Act.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
46% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
89% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.42 s
File size
67.90 kB
Words
549
Media files
15
Number of links
61 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
ACT | College and Career Readiness Solutions
The length of the page title is perfect. (422 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
ACT is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization, best known for the ACT test, dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success through industry leading college and career readiness solutions.
There are more than one meta descriptions on the page. Only one is allowed.
The meta description is too long: 1307 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.act.org/
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
keywordsthe ACT, the act test, act testing, college and career navigation, education and career assessments, college and career readiness
descriptionACT is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization, best known for the ACT test, dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success through industry leading college and career readiness solutions.
titleACT | College and Career Readiness Solutions
published_at2024-12-20
ROBOTSINDEX
langen
og:urlhttps://www.act.org/content/act/en.html
og:titleACT | College and Career Readiness Solutions
og:site_nameACT
og:imagehttps://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/Images/facebook-og-homepage-image.png
og:descriptionACT is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization, best known for the ACT test, dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success through industry leading college and career readiness solutions.
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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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 5.69 words is low.
This page contains 549 words. That's ok.
30.6% 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
13 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
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...ntlibs/act-base/img/logo-act-rev-300.pngLink to Home Page

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Let Your College Dreams Soar with the ACT!
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Let Your College Dreams Soar with the ACT!
H2 Take The ACT
H2 Give the new year your best start!
H2 Popular ACT Test Links
H2 High School, College, and Workplace Success Begin Here
H2 ACT News and Thought Leadership
H2 Fighting for Fairness in Education
H4 College and Career Planning
H4 Assessments & Services
H4 Enrollment Management
H4 Workforce Solutions
H4 Welcome to ACT
H5 Next Test Date: February 8 Register by January 3 to avoid late fees
H5 Get a copy of your questions, answers, and the correct answers, delivered after you test! When you register for the ACT, use promo code FEBTIR for $9 off your test questions and answers.
H5 Students and Parents
H5 K-12 Educators
H5 Higher Education
H5 Adult Education
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
11 links don't have an 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.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.act.org/Anchor Skip to content
/content/act/en.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT Link to Home Page
/content/act/en/students-and-p...Subdomain Plan for College and Career
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Take the ACT
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Anchor School and District Assessment
/content/act/en/workforce-solu...Subdomain Career-Ready Solutions
/content/act/en/students-and-p...Subdomain Students & Parents
/content/act/en/k12-educators-...Subdomain K-12
/content/act/en/workforce-solu...Subdomain Workforce
/content/act/en/postsecondary-...Subdomain Higher Ed
/content/act/en/act-blogs.htmlSubdomain Blogs
https://my.act.org/External Subdomain MyACT
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Other ACT Services and Products
https://my.act.org/New window External Subdomain Register for the ACT
https://my.act.org/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Register for the ACT
https://my.act.org/New window External Subdomain register for the ACT
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Learn More About Test Q&A
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain The ACT
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Registration
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Test Prep
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Test Day
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Scores
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Fee Waivers
/content/act/en/students-and-p...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/students-and-p...Subdomain Students and Parents
/content/act/en/students-and-p...Subdomain Text duplicate Students & Parents
/content/act/en/k12-educators-...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/k12-educators-...Subdomain K-12 Educators
/content/act/en/k12-educators-...Subdomain Text duplicate K-12 Educators
/content/act/en/postsecondary-...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/postsecondary-...Subdomain Higher Education
/content/act/en/postsecondary-...Subdomain Text duplicate Higher Education
/content/act/en/workforce-solu...Subdomain No Text
/content/act/en/workforce-solu...Subdomain Adult Education
/content/act/en/workforce-solu...Subdomain Text duplicate Adult Education
https://leadershipblog.act.org/New window External Subdomain News & Thought Leadership
/content/act/en/about-act/equi...Subdomain Learn More About Equity at ACT
https://www.act.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Link to Home Page
/content/act/en/students-and-p...Subdomain Text duplicate Students & Parents
/content/act/en/k12-educators-...Subdomain K-12 Professionals
/content/act/en/postsecondary-...Subdomain Text duplicate Higher Education
/content/act/en/workforce-solu...Subdomain Text duplicate Workforce
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain International
/content/act/en/about-act.htmlSubdomain About ACT
/content/act/en/careers-at-act...Subdomain Careers
/content/act/en/act-events.htmlSubdomain Events
/content/act/en/products-and-s...Subdomain Solutions & Services
/content/act/en/state-and-fede...Subdomain State & Federal Programs
/content/act/en/act-blogs.htmlSubdomain ACT Blogs
/content/act/en/research.htmlSubdomain Research
/content/act/en/newsroom.htmlSubdomain For the Media
/content/act/en/sign-in.htmlSubdomain Sign In
/content/act/en/contact-act.htmlSubdomain Contact
/content/act/en/terms-of-use.htmlSubdomain Terms of Use
https://www.instagram.com/acts...External Subdomain Instgram
https://www.tiktok.com/@actstu...External Subdomain Tik Tok
https://twitter.com/ACTStudent/External Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/theac...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...External Subdomain YouTube
/content/act/en/privacy-policy...Subdomain Privacy Policy
/content/act/en/vendor-resourc...Subdomain Vendors
/content/act/en/report-cheatin...Subdomain Report Cheating
/content/act/en/ethics.htmlSubdomain Ethics
/content/act/en/accessibility....Subdomain Accessibility
http://global.act.org/External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.act.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 of 0.42 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 1 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (68 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
content-length12728
connectionkeep-alive
dateSun, 22 Dec 2024 07:39:28 GMT
serverApache
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x-vhostpublish
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
last-modifiedFri, 20 Dec 2024 19:57:39 GMT
etag"10fcb-629b90f1c391c-gzip"
accept-rangesbytes
content-encodinggzip
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
access-control-expose-headersCloudFront-Viewer-Country
varyAccept-Encoding,Origin
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 8b360b28aeb67c1982fcc466a05eef02.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 13,710 referring domains.
This page has 734,147 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 8,340 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /content/dam/act/secured/
Sitemap: https://www.act.org/sitemap.xml

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ACT | College and Career Readiness Solutions
ACT is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization, best known for the ACT test, dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success through industry leading college and career readiness solutions.

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College77%Check
ACT Test72%Check
College Career71%Check
Career62%Check
Solutions61%Check
org58%Check
College Admissions58%Check
college admissions test58%Check
test54%Check
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