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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
15% 
Server
57% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.27 s
File size
1,426.30 kB
Words
1045
Media files
23
Number of links
83 internal / 84 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
EF Education First | United Kingdom
The length of the page title is perfect. (323 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Founded in 1965, Education First (EF) offers study abroad, language learning, cultural exchange and academic degree programs around the world. Whether you take a language course for a summer, spend a gap year studying abroad, enroll in one of our international boarding schools or attend a foundation course to prepare for university, our programs will expand your horizons, teach you new skills and show you the world.
The meta description is too long: 2620 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.ef.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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 is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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 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 1045 words. That's ok.
22.2% 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.
15 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 13.65 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1426.3 kB).
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
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 21 tags for this page.
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)
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
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...b13207143b/00.png/m/filters:format(webp)50+ years
...f5fad72fd7/00.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)Companies and governments
...k-2-10-months.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)Host for 2 weeks to 10 months
...k-5-10-months.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)Host for 5 or 10 months
...711/efhello_d.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)EF Hello
...set-no-border.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)EF SET English test
...6627c34/00-as.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)EF Language Abroad
...2396c02/00-eu.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)EF Language Abroad
...382417619a/00.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)EF Language Abroad
...b13207143b/00.png/m/filters:format(webp)EF Language Abroad
...b4622c89b6/gb.jpg/m/filters:format(webp)EF English Courses in the UK
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Language. Education. Travel.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 53 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 Language. Education. Travel.
H2 Find a programme
H2 16-18 years
H2 18-25 years
H2 25+ years
H2 50+ years
H2 Companies and governments
H2 All programmes
H2 Explore programme types
H2 Language courses abroad
H2 Academic year abroad
H2 High school abroad
H2 University abroad
H2 Au Pair
H2 Corporate training
H2 All programmes Duplicate text
H2 Host with us
H2 Host for 2 weeks to 10 months
H2 Host for 5 or 10 months
H2 Explore tools and apps
H2 EF Hello
H2 EF SET English test
H2 Order free brochure
H2 Highlights
H2 Teach English
H2 Empty heading
H2 EF Language Abroad
H2 EF Language Abroad Duplicate text
H2 EF Language Abroad Duplicate text
H2 EF Language Abroad Duplicate text
H2 EF English Courses in the UK
H2 EF Academic Year Abroad
H2 EF ACADEMY
H2 EF University Preparation
H2 EF English Live
H2 EF Corporate learning
H2 Hult International Business School
H2 HULT ASHRIDGE EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
H2 Cultural Care Au Pair
H2 Order free brochure Duplicate text
H3 EF EPI 2024
H3 EF Pro Cycling
H4 Programmes by age
H4 Popular programmes
H4 Discover
H4 About EF Education First
H4 Offices in the United Kingdom
H4 North America
H4 Central and South America
H4 Europe
H4 Middle East and Africa
H4 Asia and Oceania
H4 Rest of the world
H5 Choose location
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (84) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.ef.co.uk/No Text
https://www.ef.co.uk/Home Welcome to EF
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/Programmes See everything we do
https://www.ef.co.uk/contact/Offices Find an office near you
https://www.ef.co.uk/about-us/About us Who we are
https://careers.ef.com/External Subdomain Careers Join the team
https://www.ef.co.uk/Text duplicate Home Welcome to EF
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/Text duplicate Programmes See everything we do
https://www.ef.co.uk/contact/Text duplicate Offices Find an office near you
https://www.ef.co.uk/about-us/Text duplicate About us Who we are
https://careers.ef.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Careers Join the team
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Programmes for 16-18 years
IMG-ALT 16-18 years
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Programmes for 18-25 years
IMG-ALT 18-25 years
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Programmes for 25+ years
IMG-ALT 25+ years
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Programmes for 50+ years
IMG-ALT 50+ years
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Programmes for Companies and governments
IMG-ALT Companies and governments
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Learn more
/pg/learn-language/?code=ALLLanguage courses abroad Choose from 10 languages in 50 accredited EF International Language Campuses around the world.
https://www.ef.co.uk/aya/Academic year abroad Combine language and academic studies at an EF campus abroad.
https://www.efacademy.org/en/New window External Subdomain High school abroad Earn your IB or A-Level diploma from EF Academy – International Boarding Schools
/pg/university-abroad/?noshow=...University abroad University preparation and degree programs
https://www.culturalcare.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Au Pair Live the American dream while caring for children in a local family.
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Corporate training Trusted by thousands of companies around the world.
https://www.ef.co.uk/Anchor Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.ef.co.uk/host-family/New window Subdomain Host for 2 weeks to 10 months Host a language school student, 13-99 years.
IMG-ALT Host for 2 weeks to 10 months
https://efexchangeyear.co.uk/New window External Host for 5 or 10 months Host an international high school exchange student.
