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Meta information
88% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.66 s
File size
78.50 kB
Words
583
Media files
9
Number of links
33 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Sage - a global academic publisher of educational resources | Home
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 610 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement
The length of the meta description is perfect. (987 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sagepub.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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
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)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 38.57 words is high.
This page contains 583 words. That's ok.
28.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
10 paragraphs were found on this page.
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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...os/sage-publishing.svg?sfvrsn=a930a4bd_0Sage Publishing
...impact-report-2024.jpg?sfvrsn=6ff7a11e_1Independence with Impact Report 2024Independence with impact report 2024
...braries_censorship.jpg?sfvrsn=1a9f4e5c_1Close up image of a document with redactionsLibraries_Censorship
...thinking_democracy.jpg?sfvrsn=81aff389_1People and voting boothsCritical-Thinking_Democracy
...miller-mccune-1965.png?sfvrsn=3c065b13_4Sara Miller McCune in 1965Sara Miller McCune in 1965
...ms/us-juneteenth-1.png?sfvrsn=580c5c4d_2No alt attribute providedUS-Juneteenth 1
...omepage-images/bg-2.jpg?sfvrsn=7d2964a_2Speech bubble iconsSpeech bubble icons
...homepage_image-528.png?sfvrsn=972fa9ba_1Diversity Equity and Inclusion imageDiversity_Homepage_Image-528
...mepage-images/bg-1.jpg?sfvrsn=f33686f4_2Book iconsBook icons

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
60 years of independence
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 60 years of independence
H2 Choose your location
H2 Latest news
H2 Our story
H2 Choose your location Duplicate text
H3 Sage highlights 2024 achievements in annual Independence with Impact Report
H3 Exploring censorship through the lens of student protest and advocacy
H3 New free-to-read collection shares research into democracy and elections
H3 Quick links
H3 Careers with Sage
H3 Our communities
H3 Diversity, equity, & inclusion
H3 Academic freedom
H4 Explore subject disciplines
H5 Our initiatives
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sagepub.com/homeIMG-ALT Sage Publishing
https://www.sagepub.com/Anchor Company News
https://www.sagepub.com/Anchor Libraries
https://www.sagepub.com/Anchor Critical thinking
/explore-our-content/news/2025...Subdomain Read The Full Article
/explore-our-content/news/2024...Subdomain Text duplicate Read The Full Article
/explore-our-content/news/2024...Subdomain Text duplicate Read The Full Article
https://www.sagepub.com/aboutLearn About Our Story
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Business & Management
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Communication & Media Studies
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Counselling & Psychotherapy
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Education
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Nursing
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Politics & International Relations
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Psychology
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/e...External Subdomain Research Methods, Statistics & Evaluation
/disciplinesView All Disciplines
/9EA5A0A2-5BF9-47B2-9FDF-CCB9E...Browse Open Roles
/about-us/our-impact/our-commu...Our communities
/about-us/our-impact/deiDiversity, equity, & inclusion
/our-initiatives/academic-freedomAcademic freedom
/help-and-supportHelp and support
https://www.sagepub.com/advertiseNew window Advertise with us
/rights-and-permissionsRights & permissions
/help-and-support/careersCareers with Sage
/contact-usContact us
https://www.sagepub.com/help-faqsHelp & FAQs
https://www.sagepub.com/about-usAbout us
https://www.sagepub.com/aboutAbout Sage
/about-us/our-impactOur impact
/our-initiativesOur initiatives
/useful-toolsUseful tools
/useful-tools/sage-trackNew window Sage Track
/useful-tools/sage-advanceNew window Sage Advance
/useful-tools/sage-author-serviceNew window Sage Author Services
/our-other-websitesOur other websites
/our-other-websites/college-pu...New window College Publishing
/our-other-websites/corwinNew window Corwin
/our-other-websites/technology...New window Technology from Sage
/our-other-websites/social-sci...New window Social Science Space
/our-other-websites/methodspaceNew window Sage Research Methods Community

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sagepub.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.66 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (79 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 503 referring domains.
This page has 16,977 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 435 different ip addresses.

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