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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
39% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
80% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.84 s
File size
98.70 kB
Words
453
Media files
14
Number of links
27 internal / 53 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The University of Iowa
The length of the page title is perfect. (200 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Join a global community of renowned artists, pioneering scientists, and faculty dedicated to student success at the University of Iowa.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (817 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://uiowa.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
descriptionJoin a global community of renowned artists, pioneering scientists, and faculty dedicated to student success at the University of Iowa.
robotsindex, follow
generatorDrupal 8 (http://drupal.org)
referrerno-referrer-when-downgrade
facebook-domain-verificationu9eyaq8c3a0bhhnj3d9wf7u5lqoo8z
theme-color#000000
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-styleblack
msapplication-square150x150logo/profiles/custom/sitenow/assets/mstile-150x150.png
msapplication-tilecolor#000000
msapplication-tileimage/profiles/custom/sitenow/assets/mstile-150x150.png
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
web-authorSiteNow v3 (https://sitenow.uiowa.edu)
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleThe University of Iowa
twitter:descriptionRanked among the top 5% of universities in the world. 200+ areas of study. Located in one of America’s best college towns. Come see what it means to be a Hawkeye.
twitter:imagehttps://uiowa.edu/sites/uiowa.edu/files/styles/large/public/2020-03/aerial-east-side-crew_1.jpg?itok=UIGJxCHK
og:site_nameThe University of Iowa
og:urlhttps://uiowa.edu/
og:titleThe University of Iowa | The University of Iowa
og:descriptionRanked among the top 5% of universities in the world. 200+ areas of study. Located in one of America’s best college towns. Come see what it means to be a Hawkeye.
og:image:urlhttps://uiowa.edu/sites/uiowa.edu/files/styles/large/public/2020-03/aerial-east-side-crew_1.jpg?itok=UIGJxCHK
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 453 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
25.8% 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.
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 10.4 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 9 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
...inal_final.jpeg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=DPMFvGHpWriting illustration
...orner -0016.jpg?h=0dca3afc&itok=NViKJdfEMegan Crotts looking into microscope
...tschoon-015.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=4Rf2dDvFa graduation cap bedazzled with the Iowa logo
...-compressor.jpg?h=aebd773a&itok=5O6RyzCLOld Capitol
...orner -1786.jpg?h=0dca3afc&itok=RB4ZZAINAlt="Students walking near the Old Capitol."
...62-Pano-min.JPG?h=aef034d9&itok=7yZmYKnyOld Capitol building panorama
...tschoon-052.JPG?h=c3635fa2&itok=TF7CocBNTeacher with yellow jacket talking with french horn in hand
...entacrest_0.jpg?h=1e66e246&itok=-9aeFPVgThree students in graduation cap and gowns walk in front of Old Capitol building.
...students-sitting-dock-river-sunset_0.jpgFour students sitting on dock along the Iowa River.
...side-crew_0.jpg?h=14373735&itok=7vXoukLXAerial view of east campus with Iowa River.
Video URLWidthHeight
...-03/20220202_Homepage Loop-Up to 4K2.mp41300730
...2023-03/2023_03_06-Communication-264.mp4
...iles/2023-03/2023_03_06-IowaCity-264.mp4
...les/2023-03/2023_03-06-Community-264.mp4

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Top links
H2 Search links
H2 Site Main Navigation
H2 Start your story here
H2 Be a Hawkeye
H2 Hear from Hawkeyes
H2 News and features
H2 Events
H2 Discover Your University
H2 Mindfulness Workshop for Students
H2 Art & Write Night
H2 # 46
H2 15:1
H2 96 %
H2 Welcome Home
H2 See Iowa City for yourself
H2 Social Media
H2 Footer primary
H2 Footer secondary
H2 Footer tertiary
H3 "My communication skills have grown so much since coming here."
H3 "Iowa City is geared towards the college experience."
H3 "People thrive together here and work together to raise each other up."
