Cord.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
70% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
64% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.14 s
File size
288.70 kB
Words
625
Media files
26
Number of links
24 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to CORD - CORD
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to CORD For more than 40 years, providing innovative changes in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher education Featured Resources Current Projects Core Tenets Contextual teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines We support the teaching of knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the contexts
The meta description is too long: 2382 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.cord.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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
descriptionWelcome to CORD For more than 40 years, providing innovative changes in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher education Featured Resources Current Projects Core Tenets Contextual teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines We support the teaching of knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the contexts
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorElementor 3.24.2; features: additional_custom_breakpoints; settings: css_print_method-external, google_font-enabled, font_display-auto
msapplication-TileImagehttps://i0.wp.com/www.cord.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/arrow-button-rev-indigo.webp?fit=72%2C72&ssl=1
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleWelcome to CORD - CORD
twitter:descriptionWelcome to CORD For more than 40 years, providing innovative changes in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher education Featured Resources Current Projects Core Tenets Contextual teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines We support the teaching of knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the contexts
og:localeen_US
og:site_nameCORD - Center for Occupational Research and Development
og:typewebsite
og:titleWelcome to CORD - CORD
og:descriptionWelcome to CORD For more than 40 years, providing innovative changes in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher education Featured Resources Current Projects Core Tenets Contextual teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines We support the teaching of knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the contexts
og:urlhttps://www.cord.org/
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 625 words. That's ok.
29.8% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
14 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 17.63 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 82 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"cord helps educators transform disconnected programs into dynamic career pathways—"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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)
Featured Programs
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Featured Programs
H1 News & Events
H2 Powerful Career Pathways
H2 Register Now for NCPN CONNECT 2025
H2 Don’t be left behind
H2 FRAMEWORK FOR CAREER PATHWAYS ALIGNMENT
H2 Let CORD be your guide
H2 Over the last 45 years, CORD has helped thousands of educators and institutions
H2 EU Study Tour: Gleaning Insights from European Innovations in Vocational Education and Training
H2 Integrating Emerging and Cross-Cutting Technologies: Electric Vehicles with Kevin Cooper
H2 Advanced Manufacturing Competencies for Personal and Career Success
H2 Let's Get Started
H2 Subscribe for News & Events
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 NCPN CONNECT 2025 Conference – Call for Proposals
H3 NCPN Leadership Development Academy (LDA)
H3 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 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 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.cord.org/Anchor Skip to content
A-TITLE Skip to content
https://www.cord.org/Subdomain IMG-ALT cord logo
https://www.cord.org/about-cord/Subdomain About
/curriculum-development/Subdomain Curriculum Development
/professional-development/Subdomain Professional Development
/career-pathways-technical-ass...Subdomain Career Pathways Technical Assistance
/leadership-networks-and-confe...Subdomain Leadership Networks and Conference Management
https://www.cord.org/resources/Subdomain Resources
https://www.cord.org/Subdomain Anchor Contact
https://www.cord.org/about-cord/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/curriculum-development/Subdomain Text duplicate Curriculum Development
/professional-development/Subdomain Text duplicate Professional Development
/career-pathways-technical-ass...Subdomain Text duplicate Career Pathways Technical Assistance
/leadership-networks-and-confe...Subdomain Text duplicate Leadership Networks and Conference Management
https://www.cord.org/resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
https://www.cord.org/Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Contact
https://www.ncpn.info/New window External Subdomain Register Now for NCPN CONNECT 2025
/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/co...New window Subdomain LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/co...New window Subdomain EXPLORE SERVICES
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.ncpn.info/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.pathwaystoinnovati...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.preparingtechnicia...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.necessaryskillsnow...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.ncpn.info/call-for...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.ncpn.info/leadersh...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
/eu-study-tour-pr/New window Subdomain Text duplicate LEARN MORE
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.preparingtechnicia...New window External Subdomain GO TO PODCAST
IMG-ALT icon
https://www.necessaryskillsnow...New window External Subdomain Anchor GO TO RESOURCE
IMG-ALT icon
/lets-get-started/Subdomain CONNECT WITH US
/lets-get-started/Subdomain No Text
https://www.cord.org/Subdomain No Text
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/accessibility-statement/Subdomain Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cord.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.14 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 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (289 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 18 Sep 2024 01:43:07 GMT
serverApache/2.4.62 (Debian)
cache-controlno-cache
content-encodinggzip
wpo-cache-statuscached
last-modifiedTue, 17 Sep 2024 13:19:57 GMT
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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 160 referring domains.
This page has 1,852 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 141 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/_pda/*
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json

Sitemap: https://www.cord.org/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.cord.org/sitemap.rss

Search preview

www.cord.org
Welcome to CORD - CORD
Welcome to CORD For more than 40 years, providing innovative changes in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher education Featured Resources Current Projects Core Tenets Contextual teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines We support the teaching of knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the contexts

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
CORD86%Check
Featured62%Check
Career59%Check
programs55%Check
career pathways53%Check
years52%Check
Career Pathways Alignment51%Check
education50%Check
success50%Check
Pathways47%Check

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