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Meta information
76% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
41% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.93 s
File size
101.80 kB
Words
521
Media files
25
Number of links
106 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Cornell Turfgrass Program
The length of the page title is perfect. (237 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://turf.cals.cornell.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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=5
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorCornell Turfgrass Program 6.8.2 - https://turf.cals.cornell.edu
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 521 words. That's ok.
22.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.44 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, maximum-scale=5" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
20 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
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..._theme/images/Primary_Wordmark-color.pngCornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
...nded_theme/images/cuseal_full_red120.pngCornell University
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/files/2024/12/1-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
/files/2024/12/2-1-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
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/files/2024/12/6-2-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
/files/2024/12/3-1-1024x1024.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2025/03/Weekly-Turf-Show-1-1024x1024.pngNo alt attribute provided
/files/2025/07/New-ecology-1-1024x1024.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/files/2025/07/New-ecology-1-1024x1024.pngNo alt attribute provided
...2025/07/New-ecology-copy-3-1024x1024.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/files/2025/07/New-ecology.pngNo alt attribute provided
/files/2025/06/New-ecology-copy-2.pngNo alt attribute provided
/files/2025/06/New-ecology.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../Talks-and-TurfTalk-episodes-300x169.pngNo alt attribute provided
...shot-2025-02-23-at-7.04.46 PM-300x94.pngNo alt attribute provided
...shot-2025-02-23-at-7.04.50 PM-300x88.pngNo alt attribute provided
...02/@Cornell-SIPS-Turfgrass-1-300x113.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../Talks-and-TurfTalk-episodes-300x169.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...hot-2025-04-01-at-8.47.27 PM-300x148.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Cornell Turfgrass Program
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Cornell Turfgrass Program
H1 Empty heading
H2 Our Expertise
H2 Featured Resources
H2 In the News
H2 Latest Podcasts from the Cornell Team: On Demand
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 News
H3 Subscribe by Email
H3 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
12 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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://turf.cals.cornell.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.cornell.edu/search/External Subdomain more options
A-TITLE more options
http://www.cornell.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Cornell University
A-TITLE Cornell University
https://turf.cals.cornell.edu/Anchor Search This Site
A-TITLE Search This Site
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Lawn Care
https://safesportsfields.cals....External Subdomain Sports Field Management
https://nysgolfbmp.cals.cornel...External Subdomain Golf BMPs
http://turf.eas.cornell.edu/External Subdomain Turf Forecast Tool
https://turf.cals.cornell.edu/Subdomain Home
/about-2/Subdomain About
/lawn/Subdomain Lawn
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Lawn Care: The Easiest Steps to an Attractive Environmental Asset
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Four Steps To Success
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Know Your Lawn
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Make Adjustments
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Do Less
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Use Alternatives
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Advanced care
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Feeding
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Soil Compaction
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Thatch
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Salt & Dog Urine
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Disease
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Insects and animals
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Weeds
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Starting Fresh
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Plan Ahead
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Choose Seed
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Prepare Seedbed
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Plant
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Closing notes
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Love A Good Lawn
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Lawn Service
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Contacts
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain References
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Acknowledgements
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Please Share Feedback!
