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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.81 s
File size
65.80 kB
Words
678
Media files
3
Number of links
169 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA
The length of the page title is perfect. (469 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Department offers instruction in all the major ancient and modern languages and civilizations of the Near East.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (706 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://nelc.ucla.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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.
Domain
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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
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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.
Charset encoding
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
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This page contains 678 words. That's ok.
19.9% 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.
4 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 21.18 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 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
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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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

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H2 Adventurers in Search of Ideas
H3 About Us
H3 Latest News
H3 Upcoming Events
H4 Faculty Publication: Kara Cooney’s Recycling for Death
H4 2024-2025 Applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies Open
H4 In Memoriam: Professor Arnold J. Band
H4 Pourdavoud & Iranian Studies Co-Sponsored Lecture: Panagiotis Agapitos
H4 Reading Tool Marks on Egyptian Stone Sculpture by Anna Serotta
H4 Yarshater Center & Iranian Studies Symposium and Workshop: Nezāmi and the Iranian World
H4 Bilingual Lecture Series: The Left, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective
H4 Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Adam Benkato
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://nelc.ucla.edu/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
http://nelc.ucla.edu/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
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https://nelc.ucla.edu/contact/Subdomain No Text
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https://nelc.ucla.edu/contact/Subdomain No Text
http://www.ucla.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT UCLA
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://nelc.ucla.edu/"
HTTP header
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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 (3.81 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (66 kB).

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 350 referring domains.
This page has 877 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 226 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Home - Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA
The Department offers instruction in all the major ancient and modern languages and civilizations of the Near East.

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