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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
89
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
1
PASS
5
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
5 PASS 1 REVIEW
C
Content Depth
Action
865 words, Difficult
REVIEW
865 words, Difficult
Info::
Page has 865 words of content
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 3%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Difficult (grade 12)
865 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 12

Text-to-HTML Ratio

3% text 97% HTML

6 KB / 188 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.

A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.ncsu.edu/
Info::
Canonical is self-referencing
Info::
Canonical matches final URL after redirects
Info::
Canonical target returns 200
Info::
Canonical points to a different domain
Canonical URL Configured
Page URL https://ncsu.edu Canonical https://www.ncsu.edu/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A
Meta Tags
Title: 7 chars
PASS
Title: 7 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: YouTube
Warning::
Title is only 7 characters — consider expanding
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"YouTube"

7 characters Too short
Title: YouTube
H1: Fashion Week Takeover
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.

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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+
Image SEO
18 images, 17 descriptive filenames
PASS
18 images, 17 descriptive filenames
Info::
1 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
17 descriptive
0 hash-based
1 generic
18 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
.generic✓1

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

A+
Schema Markup Audit
1 schema types detected
PASS

Detected schema types

WebPage json-ld
0/0 required

Missing schema opportunities

  • 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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