Engineering.yale.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
83% 
External factors
0% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.76 s
File size
238.80 kB
Words
332
Media files
20
Number of links
50 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
What's Next | Yale Engineering
The length of the page title is perfect. (277 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science is one of the top engineering programs in the US, at the forefront of informing the world’s greatest opportunities.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (970 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://engineering.yale.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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)
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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descriptionYale School of Engineering & Applied Science is one of the top engineering programs in the US, at the forefront of informing the world’s greatest opportunities.
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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 332 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
18 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the New Era of Yale Engineering
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the New Era of Yale Engineering
H2 What’s Next
H2 Engineering Research for Global Impact
H2 Undergraduate Studies
H2 Graduate Studies
H2 Award-Winning Faculty
H2 New Engineering Campus
H3 Explore our Areas of Impact:
H3 Dare to Discover What's Next
H3 Dare to Research Beyond
H3 Zimmerman Elected to National Academy of Engineering
H3 Qiu Wins PECASE Award
H3 Saxena, Haji-Akbari Named Sloan Fellows
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://engineering.yale.edu/Anchor Skip to Content
https://engineering.yale.edu/No Text
/school-experienceExperience
/school-experienceExperience Overview >
/school-experience/whats-nextOur Mantra / What's Next
/school-experience/campus-lifeCampus Life
/school-experience/yale-engine...Stories
/school-experience/new-enginee...New Engineering Campus
/school-experience/student-clu...Student Clubs & Organizations
/academic-studyStudy
/academic-studyStudy Overview >
/academic-study/departmentsDepartments
/academic-study/undergraduateUndergraduate
/academic-study/graduateGraduate
/research-and-facultyResearch / Faculty
/research-and-facultyResearch / Faculty Overview >
/research-and-faculty/innovationInnovation
/research-and-faculty/research...Areas of Impact
/research-and-faculty/faculty-...Faculty Directory
/research-and-faculty/faculty-...Faculty Openings
/research-and-faculty/faculty-...Faculty Resources
/news-and-eventsNews / Events
/news-and-eventsNews / Events Overview >
/news-and-events/newsNews
/news-and-events/eventsEvents
/news-and-events/magazineYale Engineering Magazine
/news-and-events/connect-with-usConnect with Us
/aboutAbout
/aboutAbout Overview >
/about/message-from-dean-jeffr...Dean's Message
/about/facts-and-figuresFacts / Figures
/about/strategic-visionStrategic Vision
/about/communityCommunity
/about/school-directorySchool Directory
/applyApply
/research-and-faculty/research...Subdomain Artificial Intelligence
/research-and-faculty/research...Subdomain Mathematical Modeling & Scientific Computation
/research-and-faculty/research...Subdomain Materials Science, Innovation & Technology
/research-and-faculty/research...Subdomain Planetary Solutions
/research-and-faculty/research...Subdomain Quantum Science & Engineering
/research-and-faculty/research...Subdomain Robotics for Humanity
/academic-study/undergraduateSubdomain Undergraduate Studies
/academic-study/graduateSubdomain Graduate Studies
/news-and-events/news/julie-zi...Zimmerman Elected to National Academy of Engineering
/news-and-events/news/diana-qi...Qiu Wins PECASE Award
/news-and-events/news/shreya-s...Saxena, Haji-Akbari Named Sloan Fellows
/school-experience/new-enginee...Subdomain At the heart of Yale's campus, a historic investment will propel innovation and collaboration.
https://engineering.yale.edu/IMG-ALT Yale Engineering Logo
https://usability.yale.edu/web...New window External Subdomain Accessibility >
https://privacy.yale.edu/resou...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy >
/give-backGive Back >
/contact-usContact Us >
https://www.worxbranding.com/New window External Subdomain WORX
https://www.facebook.com/yalee...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/yaleengineeringNew window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/yale...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@yalee...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://engineering.yale.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 0.76 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 (239 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateTue, 27 May 2025 19:27:31 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length36920
serverApache
cache-controlmax-age=21600, s-maxage=21600
pragmapublic
expiresWed, 28 May 2025 00:23:57 GMT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

We didn't find any backlinks to this page.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Block internal ConcreteCMS application paths
User-agent: *
Disallow: /application/attributes
Disallow: /application/authentication
Disallow: /application/bootstrap
Disallow: /application/config
Disallow: /application/controllers
Disallow: /application/elements
Disallow: /application/helpers
Disallow: /application/jobs
Disallow: /application/languages
Disallow: /application/mail
Disallow: /application/models
Disallow: /application/page_types
Disallow: /application/single_pages
Disallow: /application/views
Disallow: /ccm/system/captcha/picture

# Prevent bot overload and legacy noise
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /rss.xml
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /sites/
Disallow: /computer-sciencesites/
Disallow: /news-and-events/news?page=
Disallow: /application/files/cache/

# Prevent probing of backend files
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.xml$

# Suggest bots slow down (not all obey this)
Crawl-delay: 10

# Optional sitemap (uncomment if you have one)
Sitemap: https://engineering.yale.edu/sitemap.xml

Search preview

engineering.yale.edu
What's Next | Yale Engineering
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science is one of the top engineering programs in the US, at the forefront of informing the world’s greatest opportunities.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Engineering93%Check
Yale Engineering92%Check
Yale89%Check
Science Engineering72%Check
Top Engineering67%Check
engineering disciplines65%Check
Yale University61%Check
New54%Check
Welcome50%Check
Science48%Check

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