryan_rosenblatt.pngheadshot of student
.../news-feature/ai-business-roundtable.jpgFive faculty conversing around a desk
.../images/news-feature/saiful_research.jpgResearch winners holding awards
/assets/images/wellsaward2024.jpgSarah Mammen
...e/graduate/assets/images/lyu_hanjia.jpegHanjia Lyu
/assets/images/radio_masum-1024x768.pngMasum Hasan in radio booth
...aduate/assets/images/valpey_benjamin.jpgBenjamin Valpey
/assets/images/proma-small.jpegAdiba Proma
...r.edu/assets/images/insta/insta_one.webpTwo University of Rochester students working on an experiment in a lab.
...r.edu/assets/images/insta/insta_two.webpExterior profile of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music.
...edu/assets/images/insta/insta_three.webpUniversity of Rochester student plays the violin during a concert.
....edu/assets/images/insta/insta_four.webpThree University of Rochester sophomores posed together while wearing University of Rochester hats.
....edu/assets/images/insta/insta_five.webpThe University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library bell tower at sunrise.
...r.edu/assets/images/insta/insta_six.webpClose up of a therapy dog’s nose on the University of Rochester river campus.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 27 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 Homepage
H2 Conduct cutting-edge research
H2 Learn from world-class faculty
H2 Apply your knowledge to a range of fields
H2 Featured News
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Student Features
H2 Department of Computer Science
H2 Resources for
H2 Helpful links
H2 Schools & divisions
H2 Libraries & collections
H2 Ever better
H2 More Rochester
H3 Dan Gildea wins 25-year Test of Time Paper Award
H3 PhD Student Benjamin Valpey Wins Best Paper Award
H3 Can Amazon Alexa or Google Home help detect Parkinson’s?
H3 Alumni Dr. Ricardo Bianchini, a technical fellow and corporate vice president at Microsoft Azure, discusses bridging research and production
H3 Ehsan Hoque named a finalist for the 2025 Norwegian Letten Prize
H3 CS Student Among This Year's Fulbright Winners
H3 Rochester faculty discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on education
H3 Md Saiful Islam wins at Graduate Research Day
H3 Undergraduate Sarah Mammen wins 2024 Wells Prize
H3 Hanjia Lyu Wins Google PhD Fellowship
H3 Masum Hasan discusses HCI Research on WXXI
H3 Benjamin Valpey Places at ACM Research Contest
H3 Leveraging Computing and Cognition to Tackle Climate Change
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 (70) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cs.rochester.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://rochester.edu/External IMG-ALT Rochester shield
https://rochester.edu/admissions/External Apply
https://rochester.edu/visit/External Visit
https://rochester.edu/advancem...External Give
https://www.hajim.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
/index.htmlDepartment of Computer Science
/about/index.htmlAbout Us
/about/index.htmlOverview
/about/what-is-cs.htmlWhat is Computer Science?
