Stepexpedition.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
31% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
100% 
External factors
73% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.20 s
File size
84.40 kB
Words
364
Media files
10
Number of links
45 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
STEP
The page title is too short. (53 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.stepexpedition.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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
(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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionEmpty
langen-us
twitter:titleSTEP
twitter:imagehttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/58011bd8b8a79b4fae44a25f/t/58015150bebafb5e7d184f5a/1476481362628/logo.png?format=1500w
twitter:urlhttps://www.stepexpedition.org
twitter:cardsummary
og:site_nameSTEP
og:titleSTEP
og:urlhttps://www.stepexpedition.org
og:typewebsite
og:imagehttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/58011bd8b8a79b4fae44a25f/t/58015150bebafb5e7d184f5a/1476481362628/logo.png?format=1500w
og:image:width177
og:image:height71
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
Accept-CHSec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Model
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 364 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 58 words is high.
31.9% of the text are stop words.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The amount of tags is very high (20). We recommend using a maximum of 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
...V6WT7GN7TQNN3GLIJ2/logo.png?format=1500wSTEP
...32-ICI27PFG13O7214NXXC5/image-asset.jpegNo alt attribute provided
...241-IEIYW6K6CBJPF5AZLQTS/image-asset.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
STEP
Too many H1 headings
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.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 STEP
H1 From workshops to wilderness
H1 What's New
H2 Our students are thriving at schools nationwide
H2 Subscribe
H3 “While my family wanted me to go to college, they could not help me with taking the steps to make my college dreams a reality.”
H3 “I can barely begin to quantify STEP’s impact on my life.”
H3 Commitment. Hard Work. College Success.
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/our-historyOur History
/teamTeam
/supportersSupporters
/our-partnersOur Partners
/our-programOur Program
/impactImpact
/our-storiesOur Stories
/blogBlog
/applyApply
/pressroomMedia Kit
https://youtu.be/sZc8fPnQnboNew window External Meet the STEP Class of 2023
/contact-stepContact
/newsletterSubscribe to our newsletter
/donateDonate
https://www.stepexpedition.org/IMG-ALT STEP
/our-historyText duplicate Our History
/teamText duplicate Team
/supportersText duplicate Supporters
/our-partnersText duplicate Our Partners
/our-programText duplicate Our Program
/impactText duplicate Impact
/our-storiesText duplicate Our Stories
/blogText duplicate Blog
/applyText duplicate Apply
/pressroomText duplicate Media Kit
https://youtu.be/sZc8fPnQnboNew window External Text duplicate Meet the STEP Class of 2023
/contact-stepText duplicate Contact
/newsletterText duplicate Subscribe to our newsletter
/donateText duplicate Donate
/donateHelp our scholars beat the odds
/our-programLearn More
/impactText duplicate Learn More
/stories/dalia-luqueIMG-ALT Dalia Luque
/stories/dalia-luqueText duplicate Dalia Luque
/stories/dalia-luqueRead More →
/stories/hassan-lookyIMG-ALT Hassan Looky
/stories/hassan-lookyText duplicate Hassan Looky
/stories/hassan-lookyText duplicate Read More →
https://static1.squarespace.co...New window External Subdomain STEP's Privacy Policy
/on-the-blog/2024/6/14/celebra...IMG-ALT Celebrating the STEP College-Prep Class of 2024: A Journey of Achievement and Ambition
/on-the-blog/2024/6/14/celebra...Text duplicate Celebrating the STEP College-Prep Class of 2024: A Journey of Achievement and Ambition
/on-the-blog/2024/6/14/celebra...Text duplicate Read More →
/on-the-blog/2023/9/22/step-sc...IMG-ALT Scholars Reflect on their 2023 Alaska Leadership Expedition
/on-the-blog/2023/9/22/step-sc...Text duplicate Scholars Reflect on their 2023 Alaska Leadership Expedition
https://www.nols.edu/en/External Subdomain NOLs
/on-the-blog/2023/9/22/step-sc...Text duplicate Read More →
/blogMore on the blog
/applyApply Today
https://www.stepexpedition.org/Anchor Back to Top
http://instagram.com/stepcolle...New window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/STEP-...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.stepexpedition.org/"
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 0.20 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (84 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
accept-rangesbytes
age84580
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
dateMon, 19 Aug 2024 10:23:29 GMT
etagW/"dc450c81ba2fb778145670e987a7f787"
expiresThu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
serverSquarespace
set-cookie72 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-contextidfkBEO5im/JTqGoTpT
content-length18009
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 22 referring domains.
This page only has 30 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 18 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Squarespace Robots Txt

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
User-agent: *
Disallow: /config
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /account$
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /commerce/digital-download/
Disallow: /api/
Allow: /api/ui-extensions/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow:/*?author=*
Disallow:/*&author=*
Disallow:/*?tag=*
Disallow:/*&tag=*
Disallow:/*?month=*
Disallow:/*&month=*
Disallow:/*?view=*
Disallow:/*&view=*
Disallow:/*?format=json
Disallow:/*&format=json
Disallow:/*?format=page-context
Disallow:/*&format=page-context
Disallow:/*?format=main-content
Disallow:/*&format=main-content
Disallow:/*?format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*&format=json-pretty
Disallow:/*?format=ical
Disallow:/*&format=ical
Disallow:/*?reversePaginate=*
Disallow:/*&reversePaginate=*

Sitemap: https://www.stepexpedition.org/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
STEP86%Check
First Step64%Check
STEP College-Prep63%Check
STEP College-Prep Class54%Check
Expedition52%Check
college49%Check
Apply43%Check
apply today41%Check
University39%Check
Arizona39%Check
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