/sports-turf/Subdomain Sports turf
/golf-turf/Subdomain Golf turf
/pests-and-weeds/Subdomain Pests
/environment/Subdomain Environment
/news-2/Subdomain Multimedia
/news/shortcutt-newsletter/Subdomain ShortCUTT newsletter
/news-2/webinars/Subdomain Cornell Turf Show
/news-2/webinars/spring-2024-w...Subdomain Spring 2024 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2023-w...Subdomain Spring 2023 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2022-w...Subdomain Spring 2022 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2021-w...Subdomain Spring 2021 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2020-w...Subdomain Spring 2020 webinar archive
/news/Subdomain News
http://cals.cornell.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
http://cornell.edu/External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Cornell University
https://turf.cals.cornell.edu/Subdomain Cornell Turfgrass Program
https://turf.cals.cornell.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/about-2/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/lawn/Subdomain Text duplicate Lawn
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Lawn Care: The Easiest Steps to an Attractive Environmental Asset
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Four Steps To Success
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Know Your Lawn
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Make Adjustments
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Do Less
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Use Alternatives
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Advanced care
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Feeding
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Soil Compaction
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Thatch
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Salt & Dog Urine
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Disease
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Insects and animals
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Weeds
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Starting Fresh
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Plan Ahead
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Choose Seed
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Prepare Seedbed
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Plant
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Closing notes
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Love A Good Lawn
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Lawn Service
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Contacts
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate References
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Acknowledgements
/lawn/lawn-care-the-easiest-st...Subdomain Text duplicate Please Share Feedback!
/sports-turf/Subdomain Text duplicate Sports turf
/golf-turf/Subdomain Text duplicate Golf turf
/pests-and-weeds/Subdomain Text duplicate Pests
/environment/Subdomain Text duplicate Environment
/news-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Multimedia
/news/shortcutt-newsletter/Subdomain Text duplicate ShortCUTT newsletter
/news-2/webinars/Subdomain Text duplicate Cornell Turf Show
/news-2/webinars/spring-2024-w...Subdomain Text duplicate Spring 2024 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2023-w...Subdomain Text duplicate Spring 2023 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2022-w...Subdomain Text duplicate Spring 2022 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2021-w...Subdomain Text duplicate Spring 2021 webinar archive
/news-2/webinars/spring-2020-w...Subdomain Text duplicate Spring 2020 webinar archive
/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/lawn/New window Subdomain No Text
/golf-turf/New window Subdomain No Text
/sports-turf/New window Subdomain No Text
/environment/New window Subdomain No Text
/pests-and-weeds/New window Subdomain No Text
/pests-and-weeds/New window Subdomain No Text
https://turf.eas.cornell.edu/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://turf.eas.cornell.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Turf Forecast Tool
https://safesportsfields.cals....New window External Subdomain No Text
https://safesportsfields.cals....New window External Subdomain Cornell Sports Field Management Guide
/2025/07/10/beware-ai-pest-man...New window Subdomain No Text
/2025/07/10/green-speeds-impro...New window Subdomain No Text
/2025/07/10/summer-conversatio...New window Subdomain No Text
/2025/07/11/faces-of-extension...Subdomain No Text
https://blogs.cornell.edu/scho...External Subdomain No Text
/2025/06/05/brock-joins-cornel...Subdomain No Text
/news-2/Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Corne...External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/Cornell_TurfExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/playli...External Subdomain No Text
/2025/07/11/faces-of-extension...Subdomain Faces of Extension: Meet Carl Schimenti
/2025/07/10/summer-conversatio...Subdomain Summer Conversations: POA and Bentgrass Transitions
/2025/07/10/green-speeds-impro...Subdomain What’s slowing those speeds?
/2025/07/10/beware-ai-pest-man...Subdomain Beware AI Pest Management Recommendations
/2025/06/06/faces-of-extension...Subdomain Faces of Extension: Meet Chase Skrubis
https://cornell.us6.list-manag...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Corne...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/Cornell_TurfExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/playli...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.cornell.edu/copyri...External Subdomain Cornell University©2025
https://privacy.cornell.edu/External Subdomain University Privacy
https://blogs.cornell.edu/acce...External Subdomain Web Accessibility Assistance
A-TITLE Web Accessibility Help
https://turf.cals.cornell.edu/Anchor Skip to toolbar
https://blogs.cornell.edu/turf...External Subdomain Log In

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://turf.cals.cornell.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 very slow (1.93 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 (102 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serveropenresty
dateSat, 02 Aug 2025 06:40:40 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyCookie
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
link<https://turf.cals.cornell.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-cacheMISS
x-cache-bypass-reason0
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 149 referring domains.
This page has 238 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 51 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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