lucid.ac.uk | Website SEO Review

Response time

0.22 s

File size

20.40 kB

Words

317

Media files

14

Number of links

57 internal / 10 external

Meta specifications 66% achieved

Title

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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 Title

Meta description

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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

Meta Description

Crawlability

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There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

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https://lucid.ac.uk/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

Language

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Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en

Server location: United States of America

The following language is defined by HTML: en

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

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There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

Other meta tags

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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.

There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.

Meta Tags

Domain

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The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

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The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
google-site-verification	wRp8Mvvxi3B7HKGabLzFBsMOExsc4duSqloS0mXkHzQ
apple-mobile-web-app-title	LuCiD
apple-mobile-web-app-capable	yes
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style	black
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=1
SKYPE_TOOLBAR	SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE
author	LuCiD
description	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.
keywords	language development, language acquisition, communicative development, child language, communication, infancy research, research, language learning, early years, lucid, Centre for Language and Communicative Development, lucid centre, ESRC, SLCN, SLT, speech and language, language and communication development
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http://ogp.me/ns/article#published_time	2014-10-02T16:52:22
http://ogp.me/ns/article#modified_time	2024-05-30T08:59:50
lang	en
twitter:card	summary
twitter:title	Home
twitter:description	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.
og:url	https://lucid.ac.uk/
og:title	Home
og:site_name	LuCiD
og:description	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.
og:type	article
og:locale	en_GB
X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge
charset	utf-8

Page quality 73% achieved

Content

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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.

Content is King

Frames

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This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

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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.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

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Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

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1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

Additional markup

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No additional page markup was found.

HTTPS

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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
https://lucid.ac.uk/images/logo.png	LuCiD Logo
...th=395&height=316&rnd=130728742325400000	left hero image
...th=459&height=314&rnd=130728742325570000	right hero image
...th=300&height=222&rnd=131717304821330000	For Researchers
...th=300&height=222&rnd=131233546729670000	For Parents
...th=300&height=222&rnd=131117503335230000	For Practitioners
...th=300&height=222&rnd=130718552227570000	For Policy Makers
/images/home-break-image.png	call to action image
...th=300&height=222&rnd=133674243542630000	BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth 'How do babies learn language'
...th=300&height=222&rnd=133644047859400000	The science of baby babbling – and why it can take on accents
/media/1176/footer-logo3.png	Lancaster University
/media/1173/footer-logo1.png	University of Liverpool
/media/1174/footer-logo2.png	Manchester University
....png?width=500&height=127.18600953895071	No alt attribute provided

Page structure 47% achieved

H1 heading

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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.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
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

Link structure 77% achieved

Internal links

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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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 10 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor 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_Centre	New 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 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://lucid.ac.uk/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

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No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

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The page response time is excellent with 0.22 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (20 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

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http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Blacklists

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This website is not classified "for adult only".

Blacklist

Backlinks

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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.

Backlinks

Facebook popularity

(Somewhat important)

The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://www.lucid.ac.uk/sitemap.xml

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lucid.ac.uk

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.

Keyword	Result	Recheck
LuCiD	87%	Check
LuCiD funded	66%	Check
language	54%	Check
Research	52%	Check
learn	52%	Check
Welcome	50%	Check
children learn	49%	Check
Research Centre	49%	Check
Social Research	49%	Check
Centre	46%	Check
children	46%	Check
child	46%	Check
evidence	46%	Check
development	46%	Check
Transforming	46%	Check
understanding	46%	Check
communicate	46%	Check
Sign	46%	Check
funded	46%	Check
Economic	46%	Check
Social	46%	Check
Council	46%	Check
part	43%	Check
BBC	42%	Check
Radio	42%	Check

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Page structure 47% achieved

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Link structure 77% achieved

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Server configuration 100% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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