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Meta information
81% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.21 s
File size
21.40 kB
Words
357
Media files
4
Number of links
47 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Latest News - Office of the Historian
The length of the page title is perfect. (322 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
history.state.gov 3.0 shell
The meta description is too short. (156 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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No canonical link is 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
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 357 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28% 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.
3 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 13.36 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=1.0" is provided.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...Office-of-the-Historian-logo_500x168.jpgOffice of the Historian
...frus1981-88v24/covers/frus1981-88v24.jpgBook Cover of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume XXIV, North Africa
...ry.state.gov/carousel/frus1981-88v38.jpgBook Cover of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume XXXVIII, International Economic Development; International Debt; Foreign Assistance
...ry.state.gov/carousel/frus1977-80v04.jpgBook Cover of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume IV, National Security Policy

Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Latest News
H3 Now Available: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XXIV, North Africa
H3 Now Available: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XXXVIII, International Economic Development; International Debt; Foreign Assistance
H3 Now Available: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume IV, National Security Policy
H4 Learn more
H4 Topics
H4 Contact
H4 Policies
H4 Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute United States Department of State
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://history.state.gov/IMG-ALT Office of the Historian
http://history.state.gov/Home
/historicaldocumentsHistorical Documents
/historicaldocumentsForeign Relations of the United States
/historicaldocuments/about-frusAbout the Foreign Relations Series
/historicaldocuments/status-of...Current Status of the Foreign Relations Series
/historicaldocuments/frus-historyHistory of the Foreign Relations Series
/historicaldocuments/ebooksEbooks Initiative
/historicaldocuments/quarterly...Quarterly Releases
/departmenthistoryDepartment History
/departmenthistoryOverview
/departmenthistory/people/secr...Biographies of the Secretaries of State
/departmenthistory/people/prin...Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission
/departmenthistory/travels/sec...Travels of the Secretary of State
/departmenthistory/travels/pre...Travels of the President
/departmenthistory/visitsVisits by Foreign Heads of State
/departmenthistory/wwiWorld War I and the Department
/departmenthistory/buildingsBuildings of the Department of State
/departmenthistory/diplomatic-...U.S. Diplomatic Couriers
/countriesGuide to Countries
/countriesGuide to Country Recognition and Relations
/countries/archivesWorld Wide Diplomatic Archives Index
http://history.state.gov/tagsBrowse Resources by Subject Tag
/conferencesConferences
/about/contact-usContact Us
/developerDeveloper Resources & APIs
/educationEducational Resources
/about/faqFrequently Asked Questions
/milestonesKey Milestones
http://history.state.gov/openOpen Government Initiative
/departmenthistory/short-historyA Short History of the Department
http://history.state.gov/aboutAbout Us
/historicaldocuments/frus1981-...IMG-ALT Book Cover of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume XXIV, North Africa
/historicaldocuments/frus1981-...Now Available: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XXIV, North Africa
/historicaldocuments/frus1981-...IMG-ALT Book Cover of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume XXXVIII, International Economic Development; International Debt; Foreign Assistance
/historicaldocuments/frus1981-...Now Available: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XXXVIII, International Economic Development; International Debt; Foreign Assistance
/historicaldocuments/frus1977-...IMG-ALT Book Cover of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume IV, National Security Policy
/historicaldocuments/frus1977-...Now Available: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume IV, National Security Policy
http://history.state.gov/Text duplicate Home
http://history.state.gov/searchSearch
/about/faqFAQ
/historicaldocuments/Text duplicate Historical Documents
/departmenthistory/Text duplicate Department History
/countries/Countries
http://history.state.gov/about/Text duplicate About Us
/about/contact-usText duplicate Contact Us
https://www.state.gov/section-...External Subdomain Accessibility Statement
https://www.state.gov/privacy-...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.state.gov/external...External Subdomain External Link Policy
https://www.state.gov/copyrigh...External Subdomain Copyright Information
/about/content-warningContent Warning
https://www.state.gov/External Subdomain United States Department of State

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 0.21 seconds.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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strict-transport-securitymax-age=31557600; includeSubdomains
x-ua-compatibleIE=Edge
x-proxy_cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsDENY
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 18,421 referring domains.
This page has 1,639,869 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 10,194 different ip addresses.

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