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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
69% 
Page quality
84% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
46% 
Server
36% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.91 s
File size
81.50 kB
Words
847
Media files
12
Number of links
102 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to the University of South Florida | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee, FL
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 811 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee.
The meta description is too long: 1022 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.usf.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
DescriptionThe University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee.
KeywordsUSF, University of South Florida, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Manatee, USF Health, USF Athletics, USF News, events, calendar, apply, admissions, about, academics, research, myusf, careers, campus life, campus resources, Florida universities, Florida colleges
AuthorUniversity of South Florida
landing_pagetrue
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 847 words. That's ok.
25.1% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 22.41 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
.../main-usf/about-usf-drop-down-preem2.jpgNew Era. Preeminent Research University.
/images/main-usf/2019/apply-now-300x200.jpgUSF sign with flowers
...locations/locations-oneusf-drop-down.jpgOne University Geographically Distributed
/images/main-usf/campus-life-fans.jpgUSF students at football game in green and gold paint.
/images/main-usf/2019/research-dropdown.jpgA woman holds a beaker
...ight-section/2025/homepage-highlight.pngBold Research. Real Impact
...op-mosquito-fighting-ai/new-homepage.pngHow a USF student’s personal battle with dengue helped develop mosquito-fighting AI
...-in-a-single-year/foundation-listing.pngUSF sets new records for philanthropic giving and number of donors in a single year
...rogram-ahead-of-launch/listing-image.jpgDenilo learning robot on computer
...d-2025-tillman-scholar/army-homepage.pngUSF doctoral student, Army veteran named 2025 Tillman Scholar
...artnership-sargolzaei/coast-homepage.pngUSF to advance autonomous vehicle technology research
Video URLWidthHeight
...lay=1&loop=1&playlist=5seYFjNKpAQ&mute=1

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
University of South Florida Home
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 University of South Florida Home
H2 Emergency -
H2 University of South Florida
H2 Main Navigation
H2 Being Bold is who we are.
H2 Bold Research. Real Impact.
H2 USF Features
H2 We are One USF
H2 AAU Membership Fueling USF’s Momentum
H2 USF News & Events
H2 USF Calendar
H3 About USF
H3 Academics
H3 Admissions
H3 Locations
H3 Campus Life
H3 Research
H3 How a USF student’s personal battle with dengue helped develop mosquito-fighting AI
H3 USF sets new records for philanthropic giving and number of donors in a single year
H3 USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing hosts inaugural summer research program ahead of fall launch
H3 USF News
H4 USF doctoral student, Army veteran named 2025 Tillman Scholar
H4 USF to advance autonomous vehicle technology research
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 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.usf.edu/usfalertsSubdomain usf.edu/usfalerts
https://www.usf.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.usf.edu/Subdomain University of South Florida
https://giving.usf.edu/New window External Subdomain Give Now
/about-usf/index.aspxOverview
/about-usf/mission-vision.aspxMission
/about-usf/history-traditions....History and Traditions
/about-usf/facts-statistics.aspxFacts and Statistics
/about-usf/economic-impact.aspxEconomic Impact
/about-usf/student-consumer-in...Student Consumer Information
/about-usf/leadership.aspxLeadership
/about-usf/accreditation.aspxAccreditation
https://jobs.usf.edu/New window External Subdomain Work at USF
/about-usf/visit-usf.aspxVisit USF
