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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

80%

Page quality

58%

Page structure

35%

Link structure

77%

Server

100%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.19 s

File size

101.10 kB

Words

769

Media files

Number of links

61 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 4 Tasks

Add a meta description.Very important!
Remove unnecessary words like welcome messages from your H1 heading.Very important!
Review and improve the H1 heading.Important!
Promote your page in social networks.Tip!

Meta specifications 80% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

Home | Penn Language Center

The length of the page title is perfect. (280 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)

There are no duplicate words in the title

Meta Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

The meta description is missing.

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

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

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
Generator	Drupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
lang	en
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 58% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

The average number of words per sentence of 40.57 words is high.

This page contains 769 words. That's ok.

26.7% 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.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

Some tags are too long. With 84 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"an interactive workbook for beginners to learn how to write and read korean quickly!"

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.

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

(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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
...fault/files/SAS_simplifiedlogo_small.png	Home
...lic/2023-07/banner1_0.jpeg?itok=dQqnWldG	Colorful loom with shuttle
...ic/2023-07/augenblicke.jpg?itok=DFHjF4So	Textbook cover showing open book, photos, and cup of coffee on desk
...ese_heritage_beginners.jpg?itok=EtcKnABi	Book cover depicting color Chinese storefront
.../2023-07/Korean_hangul.jpg?itok=Qz30m4XT	Textbook cover black and gold text on white background
...ak_and_act_beg_chinese.jpg?itok=bGQunkwF	Book cover with green and blue squares
...3-07/african languages.jpg?itok=3O8s9hie	Yellow and black book cover
...c/2023-07/chinese_bios.jpg?itok=iKKZjwhn	Chinese man in black suit holding up Oscar award
...il Language in Context.jpg?itok=8hYzN6G2	Textbook cover showing the Indian state of Tamil
...-07/cartoonyatra cover.png?itok=AoUwpkqK	Cartoon book cover

Page structure 35% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

Home

The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.

The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.

The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Some headings do not have any content.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Home
H2	Main navigation
H2	Events
H2	Empty heading
H2	Center News
H2	Faculty Bookshelf
H2	Contact Us
H3	PLC Workshop: Thinking about Beginners
H3	PLC Symposium: Artificial Intelligence in Language Education Part II
H4	Language Testing for Penn Students
H4	Summer 2024 Courses
H4	New Spring 2024 Language Courses
H4	Filipino Featured in Penn Today
H4	PLC is Hiring Language Tutors
H4	Workshops on Technology and Pedagogy 2023-2024
H4	New Fall 2023 Courses
H4	Luganda Comes to PLC
H4	Medical Spanish for Summer 2021
H4	Summer 2021 Courses
H4	Augenblicke
H4	Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners: Stories about Us
H4	Korean Hangul for Beginners
H4	Speak and Act: Beginning Chinese (Volume 1)
H4	African Languages in Time and Space A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi
H4	Chinese Biographies: Ang Lee, 2nd Edition
H4	Tamil Language in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Tamil
H4	Cartoonyatra
H5	Empty heading
H5	Betsy Kells, PLC Technology Director
H5	Empty heading
H5	Empty heading

Link structure 77% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

Some anchor texts are used more than once.

