Rsc.byu.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.16 s
File size
35.00 kB
Words
1198
Media files
17
Number of links
39 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Religious Studies Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (292 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://rsc.byu.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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no
apple-mobile-web-app-titleRSC
apple-touch-fullscreenYES
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.37 words is high.
This page contains 1198 words. That's ok.
35.7% 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.
13 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
This page loads 66 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 following tag is repeated too often: add to home screen
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...1675fc78cd03239/byu-logo-white-small.svgBYU logo
/themes/custom/rsc/icons/kebab.pngNo alt attribute provided
/themes/custom/rsc/icons/close.pngNo alt attribute provided
/themes/custom/rsc/icons/share.pngNo alt attribute provided
/themes/custom/rsc/icons/close.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/default/files/hero/image/Home_Hero.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...default/files/image_link/image/Books.jpgA stack of books
.../image_link/image/Religious_Educator.jpgA display of three issues of the Religious Educator
...iles/image_link/image/Come_Follow_Me.jpgCover of Come, Follow Me for Individuals and Families
...files/image_link/image/Gospel_Topics.jpgA pair of glasses and two highlighter pens on an open book of scripture
...image_link/image/Videos_and_Podcasts.jpgA young woman listening to media on her tablet computer
...eature/image/Website Behold the Lamb.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...re/image/Website Billions Shall Know.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../Website In the Eyes of the Ancients.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ture/image/Website These Three Abide.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...nouncement-Gaye-Strathearn-reduced_0.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...97829e751ccaa8f25f/byu-wordmark-ring.svgBrigham Young University

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 New Books from the RSC
H2 What's Happening at the RSC?
H2 Contact the RSC
H2 Helpful Links
H2 Connect with Us
H3 Articles in Other Languages
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
5 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 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://rsc.byu.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://byu.edu/New window External IMG-ALT BYU logo
https://rsc.byu.edu/Religious Studies Center
https://rsc.byu.edu/user/loginSign In
https://rsc.byu.edu/Home
https://rsc.byu.edu/about-usAbout Us
https://rsc.byu.edu/publicationsPublications
https://rsc.byu.edu/conferencesConferences
/my-gospel-studyMy Gospel Study
https://rsc.byu.edu/mediaVideos & Podcasts
https://rsc.byu.edu/submissionsSubmissions
https://rsc.byu.edu/add-to-homeAdd Home Screen Shortcut
https://rsc.byu.edu/books/recentIMG-ALT A stack of books
https://rsc.byu.edu/books/recentBooks
/religious-educatorsIMG-ALT A display of three issues of the Religious Educator
/religious-educatorsReligious Educator
/my-gospel-study/come-follow-meIMG-ALT Cover of Come, Follow Me for Individuals and Families
/my-gospel-study/come-follow-meCome, Follow Me
/my-gospel-study/gospel-topicsIMG-ALT A pair of glasses and two highlighter pens on an open book of scripture
/my-gospel-study/gospel-topicsGospel Topics
https://rsc.byu.edu/mediaIMG-ALT A young woman listening to media on her tablet computer
https://rsc.byu.edu/mediaText duplicate Videos & Podcasts
/book/behold-lambSubdomain No Text
/book/behold-lambSubdomain Read more »
/book/billions-shall-know-brot...Subdomain No Text
/book/billions-shall-know-brot...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more »
/book/eyes-ancientsSubdomain No Text
/book/eyes-ancientsSubdomain Text duplicate Read more »
/book/these-three-abideSubdomain No Text
/book/these-three-abideSubdomain Text duplicate Read more »
/gaye-strathearn-announcement-...Subdomain No Text
/he-was-seen/women-witnesses-e...Subdomain “Women Witnesses of the Easter Events”
/book/sacred-timeSubdomain Sacred Time: The Sabbath as a Perpetual Covenant
/book/covenant-compassionSubdomain Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament
/gaye-strathearn-announcement-...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more »
/articles/spanishEspañol
/articles/portuguesePortuguês
https://religion.byu.edu/External Subdomain Religious Education
https://byustudies.byu.edu/External Subdomain BYU Studies
https://mi.byu.edu/External Subdomain Maxwell Institute
/articles/spanishArticulos en español
/articles/portugueseArtigos em português
https://www.facebook.com/byursc/External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/byu....External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.twitter.com/byursc...External Subdomain Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
/subscribe-newsletterNew window Subscribe to Our Newsletter
https://byu.edu/privacyExternal Privacy Notice

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://rsc.byu.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 slow (1.16 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 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 66 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (35 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 17 Oct 2026 22:28:24 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlmax-age=3600, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedSat, 17 Oct 2026 17:30:41 GMT
etag"1792258241-gzip"
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-encodinggzip
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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 57 referring domains.
This page has 39,682 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 53 different ip addresses.

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.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

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Most important keywords

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

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Religious50%Check
BYU50%Check
BYU Religious50%Check
Religious Studies48%Check
BYU Religious Studies Center48%Check
BYU Studies48%Check
Religious Studies Center47%Check
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