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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
83
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
3
PASS
3
INFO
1

Cross-tab audit — SEO, performance, crawlability, mobile, structured data

Checks
7
3 PASS 3 REVIEW
B
Canonical URL
Minor issues
REVIEW
Minor issues
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.buffalo.edu/
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Critical::
Canonical target returns 403
Search engines cannot follow this canonical, effectively orphaning this page.
Info::
Canonical points to a different domain
Canonical URL Problem
Page URL https://buffalo.edu Canonical https://www.buffalo.edu/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 403

Search engines cannot follow this canonical, effectively orphaning this page.

Why this matters

Canonical URL returns a non-200 status — Google can't follow the canonical to confirm the relationship.

Source: Google Search Central

C
Content Depth
Action
903 words, Difficult
REVIEW
903 words, Difficult
Info::
Page has 903 words of content
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 2%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 13)
903 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 13

Text-to-HTML Ratio

2% text 98% HTML

5 KB / 240 KB

Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.

Why this matters

Informational: ratio of visible text bytes to total HTML bytes. Very low ratios suggest excessive markup overhead.

B
Image SEO
20 images, 1 descriptive filenames
REVIEW
20 images, 1 descriptive filenames
Warning::
95% of images have non-descriptive filenames
Search engines use filenames as a signal. Rename to descriptive names like 'team-photo.jpg'.
1 descriptive
6 hash-based
13 generic
20 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
1771873580757.jpghash1
Current: 1771873580757.jpg
Suggested: moduleimg800400jpg.jpg
.generic1
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.generic1
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1760454208010.jpghash1
Current: 1760454208010.jpg
Suggested: imageimg200200zjpg.jpg
1760454093494.jpghash1
Current: 1760454093494.jpg
Suggested: imageimg200200zjpg.jpg
1760454143808.jpghash1
Current: 1760454143808.jpg
Suggested: imageimg200200zjpg.jpg
1760454064850.jpghash1
Current: 1760454064850.jpg
Suggested: imageimg200200zjpg.jpg
1714740279865.jpghash1
Current: 1714740279865.jpg
Suggested: imageimg200200zjpg.jpg

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

Search engines use filenames as a signal. Rename to descriptive names like 'team-photo.jpg'.

Why this matters

Most image filenames are non-descriptive (hash/IMG_X) — small SEO miss for Image Search ranking.

Source: Google Image SEO

A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: Welcome to the University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo
Info::
Title length (60 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"Welcome to the University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo"

60 characters Optimal ✓
Title: Welcome to the University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo
H1: Your Privacy is Important To Us.
Match: Very different
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)

Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.

Why this matters

Title and H1 disagree significantly — Google may treat one as the canonical topic and the other as off-topic, weakening ranking.

Learn more

Title is the SERP headline; H1 is the on-page headline. They should describe the same page. Large divergence (different topics, different keywords) signals confusion and Google may rewrite the title in SERP. Align both to the same primary topic.

Source: Google Search Central / on-page SEO

A+
Schema Markup Audit
Per-type completeness vs Schema.org requirements + rich-result eligibility
PASS

No structured data detected

Without JSON-LD or microdata, this page can't qualify for any of Google's rich result formats. Even basic Organization or WebSite schema is a quick win.

Missing schema opportunities

  • easy

    BreadcrumbList

    Page has breadcrumb navigation that could be marked up as BreadcrumbList

    Replaces the URL with a navigable trail in search results

  • moderate

    VideoObject

    Page embeds video content that could be marked up as VideoObject

    Videos appear in the video carousel and have a thumbnail badge

Hreflang
0 hreflang tags
INFO
0 hreflang tags

No hreflang tags detected.

Hreflang tags are only needed for multilingual or multi-regional sites.

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