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Page quality
51% 
Page structure
81% 
Link structure
46% 
Server
100% 
External factors
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SEO Score
Response time
0.34 s
File size
71.60 kB
Words
580
Media files
26
Number of links
112 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Cornell Chronicle
The length of the page title is perfect. (224 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Cornell Chronicle: Daily news from Cornell University
The length of the meta description is perfect. (326 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://news.cornell.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
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Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 32 words is high.
This page contains 580 words. That's ok.
19.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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There are no duplicates on the site.
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
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HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

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Cornell Chronicle
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Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

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H2 Latest News
H2 Follow Cornell
H2 Research at Risk
H2 New York State Impact
H2 Around Cornell
H2 Cornell Research
H2 Featured Video
H2 Photos of the Week
H2 Features
H2 Staff News
H2 Energy, Environment & Sustainability
H2 Links
H2 Contact
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H3 Around Cornell Duplicate text
H3 Around Cornell Duplicate text
H3 Around Cornell Duplicate text
H3 Gallery Heading
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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The page response time is excellent with 0.34 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (72 kB).

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