Nibbler SEO audit for math.mit.edu

Overall8.8

The overall score for this website.

Accessibility9.5

How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.

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Experience9.2

How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.

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Marketing8.1

How well marketed, and popular the website is.

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Technology8.7

How well designed and built the website is.

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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 05:20 on 19 Apr 2024 (BST).

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Top priorities for website improvement

  • Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear. (read more)
  • Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS. (read more)
  • Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. (read more)

Meta tags3.6

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This is how this website will look in Google search listings:

MIT Mathematics

math.mit.edu/

The official website for the Department of Mathematics at MIT

  • All pages include at least some metadata, but only 20.0% of pages have a description meta tag. The description meta data is important as it appears on Google's search result pages.

Meta Tags (name attribute)

Page URLNameContent
math.mit.edu/viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
math.mit.edu/descriptionThe official website for the Department of Mathematics at MIT
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpviewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
math.mit.edu/sitemap.phpviewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
math.mit.edu/about/index.htmlviewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
math.mit.edu/about/awards.htmlviewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1

URL format5.2

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  • 4 URLs include a file extension.
    • Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.

      Page extensions

Images7.5

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54% of images have a clearly defined size

5 images are being resized by the browser

Amount of content8.0

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  • This website has an average of 1,257 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.

Amount of content discovered

Server behaviour9.2

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Yes404 page

YesCompression

  • This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
  • This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
  • 2 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their URLs. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalise for.
  • This test is not applicable as this website appears to be on a subdomain.

Mobile10.0

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  • All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.

Media specific CSS detected

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Analytics10.0

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100% of pages use analytics

Multiple Analytics Solutions

  • Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.

Analytics Software Found

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Google Analytics

Page titles10.0

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100% of pages have defined titles

0% of page titles are weak

  • All pages were found to use page titles appropriately. Page titles appear in search results and at the top of the browser's window when visiting the site. Appropriate page titles are particularly important for search engine optimisation.

Page titles

Headings10.0

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academic activity admissions aleksandr algebra alumni april awarded awards career clay competition computation contact department early environment events facilities faculty fellowships first friends general give glasses grad group homepage instructor instructors integral ishan john latest lecture lenka lens levy linear logunov math mehtaab news place post-doctoral primes prize professor putnam questions receive receives regeneron research sawhney services siam simons site spin staff students take through undergraduate urschel website welcomes zdeborova

  • All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarise the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.

Page headings detail

URLHeadingLevel
math.mit.edu/MIT Mathematics HomepageH1
math.mit.edu/Latest NewsH2
math.mit.edu/EventsH2
math.mit.edu/John Urschel Receives Early Career Prize from SIAM Activity Group on Linear AlgebraH3
math.mit.edu/PRIMES and RSI Students Awarded at RegeneronH3
math.mit.edu/MIT Students Take First Place in the 84th Putnam Math CompetitionH3
math.mit.edu/Grad Students Ishan Levy and Mehtaab Sawhney Receive Clay Research FellowshipsH3
math.mit.edu/Department Welcomes Professor Aleksandr LogunovH3
math.mit.edu/Lenka Zdeborova to Give Simons Lecture April 23-25H3
math.mit.edu/Computation through the lens of spin glassesH4
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpContact UsH1
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpGeneral QuestionsH2
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpMath Academic ServicesH2
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpUndergraduate AdmissionsH2
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpFacilitiesH2
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpAlumni & FriendsH2
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpIntegralH2
math.mit.edu/about/contact.phpWebsiteH2
math.mit.edu/sitemap.phpSite MapH1
math.mit.edu/about/index.htmlAbout UsH1
math.mit.edu/about/index.htmlFacultyH2
math.mit.edu/about/index.htmlPost-doctoral InstructorsH2
math.mit.edu/about/index.htmlStudentsH2
math.mit.edu/about/index.htmlEnvironmentH2
math.mit.edu/about/index.htmlStaffH2
math.mit.edu/about/awards.htmlAwardsH1
math.mit.edu/about/awards.htmlFaculty, Instructor and Academic Staff AwardsH2
math.mit.edu/about/awards.html2024H3
math.mit.edu/about/awards.html2023H3
math.mit.edu/about/awards.html2022H3
math.mit.edu/about/awards.html2021H3
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Internal links10.0

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  • Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.

Printability10.0

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100% of pages are optimised for printing

  • All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).

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Freshness10.0

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Last updated March 18, 2024

  • It looks like this website was last updated on Monday, 18 March 2024. This is good because visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more often.
  • To find this information we used the last modified dates reported by this website's server in addition to looking for dates written on each page.

All dates found

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02/12/2023math.mit.edu/Body text
06/12/2023math.mit.edu/.../2023_12_06_simons_lectures2.jpgLast modified header
06/12/2023math.mit.edu/.../2023_12_06_logunov.jpgLast modified header
10/08/2020math.mit.edu/.../sawhney_mehtaab.jpgLast modified header
06/09/2023math.mit.edu/images/.../levy_ishan.jpgLast modified header
28/02/2024math.mit.edu/.../2024_02_23_putnam2.jpgLast modified header
18/03/2024math.mit.edu/.../2024_03_18_regeneron1.webpLast modified header
18/03/2024math.mit.edu/.../2024_03_18_regeneron2.webpLast modified header
24/08/2023math.mit.edu/.../urschel_john2.jpgLast modified header
07/10/2022math.mit.edu/dist/.../math-logo.svgLast modified header
07/10/2022math.mit.edu/dist/normalize.cssLast modified header
12/02/2024math.mit.edu/dist/home.cssLast modified header
16/01/2024math.mit.edu/dist/main.cssLast modified header
20/09/2023math.mit.edu/dist/print.cssLast modified header
07/10/2022math.mit.edu/.../font-awesome.min.cssLast modified header
18/01/2024math.mit.edu/dist/forms.cssLast modified header
27/10/2022math.mit.edu/.../jquery-datepicker.min.cssLast modified header

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