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Title
NC State University

Words count: 3    Unique Words: 3    Length: 19 characters
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Excellent! the title contains 1-12 words, and within 10-70 characters!

The title will be displayed in search engine results in the form of a direct link to the site.

Tips:
1. ideally, the title should contain 10 to 70 characters, including spaces. (Google displays up to 70 characters in the title, and takes into account only the first 12 words.)
2. put the most important and relevant keywords in the title, try not to repeat any word.
3. each individual page should have a unique title.
Description
Discover North Carolina State University, a leading public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Words count: 15    Length: 114 characters
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Excellent! Your meta description contains between 70 and 160 characters.

Meta Descriptions provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages, that are commonly used by search engines on search result pages to display preview snippets for a given page.

Tips:
1. it is best to keep meta descriptions between 70-160 characters.
2. a readable, compelling description using important keywords can draw a much higher click-through rate of searchers to the given web page.
3. avoid keyword stuffing, ensure each page has its own unique description.
Google SERP Preview
NC State University www.ncsu.edu/
Discover North Carolina State University, a leading public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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This is how your site looks like in Google Search Result Page.

an optimized SERP snippet will have a higher click through rate.

Tips:
1. make sure the title is clear, simple, straight to the point.
2. make sure the description is relevant and properly summarized the page content.
Keywords
Words count: 0    Length: 0 characters    keyword phrases count : 0

Meta Keywords is not set.
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Meta keywords should not be ignored, though they are not a major ranking factor for most of search engines nowadays. A Meta keywords tag is supposed to be a brief and concise list of the most important themes of your page

Tips:
1. keep your list of keywords or keyword phrases down to 10 - 20 unique words or phrases.
2. separate the words or phrases using a comma (you do not need to leave a space between words separated by commas).
3. do not repeat words or phrases.
4. put your most important word or phrases at the beginning of your list.
Keywords Cloud
This keywords cloud gives your an idea of what are those important keywords appears in your website.

academics  admissions  aid  applications  apply  athletics  campus  careers  carolina  chancellor  college  community  discover  distance  diversity  education  equity  facts  faculty  families  friday  graduate  innovation  leading  life  majors  mar  mdash  nbsp  north  online  philanthropy  raleigh  rankings  rsquo  spirit  students  traditions  undergraduate  university 

Top 20 Keywords
Total Terms Count: 599

Excellent! No terms has a density of more than 3%, all are optimized to be within 1% - 3%.

Top 20 terms occurance and density
KeywordIn DomainIn TitleIn DescriptionIn Heading In Body Density
university 10 1.67%
graduate 6 1.00%
mdash 6 1.00%
students 6 1.00%
campus 5 0.83%
undergraduate 5 0.83%
mar 5 0.83%
friday 5 0.83%
college 5 0.83%
raleigh 4 0.67%
admissions 4 0.67%
majors 4 0.67%
careers 4 0.67%
online 4 0.67%
innovation 4 0.67%
community 4 0.67%
apply 4 0.67%
faculty 4 0.67%
rsquo 4 0.67%
applications 4 0.67%

keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase.


Tips:
1. the optimum keyword density to be 1.0% - 3.0%. Using a keyword more than that could be considered search spam.
2. overuse of keywords, a practice called keyword stuffing, will cause a web page to be penalized.
Highlight
<H1><H2><H3><H4><H5><H6><B><U><I><EM><STRONG>Total
113110050001031

Excellent! The page is using HTML headings (<H1> - <H6>) and inline emphasis tags (<EM><B><I><EM><STRONG>)

<H1>

(1)
Sweet Victories

<H2>

(13)
About
Admissions
Academics
Innovation
Community
More From NC State
Think and Do With Us
Top 1% Worldwide
#4 in the South for Entrepreneurship
We Solve Problems
Upcoming Events
Campus Map
Connect With Us

<H3>

(11)
Life at NC State
Apply Now
New Records on NC State’s Sixth Day of Giving
An Organic Partnership
Results
Make Plans to Attend NC State’s Annual Powwow
CHASS Student Ambassador Application Deadline
Deadline: CHASS Council Holtzman Award Application
Wilson College of Textiles Research Open House
Leading by Design
Feminist Writing Group
<H6>
(5)
Meet NC State Esports Director Cody Elsen
Get Ready for Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week 
The Paradox of the Librarian Poetry Fox 
Jane S. McKimmon: A Pioneer of Think and Do 
Discover the Power of Design Thinking 
<EM> (1)Entrepreneur


HTML headings and emphasis tags are the most basic forms to indicate important content.