/academics/index.aspxText duplicate Overview
/academics/colleges.aspxColleges
https://www.usf.edu/majorsNew window Undergraduate Majors
https://www.usf.edu/gradprogramsNew window Graduate Programs
/academics/courses-calendar.aspxCourses and Calendars
/academics/undergraduate-gradu...Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
/continuing-education/lifelong...New window Continuing Education
/academics/academic-resources....Academic Resources
/academics/libraries.aspxLibraries
https://www.usf.edu/admissions/Text duplicate Overview
/admissions/freshmen/index.aspxFreshmen
/admissions/transfer/index.aspxTransfer
/admissions/graduate/index.aspxGraduate
/admissions/international/inde...International
https://health.usf.edu/educationNew window External Subdomain USF Health
/locations/index.aspxText duplicate Overview
/locations/tampa-campus.aspxTampa Campus
/locations/stpetersburg-campus...St. Petersburg Campus
/locations/sarasota-manatee-ca...Sarasota-Manatee Campus
https://academicplanning.usf.e...New window External Subdomain Instructional Sites
/campus-life/index.aspxText duplicate Overview
/campus-life/campus-resources....Campus Resources and USF Bookstore
/campus-life/housing-dining.aspxHousing and Dining
/campus-life/technology-resour...Technology Resources
/campus-life/financial-resourc...Financial Resources
/campus-life/health-safety.aspxHealth and Safety
/campus-life/internships-stude...Internships and Student Employment
/campus-life/activities-progra...Activities and Programs
/campus-life/arts-culture.aspxArts and Culture
/campus-life/athletics-fitness...Athletics and Fitness
/research/index.aspxText duplicate Overview
/research-innovation/index.aspxNew window USF Research & Innovation
/research/impact/index.aspxImpact
/research-innovation/student-e...New window Student Research
/news/listing.aspx?category=Re...New window Research & Innovation News
/about-usf/students.aspxSubdomain Students
/about-usf/faculty-staff.aspxSubdomain Faculty & Staff
/about-usf/alumni.aspxSubdomain Alumni
/about-usf/parents-family.aspxSubdomain Parents & Family
/about-usf/community.aspxSubdomain Community
https://my.usf.edu/External Subdomain MyUSF
https://directory.usf.edu/External Subdomain Directory
/campaigns/be-bold/index.aspx?...New window Subdomain Be Bold
https://www.usf.edu/majorsSubdomain Find a Major Search for undergraduate majors offered at USF.
/financial-aid/cost-of-attenda...Subdomain Estimate Cost Review tuition, financial aid and scholarship opportunities.
/admissions/index.aspx?utm_sou...Subdomain Apply Now Start your application to become a USF Bull.
/about-usf/visit-usf.aspx?utm_...Subdomain Visit USF View campus maps, virtual tours and get directions.
/research/impact/index.aspxIMG-ALT Bold Research. Real Impact
/research/impact/index.aspxBold Research. Real Impact.
/research/impact/index.aspxLearn more
/news/2025/how-a-usf-students-...Subdomain IMG-ALT How a USF student’s personal battle with dengue helped develop mosquito-fighting AI
/news/2025/how-a-usf-students-...Subdomain Text duplicate How a USF student’s personal battle with dengue helped develop mosquito-fighting AI
https://giving.usf.edu/impact/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT USF sets new records for philanthropic giving and number of donors in a single year
https://giving.usf.edu/impact/...External Subdomain Text duplicate USF sets new records for philanthropic giving and number of donors in a single year
/news/2025/usf-hosts-inaugural...Subdomain IMG-ALT Denilo learning robot on computer
/news/2025/usf-hosts-inaugural...Subdomain USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing hosts inaugural summer research program ahead of fall launch
/locations/tampa-campus.aspxText duplicate Tampa Campus
/locations/stpetersburg-campus...Text duplicate St. Petersburg Campus
/locations/sarasota-manatee-ca...Text duplicate Sarasota-Manatee Campus
/about-usf/index.aspxNew window About USF
/news/2024/us-news-ranks-usf-a...Subdomain Best Value USF Ranks as the “Best Value” Among all Florida Public and Private Universities for Second Consecutive Year.
