Citizensandscholars.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
62% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.35 s
File size
62.60 kB
Words
957
Media files
17
Number of links
67 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Institute for Citizens & Scholars - Developing Effective, Lifelong Citizens
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 645 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Educating for democracy since 1945
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://citizensandscholars.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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
(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)
This page contains 957 words. That's ok.
30.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
20 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.27 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)
Some tags are too long. With 135 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"the institute for citizens & scholars cultivates talent, ideas, and networks that develop young people..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Empowered Citizens Effective Democracy
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 51 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Empowered Citizens Effective Democracy
H2 For Young People
H2 For Young People Duplicate text
H2 For Graduate Students & Faculty
H2 For Graduate Students & Faculty Duplicate text
H2 For Leaders
H2 For Leaders Duplicate text
H2 College Presidents for Civic Preparedness
H2 College Presidents for Civic Preparedness Duplicate text
H2 Fellowships
H2 Fellowships Duplicate text
H2 Civic Outlook of Young Adults in America
H2 Civic Outlook of Young Adults in America Duplicate text
H2 Mapping Civic Measurement
H2 Mapping Civic Measurement Duplicate text
H2 From Civic Education to a Civic Learning Ecosystem
H2 From Civic Education to a Civic Learning Ecosystem Duplicate text
H2 Resource Hub
H2 Resource Hub Duplicate text
H2 Featured
H2 Cultivating this generation’s civic potential
H2 How We Do It
H2 Empty heading
H2 More News & Ideas
H2 Join our email list to get updates right in your inbox.
H3 Get Involved
H3 What is an Empowered Citizen?
H3 Diverse Leaders Working Across Divides
H3 The Fellow Network
H3 27K
H3 22
H3 46
H3 100+
H3 Support Us
H3 About
H3 Connect
H4 Featured News & Ideas
H4 Fellowships Duplicate text
H4 College Presidents for Civic Preparedness Duplicate text
H4 Civic Learning Research
H4 New Ideas Shaping a More Perfect Union
H4 Free Expression Resource & Perspectives
H4 The Civic Outlook of Young Adults in America
H4 Meet the Fellows
H4 Apply Now
H4 2024 Newcombe Fellows
H4 Civic Learning in Higher Education: What Works?
H4 2024 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders
H5 10 Presidents Join College Presidents for Civic Preparedness
H5 Colleges Must Do More to Help Students Manage Conflict and Have Civil Debate
H5 Protecting Free Speech, Promoting Free Inquiry
H6 College Presidents for Civic Preparedness Duplicate text
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 10 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://citizensandscholars.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://citizensandscholars.org/IMG-ALT C&S Full color logo
A-TITLE Institute for Citizens & Scholars
https://citizensandscholars.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT C&S Full color logo
A-TITLE Institute for Citizens & Scholars
/news-ideas/News & Ideas
/news-ideas/preamble/Preamble
/news-ideas/press/Press
/who-we-are/team/Team
/who-we-are/team/board-of-trus...Board of Trustees
/fellowships/our-fellows/Fellows
/who-we-are/history/History
/who-we-are/contact-us/Contact Us
/what-we-do/mission-vision/Mission & Vision
/what-we-do/effective-citizens/Developing Effective Citizens
/what-we-do/our-approach/Our Approach
/focus-areas/Focus Areas
/support-usWays to Support Us
https://secure.qgiv.com/for/ti...External Subdomain Give Now
https://citizensandscholars.my...External Subdomain Gift Planning
https://citizensandscholars.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT C&S Full color logo
A-TITLE Institute for Citizens & Scholars
/fellowships/for-youth-leaders/For Young People
/fellowships/for-youth-leaders/Explore
/fellowships/for-scholars-educ...For Graduate Students & Faculty
/fellowships/for-scholars-educ...Text duplicate Explore
/fellowships/for-business-poli...For Leaders
/fellowships/for-business-poli...Text duplicate Explore
/fellowships/all-fellowships/All Fellowships
/fellowships/how-to-apply/How to Apply
/fellowships/our-fellows/Our Fellows
/focus-areas/enable/college-pr...College Presidents for Civic Preparedness
/focus-areas/enable/college-pr...Text duplicate Explore
/fellowships/for-scholars-educ...Fellowships
/fellowships/for-scholars-educ...Text duplicate Explore
/focus-areas/accelerate/civic-...Civic Outlook of Young Adults in America
/focus-areas/accelerate/civic-...Text duplicate Explore
/focus-areas/accelerate/mappin...Mapping Civic Measurement
/focus-areas/accelerate/mappin...Text duplicate Explore
/resource/from-civic-education...From Civic Education to a Civic Learning Ecosystem
/resource/from-civic-education...Text duplicate Explore
/civic-learning/Resource Hub
/civic-learning/Text duplicate Explore
/civic-learning/what-is-civic-...What is Civic Learning?
https://collegepresidents.org/External Text duplicate Explore
/what-we-do/mission-vision/Our mission
/10-presidents-join-college-pr...10 Presidents Join College Presidents for Civic Preparedness
IMG-ALT 10 Presidents Join College Presidents for Civic Preparedness
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/protecting-free-speech-promot...Protecting Free Speech, Promoting Free Inquiry
IMG-ALT Protecting Free Speech, Promoting Free Inquiry
A-TITLE Protecting Free Speech, Promoting Free Inquiry
/fellowships/Text duplicate Explore
https://collegepresidents.org/External Text duplicate Explore
/focus-areas/accelerate/Text duplicate Explore
/join-us-mailing-list/Sign Up for Email Updates
/what-we-do/effective-citizens/Learn more
/news-ideas/preamble/Explore the Series
/free-expression-resources/Text duplicate Explore
/focus-areas/accelerate/civic-...Text duplicate Explore
/who-we-are/history/Over 75 years
/who-we-are/Our diverse network
/fellowships/our-fellows/Text duplicate Our Fellows
/fellowships/for-youth-leaders...Text duplicate Learn more
/support-us/Make a Gift
/2024-newcombe-fellows/Fellow Class Announcement 2024 Newcombe Fellows May 7, 2024
/civic-learning-in-higher-educ...Event Civic Learning in Higher Education: What Works? Apr 13, 2024
/2024-mellon-emerging-faculty-...Fellow Class Announcement 2024 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Jun 13, 2024
https://citizensandscholars.org/IMG-ALT C&nmp;S Logo
https://www.charitynavigator.o...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Charity Navigator Three-Star Rating
https://www.guidestar.org/prof...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/citiz...New window External Subdomain facebook
A-TITLE facebook
https://www.twitter.com/ctzns_...New window External Subdomain twitter
A-TITLE twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain linkedin
A-TITLE linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain youtube
A-TITLE youtube
/who-we-are/Who We Are
/what-we-do/What We Do
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/faq/FAQ
/civic-learning/what-is-civic-...Text duplicate What is Civic Learning?
/support-us/Support Us
/careers/Careers
/who-we-are/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://citizensandscholars.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 slow (1.35 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 (63 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,243 referring domains.
This page has 23,846 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 964 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Most important keywords

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

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Citizens Scholars72%Check
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democracy68%Check
Lifelong Citizens65%Check
Scholars64%Check
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