Tips:
1. use your keywords in the headings and make sure the first level heading (<H1>) includes the most important keywords.
2. never duplicate the title tag content in the heading tags.
3. for more effective SEO, use only one <H1> tag per page
Reading Level
25.2

The page text content is a bit too difficult to be read and understood!

Ensure your page content text can be read and understood by most of your site visitors. not too difficult nor too simple.

Tips:
1. a score below 30, indicates the text content is too difficult to be read and understood.
2. a sore above 80, may suggest that the site is lack of in-depth and expertise of its topics (low quality content).
3. an optimal reading level score shall be 50-70.
Language
en-us Excellent! the website declared its language in use.

the detected language is : en

Declare the language in use can help search engine to better understand and rendering your page, especially when special characters are encountered.
Page Encoding
utf-8 Excellent! the website declared its character encoding.

Declare the character encoding can help search engine to better rendering your page, especially when it comes to
non-asii characters.
Favicon
Excellent! the website has a shortcut favicon image.

RSS
the website does not have a RSS Feed.

Robots.txt
Robots.txt is not presented for the site.

Robots.txt file can be used to regulate access of search engine crawlers, properly configured robots.txt file can help
crawlers to better understand your website.

Tips:
1. grand robots access to those pages you wish them to crawl.
2. restrict access to those pages you do not wish search engines to see and crawl.
XML Sitemap
XML Sitemap is not presented for the site.
[ To generate XML sitemap, Use this XML Sitemap Generator ]

Sitemap helps search engine crawler to identify your website pages.

Tips:
1. ensure all your important pages are listed in the sitemap.
2. ensure to indicate the frequency of change and importance of each url.
3. inform search engines of the location/URL of your sitemap (eg, For Google, you can set the website sitemap location through Google Webmaster management panel).
Loading Time
0.72 seconds - 38.85 Kb/s

Excellent! the site is pretty fast and it takes less than 1 second to load.

Estimated loading time for different internet connections
Modem
(56Kbits/s)
Mobile/HSDPAM
(7.2Mbits/s)
ADSL
(8Mbits/s)
Cable
(30Mbits/s)
Optical Fibre
(100Mbits/s)
4.00 s 0.03 s 0.03 s 0.01 s 2.24 ms

Site speed is becoming an crucial ranking factor. Slow page loading is one of the biggest complains of web users. If the loading time is too long, you may need to check your server, network, or system codes and structure.

Tips:
1. ideal loading time is less than 1 seconds, if it take more than 5 seconds to load your site, likely users will run out of patience, so do search engines.
2. improve your SEO by optimizing your website to have a small size and faster responding server.
Total Size
28 Kb (27,970 bytes)

The page is a bit too small, it may not have enough relevant content to rank well!

Page size affects the speed of your website.

Tips:
1. try to keep you page size between 30K-150K
2. put javascript and style sheet in separate files, and link them to the main page.
3. use optimized images for web and set up your server with gzip for downloading
Text To Code Ratio
Total Size Text Size HTML Code Size Text/HTML Code Ratio
28 Kb (27,970 bytes) 5 Kb (4,973 bytes) 23 Kb (22,997 bytes) 21.62 %


Excellent! the text to html code ratio is just nice, that is within 15%-70%!

the ratio of text to HTML code should always be above 15% for good SEO gain,
it is below 15% then that means that your website probably needs more text content.

Tips:
1. a ratio between 25% and 70% is ideal, when it goes beyond than that, the page might run the risk of being considered as spam. As long as the content is relevant and gives essential information, it is a plus point to have more of it.
2. improve your SEO by adding more relevant text to your pages and also increasing your keyword density.
Flash
Excellent! No flash component is detected on this page.

