Appam.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
46% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.33 s
File size
100.50 kB
Words
1030
Media files
10
Number of links
141 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Public Policy Analysis & Management | APPAM
The length of the page title is perfect. (421 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (628 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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No canonical link is specified.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
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
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There are 4 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: The #2024APPAM Fall Research Conference will feature some fantastic sp...
This page contains 1030 words. That's ok.
25.1% 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.
12 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.07 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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This page loads 27 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 21 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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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https://www.appam.org/cms/images/logo.pngAssociation for Public Policy Analysis & Management
...2024_1800_6500_appam_home_page.jpg?64349APPAM's Annual Fall Research Conference
...ionmain/professional_dev_slide.png?62093Student Ambassador Program
...showdimensionmain/sponsorships.png?63964Sponsorships
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/assets/1/6/abraham_songv2.jpgAbraham_Song
/assets/1/6/juliet-ann-musso.jpgJuliet Musso
https://www.appam.org/cms/images/logo.pngAssociation for Public Policy Analysis & Management

Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Student Ambassador Program
H2 #2024APPAM Sponsorship Opportunities
H2 #2024APPAM Quick Links
H2 Conferences & Events
H2 About APPAM
H2 Latest News
H2 What Members Say
H3 Deadline: Student Ambassador Applications
H3 Webinar: Demystifying Conferences
H3 Public Policy Camp: Indiana University O'Neill School
H3 #2024APPAM Spotlight: Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany
H3 #2024APPAM Spotlight: Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
H3 #2024APPAM Spotlight: MDRC
H3 #2024APPAM Spotlight: Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
H3 #2024APPAM Spotlight: The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 8 links with a trivial 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 14 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.appam.org/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://www.appam.org/contact/Contact Us
https://twitter.com/APPAM_DCNew window External X
https://www.facebook.com/appam...New window External Subdomain facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...New window External Subdomain youtube
https://appam.memberclicks.net...New window External Subdomain Anchor Join APPAM
https://appam.memberclicks.net...External Subdomain Anchor Login
/donate-to-support-equity-and-...New window Subdomain Donate
https://www.appam.org/IMG-ALT Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management
/about-appam/About APPAM
/about-appam/mission/Mission and History
https://www.appam.org/faq/FAQ's
/about-appam/governance/Governance
/about-appam/officers-and-staff/Officers and Staff
/about-appam/governance/leader...Subdomain Leadership Positions and Nominations
/about-appam/governance/policy...Policy Council
/about-appam/governance/commit...Committee of Institutional Representatives
/about-appam/governance/studen...Subdomain Student Leaders
/about-appam/governance/commit...Committees
/about-appam/governance/strate...Strategic Plan
/assets/1/6/APPAM_Code_of_Cond...Subdomain Code of Conduct
/about-appam/awards/Awards
/about-appam/awards/Subdomain All Awards
/about-appam/awards/william-sp...Subdomain Willliam Spriggs Memorial Award
/about-appam/awards/equity-inc...Equity & Inclusion Fellowship
/about-appam/awards/phd-disser...PhD Dissertation Award
/about-appam/awards/david-n-ke...David N. Kershaw Award
/about-appam/awards/raymond-ve...Raymond Vernon Memorial Award
/about-appam/awards/peter-h-ro...Peter H. Rossi Award
/about-appam/awards/steven-d-g...Steven D. Gold Award
/about-appam/awards/policy-fie...Subdomain Policy Field Distinguished Contribution Award
/about-appam/awards/world-citi...World Citizen Prizes in Environmental Performance
/about-appam/bylaws/Bylaws
/assets/1/6/APPAM_Code_of_Cond...Subdomain Text duplicate Code of Conduct
https://www.appam.org/membership/Membership
https://www.appam.org/membership/Membership Information
/membership/professional-membe...Professional Membership
/membership/retired-membership/Retired Membership
/membership/institutional-memb...Institutional Membership
/membership/student-membership/Student Membership
/membership/diversity-initiati...Diversity Initiatives
https://appam.memberclicks.net...External Subdomain Anchor My APPAM
https://www.appam.org/news/News & Publications
https://www.appam.org/news/APPAM News
/news/webinars/APPAM Webinars
https://www.appam.org/news/jpam/Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM)
https://www.appam.org/news/jpam/JPAM
/news/jpam/jpam-digital-editio...JPAM Digital Edition and Classics
/news/jpam/jpam-refereeing-awa...JPAM Refereeing Awards
/news/jpam/jpam-closer-look-po...JPAM Closer Look Podcast
/news/jpam/jpam-editorial-board/JPAM Editorial Board
/news/jpam/jpam-authors/JPAM Authors
/news/listservs/Listservs
/news/media-kit/Media Kit
https://www.appam.org/events/Conferences & Events
https://www.appam.org/events/Calendar & Events
/conference-events/fall-resear...2024 Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/fall-resear...General Info
/conference-events/2024appam-f...Subdomain Registration and Travel
https://appam.confex.com/appam...New window External Subdomain Online Program
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Submissions
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Conference Activities
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Career & PhD Program Fair
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Participant Guidelines and Resources
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Sponsorship Opportunities
/conference-events/future-conf...Future Conferences
/conference-events/past-fall-r...Past Fall Research Conferences
/conference-events/fall-resear...2023 Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/fall-resear...2022 Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/fall-resear...2021 Fall Research Conference
