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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
52% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.05 s
File size
24.00 kB
Words
247
Media files
6
Number of links
37 internal / 22 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law | American University Washington College of Law Research
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 1155 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 247 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
25.5% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 23 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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law
H2 Faculty Writings
H2 Browse Research and Scholarship Follow
H2 At a Glance
H2 Search
H2 Notify me of New Papers
H2 Links
H2 Browse
H2 Author Corner
H3 SelectedWorks Faculty Gallery
H3 Scholarship & Research
H3 Works
H3 Public Discourse
H3 Blog Directory
H3 Pence Law Library Faculty Writings
H3 Programs and Centers
H3 Student Works and Scholarship
H3 Journals
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 22 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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A-TITLE Search
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A-TITLE Browse
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A-TITLE My Account
/about.htmlSubdomain About
A-TITLE About
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IMG-ALT DC Network
A-TITLE Digital Commons Network
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/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
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/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
/faq.htmlSubdomain FAQ
A-TITLE FAQ
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextSubdomain Text duplicate My Account
A-TITLE My Account
/Subdomain IMG-ALT Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law
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http://www.wcl.american.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT American University Washington College of Law
A-TITLE American University Washington College of Law
/sw_gallery.htmlSubdomain SelectedWorks Faculty Gallery
/facschSubdomain Scholarship & Research
/fac_worksSubdomain Works
/pub_discSubdomain Public Discourse
/pub_disc_blogsSubdomain Blog Directory
https://network.bepress.com/ap...Nofollow External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law
/librarySubdomain Pence Law Library Faculty Writings
/centersSubdomain Programs and Centers
/stu_works_schSubdomain Student Works and Scholarship
/journals.htmlSubdomain Journals
http://library.wcl.american.edu/External Subdomain Pence Law Library
/sunburst.htmlSubdomain Discipline Wheel
/topdownloads.htmlSubdomain Top 10 DownloadsAll time
/recent_additions.htmlSubdomain Recent Additions20 most recent additions
/activity.htmlSubdomain Activity by year
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain This collection is part of the Digital Commons Network™
IMG-ALT DC Network
https://network.bepress.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT DC Network
https://network.bepress.com/ar...External Subdomain Architecture
A-TITLE Architecture
https://network.bepress.com/ar...External Subdomain Arts and Humanities
A-TITLE Arts and Humanities
https://network.bepress.com/bu...External Subdomain Business
A-TITLE Business
https://network.bepress.com/ed...External Subdomain Education
A-TITLE Education
https://network.bepress.com/en...External Subdomain Engineering
A-TITLE Engineering
https://network.bepress.com/lawExternal Subdomain Law
A-TITLE Law
https://network.bepress.com/li...External Subdomain Life Sciences
A-TITLE Life Sciences
https://network.bepress.com/me...External Subdomain Medicine and Health Sciences
A-TITLE Medicine and Health Sciences
https://network.bepress.com/ph...External Subdomain Physical Sciences and Mathematics
A-TITLE Physical Sciences and Mathematics
https://network.bepress.com/so...External Subdomain Social and Behavioral Sciences
A-TITLE Social and Behavioral Sciences
/do/search/advanced/?fq=virtua...Subdomain Advanced Search
/announcements.htmlSubdomain Email
A-TITLE Email Notifications
/recent.rssSubdomain RSS
A-TITLE RSS Notifications
http://library.wcl.american.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate Pence Law Library
http://www.wcl.american.edu/External Subdomain Washington College of Law
/legalrepositories.htmlSubdomain Legal Repositories
http://legalscholarshipblog.com/External Legal Scholarship Blog
/communities.htmlSubdomain Collections
A-TITLE Browse by Collections
/do/discipline_browser/discipl...Subdomain Disciplines
A-TITLE Browse by Disciplines
/authors.htmlSubdomain Authors
A-TITLE Browse by Author
/faq.htmlSubdomain Author FAQ
A-TITLE Author FAQ
https://www.elsevier.com/solut...External Subdomain Elsevier - Digital Commons
A-TITLE Elsevier - Digital Commons
/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
A-TITLE Home page
/about.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate About
A-TITLE About
/faq.htmlSubdomain Text duplicate FAQ
A-TITLE FAQ
/cgi/myaccount.cgi?contextText duplicate My Account
A-TITLE My Account Page
/accessibility.htmlSubdomain Accessibility Statement
A-TITLE Accessibility Statement
http://www.bepress.com/privacy...External Subdomain Privacy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
http://www.bepress.com/copyrig...External Subdomain Copyright
A-TITLE Copyright Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/"
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 is slow (1.05 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 (24 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload;
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
content-security-policyframe-ancestors 'self';
content-encodinggzip
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,541 referring domains.
This page has 19,417 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,979 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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