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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
59% 
Page quality
54% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
45% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.06 s
File size
146.00 kB
Words
229
Media files
3
Number of links
63 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Page | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 747 pixels long. Optimize title
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://seas.harvard.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 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
ImageToolbarfalse
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 229 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
13.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 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
... & Dayal-12.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=LOjiSqk2Harvard SEAS GSD students Akhil Dayal and Darren Chin in front of rows of potted plants
...f Elation Health copy.jpg?itok=J552_g8hHarvard SEAS alum Kyna Fong
...an Evans-01.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=D4F8sB5OHarvard SEAS student Nathan Evans holding two metallic rocket valves

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Where Science and Engineering Converge
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Where Science and Engineering Converge
H2 Main navigation
H2 Information For
H2 Shortcuts
H2 Applied Mathematics
H2 Applied Physics
H2 Bioengineering
H2 Computer Science
H2 Electrical Engineering
H2 Environmental Science & Engineering
H2 Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
H2 Quantum Science & Engineering
H2 Master's in Data Science
H2 Master's in Computational Science and Engineering
H2 Master in Design Engineering
H2 MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
H2 Professional & Lifelong Learning
H2 Featured News
H2 Footer - Social Media Links
H2 Footer
H3 Cutting-edge science delivered direct to your inbox.
H3 Designing a better farm-to-market
H3 Alumni profile: Kyna Fong, A.B./S.M. '03
H3 Senior profile: Nathan Evans
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.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://seas.harvard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
/academicsSubdomain Academics
https://seas.harvard.edu/facultySubdomain Faculty & Research
/news/homeSubdomain News
http://harvardseas.enterprise....External Subdomain Events
/offices-servicesSubdomain Offices & Services
https://seas.harvard.edu/about-usSubdomain About Us
https://seas.harvard.edu/alumniSubdomain Alumni
/office-industry-partnershipsSubdomain Industry Partners & Recruiters
/prospective-studentsSubdomain Prospective Students
/about-us/employment-jobsSubdomain Employment & Jobs
/about-us/visit-usSubdomain Visit Us
https://community.alumni.harva...External Subdomain Make a Gift
https://seas.harvard.edu/No Text
/academicsExplore Our Programs
/applied-mathematicsApplied Mathematics
/applied-mathematics/bachelors...Undergraduate
/applied-mathematics/phd-appli...Graduate
/applied-physicsApplied Physics
/applied-physics/applied-physi...Text duplicate Graduate
/bioengineeringBioengineering
/bioengineering/bachelors-degr...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/bioengineering/bioengineering...Text duplicate Graduate
/computer-scienceComputer Science
/computer-science/bachelors-de...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/computer-science/graduate-pro...Text duplicate Graduate
/electrical-engineeringElectrical Engineering
/electrical-engineering/bachel...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/electrical-engineering/electr...Text duplicate Graduate
/environmental-science-enginee...Environmental Science & Engineering
/environmental-science-enginee...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/environmental-science-enginee...Text duplicate Graduate
/materials-science-mechanical-...Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
/materials-science-mechanical-...Text duplicate Undergraduate
/materials-science-mechanical-...Text duplicate Graduate
/quantum-science-engineeringQuantum Science & Engineering
/quantum-science-engineeringText duplicate Graduate
/masters-data-scienceMaster's in Data Science
/masters-computational-science...Master's in Computational Science and Engineering
/master-design-engineeringMaster in Design Engineering
/master-design-engineeringText duplicate Graduate
https://seas.harvard.edu/msmbaMS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
https://seas.harvard.edu/msmbaText duplicate Graduate
/professional-lifelong-learningProfessional & Lifelong Learning
/news/2025/05/designing-better...IMG-ALT Harvard SEAS GSD students Akhil Dayal and Darren Chin in front of rows of potted plants
/news/2025/05/designing-better...Designing a better farm-to-market
/news?topic[521]=521AI / Machine Learning
/news?topic[616]=616Design
/news?topic[1111]=1111Graduate Student Profile
/news/2025/05/alumni-profile-k...IMG-ALT Harvard SEAS alum Kyna Fong
/news/2025/05/alumni-profile-k...Alumni profile: Kyna Fong, A.B./S.M. '03
/news?topic[546]=546Text duplicate Applied Mathematics
/news?topic[1101]=1101Text duplicate Alumni
/news?topic[541]=541Text duplicate Computer Science
/news?topic[606]=606Entrepreneurship
/news?topic[576]=576Health / Medicine
/news/2025/05/senior-profile-n...IMG-ALT Harvard SEAS student Nathan Evans holding two metallic rocket valves
/news/2025/05/senior-profile-n...Senior profile: Nathan Evans
/news?topic[1223]=1223Text duplicate Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
/news?topic[767]=767Student Organizations
/news?topic[1106]=1106Undergraduate Student Profile
/news-eventsAll News
https://seas.harvard.edu/Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
https://www.facebook.com/hseasExternal Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/hseasExternal Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/harv...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/c/harv...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
/office-diversity-inclusion-an...Subdomain Diversity Mission
https://trademark.harvard.edu/...External Subdomain Trademark Notice
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Accessibility Policy
/privacy-policySubdomain Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://seas.harvard.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 0.06 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (146 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlmax-age=31536000, public
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheMISS
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 426 referring domains.
This page has 1,441 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 333 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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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
# Sitemaps
sitemap: https://seas.harvard.edu/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://seas.harvard.edu/news-sitemap.xml

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