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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.04 s
File size
100.80 kB
Words
596
Media files
13
Number of links
55 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
homepage | Center for Teaching & Learning
The length of the page title is perfect. (388 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://ctl.utexas.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)
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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twitter:cardsummary
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 596 words. That's ok.
25.8% 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.
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 21.36 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 12 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
..._acres/images/utexas-brandbar-shield.svgUniversity of Texas at Austin - home
...mal_Center_for_Teaching_and_Learning.pngCenter for Teaching & Learning home
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...0rdRY-Uw-unsplash.jpg.webp?itok=Wqm7fPRtdecoration
...lic/2025-05/thumb.jpg.webp?itok=3MPRMR3rGraduate Student Showcase 25 thumbnail
...njk1Yj7Y-unsplash.jpg.webp?itok=EhdWAYzGCourse design photo
...ffective Teaching.png.webp?itok=NseQG5Sv8 Principles of effective teaching
...-4-Hook--ems-copy.jpg.webp?itok=oTzF3EdrCommencement 4 hookems at the tour
...01 at 12.41.17 PM.png.webp?itok=HdSOZk3Egroup photo ai panel
...in-bloom-20152775.jpg.webp?itok=lZ05OGmiPink Flowers in front of University Building
...C12-33AB1F02DD1A.jpeg.webp?itok=wwF45Of9Large of individuals standing in front of a digital projection screen
...mal_Center_for_Teaching_and_Learning.pngCenter for Teaching & Learning home
/sites/default/files/CC-BY-NC-SA.pngCreative Commons icon for BY-NC-SA