https://www.appam.org/2020appam/2020 Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/fall-resear...2019 Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/fall-resear...2018 Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/fall-resear...2017 Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/institution...Institutional Member Forums
/conference-events/institution...Host a Forum
/conference-events/appam-insti...Effective Cross-Sector Collaboration (UNC)
/conference-events/institution...Impact Evaluations of Social Programs (Westat)
/appam-institutional-member-fo...Career Pathway Programs (Abt Associates)
/appam-institutional-member-fo...Bringing Rigor and Intentionality (Westat)
/watch-the-member-forum-on-dem...Data and Social Science (Mathematica)
/member-forum-state-and-resear...Partnerships in the Opioid Crisis (Sanford School)
/appamsanford-school-instituti...Bridging Research and Policy (Sanford School)
/access-the-appammdrc-institut...Behavioral Science & Social Policy (MDRC)
/conference-events/appam-publi...Public Policy Camps
/conference-events/past-eventsPast Events
/conference-events/regional-st...Regional Student Conference
/conference-events/2021-policy...2021 Policy Practicum for Emerging Scholars
/conference-events/jpam-specia...JPAM Special Event
/conference-events/special-eve...Subdomain Special Event: Mathematica 2024
/conference-events/2023-profes...Subdomain 2023 Professional Development Virtual Series
https://www.appam.org/Career & Education Resources
/career-education-resources/ap...Volunteer with APPAM
/career-education-resources/20...Subdomain Professional Development Webinar Series
/career-education-resources/ap...APPAM Communities
/career-education-resources/ap...Text duplicate APPAM Communities
/career-education-resources/ap...Artificial Intelligence
/career-education-resources/ap...BIPOC in Public Policy
/career-education-resources/ap...Data Science
/career-education-resources/ap...Early Career Professionals
/career-education-resources/ap...First-Gen Researchers
/career-education-resources/ap...LGBTQ+ Researchers
/career-education-resources/ap...Undergraduate Education
/career-education-resources/ap...Women in Economics
/career-education-resources/ed...Education for Public Service Careers
/career-education-resources/ed...Text duplicate General Info
/career-education-resources/pr...Professional Master's Degrees for Public Service
/career-education-resources/pr...Professional PhD Degrees for Public Service
/career-education-resources/ca...Career Advice
/career-education-resources/jo...Job Listings - Career Connections
/career-education-resources/me...Subdomain Mentor Matching Program
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain IMG-ALT APPAM's Annual Fall Research Conference
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
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/about-appam/governance/studen...Subdomain Anchor IMG-ALT Student Ambassador Program
/about-appam/governance/studen...Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain IMG-ALT Sponsorships
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Text duplicate General Info
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Information for Participants
/conference-events/fall-resear...Subdomain Information for Students
https://www.appam.org/events/View All Events
/events/deadline-student-ambas...Deadline: Student Ambassador Applications
/events/webinar-demystifying-c...Webinar: Demystifying Conferences
/events/public-policy-camp-ind...Public Policy Camp: Indiana University O'Neill School
/about-appam/general-info/Trivial anchor text
READ MORE
https://www.appam.org/news/View All News
/2024appam-spotlight-rockefell...#2024APPAM Spotlight: Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany
A-TITLE Read the complete article
/2024appam-spotlight-rockefell...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2024appam-spotlight-syracuse-...#2024APPAM Spotlight: Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
A-TITLE Read the complete article
/2024appam-spotlight-syracuse-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/2024appam-spotlight-mdrc/#2024APPAM Spotlight: MDRC
A-TITLE Read the complete article
/2024appam-spotlight-mdrc/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/2024appam-spotlight-evans-sch...#2024APPAM Spotlight: Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
A-TITLE Read the complete article
/2024appam-spotlight-evans-sch...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/2024appam-spotlight-the-humph...#2024APPAM Spotlight: The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
A-TITLE Read the complete article
/2024appam-spotlight-the-humph...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://www.appam.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management
/about-appam/Text duplicate About APPAM
/membership/professional-membe...Text duplicate Membership
https://www.appam.org/news/News
/conference-events/future-conf...Conference & Events
https://www.appam.org/news/Publications
/about-appam/awards/world-citi...Text duplicate Awards
/career-education-resources/ed...Careers & Education
https://appam.memberclicks.net...New window External Subdomain Anchor Members Only
https://www.appam.org/sitemap/Site Map
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
https://www.appam.org/events/Events
https://twitter.com/APPAM_DCNew window External Text duplicate X
https://www.facebook.com/appam...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/user/T...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate youtube
https://www.americaneagle.com/New window External Subdomain Americaneagle.com

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.appam.org/"
HTTP header
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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
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The page response time is slow (1.33 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.
This page loads 15 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 27 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (101 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 699 referring domains.
This page has 88,478 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 578 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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www.appam.org
Public Policy Analysis & Management | APPAM
Improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.

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