Flash content can not be properly indexed by search engines, and normally flash file is large in size, which slow down the loading of your page.

Tips:
1. avoid flash content whenever possible if you wish to have a fast and SEO friendly website.
Frame
Excellent! No frame is detected on this page.

Framesets and individual frames could cause problem for search engine to crawl your pages

Tips:
1. avoid frames whenever possible.
2. search engines do not like frames.
3. use iframe instead if you really have no choice.
Inline CSS
14 Inline CSS components are detected on this page.

It is a good practice to move inline CSS rules into an external CSS file in order to make your page lighter and increasing the text to code ratio.

Tips:
1. move inline css rules to external css file.
2. separate style from html.
Nested Table
Excellent! No nested table is detected on this page (nested table : 0, total table : 0)

nested tables could slow down page rendering and lead to bad user experience.

Tips:
1. avoiding <table> for your page layout.
2. using <div> instead of <table>.
Plain Text Email
Excellent! No Plain Text Email is detected on this page.

Redirect Count
2 redirections were detected for loading this page.

Using HTTPS
Excellent! HTTPS is used for your page.

WWW Resolve
Excellent! the websites https://www.ncsu.edu/ and http://ncsu.edu are resolved to the same url :https://www.ncsu.edu/

Search Engines treat URLs with or without "www" as two different records.

Tips:
1. edit your .htaccess file and permanently redirect one to the other (eg redirect www.mysite.com to mysite.com).
URL Rewrite
Non SEO Friendly URLs
https://news.ncsu.edu...l&utm_source=https://www.ncsu.edu/&utm_content=hp-spotlight
https://news.ncsu.edu...edium=referral&utm_source=ncsu.edu&utm_content=hp-spotlight


You may use url rewrite techniques to make these 2 urls to be SEO friendly.

clean, short and relevant URLs are favoured by users and search engines

Tips:
1. use url rewrite to turn dynamic pages with query parameters into seo friendly static pages.
2. put your important keywords in the url.
3. good urls are not only user friendly but also seo friendly.
Underscore In URL
URLs with underscore
https://news.ncsu.edu.../www.ncsu.edu/&utm_content=hp-spotlight
https://news.ncsu.edu...ource=ncsu.edu&utm_content=hp-spotlight
https://calendar.ncsu...nt_ambassador_application_deadline_9227
https://calendar.ncsu...hass_council_holtzman_award_application
https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/research_open_house
https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/leading_by_design
https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/feminist_writing_group_2415


You have 7 Urls with underscore.

Search Engines treat hyphen as word separator, they do not treat underscore as word separator.


Tips:
1. use hyphen "-" instead of underscore "_" to optimize your page url.
2. help search engines to better understand your url, eventually will benefit your page`s ranking.
Links
Internal Links
(link to pages within this domain)
External Links
(link to pages on other websites)
Total
102 5 107


You have more than 100 links (107).

