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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
62% 
Page structure
85% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.38 s
File size
45.90 kB
Words
485
Media files
13
Number of links
82 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
University of Missouri School of Medicine
The length of the page title is perfect. (366 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
As the first publicly supported medical school west of the Mississippi River, the University of Missouri School of Medicine has improved health, education and research for more than 170 years.
The meta description is too long: 1179 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://medicine.missouri.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

NameValue
descriptionAs the first publicly supported medical school west of the Mississippi River, the University of Missouri School of Medicine has improved health, education and research for more than 170 years.
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GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleMU School of Medicine
twitter:imagehttps://medicine.missouri.edu/sites/default/files/2018-03/MizzouMedAbout.jpg
og:site_nameMU School of Medicine
og:imagehttps://medicine.missouri.edu/sites/default/files/2018-03/MizzouMedAbout.jpg
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 485 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 9.3 words is low.
22.7% 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.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/sites/default/files/logo_0.pngMU School of Medicine
...mes/custom/som/images/default-doctor.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../files/2025-08/Class of 2029 800x450.jpg Stethoscope Breakfast
...-05/Spring 25 Commencement 800x450_0.jpgSOM Commencement
...25-03/2025 Match Day 800x450-graphic.jpg2025 Match Day graphic
...es/2022-06/Barohn_Richard-03-400x485.jpgRichard J. Barohn, MD
...ges-2098875135-800x450.jpg?itok=Yk2x_1Ikcancer patient with nurse
... IT Department 800x450.jpg?itok=Xs2FQesCA photo of some networking cables.
...-08/White Coat 800x450.jpg?itok=ZolUX5jTWhite Coat Ceremony 2025
...ages-917744736-800x450.jpg?itok=8rxaJkFBpatient with doctor and clipboard
/sites/default/files/logo_0.pngMU School of Medicine

