SEO report

SEO report for www.iastate.edu

https://www.iastate.edu/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:07 GMT

✓ 30 Passed! 10 Warnings✗ 9 FailedAI readiness 56%Built with Drupal
Indexing & crawling94%
Search snippet & sharing71%
Content quality67%
AI search readiness56%
Structured data0%
Links100%
Performance57%
Security92%
Mobile & accessibility100%
Local SEO33%

Fix these first

  1. LocalBusiness markuphigh

    No LocalBusiness structured data.

    Fix: Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD with address or areaServed, telephone, geo, opening hours and url.

    Make the code with the free local business schema generator

    Read the guide: schema markup

    Also fixes: Entity clarity

    See the details

  2. JSON-LD present & validhigh

    No JSON-LD structured data.

    Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).

    Make valid code with the free schema generator

    Read the guide: schema markup

    See the details

  3. Render-blocking resourceshigh

    4 blocking script(s) and 6 stylesheet(s) in <head>.

    Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.

    Read the guide: Core Web Vitals

    See the details

  4. Title tagcritical

    “Iowa State University”

    Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.

    Preview and measure your title with the free title tag checker

    Read the guide: how to write title tags

    See the details

  5. H1 headingcritical

    “Where Cyclones Are Made”

    Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.

    See the details

  6. Freshness signalsmedium

    No published/updated date found.

    Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.

    See the details

  7. Imagesmedium

    26 image(s).

    Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.

    Read the guide: image SEO

    See the details

  8. XML sitemaphigh

    Sitemap found at https://www.iastate.edu/sitemap.xml with 239 URLs.

    Fix: Add a 'Sitemap:' line to robots.txt, list every indexable page and include accurate lastmod dates.

    Make one with the free XML sitemap generator

    Read the guide: XML sitemaps

    See the details

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Authority & backlinks

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Indexing & crawling 94%

Can search engines reach, read and index this page?

  • ✓

    Status codecritical

    The page returned HTTP 200.

  • ✓

    Indexablecritical

    No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.

  • ✓

    robots.txthigh

    robots.txt found.

    Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.

  • !

    XML sitemaphigh

    Sitemap found at https://www.iastate.edu/sitemap.xml with 239 URLs.

    Not declared in robots.txt.

    This page is NOT listed in it.

    Most recent lastmod: 2026-10-30T18:23:35-05:00.

    Fix: Add a 'Sitemap:' line to robots.txt, list every indexable page and include accurate lastmod dates.

    Make one with the free XML sitemap generator

    Read the guide: XML sitemaps

  • ✓

    Canonical URLhigh

    Canonical: https://www.iastate.edu/

    Points to this page (self-referencing).

  • ✓

    Redirectshigh

    1 redirect before the page loaded.

    https://iastate.edu/ → https://www.iastate.edu/

    A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.

  • ✓

    www / non-wwwmedium

    iastate.edu redirects to www.iastate.edu.

Search snippet & sharing 71%

How the page looks in Google results and when shared.

Content quality 67%

Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?

  • ✓

    Word countmedium

    443 words of main content (inside <main>).

    Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.

  • !

    Readabilitymedium

    Flesch reading ease 45 (fairly difficult), about 9 words per sentence.

    Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.

    Read the guide: how to write SEO content

  • ✓

    Topic focushigh

    3 of 3 title keywords appear in the main content.

  • !

    H1 headingcritical

    “Where Cyclones Are Made”

    The H1 shares no keywords with the title.

    Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.

  • !

    Heading structuremedium

    28 headings for 443 words – a lot for the amount of text.

    Levels are in order.

    Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.

    Read the guide: the on-page SEO checklist

  • !

    Text-to-code ratiolow

    8% of the HTML is visible text.

    Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.

AI search readiness 56%

Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?

  • ✓

    AI crawler accesshigh

    Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.

  • ✓

    Snippet controlshigh

    No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.

  • ✗

    llms.txtlow

    No /llms.txt file. It's an optional, emerging convention – few AI tools are confirmed to read it yet, so this is low priority.

    Fix: Optionally add /llms.txt: a short Markdown summary of who you are with links to your key pages.

    Make one with the free llms.txt generator

    Read the guide: do you need llms.txt?

  • !

    Question-led contentmedium

    1 heading(s) phrased as questions, e.g. “Questions?”.

    Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.

    Read the guide: how to write SEO content

  • ✗

    Entity clarityhigh

    No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.

    Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.

    Make the code with the free local business schema generator

    Read the guide: schema markup

  • ✗

    Freshness signalsmedium

    No published/updated date found.

    Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.

  • ✓

    Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium

    Links found to all three: about, contact and privacy.

Structured data 0%

Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.

Performance 57%

Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.

  • ✓

    Server response (TTFB)high

    192 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).

  • ✓

    HTML sizemedium

    58 kB of HTML.

  • ✓

    Compressionmedium

    Compressed with gzip.

  • ✗

    Render-blocking resourceshigh

    4 blocking script(s) and 6 stylesheet(s) in <head>.

    Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.

    Read the guide: Core Web Vitals

  • !

    Scripts & third partiesmedium

    20 script tag(s); files loaded from 5 other domain(s): unpkg.com, fonts.googleapis.com, googletagmanager.com, cdn.jsdelivr.net, kit.fontawesome.com.

    Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.

    Read the guide: Core Web Vitals

  • ✗

    Imagesmedium

    26 image(s).

    3 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).

    1 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.

    0 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.

    Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.

    Read the guide: image SEO

  • !

    Cachinglow

    Cache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private

    Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.

  • i

    HTTP/3low

    Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.

Security 92%

Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.

  • ✓

    HTTPScritical

    Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.

  • ✓

    HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh

    http:// redirects to https://.

  • ✓

    HSTSmedium

    HSTS: max-age=31536000

  • ✗

    Security headerslow

    Present: nosniff, clickjacking protection.

    Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).

    Read the guide: the technical SEO checklist

  • ✓

    Server fingerprintlow

    No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).

Mobile & accessibility 100%

Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.

  • ✓

    Mobile viewportcritical

    viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0

  • ✓

    Image alt textmedium

    All 26 images have alt text.

  • ✓

    Form labelsmedium

    All 2 form fields are labelled.

  • ✓

    Tap-to-contactmedium

    One-tap contact: phone and email.

Local SEO 33%

Signals that help you appear in Google Maps and 'near me' searches.

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