/news/2025/dozens-of-usf-gradu...Subdomain Top Graduate Programs USF Features 15 Graduate Programs Ranked in the Top 50 Among all Public and Private Institutions
/research-innovation/news/2025...Subdomain Top Patent Producer USF Ranks Among the Top 20 Public Universities in New Patents
/about-usf/points-of-pride.aspxSubdomain Points of Pride Discover More Points of Pride that Distinguish USF Among the Nation's Top Universities
/news/2024/aau-membership-help...New window AAU Membership Fueling USF’s Momentum
/news/2024/aau-membership-help...New window Read more about USF's impact since joining AAU
/news/?utm_source=usf-news-wid...Subdomain USF News
/news/2025/usf-doctoral-studen...Subdomain IMG-ALT USF doctoral student, Army veteran named 2025 Tillman Scholar
/news/2025/usf-doctoral-studen...Subdomain Text duplicate USF doctoral student, Army veteran named 2025 Tillman Scholar
/engineering/news/2025/coast-p...Subdomain IMG-ALT USF to advance autonomous vehicle technology research
/engineering/news/2025/coast-p...Subdomain Text duplicate USF to advance autonomous vehicle technology research
/news/?utm_source=usf-news-wid...Subdomain More News
https://www.usf.edu/calendarSubdomain USF Calendar
https://www.usf.edu/calendar/Subdomain Anchor Aug9 Summer Commencement Aug 9 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM
https://www.usf.edu/calendar/Subdomain Anchor Aug25 First Day of Fall Semester Aug 25 -
https://www.usf.edu/calendar/Subdomain Anchor Aug28 USF Football vs Boise State Aug 28 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
/calendar?utm_source=calendar-...New window Subdomain More Events
/registrar/calendars/index.asp...New window Subdomain Registrar Dates and Deadlines
https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/e...New window External Subdomain Student Events Calendar
https://www.usf.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate University of South Florida
/about-usf/index.aspxSubdomain Text duplicate About USF
/academics/index.aspxSubdomain Academics
/admissions/index.aspxSubdomain Admissions
/locations/index.aspxLocations
/campus-life/index.aspxSubdomain Campus Life
/research/index.aspxSubdomain Research
/about-usf/administrative-unit...New window Subdomain Administrative Units
/regulations-policies/index.aspxNew window Subdomain Regulations & Policies
https://www.usf.edu/hr/index.aspxNew window Subdomain Human Resources
https://jobs.usf.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Work at USF
/public-safety/emergency-manag...New window Subdomain Emergency & Safety
/title-ix/index.aspxNew window Subdomain Title IX
https://health.usf.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate USF Health
https://gousfbulls.com/External USF Athletics
https://www.usfalumni.org/External Subdomain USF Alumni
https://giving.usf.edu/External Subdomain Support USF
https://www.lib.usf.edu/External Subdomain USF Libraries
/world/index.aspxSubdomain USF World
https://facebook.com/USouthFlo...New window External Facebook
https://x.com/USouthFloridaNew window External X
https://www.youtube.com/usfcha...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/usou...New window External Subdomain Instagram
/about-usf/about-this-site.aspxSubdomain Privacy
/about-usf/site-map.aspxSubdomain Site Map
/about-usf/contact-usf.aspxSubdomain Contact USF
/about-usf/visit-usf.aspx?utm_...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Visit USF
/about-usf/about-this-site.aspxSubdomain Anchor Accessibility
https://a.cms.omniupdate.com/1...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.usf.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.91 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 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (82 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlprivate
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-aspnet-version4.0.30319
x-powered-byASP.NET
access-control-allow-origin*
access-control-allow-headersOrigin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept
dateThu, 31 Jul 2025 16:22:14 GMT
content-length83421
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,690 referring domains.
This page has 22,598 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,702 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt for USF.edu
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User-agent: *
# list folders robots are not allowed to index
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /css
Disallow: /aspnet_client
Disallow: /javascripts
Disallow: /snapshots
Disallow: /web-templates
Disallow: /inc
Disallow: /utilities
Disallow: /calendar
Disallow: /it/archive
Disallow: /test-bob
Disallow: /student-affairs/tedx
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /*.doc$
Disallow: /*.docx$
Disallow: /*.ppt$
Disallow: /*.pptx$
Disallow: /*.xls$
Disallow: /*.xlsx$
Disallow: /*.rtf$
Disallow: /*.txt$
#
# list specific files robots are not allowed to index
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Disallow: /Atest.html
Disallow: /jstest.asp
Disallow: /About-USF/contact-send.asp
Disallow: /About-USF/page-not-found.asp
#

# Ahrefs for Admissions
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Allow: /admissions

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User-agent: Twitterbot
# allow twitter to fetch images for news
Allow: /images
#
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# End of robots.txt file
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The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee.

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