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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
66% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.04 s
File size
155.20 kB
Words
621
Media files
20
Number of links
82 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 615 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://gsll.unc.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)
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 29.5 words is high.
This page contains 621 words. That's ok.
25% 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.
8 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
15 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC - Chapel Hill
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC - Chapel Hill
H1 Home
H2 BCS
H2 Czech
H2 Dutch
H2 German
H2 Polish
H2 Russian
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Open Position
H2 Study Abroad
H2 What’s Happening in GSLL
H3 Kaffeestunde
H3 GSLL Prospective Majors & Minors Dinner Reception
H3 Popoika
H3 Chappel Merit Scholarship Deadlines
H3 Recent Faculty Publications
H3 Coming in 2025: Ukrainian!
H3 GSLL Students in Wrocław, Poland
H3 Contact
H3 Open Position With GSLL
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
7 links don't have an 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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://gsll.unc.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
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https://gsll.unc.edu/intranetIntranet
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https://gsll.unc.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures
https://gsll.unc.edu/about-gsll/Subdomain About Our Department
/welcome-from-the-chair/Subdomain Welcome from the Chair
/wp-content/uploads/sites/1303...Subdomain GSLL Newsletter
/the-history-of-gsll/Subdomain The History of GSLL
/about-gsll/support-gsll/Subdomain Support GSLL
/current-faculty/Subdomain Current Faculty
/emeriti-faculty/Subdomain Emeriti Faculty
https://gsll.unc.edu/in-memoriam/Subdomain In Memoriam
/graduate-students/Subdomain Graduate Students
https://gsll.unc.edu/staff/Subdomain Staff
/people/administrative-contacts/Subdomain Administrative Contacts
/visiting-scholars/Subdomain Visiting Scholars
/institutional-partners/Subdomain Institutional Partners
/current-courses/Subdomain Current Courses
/previous-semesters/Subdomain Past Courses
/upcoming-courses/Subdomain Upcoming Courses
/study-abroad/Subdomain Study Abroad
/independent-readings/Subdomain Independent Readings
/why-study-one-of-our-languages/Subdomain Why study one of our languages?
/bosnian-croatian-serbian/Subdomain Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
/learning-resources/czech-lang...Subdomain Czech
https://gsll.unc.edu/dutch/Subdomain Dutch
/learning-resources/german-gra...Subdomain German
https://gsll.unc.edu/polish/Subdomain Polish
/russian-program/Subdomain Russian
/learning-resources/Subdomain Learning Resources
/placement-exams/Subdomain Placement Exams
/why-major-or-minor-in-gsll/Subdomain Why major or minor in GSLL?
https://gsll.unc.edu/secondmajor/Subdomain Declaring GSLL as Your Second Major
/german-program/Subdomain Carolina’s German Program
/german-ba-concentrations/Subdomain German BA Concentrations
/russian-program/Subdomain Carolina’s Russian Program
/slavic-ba-concentrations/Subdomain Slavic BA Concentrations
/carolinas-central-european-st...Subdomain Carolina’s Central European Studies Program
/central-european-studies-ba/Subdomain Central European Studies BA
/minor-concentrations/Subdomain Minor Concentrations
http://carolina-duke-grad.germ...New window External Subdomain Anchor Carolina-Duke PhD
https://catalog.unc.edu/underg...External Subdomain UNC Academic Catalog
https://gsll.unc.edu/careers/Subdomain Careers
/gsll-for-the-profession/Subdomain GSLL for the Professions
https://gsll.unc.edu/alumni/Subdomain Alumni
/research-publications/faculty...Subdomain Recent Faculty Research
/research-publications/recent-...Subdomain Recent Masters Theses & Dissertations
https://gsll.unc.edu/wip/Carolina-Duke Graduate Program Works in Progress
/courses/undergraduate-honors-...Subdomain Undergraduate Honors Theses
/unc-press-series/Subdomain UNC Press Series
https://gsll.unc.edu/news/Subdomain News
https://gsll.unc.edu/eventsEvents
https://gsll.unc.edu/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/culture-points/Subdomain Culture Points
/events-page/theory-reading-gr...Subdomain Theory Reading Group
/events/category/films/Subdomain Film Screenings
/events/category/l-h/Subdomain Weekly Language hours
/carolina-translation-collective/Subdomain Carolina Translation Collective
/undergraduate-calendar/Subdomain Undergraduate Timeline
https://gsll.unc.edu/10613-2/Subdomain GSLL Statement on the Russian Invasion in Ukraine
/bosnian-croatian-serbian/Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
/learning-resources/czech-lang...Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Czech
https://gsll.unc.edu/dutch/Subdomain No Text
/german-program/Subdomain No Text
https://gsll.unc.edu/polish/Subdomain No Text
/russian-program/Subdomain No Text
/series/kaffeestunde/Subdomain A-TITLE Event Series
/event/kaffeestunde/2025-02-26/Subdomain Kaffeestunde
A-TITLE Kaffeestunde
/event/gsll-prospective-majors...Subdomain GSLL Prospective Majors & Minors Dinner Reception
A-TITLE GSLL Prospective Majors & Minors Dinner Reception
/series/popoika-4/Subdomain Text duplicate A-TITLE Event Series
/event/popoika-4/2025-02-28/Subdomain Popoika
A-TITLE Popoika
https://gsll.unc.edu/events/Subdomain View Calendar
A-TITLE View more events.
/undergraduate-calendar/upcomi...Text duplicate Undergraduate Timeline
/open-positions/Learn More
https://gsll.unc.edu/courses/No Text
https://gsll.unc.edu/degrees/No Text
https://gsll.unc.edu/secondmajor/Subdomain No Text
http://carolina-duke-grad.germ...External Subdomain No Text
https://docs.google.com/forms/...External Subdomain No Text
/study-abroad/Text duplicate Learn More
/2024/12/recent-faculty-public...Subdomain Recent Faculty Publications
/2024/11/coming-in-2025-ukrain...Subdomain Coming in 2025: Ukrainian!
/2024/11/14060/Subdomain GSLL Students in Wrocław, Poland
/category/news/More News
https://gsll.unc.edu/intranetText duplicate Intranet
/open-positions/Text duplicate Learn More
https://give.unc.edu/donate?p=...External Subdomain Text duplicate Support GSLL
https://www.instagram.com/uncg...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://gsll.unc.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.04 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (155 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 187 referring domains.
This page has 237 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 76 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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German70%Check
Slavic65%Check
Slavic Languages64%Check
Department63%Check
UNC63%Check
Languages62%Check
Literatures62%Check
Slavic Languages Literatures62%Check
Slavic Languages Literatures UNC61%Check
Germanic Slavic Languages Literatures58%Check
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