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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
37% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.56 s
File size
43.50 kB
Words
235
Media files
2
Number of links
58 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Nicholas School WordPress Network
The length of the page title is perfect. (327 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://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
viewportwidth=device-width
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.9.4
tec-api-versionv1
tec-api-originhttps://sites.nicholas.duke.edu
msapplication-TileImagehttps://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cropped-favicon-96x96-1-270x270.png
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 235 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
10.2% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 27 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width" 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)
1 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
...9/08/NSOE-Logo-White-Horiz-No-Shield.pngNicholas School of the Environment
...uploads/2017/03/cropped-cropped-logo.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Nicholas School WordPress Network
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Nicholas School WordPress Network
H1 Sites List
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://nicholas.duke.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Nicholas School of the Environment
https://nicholas.duke.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/Subdomain Sites List
https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Sites List
/boudreauSubdomain Alan Boudreau
/avnervengoshSubdomain Avner Vengosh Research Group
/cassarSubdomain Cassar Lab
/clarklabSubdomain Clark Lab
/shinenghuSubdomain Climate Dynamics
/xavierbasurtoSubdomain Coasts and Commons Co-laboratory
/delmeminfoSubdomain DEL-MEM
/daliapatinoecheverriSubdomain Dalia Patino-Echeverri's lab site
/danrittschofSubdomain Dan Rittschof's Lab
/dechSubdomain Data Expeditions: Climate + Health
/ecotoxicologylabSubdomain Di Giulio Laboratory
/drewshindellSubdomain Drew Shindell: Multidisciplinary Studies of Climate Science and Human Society
/dukeforestSubdomain Duke Forest
/dukerestoreSubdomain Duke RESTORE
/superfundcecSubdomain Duke Superfund Community Engagement Core
/superfundSubdomain Duke University Superfund Research Center
/dukefishSubdomain DukeFish
/statsreviewSubdomain ENV710 Statistics Review Website
/flowSubdomain Environmental Cytometry Facility
/graceSubdomain GRACE: A Grid that is Risk Aware for Clean Electricity
/growSubdomain Green Roof and Orchard Workforce (GROW)
/huntSubdomain Hunt Lab
/envhealthSubdomain Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health Program
/johnsonSubdomain Johnson Lab
/johnstonSubdomain Johnston Lab
/junjiezhangSubdomain Junjie Zhang
/mktestSubdomain Lab Site Template
/loribennearSubdomain Lori Bennear Research Group
/superpodSubdomain Marine Conservation Ecology
/mastersprojectshandbookSubdomain Master's Projects Handbook
/ncfishforumSubdomain NC Fish Forum
/studioSubdomain NSOE Communications Studio
/energyclubSubdomain Nicholas School Energy Club
/graduationSubdomain Nicholas School Graduation
https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/Subdomain Nicholas School WordPress Network
/nicolettecagleSubdomain Nicolette Cagle
/nowacekSubdomain Nowacek Lab
/odarSubdomain Office of Development and Alumni Relations
/onboardingSubdomain Onboarding Resources
/pfasSubdomain PFAS Exposure Study
/planetlabSubdomain PlanetLab
/shearwaterSubdomain R/V Shearwater
/kramerresearchSubdomain Randy Kramer Research Group
/readSubdomain Read Lab
/seasthedaySubdomain SEAS THE DAY
/donaldsonSubdomain Savanna Ecology
/sillimanSubdomain Silliman Lab
/stapletonlabSubdomain Stapleton Lab
/timeSubdomain Targeting of Infrastructure in the Middle East
/meyerSubdomain The Meyer Lab at Duke
/wgelaSubdomain WGELA
/wetlandSubdomain Wetland and Coasts Center
/imep-dkuSubdomain iMEP @ DKU
/imepSubdomain iMEP @ Duke
/mastersprojectshandbook-imepSubdomain iMEP Master's Project Handbook
https://www.thinkupthemes.com/New window External Subdomain Think Up Themes Ltd
https://www.wordpress.org/New window External Subdomain WordPress
https://www.facebook.com/DukeE...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/DukeEnviro...New window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/duke...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/nichol...New window External Subdomain No Text
/wp-login.phpSubdomain Site Login >

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sites.nicholas.duke.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 very slow (1.56 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 15 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 27 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateSat, 14 Mar 2026 19:36:45 GMT
serverApache
x-pingbackhttps://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/xmlrpc.php
link<https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/103>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/>; rel=shortlink
x-tec-api-versionv1
x-tec-api-roothttps://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-originhttps://sites.nicholas.duke.edu
x-frame-optionsDENY
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length11195
connectionclose
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 147 referring domains.
This page has 147 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 37 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/

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