Internal Links (link to pages within this domain) - 102
URL Anchor Text
http://ncsu.edu/#main-contentSkip to main content
https://www.ncsu.edu
http://ncsu.edu/#About
https://www.ncsu.edu/about/NC State 101
https://chancellor.ncsu.edu/Chancellor
https://www.ncsu.edu/rankings/Rankings and Facts
https://www.ncsu.edu/think-and-do/Think and Do
http://ncsu.edu/#Admissions
https://www.ncsu.edu/majors-and-careers/Majors and Careers
https://www.ncsu.edu/applications-and-aid/Applications and Aid
https://www.ncsu.edu/campus-life/Campus Life
https://www.ncsu.edu/spirit-and-traditions/Spirit and Traditions
https://www.ncsu.edu/athletics/Athletics
https://www.ncsu.edu/raleigh/Raleigh, N.C.
http://ncsu.edu/#Education
https://www.ncsu.edu/undergraduate-education/Undergraduate
https://www.ncsu.edu/graduate-education/Graduate
https://www.ncsu.edu/online-education/Online
https://www.ncsu.edu/colleges-and-departments/Colleges and Departments
http://ncsu.edu/#Innovation
https://www.ncsu.edu/research/Research
https://www.ncsu.edu/partnerships/Partnerships
https://centennial.ncsu.edu/Centennial Campus
https://entrepreneurship.ncsu.edu/Entrepreneurship
http://ncsu.edu/#Community
https://www.ncsu.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/Diversity, Equity and Inclusio...
https://global.ncsu.edu/Global Engagement
https://www.ncsu.edu/outreach-and-extension/Outreach and Extension
https://giving.ncsu.edu/Philanthropy and Giving
http://ncsu.edu/#Information for 
https://www.ncsu.edu/students/Students 
https://www.ncsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/Faculty and Staff 
https://parents.ncsu.edu/Parents and Families 
http://alumni.ncsu.edu/Alumni 
https://www.ncsu.edu/resources/NC State Resources 
https://www.ncsu.edu/students/Students
https://www.ncsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/Faculty and Staff
https://parents.ncsu.edu/Parents and Families
http://alumni.ncsu.edu/Alumni
https://admissions.ncsu.edu/Apply
https://visit.ncsu.edu/Visit
https://giving.ncsu.edu/Give
https://www.ncsu.edu
https://www.ncsu.edu/about/NC State 101
https://chancellor.ncsu.edu/Chancellor
https://www.ncsu.edu/rankings/Rankings and Facts
https://www.ncsu.edu/think-and-do/Think and Do
https://www.ncsu.edu/majors-and-careers/Majors and Careers
https://www.ncsu.edu/applications-and-aid/Applications and Aid
https://www.ncsu.edu/campus-life/Campus Life
https://www.ncsu.edu/spirit-and-traditions/Spirit and Traditions
https://www.ncsu.edu/athletics/Athletics
https://www.ncsu.edu/raleigh/Raleigh, N.C.
https://www.ncsu.edu/undergraduate-education/Undergraduate
https://www.ncsu.edu/graduate-education/Graduate
https://www.ncsu.edu/online-education/Online and Distance
https://www.ncsu.edu/colleges-and-departments/Colleges and Departments
https://www.ncsu.edu/research/Research
https://www.ncsu.edu/partnerships/Partnerships
https://centennial.ncsu.edu/Centennial Campus
https://entrepreneurship.ncsu.edu/Entrepreneurship
https://www.ncsu.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/Diversity, Equity and Inclusio...
https://global.ncsu.edu/Global Engagement
https://www.ncsu.edu/outreach-and-extension/Outreach and Extension
https://giving.ncsu.edu/Philanthropy and Giving
https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/03/buzzing-about-pack-basketball/Buzzing about Pack basketball 
https://news.ncsu.edu.../www.ncsu.edu/&utm_content=hp-spotlightFaculty and StaffMeet NC State...
https://news.giving.n...mpact-on-nc-states-sixth-day-of-giving/Philanthropy and GivingNew Rec...
https://sciences.ncsu.edu/news/an-organic-partnership/SciencesAn Organic Partnership...
https://grad.ncsu.edu...ssional-student-appreciation-week-2024/EventsGet Ready for Graduate a...
https://news.ncsu.edu...he-paradox-of-the-librarian-poetry-fox/We Are the WolfpackThe Paradox...
https://lifelonglearn...csu.edu/100/2024/02/21/jane-s-mckimmon/Continuing and Lifelong Educat...
https://news.ncsu.edu...ource=ncsu.edu&utm_content=hp-spotlightDesignDiscover the Power of De...
https://www.ncsu.edu/majors-and-careers/Majors and Careers
https://www.ncsu.edu/admissions-and-aid/Admissions and Aid
https://www.ncsu.edu/research/Take a deeper dive
https://news.ncsu.edu/results/Research and InnovationResults...
https://diversity.ncsu.edu/msa/ncstate-powwow/Diversity, Equity and Inclusio...
https://calendar.ncsu.eduMore Events
https://calendar.ncsu...nt_ambassador_application_deadline_9227Mar 29 ...
https://calendar.ncsu...hass_council_holtzman_award_applicationMar 29 ...
https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/research_open_houseMar 29 ...
https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/leading_by_designMar 29 ...
https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/feminist_writing_group_2415Mar 29 ...
https://www.ncsu.edu.cls-1{fill:#fff;} ...
https://maps.ncsu.edu/
https://studentservices.ncsu.edu/calendars/academic/Academic Calendar
https://accessibility.ncsu.edu/Accessibility
https://admissions.ncsu.edu/Apply
https://www.ncsu.edu/contact/Contact
https://www.ncsu.edu/copyright/Copyright
https://directory.ncsu.edu/Directory
http://emergency.ncsu.edu/Emergency Information
https://www.ncsu.edu/free-speech/Free Speech
https://jobs.ncsu.edu/Jobs
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/Libraries
http://mypack.ncsu.edu/MyPack Portal
https://policies.ncsu.edu/Policies
https://www.ncsu.edu/privacy/Privacy Statement
https://www.ncsu.edu/resources/Resources
...

