Aacu.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
88% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.14 s
File size
118.70 kB
Words
592
Media files
13
Number of links
73 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | AAC&U
The page title is too short. (185 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
A VOICE AND A FORCE FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION. AAC&U advances the vitality and democratic purposes of undergraduate liberal education.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (897 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.aacu.org/
There is more than one canonical link on this page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 592 words. That's ok.
25.2% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.55 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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12 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
A Voice and a Force for Liberal Education
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 A Voice and a Force for Liberal Education
H2 Empty heading
H2 AAC&U serves as a catalyst and facilitator for innovations that improve educational quality and equity and that support the success of all students.
H2 Areas of Focus
H2 Become an AAC&U Member
H3 The Morning After: Managing the Day(s) and Week(s) after Election Day
H3 Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference
H3 AAC&U Annual Meeting
H3 Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS)
H3 Campus Conflict and Conversation Help Desk
H3 What Works and What Doesn’t: Getting Real About Effective Implementation of LERs and CLRs
H3 Curriculuar, Pedagogical, and Digital Innovation
H3 Diversity, Equity, and Student Success
H3 Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Career
H3 Research and Public Purpose
H3 Undergraduate STEM Education
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.
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https://www.aacu.org/ijepSubdomain International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP)
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https://www.aacu.org/amAnnual Meeting
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https://www.aacu.org/forumsSubdomain Forums
https://www.aacu.org/institutesSubdomain Institutes
/webinars/upcoming-webinarsSubdomain Webinars
https://www.aacu.org/workshopsSubdomain Workshops
/about/membership/member-benefitsSubdomain Member Benefits
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/initiatives/project-kaleidoscopeSubdomain Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)
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/initiatives/tla-frameworkSubdomain Teaching-Learning-Assessment (TLA) Framework
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/about/staff-directorySubdomain Staff
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/about/employment-opportunitiesSubdomain Employment Opportunities
https://www.aacu.org/about/awardsSubdomain Awards & Honors
/newsroom/press-releasesPress Releases
/newsroom/public-statementsPublic Statements
/media-inquiriesSubdomain Media Inquiries
https://www.aacu.org/in-the-newsSubdomain AAC&U in the News
https://www.aacu.org/api/loginLog In
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https://www.facebook.com/AACandU/External Subdomain No Text
https://x.com/aacuExternal No Text
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https://www.facebook.com/AACandU/External Subdomain No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.aacu.org/"
HTTP header
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The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.14 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (119 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 5,826 referring domains.
This page has 595,141 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 3,717 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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www.aacu.org
Homepage | AAC&U
A VOICE AND A FORCE FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION. AAC&U advances the vitality and democratic purposes of undergraduate liberal education.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

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Education66%Check
Liberal Education65%Check
Liberal62%Check
Voice62%Check
undergraduate education60%Check
Higher Education54%Check
STEM Education54%Check
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