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Title

University of Maryland

Words count: 3 Unique Words: 3 Length: 22 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.

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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

A Preeminent Public Research University

Words count: 5 Length: 39 characters
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The description is too short!

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.

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2. a readable, compelling description using important keywords can draw a much higher click-through rate of searchers to the given web page.
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Google SERP Preview

University of Maryland www.maryland.edu/
A Preeminent Public Research University

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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.

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Keywords

A Preeminent Public Research University

Words count: 5 Length: 39 characters keyword phrases count : 1

The keywords is too short!
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Keyword Occurrences in Different Sections
Word		keyword	domain	title	description	heading	content
5 words	:	100% (1/1)
		a preeminent public research university					0 (0%)

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

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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.
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Keywords Cloud

This keywords cloud gives your an idea of what are those important keywords appears in your website.

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Top 20 Keywords

Total Terms Count: 598

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

Top 20 terms occurance and density
Keyword	In Body	Density
student	12	2.01%
umd	10	1.67%
university	10	1.67%
community	8	1.34%
academic	8	1.34%
athletics	7	1.17%
programs	7	1.17%
arts	7	1.17%
rsquo	7	1.17%
learn	7	1.17%
maryland	6	1.00%
colleges	6	1.00%
news	6	1.00%
undergraduate	5	0.84%
nation	5	0.84%
public	4	0.67%
admissions	4	0.67%
traditions	4	0.67%
schools	4	0.67%
graduate	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.

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1. the optimum keyword density to be 1.0% - 3.0%. Using a keyword more than that could be considered search spam.
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1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	14

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

<H1> (1)	The Future Is Here
<H2> (7)	Latest News By The Numbers A BOLD RESEARCH ENTERPRISE Campus Calendar
<I> (6)	Fearlessly Forward U.S. News & World Report Forbes Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges U.S. News & World Report Entrepreneurship

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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

29.1

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.

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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 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.

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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

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Sitemap helps search engine crawler to identify your website pages.

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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

0.27 seconds - 57.66 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)
2.22 s	0.02 s	0.02 s	0.00 s	1.25 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.

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2. improve your SEO by optimizing your website to have a small size and faster responding server.

Total Size

16 Kb (15,569 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.

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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
16 Kb (15,569 bytes)	5 Kb (4,730 bytes)	11 Kb (10,839 bytes)	43.64 %

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.

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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.
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Flash

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Frame

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

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2. search engines do not like frames.
3. use iframe instead if you really have no choice.

Inline CSS

13 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.

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1. move inline css rules to external css file.
2. separate style from html.

Nested Table

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

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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 http://www.maryland.edu and http://maryland.edu are resolved to the same url :https://umd.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).

IP Canonicalization

IP address of the site http://94.247.142.1 is forwarded to https://umd.edu/, instead of to its domain name site maryland.edu.

URL Rewrite

Excellent! your urls are clean.

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

Excellent! your do not use underscore in your URLs.

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
1	102	103

You have more than 100 links (103).

Internal Links (link to pages within this domain) - 1
URL	Anchor Text
http://maryland.edu/#main	Skip site navigation

