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SEO

· 7 checks — Canonical, meta, content depth, internal links, image SEO, and hreflang rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
92
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.du.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://du.edu Canonical https://www.du.edu/ Match Self-referencing (correct) Target 200 ✓
A
Meta Tags
Title: 20 chars
PASS
Title: 20 chars
Info::
Page title is set
Got: University of Denver
Warning::
Title is only 20 characters — consider expanding
Info::
Title and H1 have very different wording
Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.
Title

"University of Denver"

20 characters Too short
Title: University of Denver
H1: National Champions
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
Content Depth
1793 words, Very Difficult
PASS
1793 words, Very Difficult
Info::
Page has 1793 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 16)
1793 words

Good depth

Reading level

Very Easy
Easy
Fairly Easy
Standard
Fairly Difficult
Difficult
Very Difficult

Grade 16

Text-to-HTML Ratio

3% text 97% HTML

12 KB / 349 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
42 images, 41 descriptive filenames
PASS
42 images, 41 descriptive filenames
Info::
1 image(s) have hash/generic filenames
Info::
1 image(s) missing alt text — see Accessibility tab
41 descriptive
0 hash-based
1 generic
42 total
FilenameQualityAltIssues
40202114070_91d0208b48_o.jpggeneric✓1
Current: 40202114070_91d0208b48_o.jpg
Suggested: public.jpg
pixeldescriptive✗1

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.

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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