Lectures.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
37% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.60 s
File size
50.50 kB
Words
886
Media files
14
Number of links
63 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Seattle Arts & Lectures
The length of the page title is perfect. (206 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (812 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
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)
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)
This page contains 886 words. That's ok.
29.6% 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.
17 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 20.77 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 79 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"samar abulhassan, danielle hayden, vivian li, ell lin, clara olivo, ann teplick"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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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...oads/20230330_SAL_MichelleZauner_043.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/ST-logo-7.pngThe Seattle Times

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Seattle Arts and Lectures
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Seattle Arts and Lectures
H1 C Pam Zhang
H1 Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight
H1 Merlin Sheldrake
H1 It’s the 30th anniversary of Writers in the Schools (WITS)!
H2 Search
H2 Upcoming SAL Events
H2 Support
H2 Summer Book Bingo
H2 Gift Cards
H2 Get SAL Updates
H3 WITS Professional Development Workshop: Empowering Writing and Voice Through Gamification and The Things We Carry
H3 C Pam Zhang Duplicate text
H3 Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight Duplicate text
H3 Merlin Sheldrake Duplicate text
H3 A Conversation with Kevin Kwan
H3 A Conversation with Ocean Vuong
H6 Thanks to our Generous Presenting Sponsor
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 20 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://lectures.org/Seattle Arts and Lectures
https://lectures.org/events/Events
/subscriptions/Subscriptions
/youth-programs/Youth Programs
https://lectures.org/community/Community
https://lectures.org/support/Support
https://lectures.org/about/About
https://lectures.secure.force....External Subdomain Anchor No Text
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Donate
https://lectures.secure.force....External Subdomain Anchor No Text
https://lectures.org/events/Text duplicate Events
/subscriptions/Text duplicate Subscriptions
/youth-programs/Text duplicate Youth Programs
/youth-programs/wits/Writers in the Schools
/youth-programs/youth-poetry-f...Youth Poetry Fellowship
/youth-programs/spotlight-auth...Spotlight Author Visits
https://lectures.org/community/Text duplicate Community
/community/blog/Blog
/community/podcast/Podcast
/community/book-bingo/Summer Book Bingo
/community/prowda-award/Prowda Award
https://lectures.org/support/Text duplicate Support
/event/words-bloom-2025/The SAL Gala: Words Bloom
/support/individual-giving/Individual Giving
/support/institutional-giving/Institutional Giving
/support/plannedgiving/Planned Giving
https://lectures.org/about/Text duplicate About
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Text duplicate Donate
/event/c-pam-zhang/C Pam Zhang
/event/c-pam-zhang/Event Info
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Anchor Get Tickets
/event/murmurations-5-14-25/New window Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight
/event/murmurations-5-14-25/New window Learn More
/event/merlin-sheldrake/Merlin Sheldrake
/event/merlin-sheldrake/Text duplicate Event Info
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Get Tickets
/youth-programs/wits/New window It’s the 30th anniversary of Writers in the Schools (WITS)!
/youth-programs/wits/New window Learn More About WITS
https://lectures.org/events/View our calendar of events
/event/wits-preofessional-deve...WITS Professional Development Workshop: Empowering Writing and Voice Through Gamification and The Things We Carry
/event/wits-preofessional-deve...Text duplicate Event Info
https://us02web.zoom.us/meetin...External Subdomain Register Here
/event/c-pam-zhang/Text duplicate C Pam Zhang
/event/c-pam-zhang/Text duplicate Event Info
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Get Tickets
/event/murmurations-5-14-25/Text duplicate Murmurations: Local Voices Taking Flight
/event/murmurations-5-14-25/Text duplicate Event Info
https://youtube.com/live/otYZa...External Watch Livestream
/event/merlin-sheldrake/Text duplicate Merlin Sheldrake
/event/merlin-sheldrake/Text duplicate Event Info
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Get Tickets
/event/kevin-kwan/A Conversation with Kevin Kwan
/event/kevin-kwan/Text duplicate Event Info
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Get Tickets
/event/ocean-vuong/A Conversation with Ocean Vuong
/event/ocean-vuong/Text duplicate Event Info
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...External Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Get Tickets
https://lectures.org/support/Text duplicate Support
https://lectures.org/support/Text duplicate Learn More
/community/book-bingo/Text duplicate Summer Book Bingo
/community/book-bingo/Text duplicate Learn More
https://lectures.org/giftcard/Gift Cards
https://lectures.org/giftcard/Text duplicate Learn More
https://seattle-arts-and-lectu...New window External Subdomain Sign Up
https://lectures.org/events/Text duplicate Events
/subscriptions/Text duplicate Subscriptions
/youth-programs/Text duplicate Youth Programs
https://lectures.org/community/Text duplicate Community
https://lectures.org/support/Text duplicate Support
https://lectures.org/about/Text duplicate About
/accessibility/Accessibility
https://lectures.org/donate/Text duplicate Donate
/about/contact/Contact
https://lectures.org/faq/FAQ
https://lectures.org/legal/Legal
https://lectures.org/giftcard/Text duplicate Gift Cards
https://www.facebook.com/Seatt...External Subdomain facebook
https://twitter.com/SeaArtsLec...External twitter
https://www.instagram.com/seat...External Subdomain instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...External Subdomain youtube
https://soundcloud.com/sal-on-airExternal soundcloud
https://www.seattletimes.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT The Seattle Times
http://builtbycivilization.com/External built by Civilization

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://lectures.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.60 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 (51 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 165 referring domains.
This page has 4,444 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 152 different ip addresses.

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Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.

Most important keywords

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Arts Lectures80%Check
Seattle Arts Lectures78%Check
Seattle75%Check
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Arts Lectures cultivates transformative62%Check
Lectures cultivates transformative experiences56%Check
Seattle Public55%Check
Writers50%Check

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