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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
95
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
0
PASS
6
INFO
1

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

Checks
7
6 PASS
A+
Canonical URL
Properly configured
PASS
Properly configured
Info::
Canonical tag present
Got: https://www.cuny.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://cuny.edu Canonical https://www.cuny.edu/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A+
Meta Tags
Title optimized
PASS
Title optimized
Info::
Page title is set
Got: The City University of New York
Info::
Title length (31 chars) is optimal
Info::
Title and H1 are well-aligned
Title

"The City University of New York"

31 characters Optimal ✓
Title: The City University of New York
H1: Welcome to the institutional website of The City University of New York!
Match: Similar ✓
Robots: Indexable (no restrictions)
A
Content Depth
1145 words, Very Difficult
PASS
1145 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 1145 words — good depth for search engines
Info::
Text-to-HTML ratio is 3%
Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
Info::
Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 26)
1145 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 26

Text-to-HTML Ratio

3% text 97% HTML

8 KB / 308 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+
Image SEO
48 images, 47 descriptive filenames
PASS
48 images, 47 descriptive filenames
Info::
1 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
47 descriptive
0 hash-based
1 generic
48 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
Z09_0428_1200x1200.jpggeneric✓1
Current: Z09_0428_1200x1200.jpg
Suggested: draft3.jpg

See Accessibility tab for detailed alt text quality analysis.

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

  • 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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