Riceowls.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
87% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
77% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.90 s
File size
161.60 kB
Words
137
Media files
8
Number of links
8 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Rice University
The page title is too short. (134 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official athletics website for the Rice University Owls
The length of the meta description is perfect. (347 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionThe official athletics website for the Rice University Owls
urlhttps://riceowls.com/
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:descriptionThe official athletics website for the Rice University Owls
twitter:imagehttps://riceowls.com/images/logos/site/site.png
twitter:image:altRice University Athletics Logo
twitter:titleRice University Athletics - Official Athletics Website
og:typewebsite
og:titleRice University Athletics - Official Athletics Website
og:imagehttps://riceowls.com/images/logos/site/site.png
og:image:altRice University Athletics Logo
og:descriptionThe official athletics website for the Rice University Owls
og:determinerthe
og:localeen_US
og:site_nameRice University Athletics
og:urlhttps://riceowls.com/
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 137 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
22.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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 6 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...com/images/nextgen_2023/loading-logo.svgRice Logo
.../2_0qZ945JWU/maxresdefault.jpg&type=webpNight of The Owls 2025
...eYHx.JPG?width=1024&height=576&type=webp2025 AAC Championship Second Round
...NWRP.JPG?width=1024&height=576&type=webp2025 AAC Championship First Round
...DTga.jpg?width=1024&height=683&type=webpDaniel Sowell
.../qQisMBSTTj4/maxresdefault.jpg&type=webpRice Men's Basketball Team Impact Signing
...lClub.jpg&width=540&height=810&type=webpImage related to Rice Owl Club
...tgen_2023/slider_D_divider.png&type=webpDivider

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Slider
H2 Top Stories
H2 Quick Links
H2 Content Waterfall
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
There are too few (8) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://riceowls.com/Anchor Skip to main content
https://espn.com/watchExternal Watch Rice Owls on ESPN+
https://am.ticketmaster.com/ri...External Subdomain 2025 Rice Football Season Tickets On Sale
https://espn.com/watchExternal Text duplicate Watch Rice Owls on ESPN+
https://am.ticketmaster.com/ri...External Subdomain Text duplicate 2025 Rice Football Season Tickets On Sale
https://riceowls.com/archivesAll News
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain All Videos
https://riceowls.com/galleriesAll Galleries
/galleries?gallery=6362Men's Golf / Apr 22, 2025 MG 2025 AAC Championship Second Round
IMG-ALT 2025 AAC Championship Second Round
/galleries?gallery=6361Men's Golf / Apr 21, 2025 MG 2025 AAC Championship First Round
IMG-ALT 2025 AAC Championship First Round
/galleries?gallery=6356Men's Track & Field / Mar 29, 2025 2025 Victor Lopez Classic
IMG-ALT Daniel Sowell
https://riceowls.com/GiveGive Today!
https://riceowls.com/FamilySubscribe Today
https://sidearmsports.com/term...New window External Terms of Service
https://www.sidearmsports.com/...New window External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://sidearmsports.com/acce...New window External Accessibility
https://learfield.com/External No Text
https://sidearmsports.com/External No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://riceowls.com/"
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 0.90 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 (162 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 02 Jul 2025 14:26:48 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
varyAccept-Encoding
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access-control-expose-headersx-trace
x-redis-cacheHIT
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15724800
content-encodinggzip
set-cookie186 Characters
x-cdnImperva
x-iinfo56-130373485-130373553 NNNN CT(43 28 0) RT(1751466407939 154) q(0 0 1 11) r(1 1) U12
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 168 referring domains.
This page has 720 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 153 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Rice University
The official athletics website for the Rice University Owls

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Rice73%Check
Owls61%Check
Rice University48%Check
University Owls42%Check
slide40%Check
Slider40%Check
content38%Check
Top Stories38%Check
Quick38%Check
Links38%Check
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