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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
54% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
97% 
External factors
30% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.45 s
File size
42.60 kB
Words
305
Media files
0
Number of links
40 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Initiative for Sustainable Energy | Brown University
The length of the page title is perfect. (451 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://ise.brown.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
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
mobile-web-app-capableyes
apple-mobile-web-app-capableyes
msapplication-TileColor#da532c
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleInitiative for Sustainable Energy | Brown University
og:titleInitiative for Sustainable Energy | Brown University
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 305 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.6% 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.
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 24.17 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 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)
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Initiative for Sustainable Energy
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Initiative for Sustainable Energy
H1 Initiative for Sustainable Energy Duplicate text
H1 Initiative for Sustainable Energy Duplicate text
H2 Site Navigation
H2 Research
H2 People
H2 Connect with ISE
H2 Quick Navigation
H2 Footer Navigation
H2 Mobile Site Navigation
H2 Mobile Site Navigation Duplicate text
H3 Address
H3 Phone
H3 Email
H3 Initiative for Sustainable Energy Duplicate text
H4 27
H4 45
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ise.brown.edu/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.brown.edu/External Subdomain Brown University
https://ise.brown.edu/Initiative for Sustainable Energy
https://ise.brown.edu/Anchor Search
https://ise.brown.edu/Anchor Menu
https://ise.brown.edu/homeHome
https://ise.brown.edu/peoplePeople
/people/leadershipLeadership
/people/faculty-membersFaculty Members
/people/faculty-affiliatesFaculty Affiliates
/people/staffStaff
https://ise.brown.edu/researchResearch
/masters-programMaster's Program
/2024-sustainable-energySubra Suresh Symposium
https://ise.brown.edu/eventsEvents
/events/past-eventsPast Events
https://ise.brown.edu/newsNews
https://ise.brown.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Search
https://ise.brown.edu/researchNo Text
https://ise.brown.edu/researchText duplicate Research
https://ise.brown.edu/researchLearn about our Approach to Research
https://ise.brown.edu/peopleNo Text
https://ise.brown.edu/peopleText duplicate People
https://ise.brown.edu/peopleMeet the People
https://www.google.com/maps/di...New window External Subdomain Providence RI 02912
https://www.brown.edu/about/visitExternal Subdomain Visit Brown
https://maps.brown.edu/External Subdomain Campus Map
https://www.brown.edu/a-zExternal Subdomain A to Z
https://www.brown.edu/about/co...External Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.brown.edu/newsExternal Subdomain Text duplicate News
https://events.brown.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Events
https://dps.brown.edu/External Subdomain Campus Safety
https://www.brown.edu/website-...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.brown.edu/careersExternal Subdomain Careers at Brown
https://alumni-friends.brown.e...External Subdomain Give To Brown
https://ise.brown.edu/Text duplicate Brown University
https://ise.brown.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Search
https://ise.brown.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Menu
https://ise.brown.edu/homeText duplicate Home
https://ise.brown.edu/peopleText duplicate People
/people/leadershipText duplicate Leadership
/people/faculty-membersText duplicate Faculty Members
/people/faculty-affiliatesText duplicate Faculty Affiliates
/people/staffText duplicate Staff
https://ise.brown.edu/researchText duplicate Research
/masters-programText duplicate Master's Program
/2024-sustainable-energyText duplicate Subra Suresh Symposium
https://ise.brown.edu/eventsText duplicate Events
/events/past-eventsText duplicate Past Events
https://ise.brown.edu/newsText duplicate News
https://www.brown.edu/searchExternal Subdomain All of Brown.edu
https://www.brown.edu/search/p...External Subdomain Text duplicate People
https://ise.brown.edu/Anchor Close Search
https://ise.brown.edu/homeSubdomain Text duplicate Initiative for Sustainable Energy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ise.brown.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 0.45 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 (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmax-age=86400, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
etagW/"1754670825"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 08 Aug 2025 16:33:45 GMT
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe2-a-c4dc75986-9pjh8
x-styx-req-id73dabbd2-7475-11f0-b6e9-2628252a28ce
age22273
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
dateFri, 08 Aug 2025 22:44:58 GMT
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x-cacheHIT, MISS, MISS, MISS
x-cache-hits6, 0, 0, 0
x-timerS1754693098.348638,VS0,VE108
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Origin, Cookie, Cookie
content-length8454
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 10 referring domains.
This page only has 23 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 10 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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.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

# CSS, JS, Images - Drupal Legacy
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories - Drupal Legacy
Disallow: /robots.txt
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files - Drupal Legacy
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
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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/
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Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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Disallow: /academics/college/special-programs/public-service-old/
Disallow: /Administration/President/archive10/
Disallow: /Administration/Staff_Advisory_Council/archive10/
Disallow: /Administration/WLC/archive10/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cgi-local/
Disallow: /cgi-user/
Disallow: /Departments/Italian_Studies/archive10/
Disallow: /Departments/Pembroke_Center/
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Disallow: /Departments/Swearer_Center/admin/
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Disallow: /Finance/Financial_Aid/
Disallow: /initiatives/arts/
Disallow: /initiatives/digital-experience-project/search/
Disallow: /Logs/
Disallow: /phpMyAdmin/
Disallow: /Student_Services/Career_Planning/
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Disallow: /web/bill/
Disallow: /web/documents/diversity/actionplan/
Disallow: /web/documents/diversity/history/
Disallow: /web/documents/nosearch/
Disallow: /web/john/
Disallow: /web/ken/
Disallow: /web/loneill/
Disallow: /web/playlist-test/
Disallow: /web/playpen/
Disallow: /web/today-at-brown/

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
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Energy66%Check
Sustainable66%Check
Initiative66%Check
Sustainable Energy66%Check
sustainable zero-carbon energy58%Check
Brown56%Check
Brown University52%Check
Renewable Energy52%Check
energy efficiency52%Check
zero-carbon energy52%Check
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