/about/phd-degrees.htmlPhD Degrees Conferred
/about/recruit.htmlEmployment
/about/engagement-enrichment.htmlEngagement and Enrichment
/about/50th-anniversary.html50th Anniversary
/about/giving.htmlGiving
/about/directions.htmlDirections
/about/contact.htmlContact Us
/people/index.htmlPeople
/people/index.htmlFull Directory
/people/faculty/index.htmlFaculty
/people/graduate/index.htmlGraduate Students
/people/staff/index.htmlStaff
/undergraduate/index.htmlUndergraduate
/undergraduate/index.htmlText duplicate Overview
/undergraduate/advising.htmlAdvising
/undergraduate/degree-requirem...Degree Requirements
/undergraduate/declaring_major...Major Declaration
/undergraduate/resources.htmlResources
/courses/index.htmlCourses
/undergraduate/academic_resour...CS Lab Information
/undergraduate/academic_resour...Research Opportunities
/undergraduate/resources.htmlAnchor URCS Student Groups
/undergraduate/ta.htmlTeaching Assistantships
https://admissions.rochester.e...External Subdomain Applying
/graduate/index.htmlGraduate
/graduate/index.htmlText duplicate Overview
/graduate/masters-program.htmlMaster's Program
/graduate/phd-program.htmlPhD Program
/graduate/courses.htmlText duplicate Courses
/graduate/how-to-apply.htmlText duplicate Applying
/research/index.htmlResearch
/research/index.htmlText duplicate Overview
/research/systems/index.htmlComputer Systems
/research/theory/index.htmlTheory
/research/ai/index.htmlArtificial Intelligence
/research/hci/index.htmlHuman-Computer Interaction
/news-events/index.htmlNews & Events
/news-events/news/index.htmlRecent News
/news-events/events/index.htmlSeminars & Talks
/news-events/newsletter/index....Newsletter
/news-events/distinguished-gif...Distinguished Gifts
/news-events/commencement.htmlCommencement
/research/index.htmlLearn about our research
/people/faculty/index.htmlView Faculty
/about/what-is-cs.htmlLearn about CS
/people/faculty/gildea_daniel/...New window Dan Gildea
A-TITLE https://managedlists.ur.rochester.edu/trk/click?ref=zul360ron_7-5166x31fff2x01835&
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/New window External Subdomain Association for Computational Linguistics
A-TITLE https://managedlists.ur.rochester.edu/trk/click?ref=zul360ron_7-5166x31fff3x01835&
/news-events/news/2025/2025-08...Learn More
/~bvalpey/Subdomain Benjamin Valpey
https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/...External Subdomain 17th NASA Formal Methods Symposium
/news-events/news/2025/2025-07...Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.rochester.edu/news...External Subdomain Can Amazon Alexa or Google Home help detect Parkinson’s?
https://www.rochester.edu/news...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://comparchpodcast.podbea...External Subdomain Alumni Dr. Ricardo Bianchini, a technical fellow and corporate vice president at Microsoft Azure, discusses bridging research and production
https://comparchpodcast.podbea...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/news-events/news/2025/2025-06...Text duplicate Learn More
/news-events/news/2025/2025-06...Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.rochester.edu/news...External Subdomain Rochester faculty discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on education
https://www.rochester.edu/news...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.rochester.edu/coll...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.rochester.edu/news...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://managedlists.ur.roches...External Subdomain Flower City AI
https://managedlists.ur.roches...External Subdomain SAPIEN Coach.
/news-events/news/2023/2023-12...Text duplicate Learn More
https://sc23.supercomputing.or...External Subdomain ACM Student Research Competition
https://sc23.supercomputing.org/External Subdomain Supercomputing '23
/news-events/news/2023/2023-12...Text duplicate Learn More
/news-events/news/2023/2023-5-...Subdomain Read about Adiba's research
https://www.rochester.edu/digi...External Subdomain Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier
https://www.rochester.edu/admi...External Subdomain Prospective students
https://www.rochester.edu/stud...External Subdomain Current students
https://www.rochester.edu/pare...External Subdomain Parents & families
https://www.rochester.edu/work...External Subdomain Faculty & staff
https://www.rochester.edu/alumni/External Subdomain Alumni
https://www.rochester.edu/asei/External Subdomain Intranet
https://rochester.edu/college/...External Web Communications
https://www.rochester.edu/cont...External Subdomain Contact
https://onlinedirectory.ur.roc...External Subdomain Directory
https://www.rochester.edu/huma...External Subdomain Human resources
https://tech.rochester.edu/ser...External Subdomain UR Mobile (app)
https://www.rochester.edu/park...External Subdomain Parking & shuttles
