Gastc.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
62% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
51% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.28 s
File size
87.90 kB
Words
351
Media files
8
Number of links
35 internal / 43 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
GA Student Technology Competition
The length of the page title is perfect. (324 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
GaSTC is a statewide technology competition where students in grades 3-12 compete in a variety of technology categories. Our main goal is to challenge students to become leaders in a digital age.
The meta description is too long: 1215 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gastc.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 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 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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twitter:cardsummary
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 351 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.9 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, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 107 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"the gastc programming challenge is now complete. scores and winners can be accessed using the button b..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
GA Student Technology Competition
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 GA Student Technology Competition
H1 Congratulations to the 2024 Winners!
H1 NEW: Georgia Student Programming Challenge!
H1 We promote Technology Skills through Competition
H1 Student Highlight Video
H1 Stay in the Loop
H2 State Competition
H2 Regional Competitions
H2 GA Student Technology Competition Sponsors
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (43) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.gastc.org/what-we-doWhat We Do
/scholarshipsScholarships
https://www.gastc.org/locationLocation
https://docs.google.com/presen...External Subdomain 2024 GaETC Presentation
https://www.gastc.org/studentsWhat to Expect
/category-informationCategories
https://www.gastc.org/programmingProgramming Challenge
/updates?tag=2025New window 2025 Updates
/map-of-all-regionsMap of All Regions
https://apstic.weebly.com/New window External Subdomain Atlanta Public Schools
http://www.cvtechcomp.com/New window External Subdomain Chattahoochee Valley
http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org...External Subdomain Dekalb County
https://www.rockdaleschools.or...New window External Subdomain East Atlanta
https://www.fultonschools.org/...New window External Subdomain Fulton County
http://gastc.org/Hall County
http://gihtech.org/New window External Independent and Homeschools
https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/...External Subdomain Lanier Regional
https://www.bcsdk12.net/techco...New window External Subdomain Middle Georgia
http://cobbrtc.weebly.com/External Subdomain North Central
https://www.negaresa.org/nega-...External Subdomain Northeast Georgia
http://techfair.nwgaresa.com/New window External Subdomain Northwest Georgia
https://sites.google.com/a/oco...New window External Subdomain Oconee RESA
https://oktechcomp.my.canva.si...New window External Subdomain Okefenokee
https://www.cherokeek12.net/di...New window External Subdomain Piedmont
https://sites.google.com/dcboe...New window External Subdomain Southwest Georgia
http://wgatechfair.wordpress.com/New window External Subdomain West Georgia
https://www.gastc.org/partnersSPONSORS
https://www.gastc.org/judgesJUDGES
https://www.gastc.org/IMG-ALT GA Student Technology Competition
https://www.gastc.org/what-we-doText duplicate What We Do
/scholarshipsText duplicate Scholarships
https://www.gastc.org/locationText duplicate Location
https://docs.google.com/presen...External Subdomain Text duplicate 2024 GaETC Presentation
https://www.gastc.org/studentsText duplicate What to Expect
/category-informationText duplicate Categories
https://www.gastc.org/programmingText duplicate Programming Challenge
/updates?tag=2025New window Text duplicate 2025 Updates
/map-of-all-regionsText duplicate Map of All Regions
https://apstic.weebly.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Atlanta Public Schools
http://www.cvtechcomp.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Chattahoochee Valley
http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org...External Subdomain Text duplicate Dekalb County
https://www.rockdaleschools.or...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate East Atlanta
https://www.fultonschools.org/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Fulton County
http://gastc.org/Text duplicate Hall County
http://gihtech.org/New window External Text duplicate Independent and Homeschools
https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/...External Subdomain Text duplicate Lanier Regional
https://www.bcsdk12.net/techco...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Middle Georgia
http://cobbrtc.weebly.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate North Central
https://www.negaresa.org/nega-...External Subdomain Text duplicate Northeast Georgia
http://techfair.nwgaresa.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Northwest Georgia
https://sites.google.com/a/oco...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Oconee RESA
https://oktechcomp.my.canva.si...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Okefenokee
https://www.cherokeek12.net/di...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Piedmont
https://sites.google.com/dcboe...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Southwest Georgia
http://wgatechfair.wordpress.com/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate West Georgia
https://www.gastc.org/partnersText duplicate SPONSORS
https://www.gastc.org/judgesText duplicate JUDGES
/updates?tag=2025New window Subdomain Recent Updates
https://gastc.org/awardsLearn More
/programming-challenge-results2023-2024 Scores and Winners
https://github.com/andrew0570/...New window External View Problems and Solutions
https://teach-technology.org/New window External URL anchor text
https://teach-technology.org/
https://www.gastc.org/what-we-doIMG-ALT pexels-photo-160107.jpeg
https://www.gastc.org/what-we-doState Competition
https://www.gastc.org/what-we-doLearn More →
/map-of-all-regionsNo Text
/map-of-all-regionsRegional Competitions
/map-of-all-regionsView All Regions →
/updates?tag=2025updates page
http://www.gaetc.org/consortiumNew window External Subdomain IMG-ALT gaetc.png
http://sonline.us/New window External IMG-ALT sonline-200.png
https://teach-technology.org/New window External No Text
http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.gastc.org/Anchor Back to Top
https://twitter.com/GaSTCNew window External No Text
http://instagram.com/georgiastcNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Georg...New window External Subdomain No Text
/privacy-policyGaSTC Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gastc.org/"
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 excellent with 0.28 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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varyAccept-Encoding
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 36 referring domains.
This page has 215 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 32 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Disallow: /config
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /account$
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /commerce/digital-download/
Disallow: /api/
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Sitemap: https://www.gastc.org/sitemap.xml

Search preview

www.gastc.org
GA Student Technology Competition
GaSTC is a statewide technology competition where students in grades 3-12 compete in a variety of technology categories. Our main goal is to challenge students to become leaders in a digital age.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
GA Student Technology85%Check
GA Student Technology Competition82%Check
Technology79%Check
Technology Competition78%Check
Student77%Check
Competition76%Check
Student Technology Competition75%Check
Georgia Student Technology Competition65%Check
technology categories64%Check
GASTC62%Check

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