Gns.wisc.edu - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
54% 
Page quality
66% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.48 s
File size
89.90 kB
Words
1272
Media files
12
Number of links
73 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
German, Nordic, and Slavic+ – College of Letters & Science – UW–Madison
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 681 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
GRADUATE Gavrielle Lent Jameson Lynch Seth Maxfield Morgan Mehlberg Brandon Pahl Nick Ott Janelle Schmidt Lisa Steiner Benjamin Wilson Cassandra Winkelman UNDERGRADUATE Anthony Ammann Anja Arnhold Grace Bauernfeind Bradley Bekkum Margaret Brener Lily Buehler Nick Collier Alexander Cook Salma Delgado Veronika Dethart Jonathan Draeger Chloe Angelique Edgington Lauren Engle Elissa Erickson Marissa FaulknerDrew Fox Siena…
The meta description is too long: 2860 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://gns.wisc.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsmax-image-preview:large
tec-api-versionv1
tec-api-originhttps://gns.wisc.edu
descriptionGRADUATE Gavrielle Lent Jameson Lynch Seth Maxfield Morgan Mehlberg Brandon Pahl Nick Ott Janelle Schmidt Lisa Steiner Benjamin Wilson Cassandra Winkelman UNDERGRADUATE Anthony Ammann Anja Arnhold Grace Bauernfeind Bradley Bekkum Margaret Brener Lily Buehler Nick Collier Alexander Cook Salma Delgado Veronika Dethart Jonathan Draeger Chloe Angelique Edgington Lauren Engle Elissa Erickson Marissa FaulknerDrew Fox Siena…
msapplication-TileColor#c5050c
msapplication-confighttps://gns.wisc.edu/wp-content/themes/uw-theme/dist/images/favicons/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleGerman, Nordic, and Slavic+
twitter:descriptionGRADUATE Gavrielle Lent Jameson Lynch Seth Maxfield Morgan Mehlberg Brandon Pahl Nick Ott Janelle Schmidt Lisa Steiner Benjamin Wilson Cassandra Winkelman UNDERGRADUATE Anthony Ammann Anja Arnhold Grace Bauernfeind Bradley Bekkum Margaret Brener Lily Buehler Nick Collier Alexander Cook Salma Delgado Veronika Dethart Jonathan Draeger Chloe Angelique Edgington Lauren Engle Elissa Erickson Marissa FaulknerDrew Fox Siena…
og:titleGerman, Nordic, and Slavic+
og:urlhttps://gns.wisc.edu/
og:descriptionGRADUATE Gavrielle Lent Jameson Lynch Seth Maxfield Morgan Mehlberg Brandon Pahl Nick Ott Janelle Schmidt Lisa Steiner Benjamin Wilson Cassandra Winkelman UNDERGRADUATE Anthony Ammann Anja Arnhold Grace Bauernfeind Bradley Bekkum Margaret Brener Lily Buehler Nick Collier Alexander Cook Salma Delgado Veronika Dethart Jonathan Draeger Chloe Angelique Edgington Lauren Engle Elissa Erickson Marissa FaulknerDrew Fox Siena…
og:site_nameGerman, Nordic, and Slavic+
og:typewebsite
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 32.71 words is high.
This page contains 1272 words. That's ok.
29% 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.
28 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 25 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
12 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
/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Artboard-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../2020/02/GNS-Artists-Banner-1600x500.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Logo_German.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Logo_Nordic.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Logo_Slavic.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/2024/05/Logo_Folklore.pngNo alt attribute provided
...t/uploads/2022/05/Graduate-on-Bascom.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...06/Pam-Potter-Featured-Photo-600x400.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Untitled-2.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Untitled-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...06/Pam-Potter-Featured-Photo-600x400.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...rift-Eldridge-Featured-Photo-600x400.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
German, Nordic, and Slavic+
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 German, Nordic, and Slavic+
H2 Our Programs
H2 GNS Fall 2024 Courses
H2 Congratulations, Spring 2024 GNS+ Graduates!
H2 Recent GNS+ Award Recipients
H2 The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ Statement on Diversity
H2 GNS+ Commitment to Social Justice
H2 Site footer content
H3 View featured student profiles here!
