Studentaffairs.stanford.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
85% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.05 s
File size
75.70 kB
Words
290
Media files
5
Number of links
0 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Student Affairs
The page title is too short. (131 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to Stanford! Here, living and learning are intertwined and one day can hold endless possibility.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (637 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://studentaffairs.stanford.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
descriptionWelcome to Stanford! Here, living and learning are intertwined and one day can hold endless possibility.
GeneratorDrupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
application-nameStanford University
msapplication-TileColor#FFFFFF
msapplication-TileImagehttps://www-media.stanford.edu/assets/favicon/mstile-144x144.png
msapplication-square70x70logohttps://www-media.stanford.edu/assets/favicon/mstile-70x70.png
msapplication-square150x150logohttps://www-media.stanford.edu/assets/favicon/mstile-150x150.png
msapplication-square310x310logohttps://www-media.stanford.edu/assets/favicon/mstile-310x310.png
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:descriptionWelcome to Stanford! Here, living and learning are intertwined and one day can hold endless possibility.
twitter:titleStudent Affairs
twitter:imagehttps://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj19271/files/styles/card_1192x596/public/media/image/2023.09.05_studentleadertraining-64_0_edit.jpg?h=d8341181&itok=5JsyEoz_
twitter:image:altStudents walk the arcade in main quad.
og:site_nameStudent Affairs
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/
og:titleStudent Affairs
og:imagehttps://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj19271/files/styles/card_1192x596/public/media/image/2023.09.05_studentleadertraining-64_0_edit.jpg?h=d8341181&itok=5JsyEoz_
og:image:urlhttps://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj19271/files/styles/card_1192x596/public/media/image/2023.09.05_studentleadertraining-64_0_edit.jpg?h=d8341181&itok=5JsyEoz_
og:image:altStudents walk the arcade in main quad.
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 290 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
39% 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.
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 21.58 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...adertraining-64_0_edit.jpg?itok=0hZffluFStudents walk the arcade in main quad.
...ins-101_1_0.jpg?h=759fbd9d&itok=umAlHwJ0Ujamaa student leaders cheer as new students arrive in Lagunita Court.
...val-49-edit.jpg?h=5e2cdeb5&itok=W-wbmRdLStudents pose together in a photo booth during an OSE Cardinal Nights event.
...ite-2_1_0_0.jpg?h=d0be1d9e&itok=vchBBtqKIncoming frosh "check in" to their house at Frosh Opening.
...ge/istock-2212646745_0.jpg?itok=9rcxmjXPPeople ride bicycles on the campus of Stanford University.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Student Affairs
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Student Affairs
H2 Welcome to Stanford!
H2 Explore Student Affairs
H2 What's Happening
H3 Residential Education
H3 Office of Student Engagement
H3 Student Academic Services
This page seems to be an entry page, because only very few links were found.
There are 4 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://resed.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Explore Residential Education
https://ose.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Explore Office of Student Engagement
https://studentservices.stanfo...External Subdomain Explore Student Academic Services
https://events.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Find more campus events you won't want to miss

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://studentaffairs.stanford.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 0.05 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (76 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length15730
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheHIT
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
last-modifiedWed, 06 May 2026 06:56:53 GMT
etag"1778050613"
x-generatorDrupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-consumer-id89f22b96-70c2-4000-aa20-317205771bbb
x-drupal-cacheMISS
content-encodinggzip
x-request-idv-c3deaea0-4918-11f1-bb8c-5778e8926c30
x-ah-environment01live
x-cache-hits6
x-age280
accept-rangesbytes
cache-controlpublic, max-age=60
expiresMon, 11 May 2026 03:59:41 GMT
dateMon, 11 May 2026 03:58:41 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 174 referring domains.
This page has 214 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 65 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: *
Crawl-delay: 30
# 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
# 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
# Block Printable Paths
Disallow: /*/printable/print
# Block saml paths links
Disallow: /sso/login
Disallow: /saml_login
Disallow: /saml/login
Disallow: /saml/acs
# Disallow search path with no trailing slash
Disallow: /search
# Block Femtosearch
User-agent: FemtosearchBot
Crawl-Delay: 120
Disallow: /
# Block SemrushBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-Delay: 120
Disallow: /
# Honeypot for misbehaving crawlers.
Disallow: /honeypot-for-misbehaving-crawlers-do-not-enter/
Disallow: /honeypot-for-misbehaving-crawlers-do-not-enter
Disallow: /honeypot-for-misbehaving-crawlers-do-not-enter/index.html

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studentaffairs.stanford.edu
Student Affairs
Welcome to Stanford! Here, living and learning are intertwined and one day can hold endless possibility.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Student83%Check
Student Affairs83%Check
Stanford70%Check
Student Engagement62%Check
Explore Student62%Check
Student Academic62%Check
Welcome55%Check
Student Academic Services55%Check
one51%Check
living51%Check

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