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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
60% 
Link structure
40% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.73 s
File size
161.50 kB
Words
679
Media files
27
Number of links
117 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Harvard Graduate School of Design
The length of the page title is perfect. (392 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Graduate School of Design educates leaders in design, research, and scholarship to make a resilient, just, and beautiful world.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (806 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/
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)
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 48.5 words is high.
This page contains 679 words. That's ok.
26.5% 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.
6 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 14 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

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...ent/uploads/2020/07/RESILIENCE-TOPIC.jpgNo alt attribute provided
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...2016/04/horizon-house-e1470067498393.jpgHorizon House
...ploads/2019/11/SOCIAL-EQUITY-TOPIC-1.jpgToni Griffin leading students in Gund Hall
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..._Operating-System-1.1-Exhibit_0016-2.jpgA color image of a projector, the lens of which is pointed at a rotating mirror. Colorful lights are visible on the wall in the background.
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...enson_PROFILE_Photo_Niall-Finn-2021_.jpgA portrait of Thandi Loewenson who stands in front of a brick wall.
...tent/uploads/2024/06/Arch-Grafting-2.jpgA title page of a book The Art of Architectural Grafting.
...lo_exterior_2022-11-01-084442_zmpo-1.jpgA photograph showing a dense group of modern buildings along a body of water. The central building is a tall, slim tower with irregular balconies protruding from its sides.
.../uploads/2024/02/IMG_7759_1-1024x768.pngA highway rises over a dry riverbed filled with trees. Mountains are in the background.
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...nt/uploads/2024/05/PVATalk2-1024x684.jpgWhite male, Pier Vittorio Aureli speaks at the Harvard Graduate School of Design podium
...24/05/20240405_RIPAC-winners_DSC5414.jpgTwo men stand in front of a curving wall made of wood and plastic.
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
GSD Announces Fall 2024 Public Programs and Exhibitions
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
There are 30 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 GSD Announces Fall 2024 Public Programs and Exhibitions
H1 A System of Gaps and Linkages: On Sarah Oppenheimer’s Art Practice and Pedagogy
H1 Contemporaries, Now and Then
H1 I.M. Pei’s Museum of Chinese Art, Shanghai: Modernism between East and West
H1 Remembering Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024)
H1 Housing, By and For the Public
H1 Thandi Loewenson Awarded 2024 Wheelwright Prize
H1 Summer Reading 2024: Design Books by GSD Faculty and Alumni
H1 Resourceful Urbanism: Dan Stubbergaard’s Adaptive Reuse of Cities
H1 From Drought to Flood: Solutions for Extreme Climate Events in Monterrey, Mexico
H1 The Plan for a More Sustainable and Accessible Gund Hall
H1 Talking Practice: Pier Vittorio Aureli
H1 A Public Artwork by GSD Students Embraces Enclosure
H1 What Oysters Can Teach about Life in the Climate Crisis
H1 A New Future for a Colonial Fort in Ghana
H1 Nexus Podcast: Mpho Matsipa and Antawan Byrd
H1 The GSD Announces 2024–2025 Faculty Promotions
H1 Announcing New Faculty Appointments for the 2024–2025 Academic Year
H1 The GSD Announces Finalists for the 2024 Wheelwright Prize
H1 Farshid Moussavi, “Architecture As an Instruction-Based Art”
H1 Eric Höweler, “Clay: Pedagogy and Practice”
H1 Chelina Odbert, “Situating Justice: Reflections on Mission-Driven Practice”
H2 Academics
H2 People
H2 About
H2 Resources
H2 Explore
H3 Ideas on...
H3 News
H3 Events
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/Subdomain GSD Logo
https://now.gsd.harvard.edu/New window External Subdomain GSD Now
/architecture/Department of Architecture
/landscape-architecture/Department of Landscape Architecture
/urban-planning-design/Department of Urban Planning and Design
/design-studies/Design Studies
/design-engineering/Design Engineering
/doctoral-programs/Doctoral Programs
/undergraduate-concentration/Undergraduate Architecture Studies
/loeb-fellowship/Loeb Fellowship
/executive-education/Executive Education
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/research/Research
/courses/Courses
/admissions/Apply
https://community.alumni.harva...New window External Subdomain Give
https://huhs.harvard.edu/covid...New window External Subdomain Anchor Covid 19
/people/faculty/Faculty
/people/staff/Staff
/people/student/Students
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/community-values/Community Values, Rights, and Responsibilities
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https://alumni.gsd.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Alumni and Friends Website
/visit-the-gsd/Subdomain Visit the GSD
/admissions/Admissions
/financial-aid/Financial Aid
/library/Frances Loeb Library
/student-affairs/Student Affairs
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/resources/All Resources →
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/publications/Publications
/podcasts/Podcasts
/projects/Projects
/topics/Topics
/topics/Subdomain Ideas on...
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/topic/resilience/Subdomain Resilience
/topic/infrastructure/Subdomain Infrastructure
/topic/energy/Subdomain Energy
/topic/social-equity/Subdomain Social Equity
/topics/Subdomain All 26 topics
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/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/07/mimi-zeiger-john-may-...Subdomain IMG-ALT A photograph of the exterior of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
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/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
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/2024/07/i-m-pei-museum-of-chi...Subdomain I.M. Pei’s Museum of Chinese Art, Shanghai: Modernism between East and West
/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/07/seng-kuan-remembers-f...Subdomain IMG-ALT A black-and-white portrait of Fumihiko Maki posing in front of an architectural model of a high-rise building. He wears a white shirt and a dark tie.