There are 10 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 11 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/	Anchor	Skip to main content
http://www.college.upenn.edu/	External Subdomain	College of Arts & Sciences
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/gradu...	External Subdomain	Graduate Division
http://www.lps.upenn.edu/	External Subdomain	College of Liberal and Professional Studies
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/		No Text
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/		IMG-ALT Home A-TITLE Home
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/		Penn Language Center A-TITLE Home
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/about		About
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/people		People
/languages		Languages
/faculty-0		For Faculty
/students		For Students
/programs		Programs
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/news		News
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/events		Events
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/	Anchor	No Text
/events/2024/10/11/plc-worksho...		PLC Workshop: Thinking about Beginners
/events/2024/12/07/plc-symposi...		PLC Symposium: Artificial Intelligence in Language Education Part II
/faculty/plc-workshops-pedagog...		PLC Workshops PLC organizes workshops on pedagogy and technology for language educators.
/faculty/penn-resources		Penn Resources Penn offers rich resources to enhance language teaching.
/faculty/travel-grants-plc-lec...		Travel Grants PLC lecturers may apply for support to travel to national conferences.
/faculty/sas-language-teaching...		Teaching Grants Applications are accepted every October through early January.
/students/language-courses		Language Courses Learn a new language - PLC has over forty languages to choose from!
/languagedirect		Tutoring PLC provides free peer tutoring. Request a tutor or apply to be one.
/students/language-waivers		Language Waivers Request to waive the language requirement with proof of proficiency in a PLC language.
/students/language-proficiency...		Proficiency Testing Students with proficiency in a PLC language may test out of the language requirement.
/news/2024/07/03/proficiency2024		Language Testing for Penn Students
/news/2024/07/03/proficiency2024		Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2024/03/01/summer-2024-c...		Summer 2024 Courses
/news/2024/03/01/summer-2024-c...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2023/11/15/new-spring-20...		New Spring 2024 Language Courses
/news/2023/11/15/new-spring-20...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2023/11/15/filipino-feat...		Filipino Featured in Penn Today
/news/2023/11/15/filipino-feat...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2023/09/05/plc-hiring-la...		PLC is Hiring Language Tutors
/news/2023/09/05/plc-hiring-la...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2023/09/05/workshops-tec...		Workshops on Technology and Pedagogy 2023-2024
/news/2023/09/05/workshops-tec...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2023/07/20/new-fall-2023...		New Fall 2023 Courses
/news/2023/07/20/new-fall-2023...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2022/08/19/luganda-comes...		Luganda Comes to PLC
/news/2022/08/19/luganda-comes...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2021/05/12/medical-spani...		Medical Spanish for Summer 2021
/news/2021/05/12/medical-spani...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/news/2021/04/14/summer-2021-c...		Summer 2021 Courses
/news/2021/04/14/summer-2021-c...	Text duplicate	Trivial anchor text Read More
/node/4358		IMG-ALT Textbook cover showing open book, photos, and cup of coffee on desk
/node/4358		Augenblicke
/node/4416		IMG-ALT Book cover depicting color Chinese storefront
/node/4416		Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners: Stories about Us
/node/4361		IMG-ALT Textbook cover black and gold text on white background
/node/4361		Korean Hangul for Beginners
/node/4390		IMG-ALT Book cover with green and blue squares
/node/4390		Speak and Act: Beginning Chinese (Volume 1)
/node/4377		IMG-ALT Yellow and black book cover
/node/4377		African Languages in Time and Space A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi
/node/4359		IMG-ALT Chinese man in black suit holding up Oscar award
/node/4359		Chinese Biographies: Ang Lee, 2nd Edition
/node/4360		IMG-ALT Textbook cover showing the Indian state of Tamil
/node/4360		Tamil Language in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Tamil
/node/4386		IMG-ALT Cartoon book cover
/node/4386		Cartoonyatra
http://www.instagram.com/pennl...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...	External Subdomain	No Text
https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/m...	External Subdomain	Subscribe to our mailing list
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/		No Text
https://www.college.upenn.edu/	External Subdomain Text duplicate	College of Arts & Sciences
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/grad...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Graduate Division
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/lps	External Subdomain	College of Liberal & Professional Studies
http://www.upenn.edu/	External Subdomain	No Text
https://accessibility.web-reso...	New window External Subdomain	Report Accessibility Issues and Get Help
/saml_login		Penn Weblogin A-TITLE Penn Weblogin

Server configuration 100% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time is excellent with 0.19 seconds.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (101 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
cache-control	must-revalidate, no-cache, private
content-encoding	gzip
content-language	en
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
server	nginx
strict-transport-security	max-age=300
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-drupal-cache	HIT
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
x-generator	Drupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostname	styx-fe1-b-67d5596654-zbl6z
x-styx-req-id	718f33a2-7cfa-11ef-b027-121720c9c82d
x-ua-compatible	IE=edge
date	Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:00:56 GMT
x-served-by	cache-chi-klot8100110-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230065-FRA
x-cache	MISS, MISS
x-cache-hits	0, 0
x-timer	S1727460056.000289,VS0,VE142
vary	Accept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
age	0
accept-ranges	bytes
via	1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
statuscode	200
http_version	HTTP/2

External factors 100% achieved

Blacklists

(Nice to have)

This website is not classified "for adult only".

Blacklist

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 138 referring domains.

This page has 278 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 120 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

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# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Home | Penn Language Center

Most important keywords

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

Keyword	Result	Recheck
Penn	66%	Check
Penn Language	61%	Check
Penn Language Center	58%	Check
Language	56%	Check
PLC	54%	Check
Language Center	54%	Check
Penn Today	54%	Check
Penn Students	54%	Check
Tamil Language	51%	Check
Center	50%	Check
Beginners	49%	Check
Language Courses	49%	Check
Language Test	49%	Check
Language Education	49%	Check
2024 Language	49%	Check
new language	49%	Check
Ang Lee	49%	Check
Summer	47%	Check
Language Teaching	47%	Check
Foreign Language	47%	Check
World Language	47%	Check
German Language	47%	Check
language proficiency	47%	Check
Chinese	46%	Check
Modern Chinese	45%	Check

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Meta specifications 80% achieved

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Page quality 58% achieved

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Media list

Page structure 35% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 77% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 100% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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