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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
83% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.52 s
File size
38.80 kB
Words
474
Media files
7
Number of links
49 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
American English | For English Language Teachers Around the World
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 618 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
American English is a website for teachers and learners of English as a foreign language abroad.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (595 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://americanenglish.state.gov/
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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

NameValue
descriptionAmerican English is a website for teachers and learners of English as a foreign language abroad.
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width
langen
cleartypeon
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 474 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 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 12.96 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 165 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"we’re on social media! join our communities of english language learners and teachers from around the ..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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)
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...f_images/image_1_cover.png?itok=7dfqTeKLNo alt attribute provided
...2-03-07_at_11.41.33_am.png?itok=kH-rxwnhNo alt attribute provided
...c/frf_images/ori_panel.jpg?itok=IumgdDypNo alt attribute provided
...ges/person-731148_1920.png?itok=kdWoAIXWClose up of a table and persons hands holding a pen writing in a notebook beside a coffee cup
...ter_side_cover_cropped.jpg?itok=vv1YgaaNNo alt attribute provided
...resource_images/week_4.jpg?itok=ka7wHwVOClose up of a batch of letter tiles
...1-07-30_at_11.44.48_am.png?itok=I4fWQ1yONo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Brand Bar
H2 Menu
H5 United States Department of State
H6 For English Language Teachers Around the World
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Jump to navigation
https://eca.state.gov/External Subdomain ECA
https://exchanges.state.gov/External Subdomain Exchanges
https://j1visa.state.gov/External Subdomain J-1 Visa
https://alumni.state.gov/External Subdomain Alumni
/Subdomain American English
https://educationusa.state.gov/External Subdomain EducationUSA
https://studyabroad.state.gov/External Subdomain StudyAbroad
http://www.state.gov/External Subdomain United States Department of State
/Text duplicate American English
A-TITLE Home
/translateView disclaimer
/about-usAbout Us
/partnership-opportunitiesPartnership Opportunities
/ae-programsPrograms
/support-near-you-regional-eng...Support Near You
/social-mediaSocial Media
/resources-and-programsResources and Programs
/four-skills-resourcesTeaching the Four Skills
/culture-music-and-game-resourcesU.S. Culture, Music & Games
/ae-webinarsSubdomain Webinars
/OPEN-MOOCsMassive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
/other-resourcesOther Resources
/resources/english-club-texts-...Subdomain English Club Texts and Materials
/teachers-cornerTeacher's Corner
/resources/teaching-comics-and...Subdomain Comics for Language Learning
https://www.openenglishprogram...New window External Subdomain Online Professional English Network (OPEN)
/forumEnglish Teaching Forum
/about-english-teaching-forumAbout
/resources/english-teaching-fo...Subdomain Current Issue
/past-issues-english-teaching-...Past Issues
/submission-guidelinesSubmissions
/about-usText duplicate About Us
/resources-and-programsText duplicate Resources and Programs
/forumText duplicate English Teaching Forum
/monthCalendar
/support-near-you-regional-eng...Contact Us
/partnership-opportunitiesSubdomain U.S. Partners
/resources/english-teaching-fo...Subdomain Text duplicate Teacher's Corner
/resources/english-teaching-fo...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
/resources/english-teaching-fo...Subdomain Text duplicate English Teaching Forum
/resources/english-teaching-fo...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/resources/teaching-comics-and...Subdomain Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels
/resources/teaching-comics-and...Subdomain Learn More
/resources/writing-centers-mul...Subdomain Writing Centers in Multilingual Settings
/resources/writing-centers-mul...Subdomain Learn more
/support-near-you-regional-eng...New window Nofollow Subdomain Regional English Language Officers (RELOs)
/resources-and-programsNew window Nofollow Subdomain Resources
/resources/american-english-we...New window Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Webinars
/OPEN-MOOCsNew window Nofollow Subdomain Distance Learning Programs
https://www.openenglishprogram...New window Nofollow External Subdomain Teacher Training Workshops
/resources/lighter-side-tefl-v...Subdomain Featured Title: The Lighter Side of TEFL
/resources/lighter-side-tefl-v...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/resources-0Subdomain English Teaching Resources
/resources-0Subdomain View All
/forumSubdomain Text duplicate English Teaching Forum
/forumSubdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
http://www.facebook.com/Americ...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain YouTube
/rss.xmlNew window RSS
http://instagram.com/exchangeo...External Instagram
http://www.state.gov/misc/415.htmNew window External Subdomain Privacy Notice
http://www.state.gov/misc/8752...New window External Subdomain Anchor Copyright Info
https://www.state.gov/section-...New window External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://foia.state.gov/New window External Subdomain FOIA
A-TITLE Freedom of Information Act
/support-near-you-regional-eng...Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
http://get.adobe.com/reader/New window External Subdomain Get Adobe Reader
http://www.state.gov/New window External Subdomain U.S. Department of State
http://eca.state.gov/New window External Subdomain Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
http://www.state.gov/rNew window External Subdomain Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://americanenglish.state.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.52 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 (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateSun, 20 Apr 2025 06:47:53 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length10671
servernginx
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-drupal-cacheMISS
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlpublic, max-age=21600
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
link<https://americanenglish.state.gov/>; rel="canonical"
etagW/"1745124811-0"
last-modifiedSun, 20 Apr 2025 04:53:31 GMT
content-encodinggzip
x-varnish10781498 6422592
age6860
via1.1 varnish-v4
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,200 referring domains.
This page has 30,810 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,701 different ip addresses.

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americanenglish.state.gov
American English | For English Language Teachers Around the World
American English is a website for teachers and learners of English as a foreign language abroad.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
English80%Check
American English75%Check
English Language73%Check
American71%Check
English Language Teachers70%Check
Language66%Check
Teachers65%Check
English as63%Check
English Teaching57%Check
Foreign Language56%Check
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