External Links (link to pages on other websites) - 102
URL	Anchor Text
https://umd.edu/
https://umd.edu/about	About
https://umd.edu/academics	Academics
https://umd.edu/admissions	Admissions & Aid
https://umd.edu/student-life	Student Life
https://umd.edu/research	Research
https://umd.edu/about/mission	Mission & Values
https://umd.edu/about/history	Traditions & History
https://umd.edu/about/inclusive-community	Inclusive Community
https://umd.edu/about/facts	Facts & Rankings
https://umd.edu/about/contact	Contact Us
https://umd.edu/about/university-presidents	University Presidents
https://umd.edu/about/landmarks	Landmarks
https://umd.edu/about/athletics-and-events	Athletics Traditions
https://umd.edu/about/songs	Songs
https://umd.edu/about/traditions-of-the-past	Traditions of the Past
https://umd.edu/about/signature-events	Signature Events
https://umd.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools	Colleges & Schools
https://admissions.umd.edu/programs	Undergraduate Programs
https://gradschool.umd.edu/programs	Graduate Programs
https://umd.edu/academics/academic-support	Academic Support
https://umd.edu/student-life/living-and-dining	Living & Dining
https://umd.edu/student-life/athletics-and-recreation	Athletics & Recreation
https://umd.edu/student-life/student-organizations	Student Organizations
https://umd.edu/visit	Visit
https://provost.umd.edu/calendar	Academic Calendar
https://identity.umd.edu/search	Directory
https://testudo.umd.edu/	Testudo Student Portal
https://elms.umd.edu/	ELMS-Canvas
https://umd.edu/art
https://umd.edu/art	The Arts
https://giving.umd.edu/	Give
https://umterps.com/	Athletics
https://today.umd.edu/	News
https://search.umd.edu/	Search
https://umd.edu/about	About
https://umd.edu/about	Overview
https://umd.edu/about/mission	Mission & Values
https://umd.edu/about/history	Traditions & History
https://umd.edu/about/inclusive-community	Inclusive Community
https://umd.edu/about/facts	Facts & Rankings
https://umd.edu/about/contact	Contact Us
https://umd.edu/academics	Academics
https://umd.edu/academics	Overview
https://umd.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools	Colleges & Schools
https://admissions.umd.edu/programs	Undergraduate Programs
https://gradschool.umd.edu/programs	Graduate Programs
https://umd.edu/academics/academic-support	Academic Support
https://umd.edu/admissions	Admissions & Aid
https://umd.edu/student-life	Student Life
https://umd.edu/student-life	Overview
https://umd.edu/student-life/living-and-dining	Living & Dining
https://umd.edu/student-life/athletics-and-recreation	Athletics & Recreation
https://umd.edu/student-life/student-organizations	Student Organizations
https://umd.edu/visit	Visit
https://umd.edu/art
https://umd.edu/art	The Arts
https://umd.edu/research	Research
https://giving.umd.edu/	Give
https://umterps.com/	Athletics
https://today.umd.edu/	News
https://provost.umd.edu/calendar	Academic Calendar
https://identity.umd.edu/search	Directory
https://testudo.umd.edu/	Testudo Student Portal
https://elms.umd.edu/	ELMS-Canvas
https://today.umd.edu	See all
https://today.umd.edu/2024-the-year-in-pictures	2024: The Year in Pictures
https://umd.edu/about/facts	Learn more
https://umd.edu/admissions	Admissions & Aid
https://umd.edu/visit	Visit
https://umd.edu/research	Learn more
https://umd.edu/academics	Get started
https://calendar.umd.edu/	View all events
https://umd.edu/art	The Arts
https://umd.edu/art	The Arts
https://umterps.com/	Athletics
https://umterps.com/	Learn more
https://umd.edu/about/inclusive-community	An Inclusive Community
https://umd.edu/about/inclusive-community	Meet our community
https://fearlesslyforward.umd.edu/do-good-now	The Nation's First Do Good Cam...
https://fearlesslyforward.umd.edu/do-good-now	Learn more
https://ejobs.umd.edu/	Careers
https://www.ocrsm.umd.edu/	Office of Civil Rights & Sexua...
http://www.umpd.umd.edu/	UMD Police Department
https://ogc.umd.edu/public-information-requests	Public Records Request
https://finance.umd.edu/e...-integrity-and-compliance-reporting	Report Fraud and Waste
https://umd.edu/policies-and-procedures	Policies and Procedures
https://admissions.umd.edu/	Prospective Undergraduate Stud...
https://gradschool.umd.edu/	Prospective Graduate Students
https://admissions.umd.edu/persona/parent-families	Parents & Families
https://alumni.umd.edu/	Alumni
https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/	Media
https://provost.umd.edu/calendar	Academic Calendars
https://academiccatalog.umd.edu/	Course Catalogs
https://www.lib.umd.edu/	Libraries
https://testudo.umd.edu/	Student Portal
https://www.youtube.com/user/UMD2101
https://www.facebook.com/UnivofMaryland
https://www.instagram.com/univofmaryland
https://x.com/UofMaryland
...

