Union.illinois.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
0% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
41.50 kB
Words
540
Media files
5
Number of links
37 internal / 24 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Illini Union at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Illinois
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 581 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Illini Union is the student union for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since 1941, it has been the campus's home for student organizations, meetings, student programs and activities, and more.
The meta description is too long: 1275 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://union.illinois.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
descriptionThe Illini Union is the student union for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since 1941, it has been the campus's home for student organizations, meetings, student programs and activities, and more.
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 540 words. That's ok.
28.7% 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.
8 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.15 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 23 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 11 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
...rds/portraitlabpic.png.jpg?itok=XSU4tCFoPortrait Lab pics
...graphs/cards/quadmovie.jpg?itok=xEIPdp7ewatchingmovie on the quad
...s/Union_General_2020_2.jpg?itok=7hr2HO6GIllini Union
Video URLWidthHeight
...nion Website Hero Video 2026_SMALL_3.mp4
...LLYUmNsShliGlKrLg7e0UOy1rYN0l9brfhkEV3eA200113

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Illini Union
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the Illini Union
H2 Illini Union Events Calendar
H2 Title Seniors Take the Hot Challenge
H2 Title THANK YOU!
H2 Professional Portrait Lab
H2 Summer Movies on the Quad
H2 Happenings at the Union
H2 Title CampusWell
H2 Retail Operations
H2 Services
H2 Facility Operations
H2 Events & Programming
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 24 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://studentaffairs.illinoi...External Subdomain Student Affairs
https://union.illinois.edu/Illini Union
/contact-usContact Us
/building-informationBuilding Information
/parkingParking
/reserve-space/reserve-unionRESERVE SPACE
/union-diningFood/Drink
/iuboardIllini Union Board
/courtyardcafeCourtyard Cafe
/rec-room/rec-roomRec Room
https://bookstore.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Illini Union Bookstore
https://techzone.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Illini Union Tech Zone
/quad-shopQuad Shop
https://printing.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Document Services/Campus Mail
https://illiniunionhotel.illin...External Subdomain Illini Union Hotel
https://housing.illinois.edu/d...External Subdomain Illini Cash
/employmentWork at the Union
https://union.illinois.edu/giveGive
https://calendars.illinois.edu...External Subdomain View all events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Full Video
/spring-jam-illinoisSubdomain DETAILS
/portrait-labINFORMATION
/weekend-filmsSUMMER 2026 LINE UP
/unionhappeningsSubdomain PROJECT UPDATES
/semester-building-hoursopen from early to late
/employmentover 700 student employees
/studyspacesStudy spaces, food/drink, and connectivity
https://map.illinois.edu/view?...External Subdomain Find the Illini Union
https://union.illinois.edu/giveGive today to the Illini Union
https://campusrec-wellbeing.com/External Wellness Resources
https://studentaffairs.illinoi...External Subdomain Text duplicate Student Affairs
https://union.illinois.edu/Text duplicate Illini Union
https://www.instagram.com/illi...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/Illin...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://myiuconnect.union.illi...External Subdomain Illini Union Staff Intranet
https://forms.illinois.edu/sec...External Subdomain Website Feedback
/user/login?destination=/front...Nofollow Login
https://bookstore.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Bookstore
https://techzone.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Tech Zone
/quad-shopText duplicate Quad Shop
/union-diningRestaurants
A-TITLE Restaurants in the Illini Union
https://printing.illinois.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Document Services/Campus Mail
https://illiniunionhotel.illin...External Subdomain Hotel
https://housing.illinois.edu/d...External Subdomain Text duplicate Illini Cash
https://union.illinois.edu/giveGive to Illini Union
https://forms.illinois.edu/sec...External Subdomain We Made a Difference
/donation-requestDonation Request
/marketing-servicesMarketing Services
/portraitlabSubdomain Professional Portrait Lab
https://union.illinois.edu/aboutAbout the Union
/reserve-unionReserve Space
https://forms.illinois.edu/sec...External Subdomain Request Illlini Union Tour
/studyspacesStudy Spaces
/employmentText duplicate Work at the Union
/event-services-policiesSubdomain Code of Conduct & Policies
/iuboardText duplicate Illini Union Board
/courtyardcafeText duplicate Courtyard Cafe
/rec-roomText duplicate Rec Room
A-TITLE Rec Room with bowling, billiards, and games
/artgalleryArt Gallery

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://union.illinois.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.91 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.
This page loads 62 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 23 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 28 May 2026 13:28:30 GMT
serverApache
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-length42477
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 154 referring domains.
This page has 193 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 52 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.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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union.illinois.edu
Illini Union at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Illin...
The Illini Union is the student union for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since 1941, it has been the campus's home for student organizations, meetings, student programs and activities, and more.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Union97%Check
Illini Union91%Check
Illini84%Check
Illini Union Board76%Check
Student Union76%Check
Illinois75%Check
Illinois Urbana-Champaign69%Check
University62%Check
Urbana-Champaign61%Check
Welcome55%Check
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