External Links (link to pages on other websites) - 5
URL Anchor Text
https://www.facebook.com/ncstateFacebook
https://www.twitter.com/ncstateX
https://www.linkedin....school/north-carolina-state-university/LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/ncstateInstagram
https://www.youtube.com/ncstateYouTube

reasonable number of links (below 100) per page will give a better user experience.


Tips:
1. keep the number of links per page below 100.
2. having more than 100 links in a single page will lead to a bad user experience, and it possibly runs into the risk of been considered as spam.
3. search engines may not follow all the links if you have too many of them in a single page.
Images
Total Images Alt Present Alt Missing
11 11 0


Excellent! all images are associated with an ALT value.

Image URL - 11
URL ALT Text
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/athletics-sweet-sixteen-1.jpgStudents hold up their wolfies...
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/esports-director-1.jpgNC State Esports Program Direc...
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CIF-2023-belltower.jpgNC State's Belltower surrounde...
https://www.ncsu.edu/...ontent/uploads/2024/03/ben-hines-oracel-wake-tech-START.jpgBen Hines, a graduate physics ...
https://www.ncsu.edu/...p-content/uploads/2024/03/pack-appreciation-day-150x150.jpgFaculty, staff, and students e...
https://www.ncsu.edu/...content/uploads/2024/03/poetryfox_LissaGotwals-150x150.webpChris Vitiello takes off the P...
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/McK_Jane1-150x150.jpgJane McKimmon works at her des...
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AFW-Spring-2023-9-150x150.jpgStudents in the College of Des...
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Imani-Madison-STEPS.jpgDr. Imani Madison of the STEPS...
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PowWow24-950x535-1.jpgA group participates in a Poww...
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/campus-map-300x169.jpegA map of NC State's campus.


search engines cannot `see` images, proper Alt content will help them to better understand and index images.

Tips:
1. always add alt attributes to images. Alt is mandatory for accessibility and for valid XHTML.
2. words used within an image`s Alt attribute should be its text equivalent and convey the same information.
3. use a human-readable caption and descriptive text around the image.
CSS
Style Block In Same Page Links to External Style Files Total
7 16 23


Too many (16) external style sheet files , it will slow down the downloading.

Links To External Stylesheet Files - 16
Stylesheet URL rel type
https://www.ncsu.edu/...plugins/instagram-feed-pro/css/sbi-styles.min.css?ver=6.3.6stylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...te-theme/app/ThirdPartySupport/dist/styles/smashballoon.cssstylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...te-theme/dist/styles/mainStyle.css?ver=8edc45df99c340a2e66astylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...t/plugins/core-site-add-on/dist/styles/header.css?ver=1.2.2stylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...lugins/core-site-add-on/dist/styles/mainStyle.css?ver=1.2.2stylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...state-theme/dist/styles/blocks.css?ver=a94c9e34d98764cd32aastylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...t/plugins/core-site-add-on/dist/styles/blocks.css?ver=1.2.2stylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/.../plugins/core-site-add-on/dist/styles/coreHomepageStyle.cssstylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...-stories/dist/styles/mainStyle.css?ver=ef5e37c44a9d7bde2d7fstylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...ate-stories/dist/styles/blocks.css?ver=1418034ed1c7e5a3290cstylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...s-add-on/dist/styles/mainStyle.css?ver=06ffe8256db86b69d47cstylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...news-add-on/dist/styles/blocks.css?ver=5238fc21db974730b8cfstylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...te-pages/dist/styles/mainStyle.css?ver=f157b6fb22451ce711d5stylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...state-pages/dist/styles/blocks.css?ver=6770ca76188609b1b9d5stylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...e-theme/dist/styles/components.css?ver=3ce9a8ec990e5792f5aestylesheet
https://www.ncsu.edu/...cstate-theme/dist/styles/print.css?ver=cb769ba27ae7f085ff9bstylesheet