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
12	12	0

Excellent! all images are associated with an ALT value.

Image URL - 12
URL	ALT Text
https://umd-main.files.sv...n/umd/logos/default/primary-logo-dark.svg?dm=1722455539	University of Maryland
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1731088507&s=a2d24b932e73ef9e3b88db938c5a3e98	4 dancers backlit in orange
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1731088507&s=a2d24b932e73ef9e3b88db938c5a3e98	4 dancers backlit in orange
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1736185675&s=a2d1dc696c5a4a18a0f2ef2de151fc11	People storm the football fiel...
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1730745109&s=690e362466db1198c289a118796ae76a	2 male students walking outsid...
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1723056676&s=c6b11f952b6e3a909ff944bd056173db	A student looks at a large mon...
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1729806168&s=1668507f5e06a3a431437d5f170da037	Professor sitting at a desk li...
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1723057493&s=2c85199105c6489138f6904c5ee6c035	Group of performers on stage m...
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1725367380&s=ad18b04a9c67c8371e6197ce13f20b36	View of full stands and court ...
https://umd-main.transfor...0.2076&dm=1731092634&s=648606272d18e7de7a6fb1bea1927dea	Students walking outdoors on c...
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1723057848&s=12bb2ab31b768aeed7f7f9f335adb7b7	Jenny Cox and Tyrese Fenty on ...
https://umd-main.transfor...t=crop&dm=1730997649&s=b80436c41655f2444deb936179593f9f	M lawn

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
1	2	3

You have 1 style blocks in the same file, try to put them in a separate file.

Links To External Stylesheet Files - 2
Stylesheet URL	rel	type
http://maryland.edu/shellcraft/umdApp.css?v=1736794891	stylesheet
http://maryland.edu/main/home.css?v=1736794951	stylesheet

Script

Scripts Block In Same Page	Links to External Script Files	Total
7	4	11

Too many (4) external scripts files , it will slow down the downlaoding.

Links To External Script Files - 4
Script URL	Type
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-RQC4EESGS6
http://maryland.edu/shellcraft/umdApp.js?v=1736794891
http://maryland.edu/main/app.js?v=1736794951
http://maryland.edu/main/home.js?v=1736794951

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

There is no Blog associated with 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

No

Your site is not listed in the DMOZ Open Directory. DMOZ Open Directory Project

Google Analytics

Analytics Service is not implemented for the site.

Social Media Integration

Good! your site is integrated with social media.

Facebook Page	https://www.facebook.com/UnivofMaryland
Twitter Account	Not Found
Google+ Page	Not Found

Trustworthiness

0

No Trustworthiness Score is calculated for the site.

0 - 19	20 - 39	40 - 59	60 - 79	80 - 100
0
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

0 No Child Safe Score is calculated for the site.

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

Safe Browsing

Safe! the site maryland.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

Your site is not among the most visited 1 million websites in the world.

Websites On Same Server

Excellent! You do have very few domains (3 - stlzoo.org, vera.org, visitharrogate.co.uk) hosted on the same server as maryland.edu (ip : 94.247.142.1).

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.

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

26 years, 64 days old ( 1st registered on : 1998-11-12 )

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excellent, the domain age is old enough.

Domain Expires

0 years, 197 days from today ( expires on : 2025-07-31 )

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domain is expiring in less than a year.

Domain Info

maryland.edu ( 12 characters )

Domain Registrar : EDUCASE

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Domain Created On	Last Modified On	Expires On
1998-11-12	2024-09-19	2025-07-31
26 years, 64 days old	0 years, 117 days ago	0 years, 197 days from today

26 years, 64 days old

Domain Name Servers used by maryland.edu
DNS Name	IP Address
maryland.edu	165.227.248.71

Domain is going to expire in less than a year time (0 years, 197 days from today), try to renew it for more than one year!

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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