Citiesalliance.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
55% 
Link structure
48% 
Server
36% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
436.40 kB
Words
781
Media files
34
Number of links
120 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | Cities Alliance
The length of the page title is perfect. (243 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
As urban populations and economies grow, managing cities and providing opportunities for all citizens is key to prosperity, international progress, and stability.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (972 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.citiesalliance.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
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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
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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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
This page contains 781 words. That's ok.
22.3% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 16.57 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 16 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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/themes/custom/ca/logo.svgHome
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Cities Alliance
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 44 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Cities Alliance
H2 Promoting Environmental Action in Haiti
H2 Her4Energy: Empowering Women in the Energy Sector
H2 MENA: Heritage-Centric Approaches to Climate Resilience
H2 SUIDAC: Sustainable Integration of Displaced Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
H2 Our Impact
H2 Search the Knowledge Library
H2 Events
H2 Latest Publications
H2 Resources
H2 Publications
H2 Multimedia
H2 Knowledge Library
H2 Stay Connected
H2 About Cities Alliance
H2 Subscribe to Our Newsletter
H2 Contact Us
H2 Footer menu
H3 Who We Are
H3 How We Work
H3 Portfolio & Results
H3 Newsroom
H3 Resources Duplicate text
H3 Transforming the Rival Market in Les Cayes, Haiti
H3 Boosting Income Opportunities for Women in Tunisia
H3 Promoting Environmental Action in Haiti Duplicate text
H3 Her4Energy: Empowering Women in the Energy Sector Duplicate text
H3 Boosting Income Opportunities for Women in Tunisia Duplicate text
H3 Transforming the Rival Market in Les Cayes, Haiti Duplicate text
H3 Cities Alliance Assembly: 25 Years of Inclusive City Development
H3 MENA: Heritage-Centric Approaches to Climate Resilience Duplicate text
H3 Launching SUIDAC: Sustainable Integration of Displaced Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
H3 Towards Inclusive and Resilient Neighbourhoods in Tunisia: Realities and Perspectives
H3 Building Water Resilience: The Role of Mediterranean Cities and Regions
H3 Global Peer Learning Series - Event 2: Fostering Inclusive Nature-based solutions for Low-income Urban Communities
H3 ICCS Forum: Building Inclusive Cities and Solidarity Communities in Latin America and Africa
H3 European Civil Protection Forum: How Emergency Shelter can Reduce Vulnerability
H3 Managing Migration Dynamics Along the Berbera Corridor
H3 Cities Alliance Assembly: Envisioning Partnerships for the Future
H3 Cities Alliance Assembly: Global-Local Partnerships for Climate Adaptation from the Ground Up
H3 Migration Corridors: Grantee Gender Analysis
H3 Corporate Scorecard 2023
H3 Migrants, Marchés et Maires : Répondre aux Défis de l’Emploi dans les Villes Secondaires Africaines
H3 Cities Alliance Assembly Report: 25 Years of Inclusive City Development
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 7 external links on this page.
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/newsroom/news/cities-alliance...Subdomain IMG-ALT Woman cooking with stove
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/newsroom/news/results/mena-he...Subdomain MENA: Heritage-Centric Approaches to Climate Resilience
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IMG-ALT 2024 General Assembly Report
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.citiesalliance.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (436 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,437 referring domains.
This page has 36,833 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 811 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
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Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
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# Directories
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# Files
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Disallow: /user/register
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Disallow: /media/oembed
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www.citiesalliance.org
Homepage | Cities Alliance
As urban populations and economies grow, managing cities and providing opportunities for all citizens is key to prosperity, international progress, and stability.

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

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cities95%Check
Cities Alliance89%Check
Cities Alliance Assembly75%Check
Opportunities54%Check
urban50%Check
Climate48%Check
Haiti48%Check
Assembly48%Check
Urban News48%Check
Managing47%Check

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