Website Review: sdstate.edu
Generated on October 07 2026 09:45 AM
Old data? UPDATE !
The score is 59/100
SEO Content
Title
South Dakota State University Homepage
Length : 38
Your title's length should be between 40 and 70 characters. The optimal title length is between 50 to 70 chars. Rewrite the title tag to fit this range.
Description
South Dakota State University in Brookings is the state’s land-grant institution and its largest, most comprehensive school of higher education.
Length : 144
Great, your meta description tag's length is between 90 and 160 characters. A description tag of 155 to 160 characters is optimal.
Keywords
Not good (but low priority). We haven't found a meta keywords tag on your page. You can add a meta keywords tag to the page's <head>.
Og Meta Properties
Good, your page takes advantage of Open Graph Properties. Open Graph properties can help with indexing.
| Property | Content |
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| site_name | South Dakota State University |
| type | website |
| url | https://www.sdstate.edu |
| title | South Dakota State University Homepage |
| image:url | https://www.sdstate.edu/sites/default/files/2026-09/ILoveSouthDakotaHero.jpg |
| image:alt | Four SDSU students standing in front of a colorful "I love South Dakota" mural with a heart and city scape that is located in downtown Brookings, SD. |
Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- [H1] South Dakota State University Homepage
Images
We found 31 images on this web page.
Awesome, most or all of your images have alt attributes. This helps search engines understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 31%
Ideal! This page's ratio of text to HTML code is between 25 and 70 percent.
Iframe
Not ideal - You have Iframes on the web page, this mean that content in an Iframe cannot be indexed.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Bad. We found links with query strings (?). Avoid using query strings to improve search engine indexing. Use URL rewriting (for example, rewrite rules in an .htaccess file) to replace dynamic URLs with clean ones.
Underscores in the URLs
We have detected underscores in your URLs. It would be better to use hyphens to optimize your SEO.
In-page links
We found a total of 97 links including 0 link(s) to files
| Anchor | Type | Juice |
|---|---|---|
| Skip to main content | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Apply | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Visit | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Degree Finder | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Faculty and Staff | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Office Directory | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Buildings Directory | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Event Calendar | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Campus Map | External | Passing Juice |
| SDSTATE | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About | Internal | Passing Juice |
| University Facts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| News | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Sandbox Login | External | Passing Juice |
| Awards and Rankings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Consumer Information | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Accreditation | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Academics | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Colleges and Departments/Schools | Internal | Passing Juice |
| General Education | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Academic Calendar | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Academic Catalog | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Graduate School | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Honors College | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Library | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Admissions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Undergraduate | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Transfer | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Graduate | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Online | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dual Credit | Internal | Passing Juice |
| International | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Paying for College | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Student Life | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Housing | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Campus Dining | External | Passing Juice |
| Student Success | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Student Experience | Internal | Passing Juice |
| University Wellbeing | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Parents and Families | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Research | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Events and Trainings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Find Funding | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Research Impact | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Proposal Development | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Research Support | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Student Research Opportunities | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Community | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Attractions | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Camps and Conferences | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Family Weekend | Internal | Passing Juice |
| SDState Experience | Internal | Passing Juice |
| SDSU Metro Center | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Undergraduate Degrees | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Graduate Degrees | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Student Clubs and Organizations | External | Passing Juice |
| Performing Arts Opportunities | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Meet Our Jacks | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Check out SDState's impact | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Wokini Initiative | Internal | Passing Juice |
| American Indian Student Center | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Wintrode Student Success and Opportunity Center | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Degree Explorer | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Cost Estimate | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Scholarships | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Campus Tour | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Apply for Financial Aid | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Apply for Housing | Internal | Passing Juice |
| MyState | Internal | Passing Juice |
| D2L | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Jacks Email | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Parking Services | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Self Service | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Counseling Services | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Health Services | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Academic Support | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Student Safety | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Request Info | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Give to SDSU | External | Passing Juice |
| Alumni | External | Passing Juice |
| Athletics | External | Passing Juice |
| Bookstore | External | Passing Juice |
| MyJacks Card | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Employment | Internal | Passing Juice |
| InsideState | Internal | Passing Juice |
| My Account | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Emergency | Internal | Passing Juice |
| EAO | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Legal | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Mission | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Policies | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Report It | Internal | Passing Juice |
| SDState Facebook | External | Passing Juice |
| SDState X.com | External | Passing Juice |
| SDState Youtube | External | Passing Juice |
| SDState Instagram | External | Passing Juice |
| SDState LinkedIn | External | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Consistency
| Keyword | Content | Title | Keywords | Description | Headings |
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| student | 28 |  |
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| sdstate | 18 | |
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| campus | 16 | |
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| visit | 14 | |
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| apply | 12 | |
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Usability
Url
Domain : sdstate.edu
Length : 11
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Great. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
Email Privacy
Great no email address was found in plain text!
Deprecated HTML
Great! We haven't found deprecated HTML tags in your HTML.
Speed Tips
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Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal. |
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Great, your website has few CSS files. |
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Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files. |
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Awesome, your website takes advantage of GZIP compression for SEO optimization. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Apple Icon |
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Meta Viewport Tag |
Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
| https://www.sdstate.edu/sitemap.xml |
Robots.txt
http://sdstate.edu/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Missing
Unverified
AI Search Readiness
AI Crawlers
This site's robots.txt blocks crawlers that AI search tools use to read pages, so the site is less likely to be shown or cited in AI answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity).
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OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search | AI search |
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ChatGPT-User | ChatGPT (user requests) | AI search |
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Claude-SearchBot | Claude search | AI search |
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Claude-User | Claude (user requests) | AI search |
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PerplexityBot | Perplexity | AI search |
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GPTBot | OpenAI training | AI training |
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ClaudeBot | Anthropic training | AI training |
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Google-Extended | Google Gemini training | AI training |
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Applebot-Extended | Apple AI training | AI training |
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CCBot | Common Crawl | AI training |
Blocking AI training crawlers is a common choice and doesn't affect the score. Only the AI search crawlers count.
Structured Data
No schema.org structured data found. Adding it (for example Organization, WebSite or Product in JSON-LD) helps search engines and AI tools understand the page and can enable rich results.
Canonical Tag
The homepage has a canonical tag, which tells search engines which URL is the main version of the page.
llms.txt
No llms.txt file. It's an emerging convention: a short Markdown summary of the site for AI tools. Optional, so it doesn't affect the score.
Security
HTTPS
The site loads over HTTPS, so connections are encrypted. Browsers and search engines expect this.
HSTS
The site sends a Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers always use HTTPS for it.
Security Headers
3 of 5 common security headers found. At least 2 are needed to pass.
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Content-Security-Policy |
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X-Content-Type-Options |
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X-Frame-Options |
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Referrer-Policy |
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Permissions-Policy |
Domain Info
sdstate.edu accepts email and has both SPF and DMARC records.
Hosting
| IPv4 address | 23.185.0.2 |
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IPv6 support |
Email Security
Mail servers: sdstate-edu.mail.protection.outlook.com
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SPF record |
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DMARC record (policy: none) |
PageSpeed Insights
Device
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