Learnenglish.britishcouncil.org - SEO Checker

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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
55% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
4.21 s
File size
75.60 kB
Words
958
Media files
26
Number of links
132 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Learn English Online | British Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (333 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Learn English online using our high-quality resources to quickly improve your English. Take our free level test to help you find your English language level, then find lessons and resources that are just right for you.
The meta description is too long: 1305 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/
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
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This page contains 958 words. That's ok.
31.7% 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.
12 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 14.76 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.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 19 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The H1 heading is empty
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

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H2 User account menu
H2 Main navigation
H2 Mobile - User account menu
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H2 Learn with one of our popular online courses
H2 Anyone can practise with our free resources
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H2 Online courses
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H2 Follow us
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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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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IMG-ALT IELTS preparation
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IMG-ALT Self-study courses
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/general-english/magazine-zone...Ninety years of the British Council
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/english-levels/improve-your-e...Five ways to work out the meaning of new words
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https://www.britishcouncil.org...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.britishcouncil.org...External Subdomain Privacy and cookies
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/frequently-asked-questionsFrequently asked questions
/contact-usContact us
/sitemapSite map
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (4.21 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 (76 kB).

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This page has backlinks from 7,951 referring domains.
This page has 642,372 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,897 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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