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
homepage
The H1 heading contains the words homepage! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 homepage
H2 Header Menu
H2 We help you educate today's students
H2 Featured
H2 "Designing a Well-Crafted Course" Toolkit
H2 8 Principles of Effective Teaching
H2 Latest News
H2 Footer menu
H3 Early Career Support
H3 Brush up on your AI knowledge
H3 Graduate Teaching Showcase Videos
H3 May Newsletter: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
H3 Adapting to AI: Student Voices on Course Assessments
H3 April Newsletter: Celebrating Student Work & Leadership
H3 Join us for Designing Learning-Centered Courses (ACUE)
H4 A Framework for Transformative Teaching
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ctl.utexas.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.utexas.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Texas at Austin - home
https://ctl.utexas.edu/IMG-ALT Center for Teaching & Learning home
A-TITLE Home
https://ctl.utexas.edu/commonsCTL Commons
https://ctl.utexas.edu/calendarEvents
https://ctl.utexas.edu/newsNews
A-TITLE CTL's Blog about Transforming Higher Education
https://ctl.utexas.edu/contact-usContact Us
/instructional-strategiesInstructional Strategies
/instructional-strategies/star...Starting the Semester Strong
A-TITLE Overview of techniques for preparing for and starting off the semester.
/instructional-strategies/teac...Teaching Methods
/instructional-strategies/effe...An Effective Syllabus
/instructional-strategies/grap...Graphic Syllabus
/instructional-strategies/chec...Check for Learning
A-TITLE Techniques for assessing understanding, comprehension, and application.
/instructional-strategies/incl...Inclusive Teaching and Learning
/instructional-strategies/crea...Creating Checks for Learning
/instructional-strategies/mana...Managing the Learning Environment
A-TITLE Solutions for creating and maintaining an effective learning environment.
/instructional-strategies/esse...Essentials of Learning
/instructional-strategies/teac...Teaching LARGE Classes
/instructional-strategies/expe...Experiential Learning
/instructional-strategies/cour...Course Design
A-TITLE Designing a course for student success leaves behind the idea that teaching is simply “telling.”
/instructional-strategies/grou...Group Learning
/instructional-strategies/feed...Feedback on Your Teaching
https://ctl.utexas.edu/DDIGDeeper-Dive Instructional Guides
A-TITLE Canvas courses to guide you through the process of implementing effective teaching and learning within your course.
/teaching-technologyTeaching with Technology
/teaching-technology/generativ...Generative AI in Teaching and Learning Toolkit
https://canvas.utexas.edu/External Subdomain Canvas
A-TITLE UT's Learning Management Systems homepage
/teaching-technology/using-tec...Using Technology for Providing Student Feedback
/teaching-technology/5-things-...5 Things To Know About ChatGPT
/tel-2024-overviewSubdomain 2024 Technology-Enhanced Learning Symposium
/instructional-strategies/flip...Flipped Classroom
/teaching-technology/hybrid-le...Hybrid Learning and Teaching
/teaching-technology/online-le...Online Learning and Teaching
/programs-and-initiativesPrograms & Initiatives
/programs-initiatives/teaching...Teaching and Learning Design
/provosts-teaching-fellowsSubdomain Provost's Teaching Fellows
/programs-initiatives/graduate...Graduate Student and Postdoc Development
/earlycareerSubdomain New and Early Career Faculty
/programs-initiatives/initiati...Initiative for Students as Partners in Research and Education (InSPiRE)
/programs-initiatives/students...Students as Partners Initiative
/grants-fellowships/teaching-i...Teaching Innovation Grants 2025-2026
/grants-fellowships/students-p...Students as Partners Grants 2025-2026
/grants-fellowships/collaborat...Collaborative Learning Community Grants 2025-2026
/grants-fellowships/fractalizi...Fractalizing Pedagogy Fellows 2024-2025
https://ctl.utexas.edu/contact-usText duplicate Contact Us
/about/staff-directoryStaff Directory
https://ctl.utexas.edu/calendarText duplicate Events
https://ctl.utexas.edu/newsText duplicate News
https://ctl.utexas.edu/aboutSubdomain About Us
/earlycareer/ectcEarly Career Support
/earlycareer/ectcLearn More
/teaching-technology/generativ...Brush up on your AI knowledge
/teaching-technology/generativ...Text duplicate Learn More
https://vimeo.com/showcase/594...New window External Graduate Teaching Showcase Videos
https://vimeo.com/showcase/594...New window External View GTS Showcase
https://utexas.instructure.com...New window External Subdomain "Designing a Well-Crafted Course" Toolkit
https://utexas.instructure.com...New window External Subdomain Enroll in the Canvas site
https://utexas.box.com/s/717s8...External Subdomain View Resource
https://mailchi.mp/057f989b346...External May Newsletter: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
/news/adapting-ai-student-voic...Adapting to AI: Student Voices on Course Assessments
https://mailchi.mp/3d70be77c16...External April Newsletter: Celebrating Student Work & Leadership
/news/join-us-designing-learni...Join us for Designing Learning-Centered Courses (ACUE)
https://ctl.utexas.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Center for Teaching & Learning home
A-TITLE Home
https://creativecommons.org/li...External IMG-ALT Creative Commons icon for BY-NC-SA
http://instagram.com/ctl_utExternal No Text
https://vimeo.com/ctlutExternal No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://ctl.utexas.edu/contact-usText duplicate Contact Us
A-TITLE FIC Contact Us form
https://utexas.us16.list-manag...New window External Subdomain Newsletter Subscription
/about/staff-directoryText duplicate Staff Directory
A-TITLE Link to the Faculty Innovation Center's Staff Directory
https://www.utexas.edu/External Subdomain UT Austin Home
https://emergency.utexas.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Information
https://www.utexas.edu/site-po...External Subdomain Site Policies
https://www.utexas.edu/web-acc...External Subdomain Web Accessibility Policy
https://www.utexas.edu/web-pri...External Subdomain Web Privacy Policy
https://get.adobe.com/reader/External Subdomain Adobe Reader

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ctl.utexas.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 excellent with 0.04 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (101 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE (poor cacheability)
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 48 referring domains.
This page has 79 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 45 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

# Tell robots not to crawl query parameters on /news
Allow: /news/$
Disallow: /news?

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homepage62%Check
Teaching Learning59%Check
Effective Teaching56%Check
Center54%Check
Learning53%Check
CTL52%Check
Teaching Fellows50%Check
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