Rii.usc.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
69% 
External factors
33% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.90 s
File size
96.40 kB
Words
204
Media files
5
Number of links
18 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Research Initiatives and Infrastructure
The length of the page title is perfect. (339 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://rii.usc.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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorElementor 3.28.4; features: additional_custom_breakpoints, e_local_google_fonts; settings: css_print_method-external, google_font-enabled, font_display-auto
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 204 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
28.4% 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.
5 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 24.8 words is good.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: learn more »
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...-PrimShield_Mono_RegUse_Card-Blk_RGB.pngUniversity of Southern California
...500xewsl2dlygfoo3iv391jeykha4ty705d8.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ersnap-UmncJq4KPcA-unsplash-1024x684.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...a-chea-gKUC4TMhOiY-unsplash-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...aham-5fNmWej4tAA-unsplash-2-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided

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.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Research Initiatives and Infrastructure
H2 Announcements
H2 Calendar
H2 Empty heading
H3 Funding
H3 Limited Submissions
H3 Shared Resources
H3 CER
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
4 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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://rii.usc.edu/Anchor Skip to primary navigation
https://rii.usc.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://rii.usc.edu/Subdomain Research Initiatives and Infrastructure
https://www.usc.edu/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Southern California
https://research.usc.edu/New window External Subdomain Research and Innovation
https://rii.usc.edu/funding/Subdomain Funding
/limited-submissions/Subdomain Limited Submissions
/shared-resources/Subdomain Shared Resources
https://rii.usc.edu/cer/Subdomain Training
/announcements/Subdomain Announcements
https://rii.usc.edu/contact/Subdomain Contact
https://rii.usc.edu/fundingNo Text
https://rii.usc.edu/fundingLearn More »
/limited-submissionsNo Text
/limited-submissionsText duplicate Learn More »
/shared-resourcesNo Text
/shared-resourcesText duplicate Learn More »
https://rii.usc.edu/cerNo Text
https://rii.usc.edu/cerText duplicate Learn More »
https://rii.usc.edu/announcementsRead More Updates
https://twitter.com/researchatuscExternal No Text
http://usc.edu/privacy-noticeExternal Privacy Notice
https://eeotix.usc.edu/notice-...External Subdomain Notice of Non-Discrimination

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://rii.usc.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
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 (96 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 01 Jun 2025 16:11:56 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-powered-byWP Engine
link<https://rii.usc.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheablebot
cache-controlmax-age=10800, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 8
x-cache-groupbot
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 11 referring domains.
This page only has 13,899 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 11 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Crawl-delay: 10

Sitemap: https://rii.usc.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Research55%Check
Initiatives55%Check
Infrastructure55%Check
Research Initiatives55%Check
USC48%Check
RII48%Check
edu48%Check
University41%Check
Southern41%Check
California41%Check
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