H3 Pamela Potter awarded WARF Named Professorship
H3 Mark Louden Receives Griebsch Bascom Professorship
H3 Marcus Cederstrom Recognized by 2022 McBurney Center Forward in Access Awards
H3 Pam Potter Awarded Fellowship at Institute for Advanced Study
H3 Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge Receives Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award
H3 Contact Us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
4 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 4 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://gns.wisc.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.wisc.edu/External Subdomain University of Wisconsin–Madison
https://gns.wisc.edu/Subdomain No Text
https://gns.wisc.edu/Subdomain German, Nordic, and Slavic+
/cont_category/languages/Subdomain Languages
/languages/czech/Subdomain Czech
/languages/danish/Subdomain Danish
/languages/dutch/Subdomain Dutch
/languages/finnish/Subdomain Finnish
/languages/german/Subdomain German
/languages/icelandic/Subdomain Icelandic
/languages/kazakh/Subdomain Kazakh
/languages/norwegian/Subdomain Norwegian
/languages/old-norse/Subdomain Old Norse
/languages/polish/Subdomain Polish
/languages/russian/Subdomain Russian
/languages/sami/Subdomain Sámi
/languages/swedish/Subdomain Swedish
https://gns.wisc.edu/turkic/Subdomain Turkish — Türkçe — ترکچه
/languages/yiddish/Subdomain Yiddish
https://gns.wisc.edu/courses/Subdomain Courses
/category/undergraduate/Subdomain Undergraduate
/undergraduate_majors/Subdomain Majors
/certificates-programs/Subdomain Certificates & Programs
/important-course-information/Subdomain Important Course Information
https://gns.wisc.edu/advising/Subdomain Advising
https://gns.wisc.edu/careers/Subdomain Careers
https://gns.wisc.edu/resources/Subdomain Resources
https://gns.wisc.edu/graduate/Subdomain Graduate
/german-graduate-program/Subdomain German Graduate Program
/nordic-graduate-program/Subdomain Nordic Graduate Program
/folklore-doctoral-minor/Subdomain Folklore Doctoral Minor
/slavic-graduate-program/Subdomain Slavic Graduate Program
/graduate/graduate-student-org...Subdomain Graduate Student Organizations
/category/people/Subdomain People
https://gns.wisc.edu/faculty/Subdomain Faculty
/department-staff/Subdomain Department Staff
/graduate-students/Subdomain Graduate Students
/people/emerit/Subdomain Emerit
https://gns.wisc.edu/librarians/Subdomain Librarians
https://gns.wisc.edu/alumni/Subdomain Featured Alumnx
/student-life/Subdomain Student Life
/student-life/norden-house/Subdomain Norden House
/student-life/russkii-dom/Subdomain Russkii Dom
/stockwerk-deutsch/Subdomain Stockwerk Deutsch
/scholarships/Subdomain Scholarships
/student-life/study-abroad/Subdomain Study Abroad
https://gns.wisc.edu/internships/Subdomain Internships
/student-life/center-for-pushk...Subdomain Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies
https://gns.wisc.edu/news/Subdomain GNS+ News
https://gns.wisc.edu/events/Subdomain Events
/event-submissions/Subdomain Event Submission Form
/language-tables/Subdomain Language Tables
/gns-newsletters/Subdomain Newsletters
/gns-meeting-rooms/Subdomain Meeting Rooms/Department Resources
https://gns.wisc.edu/donate/Subdomain Donate
https://www.uwalumni.com/External Subdomain Alumni
http://www.ls.wisc.edu/New window External Subdomain L&S
https://gns.wisc.edu/affiliates/Subdomain Campus Partners
https://kb.wisc.edu/gns/New window External Subdomain KB
/digital-library/Subdomain Digital Library
/publications/Subdomain Publications
https://gns.wisc.edu/german/Subdomain No Text
https://gns.wisc.edu/german/Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://gns.wisc.edu/nordic/Subdomain No Text
https://gns.wisc.edu/nordic/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://gns.wisc.edu/slavic/Subdomain No Text
https://gns.wisc.edu/slavic/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://gns.wisc.edu/folklore/Subdomain No Text
https://gns.wisc.edu/folklore/Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/german-courses-fall-2024/Subdomain German Courses
/gns-courses-fall-2024/Subdomain GNS Courses
/scandinavian-studies-courses-...Subdomain Nordic Courses
/folklore-courses-fall-2024/Subdomain Folklore Courses
/slavic-courses-fall-2024/Subdomain Slavic Courses
/literature-in-translation-cou...Subdomain Literature in Translation Courses
/2024-gns-graduates/Subdomain View featured student profiles here!
https://mcburney.wisc.edu/2022...External Subdomain Press Release
https://ls.wisc.edu/news/pamel...External Subdomain Fellowship Press Release
https://news.wisc.edu/32-facul...External Subdomain Award Press Release
https://www.dailycardinal.com/...External Subdomain university-internal discrimination
https://www.wisc.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...External Subdomain Map
https://www.facebook.com/UWMad...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/uwmadgns?l...External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/uwma...External Subdomain No Text
https://accessible.wisc.edu/External Subdomain accessibility at UW–Madison
https://uwtheme.wordpress.wisc...External Subdomain UW Theme
https://www.wisc.edu/privacy-n...External Subdomain Privacy Notice
https://www.wisconsin.edu/External Subdomain University of Wisconsin System.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://gns.wisc.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 slow (1.48 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 (90 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.21.6
dateSat, 24 Aug 2024 11:41:17 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length23778
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
link<https://gns.wisc.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-tec-api-versionv1
x-tec-api-roothttps://gns.wisc.edu/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-originhttps://gns.wisc.edu
set-cookie44 Characters
expiresThu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 379 referring domains.
This page has 1,733 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 245 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /calendar/action~agenda/
Disallow: /calendar/action~oneday/
Disallow: /calendar/action~month/
Disallow: /calendar/action~week/
Disallow: /calendar/action~stream/
Disallow: /calendar/action~undefined/
Disallow: /calendar/action~http:/
Disallow: /calendar/action~default/
Disallow: /calendar/action~poster/
Disallow: /calendar/action~*/
Disallow: /*controller=ai1ec_exporter_controller*
Disallow: /*/action~*/
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Disallow: /events/action~http:/
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Disallow: /events/action~*/
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GRADUATE Gavrielle Lent Jameson Lynch Seth Maxfield Morgan Mehlberg Brandon Pahl Nick Ott Janelle Schmidt Lisa Steiner Benjamin Wilson Cassandra Winkelman UNDERGRADUATE Anthony Ammann Anja Arnhold Grace Bauernfeind Bradley Bekkum Margaret Brener Lily Buehler Nick Collier Alexander Cook Salma Delgado Veronika Dethart Jonathan Draeger Chloe Angelique Edgington Lauren Engle Elissa Erickson Marissa FaulknerDrew Fox Siena…

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Slavic68%Check
German68%Check
Nordic68%Check
Graduate56%Check
GNS56%Check
Undergraduate51%Check
GRADUATE Gavrielle Lent Jameson48%Check
Graduate Program47%Check
UNDERGRADUATE Anthony Ammann Anja47%Check
Nick46%Check
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