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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
88% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.65 s
File size
81.40 kB
Words
837
Media files
16
Number of links
178 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Academics For Academic Freedom - Free speech, no ifs no buts
The length of the page title is perfect. (575 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Academic freedom - the responsibility to speak your mind and challenge conventional wisdom - defines the university and stands as a model for open debate.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (967 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.afaf.org.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://www.afaf.org.uk/page/2/
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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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
The average number of words per sentence of 43.29 words is high.
This page contains 837 words. That's ok.
23.1% 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" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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13 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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Additional markup
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No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Posts navigation
H3 A call for institutional neutrality
H3 Meet the groups leading the free speech fight-back against Britain’s ‘institutionally captured’ universities
H3 No Forbidden Zones
H3 Blasphemy versus Free Speech
H3 Heather McKee at Croydon Constitutionalists
H3 #JeSuisToujoursCharlie
H3 Astronauts for Space Exploration
H3 AFAF and SAFAF – The rise of the students
H3 The HEFOSA: where are we now?
H3 The AFAF Conference 2024 – a personal perspective
H4 A call for institutional neutrality Duplicate text
H4 Meet the groups leading the free speech fight-back against Britain’s ‘institutionally captured’ universities Duplicate text
H4 No Forbidden Zones Duplicate text
H5 Support AFAF with a donation (one-off or monthly)
H5 Articles grouped by Tag
H5 Recent Posts
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 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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HTTP redirects
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HTTP header
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.65 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (81 kB).

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This page has 820 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 32 different ip addresses.

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