Eli.pitt.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
94% 
External factors
3% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.51 s
File size
36.00 kB
Words
244
Media files
8
Number of links
27 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | English Language Institute
The length of the page title is perfect. (306 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://eli.pitt.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

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no
langen
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 244 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
28.7% 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.
4 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 23.6 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, shrink-to-fit=no" 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)
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
...wentytwenty/images/pitt_shield_white.pngUniversity of Pittsburgh shield
...entytwenty/images/pitt-logo-nav_blue.pngUniversity of Pittsburgh Home
...anther_hero.jpg?h=f64e1066&itok=4aGZ4hkYPanther statue on University of Pittsburgh campus
...estimonials.jpg?h=cc05e4fa&itok=Wdd0IYF5Students gather in a group for a photograph.
...hedral_home.jpg?h=cc05e4fa&itok=S2RW5UH1The Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus.
...rgh_Skyline.jpg?h=cc05e4fa&itok=_XGNyOV4City of Pittsburgh skyline
...lock-img/resized_image.jpg?itok=NQFmVRIkELI Students and Pitt Students attending a Pitt Panthers football game
...wentytwenty/images/pitt_shield_white.pngUniversity of Pittsburgh shield

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 Main navigation
H2 Other Links
H2 Apply for Fall 2025
H2 Learn English. Reinvent Your Future.
H2 Highlights
H2 Activities Help Our Students Shine
H2 Resources
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 15 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://eli.pitt.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.pitt.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Pittsburgh shield
A-TITLE Pitt Home
https://eli.pitt.edu/English Language Institute
A-TITLE Home
https://www.facebook.com/PittELI/New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Find University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/eli....New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Follow eli.pitt on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute on Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Linkedin
https://www.pitt.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Pittsburgh Home
https://eli.pitt.edu/aboutAbout
/about/mission-statementOur Mission
/about/our-universityOur University
/about/why-choose-university-p...Why ELI at Pitt?
https://eli.pitt.edu/programsPrograms
/programs/intensive-english-pr...Intensive English Program
/programs/half-term-intensive-...Half Term: Intensive English Program
/programs/professional-and-aca...Professional and Academic English Program
/admissions-portalAdmissions
/tuition-and-feesTuition and Fees
/tuition-and-fees/how-payHow to Pay
/tuition-and-fees/entrance-exa...International Payments
/tuition-and-fees/estimated-li...Estimated Living Costs
/tuition-and-fees/pitt-employeesPitt Employees
https://eli.pitt.edu/calendarCalendar
/partner-resourcesPartner Resources
https://eli.pitt.edu/contact-usContact Us
https://eli.pitt.edu/applicationApply Now
/application/eli-online-applic...ELI Online Application Form
/application/eli-online-applic...Apply Now for Fall 2025
https://live-elinstitute-pitt....External Subdomain What ELI Students Say
IMG-ALT Students gather in a group for a photograph.
https://www.pitt.edu/External Subdomain The University of Pittsburgh
IMG-ALT The Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus.
https://live-elinstitute-pitt....External Subdomain Life in Pittsburgh
IMG-ALT City of Pittsburgh skyline
https://live-elinstitute-pitt....External Subdomain Learn More
https://www.pitt.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT University of Pittsburgh shield
A-TITLE Pitt Home
https://eli.pitt.edu/Text duplicate English Language Institute
A-TITLE Home
https://eli.pitt.edu/contact-usText duplicate Contact Us
/tuition-and-feesText duplicate Tuition and Fees
/admissions-portalAdmissions Portal
https://eli.pitt.edu/peoplePeople
https://www.facebook.com/PittELI/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Find University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/eli....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Follow eli.pitt on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/U...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute on Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Linkedin

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://eli.pitt.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 of 0.51 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 (36 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe4-a-8555c9b7f7-77cb9
x-styx-req-idf89780c4-7206-11f0-89bf-3ebe87713666
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
dateTue, 05 Aug 2025 14:17:51 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-kigq8000131-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230094-FRA
x-cacheMISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0
x-timerS1754403471.387751,VS0,VE153
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
age0
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 1 referring domains.
This page only has 1,553 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 1 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/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /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

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
English50%Check
Pitt50%Check
English Language48%Check
English Language Institute47%Check
Language46%Check
Institute46%Check
edu46%Check
Learn English45%Check
Teaching English42%Check
English Program42%Check

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