Elon.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
88% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
46.30 kB
Words
554
Media files
5
Number of links
54 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Elon University - America’s Top-Ranked Teaching University
The length of the page title is perfect. (533 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Experiential learning, outstanding teaching & mentoring, and an excellent four-year graduation rate make Elon a top-100 National University.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (860 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.elon.edu/u/home-2024/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 554 words. That's ok.
25.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 23.75 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 11 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
...ersity-Base/assets/img/global/nc-map.svgMap showing Elon University, a U.S. News nationally ranked best college, located in North Carolina between Greensboro and Raleigh
Video URLWidthHeight
...ideo/home/2025/final/hero-2025-03-13.mp4
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Distinctly Elon
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Distinctly Elon
H2 Moments of transformation are happening right here, right now.
H2 The Elon Experiences
H2 Student Centered
H2 Globally Engaged
H2 Experiential
H2 Find Your Path
H2 Are You Ready?
H2 Success After Graduation
H2 Right Here & Right Now
H3 A campus where you are seen, known and celebrated.
H3 Education that extends far beyond the classroom.
H3 Learn to transform your ideas into actions.
H3 You bring the dream, we'll provide the direction.
H3 Make today the first day of your own unique journey.
H3 Elon alumni are ready to lead, from day one.
H3 News
H4 Loading heading...
H4 Loading heading... Duplicate text
H4 Loading heading... Duplicate text
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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.elon.edu/Anchor Jump to main content
https://www.elon.edu/Anchor Jump to search
https://www.elon.edu/Anchor Jump to the footer
https://www.elon.edu/Subdomain Elon University home
https://www.elon.edu/u/nav-about/Subdomain About
/u/nav-admissions/Subdomain Admissions
https://www.elon.edu/academicsSubdomain Academics
/u/nav-global/Subdomain Global
/u/nav-campus-life/Subdomain Campus Life
http://elonphoenix.com/External Athletics
/u/nav-alumni/Subdomain Alumni
/u/student-resources/Subdomain Students
/u/faculty-staff-resources/Subdomain Faculty & Staff
/u/parents-resources/Subdomain Parents
https://ontrack.elon.edu/External Subdomain OnTrack
https://www.elon.edu/moodle/Subdomain Moodle
https://www.elon.edu/calendarSubdomain Calendar
https://www.elon.edu/u/newsSubdomain News
https://www.elon.edu/library/Subdomain Library
https://www.elon.edu/mapsSubdomain Maps
https://www.elon.edu/directories/Subdomain Directory
https://www.elon.edu/email/Subdomain Email
https://www.elon.edu/makeagiftSubdomain Give
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ap...Subdomain Apply
/u/admissions/undergraduate/gl...Subdomain Study Abroad
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ex...Subdomain Internships
/u/admissions/undergraduate/un...Subdomain Research
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ex...Subdomain Leadership
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ex...Subdomain Service
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ex...Subdomain The Elon ExperiencesThe Elon Experiences Learn More
/u/admissions/undergraduate/be...Subdomain Explore Our Community
/u/admissions/undergraduate/gl...Subdomain Start Your Journey
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ex...Subdomain Discover the Possibilities
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ex...Subdomain Undergraduate Majors & Minors
/u/admissions/graduate/Subdomain Graduate Programs
https://admissions.elon.edu/re...External Subdomain Request Info
https://admissions.elon.edu/ap...External Subdomain Apply Now
https://admissions.elon.edu/po...External Subdomain Schedule a Visit
/u/admissions/undergraduate/ex...Subdomain Degree Outcomes
https://www.elon.edu/newsSubdomain More News & Events
https://www.elon.edu/Anchor Jump to Top
http://www.facebook.com/ElonUn...New window External Subdomain Elon University Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/elonuni...New window External Subdomain Elon University X (formerly Twitter)
A-TITLE X (formerly Twitter)
http://www.instagram.com/elonu...New window External Subdomain Elon University Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
http://www.linkedin.com/edu/sc...New window External Subdomain Elon University LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain Elon University Flickr
A-TITLE Flickr
http://www.youtube.com/elonuni...New window External Subdomain Elon University YouTube
A-TITLE YouTube
/u/about/contact-elon/social-m...Subdomain Elon University Full Social Media List
A-TITLE Full Social Media List
/u/about/contact-elon/Subdomain Contact Elon
http://www.elon.edu/emergencySubdomain Emergency Info
http://www.elon.edu/directories/Subdomain Campus Directories
https://www.elon.edu/visitSubdomain Visit Campus
http://www.elon.edu/eservicesSubdomain Online Services
https://secure.ethicspoint.com...External Subdomain EthicsPoint
https://www.elon.edu/hrSubdomain Human Resources
/u/campus-health-status-alerts/Subdomain Health Status & Alerts
http://www.elon.edu/spacesSubdomain Space Reservations
https://www.elon.edu/library/Subdomain Text duplicate Library
http://elon.bncollege.com/External Subdomain Bookstore
/culturalcalendarSubdomain Box Office
https://www.elon.edu/privacySubdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.elon.edu/u/title-ix/Subdomain Title IX
/u/about/policies-and-core-doc...Subdomain GDPR Information
/u/about/policies-and-core-doc...Subdomain Accessibility
/u/admissions/graduate/Subdomain Nine Graduate Programs in North Carolina
/u/campus-recreation-wellness/Subdomain Campus Recreation and Wellness in North Carolina
/u/inclusive-excellence/Subdomain University Inclusive Excellence in North Carolina

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.elon.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 of 0.73 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.
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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last-modifiedFri, 20 Jun 2025 15:58:49 GMT
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expiresSun, 27 Jul 2025 07:33:20 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=600
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
accept-rangesbytes
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
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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 962 referring domains.
This page has 4,299 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 700 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

# robots.txt for http://www.elon.edu/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /onlinereg/conferences/uclc/deadline.aspx

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www.elon.edu
Elon University - America’s Top-Ranked Teaching University
Experiential learning, outstanding teaching & mentoring, and an excellent four-year graduation rate make Elon a top-100 National University.

Most important keywords

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Elon University79%Check
Elon Experiences67%Check
University61%Check
edu52%Check
Experiential50%Check
Learn50%Check
Make50%Check
Graduation50%Check
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