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Transformational Leaders in Improving Health
The H1 heading is perfect.
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.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Transformational Leaders in Improving Health
H2 Administration & Leadership
H2 Facts & Pride Points
H2 Stories That Inspire
H3 Results for ""
H3 Stethoscope Breakfast / White Coat Ceremony 2025
H3 Commencement Ceremony
H3 Match Day 2025
H3 Richard J. Barohn, MD
H3 Care Coordination Necessary for Best Cancer Patient Outcomes
H3 Behind-the-Scenes Stars: School of Medicine IT Department
H3 School of Medicine Class of 2029 take first steps towards MD
H3 Removing Barriers to Recovery Improves Surgical Outcomes
H4 Can't find what you're looking for?
H4 Pages
H4 Faculty
H4 Dynamic System Menu
H4 Class of 2025 Match Rate
H4 Active Clinical Trials
H4 Alumni Worldwide
H4 Years of Patient-Based Learning Curriculum
H4 First-year Medical Students
H4 Faculty Physicians and Scientists
H4 Years Educating Physicians
H4 Students, Residents and Fellows
H4 Happenings at MU School of Medicine
H4 Information
H4 Campus
H4 MU Health
H4 Sign up for our monthly newsletter
H5 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://medicine.missouri.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://medicine.missouri.edu/IMG-ALT MU School of Medicine
/departmentsAcademic Departments
/centers-institutes-labsCenters, Institutes & Labs
/facultyFaculty Directory
/offices-programsOffices & Programs
/educationEducation
/researchResearch
/patient-carePatient Care
/admissionsAdmissions
/aboutAbout
/careersCareers
/givingGiving
/alumniAlumni
/newsNews
/student-resourcesStudent Resources
/faculty-resourcesFaculty Resources
/searchSelect a Section
/departmentsText duplicate Academic Departments
/centers-institutes-labsText duplicate Centers, Institutes & Labs
/offices-programsText duplicate Offices & Programs
/facultyText duplicate Faculty Directory
/alumniText duplicate Alumni
/student-resourcesText duplicate Student Resources
/faculty-resourcesText duplicate Faculty Resources
/departmentsText duplicate Academic Departments
/centers-institutes-labsText duplicate Centers, Institutes & Labs
/facultyText duplicate Faculty Directory
/offices-programsText duplicate Offices & Programs
/education/medical-education-c...No Text
/education/medical-education-c...Learn About Our Program
/departments/anesthesiology-an...Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
https://biochem.missouri.edu/External Subdomain Biochemistry
/departments/biomedical-inform...Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME)
/departments/dermatologyDermatology
/departments/emergency-medicineEmergency Medicine
/departments/family-and-commun...Family and Community Medicine
/departments/medical-pharmacol...Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
/departments/medicineMedicine
/departments/molecular-microbi...Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
/departments/neurologyNeurology
/departments/neurosurgeryNeurosurgery
https://cafnr.missouri.edu/div...External Subdomain Nutrition and Exercise Physiology
/departments/obstetrics-gyneco...Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
/departments/ophthalmologyOphthalmology
/departments/orthopaedic-surgeryOrthopaedic Surgery
/departments/otolaryngology-he...Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
/departments/pathology-and-ana...Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
/departments/pediatricsPediatrics
/departments/physical-medicine...Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
/departments/psychiatryPsychiatry
/departments/radiologyRadiology
/departments/radiation-oncologyRadiation Oncology
/departments/surgerySurgery
/offices-programs/education/me...Medical Education
/offices-programs/education/md...MD-PhD Program
/offices-programs/graduate-med...Graduate Medical Education
/offices-programs/education/ph...PhD and Master's Degree Programs
/offices-programs/researchOffice of Research
/offices-programs/research/inv...Investigator Resources
/offices-programs/research/inv...Show-Me Portal
/offices-programs/research/cli...Clinical Trials
/offices-programs/admissionsText duplicate Admissions
/about/faculty-and-physician-c...Faculty Positions
/news/school-medicine-class-20...Continue Reading
A-TITLE School of Medicine Class of 2029 take first steps towards MD
/commencement2025Text duplicate Continue Reading
A-TITLE School of Medicine Awards 117 Degrees at Spring ’24 Commencement
/news/school-medicine-class-20...Text duplicate Continue Reading
A-TITLE School of Medicine Class of 2025 match results revealed
/about-us/leadership-and-admin...Meet our Leaders
/news/care-coordination-necess...Care Coordination Necessary for Best Cancer Patient Outcomes
IMG-ALT cancer patient with nurse
/news/behind-scenes-stars-scho...Behind-the-Scenes Stars: School of Medicine IT Department
IMG-ALT A photo of some networking cables.
/news/school-medicine-class-20...School of Medicine Class of 2029 take first steps towards MD
IMG-ALT White Coat Ceremony 2025
/news/removing-barriers-recove...Removing Barriers to Recovery Improves Surgical Outcomes
IMG-ALT patient with doctor and clipboard
/newsSee All News
https://medicine.missouri.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT MU School of Medicine
/contactNew window Contact
A-TITLE Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/misso...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/mumedicineNew window External A-TITLE X
https://www.youtube.com/user/M...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/mizz...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LinkedIn
/aboutText duplicate About
/departmentsText duplicate Academic Departments
/offices-programs/admissionsText duplicate Admissions
/about/school-of-medicine-careersText duplicate Careers
/centers-institutes-labsText duplicate Centers, Institutes & Labs
/contactText duplicate Contact
/givingText duplicate Giving
https://library.muhealth.org/External Subdomain Library
http://missouri.edu/External University of Missouri
https://missouri.edu/directories/External Staff Directory
https://www.muhealth.org/External Subdomain MU Health Care
https://www.muhealth.org/jobse...External Subdomain MU Health Care Careers
https://healthprofessions.miss...External Subdomain MU School of Health Professions
https://medicine.missouri.edu/Text duplicate MU School of Medicine
http://nursing.missouri.edu/External Subdomain MU Sinclair School of Nursing
https://mualert.missouri.edu/New window External Subdomain Emergency Information
A-TITLE Emergency Information
https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/h...New window External Subdomain equal opportunity employer
A-TITLE equal opportunity employer
https://www.umsystem.edu/New window External Subdomain The Curators of the University of Missouri
A-TITLE The Curators of the University of Missouri
https://missouri.edu/copyright/New window External DMCA and other copyright information
A-TITLE The Curators of the University of Missouri
https://missouri.edu/privacy/New window External Privacy policy
A-TITLE Privacy policy
/contactText duplicate MU School of Medicine
A-TITLE MU School of Medicine

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://medicine.missouri.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 is slow (1.38 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
dateSat, 16 Aug 2025 07:58:03 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length10576
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE (response policy)
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheUNCACHEABLE (response policy)
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
x-request-idv-bc1133bc-7a76-11f0-bc71-0bf8c2007459
x-ah-environmentprod
age0
viavarnish
x-cacheMISS
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 315 referring domains.
This page has 22,627 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 190 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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medicine.missouri.edu
University of Missouri School of Medicine
As the first publicly supported medical school west of the Mississippi River, the University of Missouri School of Medicine has improved health, education and research for more than 170 years.

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Medicine78%Check
School Medicine72%Check
Missouri School70%Check
Missouri69%Check
School68%Check
Health66%Check
University58%Check
Emergency Medicine57%Check
Physical Medicine57%Check
MU School56%Check
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