https://tech.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Information technology
https://learn.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Blackboard
https://www.rochester.edu/huma...External Subdomain myURHR
https://mypath.rochester.edu/External Subdomain MyPath
https://www.sas.rochester.edu/External Subdomain School of Arts & Sciences
https://www.hajim.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Hajim School of Engineering
https://www.esm.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Eastman School of Music
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu...External Subdomain School of Medicine & Dentistry
https://www.son.rochester.edu/External Subdomain School of Nursing
https://simon.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Simon Business School
https://www.rochester.edu/Warner/External Subdomain Warner School of Education
https://www.lle.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Laboratory for Laser Energetics
https://www.rochester.edu/libr...External Subdomain University Libraries
https://mag.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Memorial Art Gallery
https://www.rochester.edu/global/External Subdomain Global engagement
https://www.rochester.edu/acce...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.rochester.edu/abou...External Subdomain Vision & Values
https://www.rochester.edu/oee/External Subdomain Office of University Engagement and Enrichment
https://www.rochester.edu/eoc/...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination & Title IX
https://www.rochester.edu/news...External Subdomain News
https://events.rochester.edu/External Subdomain Events
https://uofrathletics.com/External Athletics
https://www.rochester.edu/arts/External Subdomain Arts
https://www.facebook.com/Unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.twitter.com/UofRExternal Subdomain X / Twitter
https://www.tiktok.com/@uroche...External Subdomain TikTok
https://www.instagram.com/uroc...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.threads.net/uroche...External Subdomain Threads
https://www.rochester.edu/socialExternal Subdomain Follow Rochester
https://www.rochester.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.rochester.edu/cont...External Subdomain Contact us (585) 275-2121
https://www.rochester.edu/maps/External Subdomain See maps and directions Rochester, NY
https://www.rochester.edu/priv...External Subdomain Privacy
https://www.rochester.edu/copy...External Subdomain Copyright
https://www.rochester.edu/emer...External Subdomain Emergency Information

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cs.rochester.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.48 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 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 10 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (80 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 13 Aug 2025 16:46:15 GMT
serverApache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
x-frame-optionssameorigin
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
accept-rangesbytes
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 53 referring domains.
This page has 224 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 48 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /msdnaa/
Disallow: /dept/calendar/
Disallow: /dept/phpicalendar/
Disallow: /dept/contest/
# twiki disallows
Disallow: /bin/attach
Disallow: /bin/changes
Disallow: /bin/edit
Disallow: /bin/geturl
Disallow: /bin/installpasswd
Disallow: /bin/mailnotify
Disallow: /bin/manage
Disallow: /bin/oops
Disallow: /bin/passwd
Disallow: /bin/preview
Disallow: /bin/rdiff
Disallow: /bin/rdiffauth
Disallow: /bin/register
Disallow: /bin/rename
Disallow: /bin/save
Disallow: /bin/savemulti
Disallow: /bin/search
Disallow: /bin/setlib.cfg
Disallow: /bin/statistics
Disallow: /bin/testenv
Disallow: /bin/configure
Disallow: /bin/upload
Disallow: /bin/viewauth
Disallow: /bin/viewfile
Disallow: /list/
# page does not exist
Disallow: /wcms/research/cisd
Disallow: /research/cisd/projects/trips/lexicon/cgi/browseontology
# bingbot is hammering us.  throttle their crawls
# 1 slow, 5 very slow, 10 extremely slow
#User-agent: msnbot
#Crawl-delay: 10
#User-agent: bingbot
#Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# gildea wordnet indexing is confusing search results for BRAID and other site keyword searches
Disallow: /~gildea/cgi-bin/
# mailman archives
Disallow: /pipermail/
# google search console reports 'coverage error' indexing non-exisitent urls
# report claims linked at /dept/seminars/view/nlprg/ but that does not seem to be the case
Disallow: /dept/seminars/view/view/nlprg/2017/5
Disallow: /dept/seminars/view/view/nlprg/2016/12
Disallow: /dept/seminars/view/view/nlprg/2017/2
Disallow: /dept/seminars/view/view/nlprg/2017/1

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