Vitae.ac.uk - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
41% 
Server
57% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.12 s
File size
34.30 kB
Words
440
Media files
21
Number of links
70 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Researcher professional development
The length of the page title is perfect. (340 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Vitae - leading world class professional and career development of researchers. Subscribe to our website to access a wealth of information for researchers and those involved in professional development of researchers.
The meta description is too long: 1347 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Server location: United States of America
The language is not specified in the HTML markup.
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 440 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.6% 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.
7 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 21.38 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width; initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for 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.

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Events
H2 Policy
H2 Learning and development
H2 Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF)
H2 Why Register?
H2 Latest News
H2 RDF Planner
H2 Vitae International Researcher Development Conference 2024
H3 Press Release: Vitae Three Minute Thesis...
H3 Vitae News: October 2024
H4 Learning and Development
H4 Vitae influencing policy
H5 On this site
H5 Follow us on Twitter
H6 Are you a researcher?
H6 Supporting researchers' development?
H6 Supervising or managing researchers?
H6 Senior management at a research organisation?
H6 View the sixth edition of 'Practice pathways'
Baselink: https://www.vitae.ac.uk/uk-home
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 4 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/Subdomain Anchor Skip to content.
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/Subdomain Anchor Skip to navigation
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/loginIMG-ALT Sign in/register
A-TITLE Sign in/register
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/searchIMG-ALT Search
A-TITLE Search
/login?came_from=https://www.v...Subdomain Log in/Register
/membership/@@registerSubdomain Register
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/Subdomain IMG-ALT Vitae
A-TITLE Vitae Website
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/@@searchNofollow Advanced Search
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/about-usSubdomain About us
/membership/Vitae-members-areaSubdomain Vitae members' area
A-TITLE Being part of Vitae gives you and your organisation access to quality resources tailored to researchers. Connect with other members to share ideas and practi...
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/newsSubdomain News
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/eventsSubdomain Events
/vitae-publicationsSubdomain Publications
/researcher-careersSubdomain Careers
/researchers-professional-deve...Subdomain Professional development
/doing-researchSubdomain Doing research
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/policySubdomain Policy
/impact-and-evaluationSubdomain Impact & evaluation
/researcher-trainingSubdomain Researcher training
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/Subdomain Home
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/eventsSubdomain Take a look at our upcoming events
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/policySubdomain How Vitae influences policy
/researcher-trainingSubdomain Discover Vitae's training
/researchers-professional-deve...Subdomain Explore the benefits of the Vitae RDF
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/uk-homeAnchor Previous
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/uk-homeAnchor Next
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/loginSubdomain Login / Register
/spotlight/developing-as-a-res...Subdomain Are you a researcher?
IMG-ALT Developing as a researcher
/spotlight/supporting-research...Subdomain Supporting researchers' development?
IMG-ALT Supporting researchers’ professional development
/spotlight/supervising-and-man...Subdomain Supervising or managing researchers?
IMG-ALT Supervising and managing researchers
/spotlight/leading-on-research...Subdomain Senior management at a research organisation?
IMG-ALT Leading on researcher development strategy
/membership/practice-pathways/...Subdomain View the sixth edition of 'Practice pathways'
IMG-ALT Choose your Practice Pathways level
/news/vitae-news-2024/press_re...Subdomain Press Release: Vitae Three Minute Thesis...
/news/vitae-news-2024/vitae-ne...Subdomain Vitae News: October 2024
/@@search?advanced_search=True...Read all news
/researchers-professional-deve...Subdomain IMG-ALT RDF Planner logo
https://rdfplanner.vitae.ac.uk...New window External Subdomain Go to Vitae RDF Planner
/researcher-trainingSubdomain IMG-ALT Learning and Development
/researcher-trainingSubdomain Text duplicate Learning and Development
/researchers-professional-deve...Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF)
/about-vitae-membershipSubdomain No Text
/membership/vitae-membership-2...membership overview leaflet
/about-vitae-membershipTake a look at Vitae Membership
/events/vitae-international-re...Subdomain Vitae International Researcher Development Conference 2024
/events/vitae-international-re...Subdomain Book now
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Knowledge base
A-TITLE 45 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Cognitive abilities
A-TITLE 35 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Creativity
A-TITLE 20 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Personal qualities
A-TITLE 64 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Self-management
A-TITLE 99 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Professional and career development
A-TITLE 317 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Professional conduct
A-TITLE 63 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Research management
A-TITLE 54 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Finance, funding and resources
A-TITLE 20 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Working with others
A-TITLE 317 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Communication and dissemination
A-TITLE 79 topics
/@@search?advanced_search=Fals...Subdomain Engagement and impact
A-TITLE 134 topics
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/policySubdomain IMG-ALT Vitae influencing policy
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/policySubdomain Text duplicate Vitae influencing policy
https://twitter.com/Vitae_newsExternal IMG-ALT Twitter icon
https://twitter.com/Vitae_newsExternal Follow us on twitter
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Vitae
A-TITLE Vitae
/doing-research/are-you-thinki...Subdomain Are you thinking of doing a doctorate?
/spotlight/developing-as-a-res...Subdomain Developing as a researcher
/spotlight/supervising-and-man...Subdomain Supporting, supervising and managing researchers
/spotlight/employing-researche...Subdomain Employing researchers
/spotlight/researchers-in-soci...Subdomain Researchers in society
https://twitter.com/Vitae_newsExternal Follow us on Twitter
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/policiesSubdomain Policies
A-TITLE Policies
/policies/accessibility-policySubdomain Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/sitemapSubdomain Site map
A-TITLE Site map
/policies/cookie-policySubdomain Cookies
A-TITLE Cookies
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/about-usSubdomain Text duplicate About us
A-TITLE About us
/about-us/contact-usSubdomain Contact us
A-TITLE Contact us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.vitae.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 10 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.12 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (34 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,360 referring domains.
This page has 40,584 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 982 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://www.vitae.ac.uk/sitemap.xml.gz

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# By default we allow robots to access all areas of our site
# already accessible to anonymous users

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Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /metadata/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /@@search
Disallow: /*/search
Disallow: /*/@@search


# Add Googlebot-specific syntax extension to exclude forms
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Search preview

www.vitae.ac.uk
Researcher professional development
Vitae - leading world class professional and career development of researchers. Subscribe to our website to access a wealth of information for researchers and those involved in professional development of researchers.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
vitae70%Check
development70%Check
Researcher70%Check
Researcher Development70%Check
Researcher professional development69%Check
Professional Development66%Check
Vitae International Researcher Development63%Check
professional59%Check
Career Development59%Check
Vitae RDF58%Check

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