Davidcard.berkeley.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
17% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
75% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.01 s
File size
3.90 kB
Words
201
Media files
2
Number of links
7 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
David Card
The page title is too short. (102 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
David Card's Homepage
The meta description is too short. (153 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype XHTML 1.0 Transitional is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
descriptionDavid Card's Homepage
keywordsDavid, Card, Labor, Economics, Economist
authorDavid, Card
langen
content-typeapplication/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 201 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 28.33 words is high.
36.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
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 viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (9). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
Some tags are too long. With 94 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"*phishing alert - professor card is not currently looking to hire an administrative assistant*"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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)
At least one javascript file was found, which is not integrated via HTTPS.
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/card_homepagebanner.gifDavid Card - Homepage
https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/dcard1.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 1 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/index.shtmlHome
/cv.pdfC.V.
/data_sets.htmlData Sets
/papers.htmlPapers
/courses.shtmlCourses
/links.shtmlLinks
http://cle.berkeley.edu/External Subdomain CLE
/contact.shtmlContact

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.01 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.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page does not require any CSS files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (4 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
dateWed, 25 Dec 2024 22:49:43 GMT
content-typetext/html
last-modifiedTue, 01 Nov 2022 16:57:14 GMT
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
etagW/"63614fea-f67"
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,823 referring domains.
This page has 7,739 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 975 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Search preview

davidcard.berkeley.edu
David Card
David Card's Homepage

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Card78%Check
David Card74%Check
David71%Check
Berkeley46%Check
Professor39%Check
Data39%Check
Sets39%Check
Papers39%Check
Courses39%Check
Links39%Check

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