IMG-ALT Host for 5 or 10 months
https://efhello.go.link/?adj_t...New window External Subdomain EF Hello Award winning language learning app
IMG-ALT EF Hello
https://www.efset.org/New window External Subdomain EF SET English test Free online English certificate
IMG-ALT EF SET English test
https://www.ef.co.uk/cp/brochure/Free brochure
https://www.ef.co.uk/epi/No Text
https://www.ef.co.uk/epi/EF EPI 2024 This year's index ranks 116 countries and regions based on test data from more than two million adults.
/about-us/ef-pro-cycling/No Text
/about-us/ef-pro-cycling/EF Pro Cycling Our international team is racing around the globe on the UCI WorldTour – the pinnacle of professional cycling.
https://careers.ef.com/search/...New window External Subdomain locally
https://www.ef.co.uk/teachonline/New window Subdomain online
https://www.english1.com/New window External Subdomain abroad
https://careers.ef.com/search/...External Subdomain View all teaching jobs
/ils/ils-youth/IMG-ALT EF Language Abroad
/cp/brochure/ils/Order free brochure
/ils/ils-youth/Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.ef.co.uk/ils/Text duplicate IMG-ALT EF Language Abroad
/cp/brochure/ils/Text duplicate Order free brochure
https://www.ef.co.uk/ils/Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.ef.co.uk/ils/ils-25/Text duplicate IMG-ALT EF Language Abroad
/cp/brochure/ils/Text duplicate Order free brochure
https://www.ef.co.uk/ils/ils-25/Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.ef.co.uk/illj/Text duplicate IMG-ALT EF Language Abroad
/cp/brochure/ils/Text duplicate Order free brochure
https://www.ef.co.uk/illj/Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.ef.co.uk/ilsd/IMG-ALT EF English Courses in the UK
/cp/brochure/ilsd/Text duplicate Order free brochure
https://www.ef.co.uk/ilsd/Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.ef.co.uk/aya/IMG-ALT EF Academic Year Abroad
/cp/brochure/aya/Text duplicate Order free brochure
https://www.ef.co.uk/aya/Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.efacademy.org/en/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT EF ACADEMY
https://www.efacademy.org/en/f...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Order free brochure
https://www.efacademy.org/en/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
/ilsd/programmes/university-pr...IMG-ALT EF University Preparation
/cp/brochure/upa/Text duplicate Order free brochure
/ilsd/programmes/university-pr...Text duplicate Learn more
https://englishlive.ef.com/en/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT EF English Live
https://englishlive.ef.com/en/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://corporatelearning.ef.c...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT EF Corporate learning
https://corporatelearning.ef.c...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.hult.edu/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Hult International Business School
https://www.hult.edu/brochure/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Order free brochure
https://www.hult.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.hultashridge.com/en/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT HULT ASHRIDGE EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
https://www.hultashridge.com/en/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.culturalcare.co.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Cultural Care Au Pair
https://www.culturalcare.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.ef.co.uk/No Text
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/?code=allAll programmes
/pg/?code=high16-18 years
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/?code=uni18-25 years
/pg/?code=prof25+ years
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/?code=sen50+ years
/pg/?code=corpCompanies and governments
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/?code=allAll ages
/pg/learn-language/japanese/ja...Learn Japanese in Japan
/pg/student-exchange/Student exchange programmes
/pg/learn-language/spanish/spain/Learn Spanish in Spain
/pg/learn-language/french/fran...Learn French in Paris
/pg/learn-language/french/france/Learn French in France
/pg/learn-language/spanish/spa...Learn Spanish in Barcelona
/pg/study-abroad/Study abroad programmes
/pg/learn-language/italian/italy/Learn Italian in Italy
/pg/learn-language/german/germ...Learn German in Berlin
/pg/learn-language/spanish/spa...Learn Spanish in Malaga
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/?code=allMinden program
https://www.ef.co.uk/blog/EF Blog
https://www.ef.co.uk/epi/EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI)
/english-resources/Resources for learning English
https://www.ef.co.uk/test/Language tests
https://www.ef.co.uk/tz/EF Teacher Zone
https://www.ef.co.uk/guides/Useful guides
https://www.ef.co.uk/about-us/About us
https://www.ef.co.uk/contact/EF Offices
https://www.ef.co.uk/pg/All EF programmes
https://careers.ef.com/External Subdomain Careers at EF
/about-us/press/Media inquiries
https://www.ef.co.uk/contact/Directions/opening hours
/legal/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/legal/terms-and-conditions/Terms and Conditions
/legal/cookie-policy/Cookies
/legal/contact-us/© Signum International AG 2025. All rights reserved.