Script
Scripts Block In Same Page Links to External Script Files Total
30 21 51


Too many (21) external scripts files , it will slow down the downlaoding.

Links To External Script Files - 21
Script URL Type
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=3.4.1
https://cdn.ncsu.edu/brand-assets/utility-bar/v3/ncstate-utility-bar.js
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-3BCCQK39HR
https://cdn.ncsu.edu/brand-assets/utility-bar/v3/ncstate-utility-button.js?ver=3
https://cdn.ncsu.edu/brand-assets/utility-bar/v3/ncstate-wolf-alert.js?ver=3
https://www.ncsu.edu/...-includes/js/dist/vendor/wp-polyfill-inert.min.js?ver=3.1.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/...cludes/js/dist/vendor/regenerator-runtime.min.js?ver=0.14.0
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/wp-polyfill.min.js?ver=3.15.0
https://www.ncsu.edu/...core-site-add-on/dist/scripts/headerMobileMenu.js?ver=1.2.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/...core-site-add-on/dist/scripts/headerScrollLock.js?ver=1.2.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/...plugins/core-site-add-on/dist/scripts/masthead.js?ver=1.2.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/.../core-site-add-on/dist/scripts/manageScrollbar.js?ver=1.2.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/...ent/plugins/core-site-add-on/dist/scripts/main.js?ver=1.2.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/...lugins/core-site-add-on/dist/scripts/analytics.js?ver=1.2.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/...ins/core-site-add-on/dist/scripts/coreHomepage.js?ver=1.2.2
https://www.ncsu.edu/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/lodash.min.js?ver=4.17.19
https://www.ncsu.edu/...ncstate-theme/dist/scripts/main.js?ver=95032752082ddaf5f20d
https://www.ncsu.edu/...d-news-add-on/dist/scripts/main.js?ver=0d3f33ab17a19ca3cb17
https://www.ncsu.edu/...ncstate-pages/dist/scripts/main.js?ver=6a8d6d9387339d18b6c6
https://www.ncsu.edu/...state-stories/dist/scripts/main.js?ver=da79db2c55d770383126

put scripts together and link them from an external files rather then put them in the same file as the main page.

Tips:
1. reduce the use of in-page scripts, put them in separate files and link them in.
2. reduce the number of external script files, it will help browser to make lesser number of http requests from the server.
3. optimize or compress the script files to have smaller size and faster loading.
Blog Or News Release
Link to Blog / News Release Page
https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/03/buzzing-about-pack-basketball/Buzzing about Pack basketballÂ...


Excellent! we have found blog linked to your site.

Having a blog is a great way to provide fresh content and retain users, search engines favour it too.


Tips:
1. regularly update your blog and provide fresh and quality content.
2. relevant blogs of your website topics, generate more credits in the eyes of your visitors, as well as search engines.
DMOZ Listing
Yes

Excellent! the website is listed in the DMOZ open directory. DMOZ Open Directory Project

Google Analytics
Analytics Service is not implemented for the site.

Google Page Rank
8 Excellent! the website has a high page rank (8/10).

8
0 - 1 2 - 3 4 - 10
Poor Good Excellent
Links From Root Domains
98
Excellent! You do have a lot of root domains (98) linked to your site ncsu.edu.

98
< 20 21 - 50 > 51
Poor Good Excellent


Number of backlinks from some other root domains is an indicator of domain authority, the more backlinks your site has, the higher its domain authority, which leads to a higher chance of better ranking.