/2024/07/seng-kuan-remembers-f...Subdomain Remembering Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024)
/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/07/susanne-schindler-dev...Subdomain IMG-ALT A photo of a street with triple decker houses on the left side and with cars parked in front of the houses.
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/category/announcements/Subdomain Text duplicate Announcements
/2024/06/thandi-loewenson-awar...Subdomain IMG-ALT A portrait of Thandi Loewenson who stands in front of a brick wall.
/2024/06/thandi-loewenson-awar...Subdomain Thandi Loewenson Awarded 2024 Wheelwright Prize
/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/06/summer-reading-2024-d...Subdomain IMG-ALT A title page of a book The Art of Architectural Grafting.
/2024/06/summer-reading-2024-d...Subdomain Summer Reading 2024: Design Books by GSD Faculty and Alumni
/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/05/resourceful-urbanism-...Subdomain IMG-ALT A photograph showing a dense group of modern buildings along a body of water. The central building is a tall, slim tower with irregular balconies protruding ...
/2024/05/resourceful-urbanism-...Subdomain Resourceful Urbanism: Dan Stubbergaard’s Adaptive Reuse of Cities
/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/02/from-drought-to-flood...Subdomain IMG-ALT A highway rises over a dry riverbed filled with trees. Mountains are in the background.
/2024/02/from-drought-to-flood...Subdomain From Drought to Flood: Solutions for Extreme Climate Events in Monterrey, Mexico
/category/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/2023/12/the-plan-for-a-more-s...Subdomain IMG-ALT Gund Hall, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Photo by Noritaka Minami
/2023/12/the-plan-for-a-more-s...Subdomain The Plan for a More Sustainable and Accessible Gund Hall
/category/podcasts/Subdomain Text duplicate Podcasts
/2024/05/pier-vittorio-aureli/Subdomain IMG-ALT White male, Pier Vittorio Aureli speaks at the Harvard Graduate School of Design podium
/2024/05/pier-vittorio-aureli/Subdomain Talking Practice: Pier Vittorio Aureli
/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/05/a-public-artwork-by-g...Subdomain IMG-ALT Two men stand in front of a curving wall made of wood and plastic.
/2024/05/a-public-artwork-by-g...Subdomain A Public Artwork by GSD Students Embraces Enclosure
/category/features/Subdomain Text duplicate Features
/2024/04/daniel-fernandez-pasc...Subdomain IMG-ALT A structure of metal legs and metal wire cages, some covered in red cushions, stands in an intertidal zone in a bay. Some of the metal wire cages have oyster...
/2024/04/daniel-fernandez-pasc...Subdomain What Oysters Can Teach about Life in the Climate Crisis
/category/photo-essay/Subdomain Photo Essay
/2024/02/a-new-future-for-a-co...Subdomain IMG-ALT Aerial photo showing a coastline on the left and a village on the right with a gravel road running along the coast
/2024/02/a-new-future-for-a-co...Subdomain A New Future for a Colonial Fort in Ghana
/category/podcasts/Subdomain Text duplicate Podcasts
/2024/01/mpho-matsipa-and-anta...Subdomain IMG-ALT Headshot of African decent female on the left and a headshot of African decent man on the right
/2024/01/mpho-matsipa-and-anta...Subdomain Nexus Podcast: Mpho Matsipa and Antawan Byrd
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/Anchor Back to top
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/category/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/2024/07/the-gsd-announces-fac...Subdomain The GSD Announces 2024–2025 Faculty Promotions
/category/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/2024/07/gsd-faculty-appointme...Subdomain Announcing New Faculty Appointments for the 2024–2025 Academic Year
/category/announcements/Subdomain Text duplicate Announcements
/2024/06/the-gsd-announces-fin...Subdomain The GSD Announces Finalists for the 2024 Wheelwright Prize
/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/events/all/?event_type=lectureSubdomain Lecture
/event/farshid-moussavi-archit...Subdomain Farshid Moussavi, “Architecture As an Instruction-Based Art”
/events/all/?event_type=lectureSubdomain Text duplicate Lecture
/event/eric-howeler-clay-pedag...Subdomain Eric Höweler, “Clay: Pedagogy and Practice”
/events/all/?event_type=lectureSubdomain Text duplicate Lecture
/event/chelina-odbert-situatin...Subdomain Chelina Odbert, “Situating Justice: Reflections on Mission-Driven Practice”
http://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain A-TITLE Harvard University
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/Harvard University Graduate School of Design
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy
https://accessibility.harvard....New window External Subdomain Accessibility
https://accessibility.huit.har...New window External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...External Subdomain Maps
/contact-the-gsdContact
/covid19/COVID-19
/cdn-cgi/l/email-protectionGSD API
/digital-governance-policy/Digital Governance Policy
https://www.harvard.edu/copyri...External Subdomain Report Copyright Infringement
https://www.harvard.edu/securi...External Subdomain Report Security Issue
https://trademark.harvard.edu/...External Subdomain Trademark Notice
http://www.facebook.com/Harvar...External Subdomain Facebook
http://twitter.com/HarvardGSDExternal Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/user/Th...External Subdomain YouTube
http://www.linkedin.com/edu/sc...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/harv...External Subdomain Instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/"
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 of 0.73 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (162 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 4,582 referring domains.
This page has 33,658 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,978 different ip addresses.
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The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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