H3 Writing across disciplines: Among elite company
H3 Igniting a passion for research and discovery
H3 Celebrating Iowa’s spring 2025 grads
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 too many external links (53) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://uiowa.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://uiowa.edu/The University of Iowa
https://admissions.uiowa.edu/a...External Subdomain Apply
A-TITLE Apply
https://admissions.uiowa.edu/v...External Subdomain Visit
A-TITLE Visit
https://www.maui.uiowa.edu/mau...External Subdomain Request Info
A-TITLE Request Info
https://uiowa.edu/a-zA-Z List
A-TITLE A-Z List
https://iam.uiowa.edu/whitepagesExternal Subdomain Directory
A-TITLE Directory
https://uiowa.edu/admissionsAdmissions
https://admissions.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Undergraduate Admissions
https://grad.admissions.uiowa....External Subdomain Graduate Admissions
https://admissions.uiowa.edu/f...External Subdomain International Students
https://distance.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Distance and Online
/admissions/cost-and-aidCost and Aid
https://uiowa.edu/academicsAcademics
/academics/areas-studyAreas of Study
/academics/leading-programsLeading Programs
/academics/career-preparationCareer Preparation
/academics/collegesColleges
https://uiowa.edu/researchResearch
https://uiowa.edu/student-lifeStudent Life
/student-life/iowa-cityIowa City
/student-life/living-campusLiving on Campus
/student-life/safety-and-supportSafety and Support
https://uiowa.edu/about-iowaAbout
https://now.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain News
https://events.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Events
https://osc.uiowa.edu/mediaExternal Subdomain Media Resources
https://hawkeyesports.com/External Athletics
https://www.foriowa.org/External Subdomain Alumni and Giving
https://uihc.org/External Health Care
https://tour.concept3d.com/sha...External Subdomain Virtual Tour
/academics/areas-studyText duplicate Areas of Study
/admissions/cost-and-aidText duplicate Cost and Aid
https://www.maui.uiowa.edu/mau...External Subdomain Request Information
https://now.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Read Campus News
https://stories.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Read Featured Stories
https://stories.uiowa.edu/writ...External Subdomain Writing across disciplines: Among elite company
https://stories.uiowa.edu/igni...External Subdomain Igniting a passion for research and discovery
https://stories.uiowa.edu/spri...External Subdomain Celebrating Iowa’s spring 2025 grads
https://events.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain View All
https://events.uiowa.edu/event...External Subdomain Discover Your University
https://events.uiowa.edu/event...External Subdomain Mindfulness Workshop for Students
https://events.uiowa.edu/event...External Subdomain Art & Write Night
/student-life/iowa-cityWelcome Home
https://tour.concept3d.com/sha...External Subdomain Take a virtual tour
https://uiowa.edu/Text duplicate The University of Iowa
https://uiowa.edu/contactContact Us
A-TITLE Contact
https://uiowa.edu/feedbackWebsite Feedback
https://www.facebook.com/unive...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.twitter.com/uiowaExternal Subdomain Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/uiowaExternal Subdomain Instagram
https://snapchat.com/add/uiowaExternal Snapchat
https://www.youtube.com/user/u...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/s...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.pinterest.com/uiowaExternal Subdomain Pinterest
/saml/login?destination=/Nofollow Admin Login
https://uiowa.edu/a-zText duplicate A-Z List
https://registrar.uiowa.edu/ac...External Subdomain Academic Calendar
https://ubill.fo.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Billing Office
https://maps.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Campus Map
/student-life/safety-and-supportCampus Safety
https://iam.uiowa.edu/whitepag...External Subdomain Text duplicate Directory
https://emergency.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Emergency Info
http://hris.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Employee Self-Service
https://freespeech.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Free Speech at Iowa
http://catalog.registrar.uiowa...External Subdomain General Catalog
https://hr.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Human Resources
https://icon.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain ICON
https://jobs.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Jobs@Iowa
https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Libraries
https://www.maui.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain MAUI
https://myui.uiowa.edu/my-ui/h...External Subdomain MyUI
https://office365.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Office365 (email)
https://studenthealth.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Student Health
/student-outcomesStudent Outcomes
https://wellbeing.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Well-Being at Iowa
https://its.uiowa.edu/services...External Subdomain Zoom Login
https://uiowa.edu/privacyPrivacy Notice
https://opsmanual.uiowa.edu/co...External Subdomain UI Nondiscrimination Statement
https://accessibility.uiowa.edu/External Subdomain Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://uiowa.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 0.84 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 (99 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateMon, 19 May 2025 15:55:11 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length24469
cache-controlmax-age=2764800, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
varyCookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubdomains;
last-modifiedMon, 19 May 2025 14:16:36 GMT
etag"1747664196-gzip"
content-encodinggzip
x-request-idv-3a0a9900-34c4-11f0-9480-23063b97e7fa
x-ah-environmentprod
age2327
viavarnish
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits6499
accept-rangesbytes
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 2,592 referring domains.
This page has 314,787 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,733 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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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.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
# SiteNow
Disallow: /saml/login
# Bots
crawl-delay: 1

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University62%Check
Iowa City62%Check
Student54%Check
success46%Check
faculty46%Check
Renowned46%Check
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