Tips:
1. make it easy for others to link to your site, provide the code if possible.
2. links from older domains are more powerful than links from new domains.
3. links from .edu and .gov generally have a higher value.
Social Engagement
Your site has an excellent social media engagement!

  Facebook Likes 4,663
  Facebook Shares 1,101
  Facebook Comments 953
  Tweets 19
  LinkedIn 51

Social Media Integration
Excellent! your site is well integrated with social media networks.

Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/ncstate
Twitter Accounthttps://www.twitter.com/ncstate
Google+ PageNot Found


Trustworthiness
94

Excellent! the website has a good Trustworthiness Score (94/100).

94
0 - 19 20 - 39 40 - 59 60 - 79 80 - 100
Very Poor Poor Unsatisfactory Good Excellent


Users are concerned about the safety of their online transactions. Trustworthiness rating is based on real user ratings and that tells you how much other users trust this site, so do the serch engines. note: this trustworthiness score is provided by WOT (Web of Trust).

Tips:
1. pay attention to the look and design of your site, many people look for visual cues when assessing a site`s credibility
2. make your site easy to use, sites that are easy to navigate are perceived as being more trustworthy.
3. make it easy for user to contact you, users will be more comfortable and feel more secured shall they need to get in touch with you.
Child Safe
94 Excellent! the website has a good Child Safe Score (94/100).

94
0 - 19 20 - 39 40 - 59 60 - 79 80 - 100
Very Poor Poor Unsatisfactory Good Excellent


Safe Browsing
Safe! the site ncsu.edu is NOT currently listed as suspicious, most-likely it is clean from malware and phining code [ verify this by Google Safe Browsing ]

Ensure that your site is malware free and does not cause harm to users` computers.

Tips:
1. do not put virus, malicious worms, adwares, trojans, spywares and suspicious phishing code in your server.
2. take suspicious behaviours seriously, have a regular check-up and monitor closely of your server`s log files.
3. if your site is black-listed by Google as suspicious, clean it up before requesting for a review.
Traffic Rank
6,764th most visited website in the world.
2,121th most visited website in United States  

your site has an excellent high traffic rank in the world.
Websites On Same Server
Excellent! You domain ncsu.edu is the only one hosted on the server (ip : 52.84.162.74).

Too many domains hosted on the same server is an indicator that you are not really serious about your website, and your site will have a higher chance to be surrounded by bad neighbours.

Tips:
1. the fewer domains hosted on the same server/ip the better.
2. avoid shared hosting whenever possible, especially when there are already hundreds or thousands of sites are hosted on the same server.
3. dedicated ip or resources for your site not only do good to your site visitors but also favoured by search engines.
Server Location
your server (IP : 52.84.162.74) is located at United States  
the most site visitors come from United States  

Excellent! your server is located close to most of your site visitors.
HTTP Compression
No

your website server does not support HTTP Compression.

Caching
No

your website server does not support Caching.

Server Signature
Excellent! the website server signature is off.

A secure and safe server is not only good for your site visitors but also good for search engines.

Tips:
1. server software version information can be utilized by malicious visitors to attack your server.
2. by turning off the server signature, you actually have made your server a little bit more secure.
3. for Apache server - edit the apache2.conf or the .htaccess file to turn server signature off.
Domain Age
36 years, 348 days old ( 1st registered on : 1987-04-16 )


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excellent, the domain age is old enough.

Domain Expires
1 year, 123 days from today ( expires on : 2025-07-31 )


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domain is expiring soon.

Domain Info
ncsu.edu ( 8 characters )

Domain Registrar : EDUCASE

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Domain Created On Last Modified On Expires On
1987-04-16 1987-04-16 2025-07-31
36 years, 348 days old 36 years, 348 days ago 1 year, 123 days from today
36 years, 348 days old


Domain Name Servers used by ncsu.edu
DNS Name IP Address
ncsu.edu152.1.28.6


You have a nice choice of domain name, which is of a right length (8 characters).

domain name choice and domain age are crucial for SEO.

Tips:
1. keep the domain name short and relevant to the content, which will be easier to be remembered and related to.
2. older domain tends to be more trustworthy.
3. register a domain for more than 1 year, and search engine will think it is a serious business.


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