Exchanges.state.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.62 s
File size
13.10 kB
Words
46
Media files
1
Number of links
5 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Exchange Programs |
The page title is too short. (195 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find U.S. Department of State programs for U.S. and non-U.S. citizens wishing to participate in cultural, educational, or professional exchanges.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (887 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://exchanges.state.gov/
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
(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 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

NameValue
descriptionFind U.S. Department of State programs for U.S. and non-U.S. citizens wishing to participate in cultural, educational, or professional exchanges.
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width
langen
cleartypeon
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 46 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
26.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...all/themes/custom/eca_exchanges/logo.pngHome

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Programs
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Programs
H5 United States Department of State
There are too few (5) 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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://www.state.gov/External Subdomain United States Department of State
https://eca.state.gov/covid-19...External Subdomain COVID-19
/eca-site-switch/bureauECA
http://alumni.state.gov/External Subdomain Alumni
https://americanenglish.state....External Subdomain American English
https://educationusa.state.gov/External Subdomain EducationUSA
http://j1visa.state.gov/External Subdomain J-1 Visa
https://studyabroad.state.gov/External Subdomain StudyAbroad
https://exchanges.state.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://exchanges.state.gov/Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Programs
A-TITLE Home
/splash/non-usOpportunities for Non-U.S. Citizens
/splash/usOpportunities for U.S. Citizens

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://exchanges.state.gov/"
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 very slow (3.62 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 (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 08 Nov 2024 01:57:22 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
servernginx
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
x-drupal-cacheMISS
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlpublic, max-age=21600
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
link<https://exchanges.state.gov/>; rel="canonical"
etagW/"1731031039-0"
last-modifiedFri, 08 Nov 2024 01:57:19 GMT
content-encodinggzip
x-varnish58492827
age0
via1.1 varnish-v4
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,764 referring domains.
This page has 54,871 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,786 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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exchanges.state.gov
Exchange Programs |
Find U.S. Department of State programs for U.S. and non-U.S. citizens wishing to participate in cultural, educational, or professional exchanges.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Exchange87%Check
Exchange Programs80%Check
Programs73%Check
State63%Check
Educational62%Check
Cultural62%Check
Exchanges59%Check
Cultural Affairs56%Check
Department50%Check
Bureau50%Check
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