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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
77% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.58 s
File size
108.10 kB
Words
492
Media files
4
Number of links
41 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
APA Accreditation - Home
The length of the page title is perfect. (234 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
APA Accreditation
The meta description is too short. (112 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://accreditation.apa.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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)
There are only 492 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 27.2 words is high.
32.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=5, viewport-fit=cover" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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)
No additional page markup was found.
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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.../dms3rep/multi/opt/for-programs-336w.jpgA man is writing on a whiteboard in front of a group of people.
...pt/programs-applying-for-accred-336w.jpgA group of people are sitting around a table having a meeting.
...lti/opt/upcoming-site-workshops-336w.jpgA group of business people are talking to each other in an office.
...ep/multi/opt/APA_New_PROXIMA-05-217w.pngA white background with a few lines on it

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
APA Accreditation
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 APA Accreditation
H2 Protecting the public by supporting the delivery of quality education and training in Health Service Psychology.
H2 Updates and Information
H2 Our Mission
H2 What is the APA-CoA?
H2 1
H2 424
H2 680
H2 177
H2 News and Updates
H3 Find Accredited Programs
H3 Learn More About Accreditation
H3 Get Accredited
H3 List of Services
H6 Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
H6 750 First St, NE Washington, DC 20002-4242 [email protected]
H6 CONTACT
H6 Telephone: (202) 336-5979 TDD/TTY: (202) 336-6123 Fax: (202) 336-5978
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://accreditation.apa.org/HOME
/accredited-programsAPA-ACCREDITED PROGRAMS
/aboutABOUT APA ACCREDITATION
/policiesPOLICIES AND PROCEDURES
/other-statusesOTHER ACCREDITATION STATUSES
/programs-applying-for-initial...PROGRAMS APPLYING FOR INITIAL ACCREDITATION
/programs-seeking-intent-to-ap...PROGRAMS SEEKING INTENT TO APPLY STATUS
/programs-withdrawing-from-acc...PROGRAMS WITHDRAWING FROM ACCREDITATION
/about-coa/masters-accreditationMASTER'S ACCREDITATION
/upcoming-workshopsUPCOMING ACCREDITATION WORKSHOPS
/why-accreditation-mattersWHY APA ACCREDITATION MATTERS
/site-visit-scheduleSITE VISIT ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE
/accreditation-processACCREDITATION PROCESS
https://accreditation.apa.org/actACCREDITATION CONSULTATION TRAINING PROGRAM
/feesACCREDITATION FEES
/important-datesIMPORTANT ACCREDITATION DATES
/data-and-research/aro/submitSUBMIT YOUR ANNUAL REPORT ONLINE
/accreditation-process/interim...INTERIM REPORTING
/contingent-to-fullMOVING FROM CONTINGENT TO FULL ACCREDITATION
/public-disclosuresPUBLIC DISCLOSURES
/choosing-a-programCHOOSING A PROGRAM
/become-site-visitorBECOME AN APA SITE VISITOR
/current-site-visitorsCURRENT SITE VISITORS
/covid-19COVID-19 UPDATES AND INFORMATION
/about-coaABOUT APA CoA
/dataDATA AND RESEARCH
https://www.apa.org/ed/accredi...External Subdomain CoA UPDATE
/contactCONTACT OFFICE
/complaints-and-third-party-te...COMPLAINTS & THIRD PARTY TESTIMONY
/public-commentPUBLIC NOTICE AND PUBLIC COMMENT
/aboutLearn more
https://irp.cdn-website.com/a1...New window External Subdomain VIEW PRESENTATION
/covid-19VIEW GUIDELINES FOR PROGRAMS
https://youtu.be/jpq4AN-RRmINew window External WATCH HERE
/accredited-programsLearn More
/aboutText duplicate Learn More
/accreditation-processText duplicate Learn More
/about-coaText duplicate Learn more
https://accreditation.apa.org/No Text
https://accreditation.apa.org/No Text
https://accreditation.apa.org/No Text
https://accreditation.apa.org/No Text
https://www.apa.org/ed/accredi...External Subdomain CoA Update Our quarterly newsletter provides the latest news and updates from the commission. Read more. List Item 1
/accreditation-process/interim...Interim Reporting Stay up to date on how your program can demonstrate consistency with the SoA. Learn more.
/public-commentPublic Comment Open The CoA invites the public to view policy documents available for a public comment. Learn more.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://accreditation.apa.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.58 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (108 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self'
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
varyuser-agent,accept-encoding
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cache-controlno-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
expiresThu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
d-geoUS
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 450 referring domains.
This page has 1,050 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 334 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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