Ltrc.lsu.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
96% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
36% 
External factors
41% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.91 s
File size
27.40 kB
Words
438
Media files
15
Number of links
46 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Louisiana Transportation Research Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (377 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
LTRC: merging resources of state government and universities to help identify, develop, and implement new technology to improve the state's transportation system.
The meta description is too long: 1010 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
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

NameValue
format-detectiontelephone=no
viewportwidth=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0
keywordstransportation research, Louisiana, Louisiana department of transportation and development
dateJanuary 31 2019
DescriptionLTRC: merging resources of state government and universities to help identify, develop, and implement new technology to improve the state's transportation system.
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 438 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.8% 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.
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 23.17 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 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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)
Louisiana Transportation Research Center
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Louisiana Transportation Research Center
H2 Recent News
H2 About Us
H3 Quick Links
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 (26) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/index.htmlIMG-ALT LTRC
/index.htmlText duplicate IMG-ALT LTRC
/research.htmlResearch
/pubs_projectcapsules.htmlCurrent Research
/pdf/2024/LTRC_Annual_Work_Pro...Annual Research Program
/research_materials.htmlMaterials Research
/research_pavement.htmlPavement and Geotechnical Research
/research_special.htmlSpecial Studies
/pdf/2024/LTRC_Research_Manual...LTRC Research Manual
http://projectmanagement.ltrc....External Subdomain Project Management and Tracking
/downloads.htmlResearch Forms
/research_products.htmlResearch Implementation Products
/training.htmlTraining and Education
https://registration.ltrc.lsu....External Subdomain LTRC Registration Management System
http://lsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/f...External Subdomain Training Needs Request Form
/pdf/DOTD_Course_Catalog.pdfNew window DOTD Course Catalog
/pdf/Training_Requirements.pdfNew window DOTD Training Requirements Catalog
/certification.htmlCertification
/training_structured.htmlStructured Training Program
/training_external.htmlExternal Educational Resources
/ttec.htmlTTEC
/ltap/index.htmlLTAP
/erdp.htmlERDP
/co_op.htmlCo-op
/trac_rides.htmlAASHTO STEM Outreach Solutions
/library.htmlLibrary
/library.htmlLibrary Database/Standards
/library-research-links.htmlResearch Links
https://l92031.eos-intl.net/L9...External Subdomain Library Catalog
/library-policies.htmlLibrary Policies and Procedures
/certification.htmlText duplicate Certification
/conferences.htmlEvents
https://registration.ltrc.lsu....External Subdomain Text duplicate LTRC Registration Management System
https://ltrc.mymazevo.com/External Subdomain Request a Room
/publications.htmlPublications
/pubs_annual_reports.htmlAnnual Reports
/pdf/2024/LTRC_Annual_Work_Pro...Text duplicate Annual Research Program
/pubs_projectcapsules.htmlProject Capsules
/pubs_final_reports.htmlFinal Reports and Summaries (Completed Research)
/pubs_implement_impact.htmlImplementation Impacts
/pubs_tar.htmlTechnical Assistance Reports
/pubs_factsheet.htmlFact Sheets
/pubs_technology_today.htmlTechnology Today
/downloads.htmlPublication Forms
https://forms.gle/bASqexZjV989...New window External Poster Printing Request
/staff.htmlContact Us
/staff.htmlDepartmental Staff Listing
/contact.htmlGeneral Contact Information
/about.htmlAbout Us
https://registration.ltrc.lsu....New window External Subdomain Register for Courses and Events
/pdf/DOTD_Course_Catalog.pdfNew window Text duplicate DOTD Course Catalog
http://lsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/f...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Training Needs Request Form
https://www.ltrc.lsu.edu/Anchor Requests for Proposals
https://www.ltrc.lsu.edu/ltap/New window Subdomain Local Technical Assistance Program
/ltap/lpa_online.htmlNew window Subdomain Online LPA Training
https://east.mymazevo.com/cale...New window External Subdomain Event Calendar
https://ltrc.mymazevo.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Request a Room
https://www.facebook.com/LTRCU...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LTRC Facebook Page
https://twitter.com/LTRC_UpdatesNew window External A-TITLE LTRC Twitter Page
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LTRC YouTube Channel
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LTRC LinkedIn Page
https://express.adobe.com/page...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT LTRC Concrete Lab
https://express.adobe.com/page...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT LTRC Asphalt Research Continues to Have Industry Effects
https://express.adobe.com/page...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT LTRC Asphalt Lab
https://new.express.adobe.com/...New window External Subdomain LTRC Impact: A Look Back Through the Years
https://www.facebook.com/LTRCU...External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE LTRC Facebook Page
https://twitter.com/LTRC_UpdatesExternal Text duplicate A-TITLE LTRC Twitter Page
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE LTRC YouTube Channel
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE LTRC LinkedIn Page
https://www.lsu.edu/privacyExternal Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.lsu.edu/feedbackExternal Subdomain Provide Website Feedback
https://www.lsu.edu/accessibilityExternal Subdomain Accessibility Statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.ltrc.lsu.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 very slow (1.91 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 5 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (27 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 27 Jun 2025 11:59:58 GMT
serverApache/2.4.62 (CentOS Stream) OpenSSL/3.5.0
last-modifiedTue, 20 May 2025 20:08:47 GMT
etag"6d7e-63596d0f7c62e"
accept-rangesbytes
content-length28030
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 12 referring domains.
This page only has 20 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 12 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Search preview

www.ltrc.lsu.edu
Louisiana Transportation Research Center
LTRC: merging resources of state government and universities to help identify, develop, and implement new technology to improve the state's transportation system.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Transportation73%Check
Transportation Research68%Check
Louisiana Transportation68%Check
Transportation Research Center66%Check
Louisiana Transportation Research66%Check
Louisiana Transportation Research Center65%Check
LTRC64%Check
Research63%Check
Louisiana62%Check
Research Center62%Check

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