Alumni.state.gov - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.25 s
File size
44.30 kB
Words
294
Media files
5
Number of links
46 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | International Exchange Alumni
The length of the page title is perfect. (343 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width
langen
cleartypeon
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 294 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
23.8% 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.
3 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 11.71 words is good.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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 Menu
H2 MentorTalks: How to Build a Documentary Filming Career With Your Head and Your Heart
H2 The Games Were Only The Beginning
H2 "Activists Have to Be Optimists" Says ExchangeAlumni Costa Gavrielides
H2 Voices of Exchange
H2 U.S. Department of State
H3 Latest Conversations
H5 United States Department of State
H5 Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs International Exchange Alumni
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 16 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://alumni.state.gov/Anchor Jump to navigation
https://eca.state.gov/covid-19...External Subdomain COVID-19
http://eca.state.gov/External Subdomain ECA
https://americanenglish.state....External Subdomain American English
http://educationusa.state.gov/External Subdomain EducationUSA
http://exchanges.state.gov/External Subdomain Exchanges
http://j1visa.state.gov/External Subdomain J-1 Visa
https://studyabroad.state.gov/External Subdomain StudyAbroad
http://www.state.gov/External Subdomain United States Department of State
https://alumni.state.gov/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
/translateView disclaimer
/about-exchangealumniAbout
/alumni-newsAlumni News
/resources-entrepreneursResources for Entrepreneurs
/about-exchange-alumni/benefit...Network, Grants, and Resources
/welcome-us-exchange-alumniU.S. ExchangeAlumni
https://exchangealumni.state.g...New window External Subdomain exchangealumni.state.gov
/highlight/mentortalks-how-bui...Subdomain MentorTalks: How to Build a Documentary Filming Career With Your Head and Your Heart
/highlight/mentortalks-how-bui...Subdomain Learn more ...
/highlight/games-were-only-beg...Subdomain The Games Were Only The Beginning
/highlight/games-were-only-beg...Subdomain Learn More ...
/highlight/activists-have-be-o...Subdomain "Activists Have to Be Optimists" Says ExchangeAlumni Costa Gavrielides
/highlight/activists-have-be-o...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more ...
/alumni-news/voicesofexchangeSubdomain Learn More
http://www.facebook.com/Intern...External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
/rss/publicRSS
https://www.instagram.com/voic...External Subdomain Instagram
https://twitter.com/exchangeal...External Twitter
/about-exchangealumniText duplicate About
/about-exchangealumni/frequent...Frequently Asked Questions
/about-exchange-alumni/terms-s...Terms of Service
/contact-usContact Us
/account-inquiryAccount Inquiry/ Registration
/alumni-newsText duplicate Alumni News
/alumni-news/highlightsAlumni Highlights
https://alumni.state.gov/aeifSubdomain Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF)
/alumni-news/alumni-thematic-i...Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminars (TIES)
/alumni-news/american-spaces-r...American Spaces
/welcome-us-exchange-alumni/ci...Subdomain Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF)
/alumni-news/mentortalksSubdomain MentorTalks
/voicesofexchangeVoices of Exchange
/resources-entrepreneursText duplicate Resources for Entrepreneurs
/resources-entrepreneurs/mento...Text duplicate MentorTalks
/resources-entrepreneurs/caree...Career Connections
/about-exchange-alumni/benefit...Text duplicate Network, Grants, and Resources
https://alumni.state.gov/aeifText duplicate Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF)
/welcome-us-exchange-alumni/ci...Text duplicate Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF)
/about-exchange-alumni/benefit...Research Tools
/competitions-resources/career...Career Center
/network-and-collaborate/alumn...Subdomain Find Fellow Alumni
/welcome-us-exchange-alumniText duplicate U.S. ExchangeAlumni
/welcome-us-exchange-alumni/ca...Text duplicate Career Connections
/welcome-us-exchange-alumni/jo...U.S. Alumni TIES
/welcome-us-exchange-alumni/co...Alumni Associations and Networks
/welcome-us-exchange-alumni/us...U.S. Alumni Toolkit
/welcome-us-exchange-alumni/no...Non-competitive Eligibility (NCE)
https://foia.state.gov/External Subdomain FOIA Requests
/about-international-exchange-...Privacy Notice
http://www.state.gov/misc/8752...External Subdomain Anchor Copyright Information
/about-exchange-alumni/terms-s...Text duplicate Terms of Service
http://get.adobe.com/readerExternal Subdomain Get Adobe Reader

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://alumni.state.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (2.25 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 (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 15 Oct 2024 15:20:56 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
servernginx/1.22.1
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
content-encodinggzip
x-varnish395408 395409
age0
via1.1 varnish-v4
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 951 referring domains.
This page has 12,747 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 476 different ip addresses.

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Alumni68%Check
Exchange Alumni62%Check
International Exchange Alumni59%Check
Exchange56%Check
State56%Check
International Exchange54%Check
Alumni Website52%Check
Alumni Engagement52%Check
fellow alumni52%Check
International50%Check

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