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Meta information
66% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
47% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
20.40 kB
Words
317
Media files
14
Number of links
57 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | LuCiD
The page title is too short. (128 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) is a research centre transforming understanding of how children learn to communicate with language and delivering the evidence base necessary to design effective interventions in early years’ education and healthcare. LuCiD funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The meta description is too long: 2277 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://lucid.ac.uk/
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)
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)
There are only 317 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
38.8% of the text are stop words.
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 12.2 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
https://lucid.ac.uk/images/logo.pngLuCiD Logo
...th=395&height=316&rnd=130728742325400000left hero image
...th=459&height=314&rnd=130728742325570000right hero image
...th=300&height=222&rnd=131717304821330000For Researchers
...th=300&height=222&rnd=131233546729670000For Parents
...th=300&height=222&rnd=131117503335230000For Practitioners
...th=300&height=222&rnd=130718552227570000For Policy Makers
/images/home-break-image.pngcall to action image
...th=300&height=222&rnd=133674243542630000BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth 'How do babies learn language'
...th=300&height=222&rnd=133644047859400000The science of baby babbling – and why it can take on accents
/media/1176/footer-logo3.pngLancaster University
/media/1173/footer-logo1.pngUniversity of Liverpool
/media/1174/footer-logo2.pngManchester University
....png?width=500&height=127.18600953895071No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to LuCiD
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to LuCiD
H2 Resources
H2 Latest News & Events
H4 For Researchers
H4 For Parents
H4 For Practitioners
H4 For Policy Makers
H4 BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth 'How do babies learn language'
H4 The science of baby babbling – and why it can take on accents
H4 Take part in a study!
H4 Get to know us
H4 Featured links
H4 In partnership
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 6 links with a trivial 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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://lucid.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to content
https://lucid.ac.uk/IMG-ALT LuCiD Logo
https://lucid.ac.uk/who-we-are/Who We Are
https://lucid.ac.uk/who-we-are/Text duplicate Who We Are
/who-we-are/our-people/Our People
/who-we-are/our-partners/Our Partners
/who-we-are/governance/Governance
/who-we-are/funding/Funding
/who-we-are/faqs/FAQs
/who-we-are/community-statement/Community Statement
https://lucid.ac.uk/what-we-do/What We Do
https://lucid.ac.uk/what-we-do/Text duplicate What We Do
/what-we-do/research/Research
/what-we-do/capacity-building/Capacity Building
/what-we-do/impact/Impact
/what-we-do/why-is-lucids-work...Why is LuCiD's work important?
https://lucid.ac.uk/resources/Resources
https://lucid.ac.uk/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/resources/for-researchers/For Researchers
/resources/for-parents/For Parents
/resources/for-practitioners/For Practitioners
/resources/for-policy-makers/For Policy Makers
/resources/resources-directory/Resources Directory
/resources/uk-cdi/UK-CDI
https://lucid.ac.uk/outputs/Outputs
/seminars-news-events-blog/Seminars, News, Events & Blog
/seminars-news-events-blog/Text duplicate Seminars, News, Events & Blog
/seminars-news-events-blog/news/News
/seminars-news-events-blog/blogs/Blogs
/seminars-news-events-blog/eve...Events
/seminars-news-events-blog/sem...Seminar Series
https://lucid.ac.uk/contact/Contact
https://lucid.ac.uk/what-we-do/Find out more
/resources/for-researchers/Text duplicate IMG-ALT For Researchers
/resources/for-researchers/Trivial anchor text
Read More
/resources/for-parents/Text duplicate IMG-ALT For Parents
/resources/for-parents/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/resources/for-practitioners/Text duplicate IMG-ALT For Practitioners
/resources/for-practitioners/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/resources/for-policy-makers/Text duplicate IMG-ALT For Policy Makers
/resources/for-policy-makers/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://lucid.ac.uk/sign-up/Sign Up
/seminars-news-events-blog/new...IMG-ALT BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth 'How do babies learn language'
/seminars-news-events-blog/new...Text duplicate BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth 'How do babies learn language'
/seminars-news-events-blog/aut...LuCiD
/seminars-news-events-blog/news/Text duplicate News
/seminars-news-events-blog/new...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/seminars-news-events-blog/new...IMG-ALT The science of baby babbling – and why it can take on accents
/seminars-news-events-blog/new...Text duplicate The science of baby babbling – and why it can take on accents
/seminars-news-events-blog/aut...Andrew Jessop
/seminars-news-events-blog/news/Text duplicate News
/seminars-news-events-blog/new...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://twitter.com/LuCiD_Cent...External Tweets by LuCiD_Centre
/seminars-news-events-blog/View More Posts
/resources/for-parents/take-pa...Take part in a study
https://www.instagram.com/luci...New window External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE LuCiD on Instagram
https://twitter.com/LuCiD_CentreNew window External X (formerly Twitter)
A-TITLE LuCiD on X (formerly Twitter)
https://www.facebook.com/lucid...New window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE LuCiD on Facebook
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/bab...New window External Subdomain Lancaster Babylab
http://www.language05.co.uk/New window External Subdomain Liverpool Child Language Study Centre
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk...New window External Subdomain Manchester Child Study Centre
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Lancaster University
http://www.liv.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT University of Liverpool
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Manchester University
https://lucid.ac.uk/sitemap/Sitemap
https://lucid.ac.uk/privacy/Privacy
https://lucid.ac.uk/terms/Terms

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://lucid.ac.uk/"
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 excellent with 0.22 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 111 referring domains.
This page has 303 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 97 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Sitemap: https://www.lucid.ac.uk/sitemap.xml

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Home | LuCiD
The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) is a research centre transforming understanding of how children learn to communicate with language and delivering the evidence base necessary to design effective interventions in early years’ education and healthcare. LuCiD funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
LuCiD87%Check
LuCiD funded66%Check
language54%Check
Research52%Check
learn52%Check
Welcome50%Check
children learn49%Check
Research Centre49%Check
Social Research49%Check
Centre46%Check
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