Oit.ua.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
13% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.23 s
File size
51.80 kB
Words
450
Media files
13
Number of links
50 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Office of Information Technology
The length of the page title is perfect. (289 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://oit.ua.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
robotsmax-image-preview:large
descriptionEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Office of Information Technology | The University of Alabama
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 450 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.3% 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.
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 13.55 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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.

Media list

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
OIT is here to help with any of your tech needs
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 OIT is here to help with any of your tech needs
H1 Home
H2 Students
H2 Faculty & Staff
H2 Research
H2 IT Community
H2 About Us
H2 Quick Links
H3 Tech resources available to all members of the UA community.
H3 Login Help
H3 Recent News
H4 OIT works to provide innovative and reliable technology services to The University of Alabama.
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.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 19 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://oit.ua.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://ua.edu/External IMG-ALT The University of Alabama
http://mybama.ua.edu/External Subdomain myBama
https://oit.ua.edu/Subdomain Office of Information Technology
https://oit.ua.edu/Subdomain Home
https://oit.ua.edu/about/Subdomain About
/about/standing-it-committees-...Subdomain Standing IT Committees and Councils
/about/it-for-faculty-staff/Subdomain IT for Faculty & Staff
/about/it-for-students/Subdomain IT For Students
/about/admin-team/Subdomain Admin Team
/about/organizational-chart/Subdomain Organizational Chart
/about/policies-and-guidance/Subdomain Policies and Guidance
/about/strategic-plan/Subdomain Strategic Plan
https://oit.ua.edu/services/Subdomain Services
/services/application-support/Subdomain Application Support
/services/audio-visual-solutions/Subdomain Audio Visual Solutions
/services/custom-development/Subdomain Custom Development
/services/cybersecurity/Subdomain Cybersecurity Resources
/services/database-administrat...Subdomain Database Administration Services
/services/email-collaboration/Subdomain Email & Collaboration
/services/gis-services/Subdomain GIS Services
/services/hosting-services/Subdomain Hosting Services
http://cit.ua.edu/External Subdomain Instructional Technology
/services/internet-networking/Subdomain Internet & Networking
/services/mybama/Subdomain Text duplicate myBama
/services/project-management-o...Subdomain Project Management
/services/reporting-tools/Subdomain Reporting Tools
http://hpc.ua.edu/External Subdomain Research Computing
/services/researchsecurity/Subdomain Research Security
https://accessibility.ua.edu/External Subdomain Technology Accessibility
/services/userservices/Subdomain Anchor Telecommunications
/services/userservices/Subdomain User Services
https://oit.ua.edu/software/Subdomain Software
https://oit.ua.edu/news/Subdomain News
https://oit-status-page.oitapp...External Subdomain Status
https://oit.ua.edu/contact/Subdomain Contact
/services/cybersecurity/report...Subdomain Report an Incident
https://oit.ua.edu/?page_id=229Subdomain Connect to Wi-Fi
https://oit.ua.edu/?page_id=233Subdomain IT Service Desk
https://oit.ua.edu/software/Subdomain Download software
https://oit.ua.edu/?page_id=139Subdomain Students
https://oit.ua.edu/?page_id=114Subdomain Faculty & Staff
https://hpc.ua.edu/External Subdomain Research
https://oit.ua.edu/?page_id=107Subdomain IT Community
/services/userservices/login-h...Subdomain Login Help
/2025/07/31/we-are-it-jonathan...Subdomain We Are IT – Jonathan Bogardus
/2025/07/31/we-are-it-jonathan...Subdomain Read more: We Are IT – Jonathan Bogardus
/2025/07/30/zscaler-internet-a...Subdomain Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) Redeploying to OIT Staff
/2025/07/30/zscaler-internet-a...Subdomain Read more: Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) Redeploying to OIT Staff
/2025/07/24/banner-and-related...Subdomain Banner and Related Apps Unavailable July 27
/2025/07/24/banner-and-related...Subdomain Read more: Banner and Related Apps Unavailable July 27
/home-page/news/Subdomain Recent news
https://oit.ua.edu/?page_id=166Subdomain Text duplicate Strategic Plan
https://oit.ua.edu/contact/Subdomain Visit our Contact page for more information
https://oit.ua.edu/software/Subdomain Download Software
/services/userservices/login-h...Subdomain Recover Password
/services/userservices/login-h...Subdomain Change Password
https://outlook.office.com/External Subdomain Email Access
https://uasystem.edu/New window External IMG-ALT Part of the University of Alabama System
https://www.ua.edu/copyrightExternal Subdomain Copyright © 2025
https://www.ua.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate The University of Alabama
https://www.ua.edu/contactExternal Subdomain Contact UA
https://accessibility.ua.edu/s...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://oie.ua.edu/accreditationExternal Subdomain SACSCOC
https://login.ua.edu/cas/login...External Subdomain Taskstream
http://eop.ua.edu/External Subdomain Equal Opportunity
http://compliance.ua.edu/priva...External Subdomain Data Access Request
https://www.ua.edu/disclaimerExternal Subdomain Disclaimer
https://www.ua.edu/privacyExternal Subdomain Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://oit.ua.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.23 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 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (52 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 02 Aug 2025 16:24:49 GMT
serverApache
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.26
link<https://oit.ua.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 115 referring domains.
This page has 145 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 42 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
OIT68%Check
tech66%Check
help54%Check
OIT works54%Check
OIT provides52%Check
Technology50%Check
needs50%Check
need50%Check
Information Technology48%Check
Office46%Check

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