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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
25% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.84 s
File size
77.10 kB
Words
475
Media files
9
Number of links
24 internal / 19 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Karsh Institute of Democracy
The length of the page title is perfect. (262 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy addresses the urgent challenges facing democracy today through innovative approaches to research, teaching, programs, and partnerships.
The meta description is too long: 1104 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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
(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)
There are only 475 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.7% 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.
8 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 23.44 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
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)
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
...-03/Global Elections_0.png?itok=AJwdKKZxGlobal Elections
...-09/TOS-image-1600x900.jpg?itok=sqsZtw-xImage for Technologies of Silence event
...-on-keyboard-1920x1080.jpg?itok=U-Wry8loAmerican flag-patterned padlock on a computer keyboard
...-kasra-image-1920x1080.jpg?itok=XuiAM85ECollage of images on a technological background
.../Header-SF-Election-TW.jpg?itok=gvXwZ5OLIllustration of presidential candidate Donald Trump on the right and Kamala Harris on the left, with a USA flag in the background.
...er/66e8d00827e9c.image.jpg?itok=dApK3kEIJudge Luttig testifying in front of the January 6th Committee
...ql146.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.jpg?itok=9A_n8oPvElon Musk and Brazilian judge
...%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.jpg?itok=R1_HHFYmAn ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. The sign reads in Portuguese: "Musk creates profile on X against Moraes to leak confidential decisions of the Supreme Court," referring to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes who ordered the platform blocked for having failed to name a local legal representative as required by law. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Video URLWidthHeight
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Homepage
The H1 heading contains the words Homepage! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Homepage
H1 Realizing the promise of democracy
H2 Main navigation
H2 Our People
H2 Our Work
H2 Events
H2 Technologies of Silence
H2 Election 2024: The Threat of Foreign Interference
H2 AI-Generated Visual Misinformation, Propaganda, and Democracy
H2 Looking for past events?
H2 In the News
H2 UVA Blog Aims To Cut Through Election Noise
H2 UVA's Karsh Institute and Batten School Commemorate Constitution Day
H2 Elon Musk’s Feud With Brazilian Judge Is About National Sovereignty, Freedom of Speech, and the Rule of Law
H2 With Musk’s X Banned in Brazil, Its Users Carve out New Digital Homes
H2 Karsh Institute of Democracy
H3 Election 2024
H3 Follow us
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 19 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
/Karsh Institute of Democracy
/our-storyOur Story
/team/our-peopleOur People
/our-workOur Work
/newsNews
/eventsEvents
https://www.givecampus.com/cam...External Subdomain Give
/our-storyText duplicate Our Story
/election-2024IMG-ALT Global Elections
/election-2024Election 2024
/team/our-peopleText duplicate Our People
/our-workText duplicate Our Work
/events/technologies-silenceIMG-ALT Image for Technologies of Silence event
/events/technologies-silenceTechnologies of Silence
/events/election-2024-threat-f...IMG-ALT American flag-patterned padlock on a computer keyboard
/events/election-2024-threat-f...Election 2024: The Threat of Foreign Interference
/events/ai-generated-visual-mi...IMG-ALT Collage of images on a technological background
/events/ai-generated-visual-mi...AI-Generated Visual Misinformation, Propaganda, and Democracy
/events/past-eventsView Archive
/eventsView All
https://news.virginia.edu/cont...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Illustration of presidential candidate Donald Trump on the right and Kamala Harris on the left, with a USA flag in the background.
https://news.virginia.edu/cont...External Subdomain UVA Blog Aims To Cut Through Election Noise
https://www.cbs19news.com/news...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Judge Luttig testifying in front of the January 6th Committee
https://www.cbs19news.com/news...External Subdomain UVA's Karsh Institute and Batten School Commemorate Constitution Day
https://theconversation.com/el...External IMG-ALT Elon Musk and Brazilian judge
https://theconversation.com/el...External Elon Musk’s Feud With Brazilian Judge Is About National Sovereignty, Freedom of Speech, and the Rule of Law
https://apnews.com/article/bra...External IMG-ALT An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. The sign reads in Portuguese: "Musk creates ...
https://apnews.com/article/bra...External With Musk’s X Banned in Brazil, Its Users Carve out New Digital Homes
/newsText duplicate View All
/Text duplicate Karsh Institute of Democracy
/subscribeSubscribe to Our Newsletter
/subscribeText duplicate Subscribe to Our Newsletter
https://www.facebook.com/UVADe...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/UVADemocracyExternal Twitter
https://instagram.com/uvademoc...External Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External Subdomain YouTube
https://eocr.virginia.edu/noti...External Subdomain Non-Discrimination Notice
https://www.virginia.edu/consu...External Subdomain Consumer Information
https://accessibility.virginia...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://uvaemergency.virginia....External Subdomain Emergency
https://communications.virgini...External Subdomain FOIA
https://www.virginia.edu/sitei...External Subdomain Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.84 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.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
This page only loads 3 JavaScript files. That's good!
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateFri, 20 Sep 2024 09:27:43 GMT
serverApache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.24
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-powered-byPHP/8.1.24
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheUNCACHEABLE
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
content-length78979
x-drupal-cacheHIT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 39 referring domains.
This page has 2,818 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 37 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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