https://www.ef.com/ca/External Subdomain Canada / English
https://www.ef.com/cafr/External Subdomain Canada / Français
https://www.ef.com.mx/External Subdomain México / Español
https://www.ef.edu/External Subdomain United States / English
https://www.ef.com.ar/External Subdomain Argentina / Español
https://www.ef.com.br/External Subdomain Brasil / Português
https://www.ef.com/cl/External Subdomain Chile / Español
https://www.ef.com.co/External Subdomain Colombia / Español
https://www.ef.com.ec/External Subdomain Ecuador / Español
https://www.ef.com.pa/External Subdomain Panamá / Español
https://www.ef.com.pe/External Subdomain Perú / Español
https://www.ef.com/ve/External Subdomain Venezuela / Español
https://www.ef.at/External Subdomain Österreich / Deutsch
https://www.ef.be/fr/External Subdomain Belgique / Français
https://www.ef.be/nl/External Subdomain België / Nederlands
https://www.ef-czech.cz/External Subdomain Česká republika / Čeština
https://www.ef-danmark.dk/External Subdomain Danmark / Dansk
https://www.ef.de/External Subdomain Deutschland / Deutsch
https://www.ef.com.es/External Subdomain España / Español
https://www.ef.fr/External Subdomain France / Français
https://www.ef-italia.it/External Subdomain Italia / Italiano
https://www.ef.lv/External Subdomain Latvija / Latviešu
https://www.ef.lu/fr/External Subdomain Luxembourg / Français
https://www.ef.co.hu/External Subdomain Magyarország / Magyar
https://www.ef.nl/External Subdomain Nederland / Nederlands
https://www.ef.no/External Subdomain Norge / Norsk
https://www.ef.pl/External Subdomain Polska / Polski
https://www.ef.edu.pt/External Subdomain Portugal / Português
https://www.ef.ro/External Subdomain România / Română
https://www.efswiss.ch/de/External Subdomain Schweiz / Deutsch
https://www.efswiss.ch/fr/External Subdomain Suisse / Français
https://www.ef-slovakia.sk/External Subdomain Slovensko / Slovenský
https://www.ef.fi/External Subdomain Suomi / Suomi
https://www.ef.si/External Subdomain Slovenija / Slovenščina
https://www.ef.se/External Subdomain Sverige / Svenska
https://www.efswiss.ch/it/External Subdomain Svizzera / Italiano
https://www.ef.com.tr/External Subdomain Türkiye / Türkçe
https://www.ef.co.uk/Subdomain United Kingdom / English
https://www.ef.dz/fr/External Subdomain Algérie / Français
https://www.ef.dz/ar/External Subdomain الجزائر/ عربي
https://www.ef.com/sa/External Subdomain السعودية / عربي
https://www.ef.com/saen/External Subdomain Saudi Arabia / English
https://www.ef.tn/fr/External Subdomain Tunisie / Français
https://www.ef.tn/ar/External Subdomain تونس / عربي
https://www.ef-australia.com.au/External Subdomain Australia / English
https://www.ef.com.cn/External Subdomain 中国大陆地区 / 简体中文
https://www.ef.com.hk/External Subdomain 香港 / 繁體中文
https://www.ef.co.id/External Subdomain Indonesia / Bahasa Indonesia
https://www.efjapan.co.jp/External Subdomain 日本 / 日本語
https://www.ef.com/kz/External Subdomain Қазақстан / Русский
https://www.ef.co.kr/External Subdomain 한국 / 한국어
https://www.ef.co.th/External Subdomain ประเทศไทย / ภาษาไทย
https://www.ef.com.tw/External Subdomain 台灣 / 繁體中文
https://www.ef.com.vn/External Subdomain Việt Nam / Tiếng Việt
https://www.ef.com/wwen/External Subdomain Global Site / English
https://www.ef.com/wwes/External Subdomain Global Site / Español
https://www.ef.com/wwru/External Subdomain Global Site / Русский
https://www.ef.com/wwfr/External Subdomain Global Site / Français
https://www.ef.com/wwar/External Subdomain Global Site / العربية
https://www.ef.com/wwpt/External Subdomain Global Site / Português

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
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HTTP header
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The file size of the HTML document is very large (1,426 kB).
The page response time is excellent with 0.27 seconds.

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 819 referring domains.
This page has 65,889 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 618 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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EF Education First | United Kingdom
Founded in 1965, Education First (EF) offers study abroad, language learning, cultural exchange and academic degree programs around the world. Whether you take a language course for a summer, spend a gap year studying abroad, enroll in one of our international boarding schools or attend a foundation course to prepare for university, our programs will expand your horizons, teach you new skills and show you the world.

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KeywordResultRecheck
Education79%Check
EF Education First75%Check
Education First72%Check
Language68%Check
EF English63%Check
Language School62%Check
EF Academy62%Check
Language Abroad62%Check
language course62%Check
Language Learning61%Check
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