Your.yale.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
69% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
96% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.10 s
File size
70.70 kB
Words
297
Media files
8
Number of links
40 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to It's Your Yale
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the 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://your.yale.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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

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theme-color#ffffff
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 297 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
21.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 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 11.6 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" 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)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
It's Your Yale
The H1 heading is too short (14 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 It's Your Yale
H2 YourYale: The University at Work
H2 We Heard You!
H2 More To Explore
H2 Helpful Links
H2 Required Information
H2 Yale Shuttle
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 22 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://your.yale.edu/Anchor Jump to content
https://your.yale.edu/It's Your Yale
A-TITLE It's Your Yale
https://your.yale.edu/node/60157Subdomain Recognition
A-TITLE Recognition
https://www.myworkday.com/yaleExternal Subdomain Workday
A-TITLE Workday
http://news.yale.edu/External Subdomain News
A-TITLE News
https://statusboard.apps.yale....New window External Subdomain Yale Status Board
https://your.yale.edu/yale-linksYaleLinks
https://your.yale.edu/search/nodeSearch
https://your.yale.edu/work-yaleWork at Yale
/work-yale/benefitsBenefits
A-TITLE Benefits
https://careers.yale.edu/External Subdomain Careers
/work-yale/campus-servicesCampus Services
/work-yale/financial-managementFinancial Management
/work-yale/supporting-yales-cu...Integrity and Ethical Conduct
/work-yale/learn-growLearn and Grow
/work-yale/manager-toolkitManager Toolkit
/work-yale/staff-resourcesStaff Resources
/work-yale/supportSupport
https://your.yale.edu/technologyTechnology at Yale
/policies-proceduresPolicies & Procedures
/university-policies-procedure...University Policies, Procedures, Forms, and Guides
/research-supportResearch Support
/research-support/office-resea...Office of Research Administration
/research-support/office-spons...Office of Sponsored Projects
/research-support/human-resear...Human Research Protection Program
A-TITLE Human Research
/research-support/animal-resea...Animal Research Support
A-TITLE Animal Research
/research-support/conflict-int...Conflict of Interest Office
/research-support/export-controlsExport Controls
/research-support/office-resea...Office of Research Compliance
/research-support/faculty-rese...Faculty Research Management Services
/research-support/research-int...Research Integrity & Security Office
https://your.yale.edu/communityCommunity
/community/public-safetyPublic Safety
https://theshopsatyale.com/39-...External Delights Around Every Corner. Enjoy free cookies each month while visiting the Shops at Yale.
https://ai.yale.edu/New window External Subdomain AI at Yale
/work-yale/careersText duplicate Careers
/work-yale/learn-growText duplicate Learn and Grow
/youryale/yale-imaginedSubdomain Gothic fiction Yale, imagined
IMG-ALT Books on a table.
/youryale/picnic-perfectSubdomain Green retreats Picnic perfect
IMG-ALT Bench along a sidewalk.
https://yaleedu.sharepoint.com...External Subdomain 'Non sibi' Curiosity to explore
IMG-ALT Meet Ge Yan.
https://your.yale.edu/youryaleNew window All Stories
http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/m...External Subdomain More events
https://cybersecurity.yale.edu...External Subdomain 7.30 TRIVIA NOON | VIRTUAL Buzz In for AI Trivia Fun! In the know about using AI securely? Prove it at our fun, interactive trivia game.
https://calendar.yale.edu/cal/...External Subdomain 8.01 CHAMBER MUSIC 8PM | NORFOLK MUSIC SHED The Shanghai Quartet performs at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
https://calendar.yale.edu/cal/...External Subdomain 8.03 DANCE LESSONS 11AM | YALE SCHWARZMAN CENTER Dance artists teach masterclasses in jazz, hip hop, salsa, modern, contemporary, precision dance and more.
https://calendar.yale.edu/cal/...External Subdomain 8.07 SUMMER @ THE WELL 5PM | THE WELL Happy hour featuring musician and neuroscientist, Yale assistant professor AZA Allsop's trio, blending jazz, hip-hop, R...
/youryale/summer-2025-book-rec...New window Subdomain We Heard You!
https://www.yalemedicine.org/n...New window External Subdomain Beat plantar fasciitis heel pain.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/07/...New window External Subdomain Focal point.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/07/...New window External Subdomain Thirty years of inspiring young playwrights.
https://theshopsatyale.com/app...New window External Crawls celebrate – August 2.
https://your.yale.edu/operationsOperations
https://yaleedu.sharepoint.com...New window External Subdomain Inside Your Yale
https://directory.yale.edu/New window External Subdomain Directories
/work-yale/supportText duplicate Support
https://usability.yale.edu/web...External Subdomain Accessibility at Yale
/federal-and-state-notice-requ...Federal and State Notice Requirements
https://www.yale.edu/nondiscri...External Subdomain Nondiscrimination/Title IX
https://www.yale.edu/privacy-p...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
/work-yale/campus-services/yal...IMG-ALT Yale Shuttle Map
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale
https://your.yale.edu/contact-usContact Internal Communications

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://your.yale.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 0.10 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (71 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlpublic, max-age=21600
content-encodinggzip
content-languageen
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
etagW/"1753829399-0"
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedTue, 29 Jul 2025 22:49:59 GMT
link<https://your.yale.edu/>; rel="canonical",<https://your.yale.edu/>; rel="shortlink"
servernginx
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31622400
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe1-a-d7996858-w5p2g
x-styx-req-id6e442011-6cd6-11f0-b29b-f2ddc3378fa2
age14774
accept-rangesbytes
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
dateWed, 30 Jul 2025 03:54:02 GMT
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100129-CHI, cache-fra-etou8220112-FRA, cache-fra-etou8220021-FRA
x-cacheHIT, HIT, MISS
x-cache-hits16, 55, 0
x-timerS1753847642.186584,VS0,VE5
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie
content-length23858
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 161 referring domains.
This page has 331 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 77 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

# Biblio module rules to prevent recursive searches by bots.
Disallow: /biblio/export/
Disallow: /biblio?*
Disallow: /biblio?page=*&*
Disallow: /publications/export/
Disallow: /publications?*
Disallow: /publications?page=*&*
Disallow: /user/*/biblio*
Allow: /biblio?page=*
Allow: /publications?page=*

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Yale81%Check
Yale University61%Check
YourYale40%Check
University38%Check
Work38%Check
explore38%Check
News36%Check
Public36%Check
SUMMER36%Check
Research34%Check

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