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Meta information
70% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
54% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
6% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.73 s
File size
38.70 kB
Words
689
Media files
14
Number of links
91 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Craft Yarn Council
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
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)
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

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langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-dns-prefetch-controlon

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 27.25 words is high.
This page contains 689 words. That's ok.
28.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
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 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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
/sites/all/themes/cyc/images/cyc-logo.svgHome
...moving/nav/cyc-standards-nav-crochet.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ed-moving/nav/cyc-standards-nav-knit.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...rgundy Abstract Donate LinkedIn Post.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ault/files/hty/2018/hty-2018-hp-meet.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ault/files/hty/2018/hty-2018-hp-hear.jpgNo alt attribute provided
.../files/hty/2018/hty-2018-hp-patterns.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...away-stress/images/sas-learn-crochet.jpgCrochet swatchCrochet swatch
...ch-away-stress/images/sas-learn-knit.jpgKnit swatchesKnit swatches
.../ilyd/2019/ilyd-2019-logo-graphic-v2.jpgI Love Yarn Day 2019 Logo
...ll/themes/cyc/images/hp-blocks/wua-1.jpgQuilt made from Knit and Crochet Squares
...ll/themes/cyc/images/hp-blocks/wua-2.jpgWarm Up America! Bag
...ll/themes/cyc/images/hp-blocks/wua-3.jpgKnit and Crochet Squares
...all/themes/cyc/images/cyc-logo-white.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Certified Instructors Program
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Certified Instructors Program
H1 Welcome
H1 HUMANS THAT YARN
H1 Learn to knit or crochet
H1 Warm up America!
H1 Standards and Guidelines
H2 Get started today
H2 Search form
H3 Learn to Knit and Crochet
H3 Learn to Knit
H3 Learn to Crochet
H3 Certified Instructors Program Duplicate text
H3 Teach Knit and Crochet!
H3 Each One Teach Two
H3 General
H3 Crochet
H3 Knit
H3 General Duplicate text
H3 Charities
H3 Campaigns & Events
H3 General Duplicate text
H3 General Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 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 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/Education
/knit_vs_crochet.php3Knit vs. Crochet
/learn-videosLearn to videos
/instructions_kn.php3Knit stitch
/mar06_purl.htmlPurl stitch
/decrease_k2tog.htmlDecreases
/mar06_crochet.htmlChain stitch and single crochet
/instructions_cr.php3Single crochet
/mar06_dc.htmlDouble crochet
/teach.htmlBecome a Certified Teacher
/register.htmlCIP Application Form
/Application-pour-les-Programm...French Application Form
/flyersClass Flyers
/content/cip-professional-deve...CIP Professional Development Courses
/aboutthesite.htmlAbout Teaching
A-TITLE Get in the Loop! About Teaching...
/classbenefits.htmlWhy Teach?
A-TITLE Why Teach Knit & Crochet?
/teach.htmlLesson Plans & Posters
/teacherstories.htmlTeachers' Stories
A-TITLE Teachers Stories: Starting a Knit & Crochet Group
/video.htmlVideo - One School's Story
A-TITLE Knitting a Community Together: Video
/mathconnections.htmlIncorporating Math
A-TITLE Incorporating Math into Classes
/wuatieins.htmlKnit for Warm Up America!
A-TITLE Knit & Crochet for Warm Up America!
/coolprojects.htmlCool Projects
A-TITLE Cool Projects
/spanishnfrench.htmlSpanish & French Translations
A-TITLE Spanish & French Translations
/industryresources.htmlBooks & Helpful Resources
A-TITLE Books & Helpful Resources
/crochet_guide.htmlCrochet Teaching Guide
A-TITLE SHARING YOUR LOVE OF CROCHET Teaching Guide
/crochet_guide.htmlCrochet Diagrams
/crochet_pattern.htmlCrochet Pattern
/knit_guide.htmlKnitting Teaching Guide
A-TITLE SHARING YOUR LOVE OF KNITTING Teaching Guide
/knit_diagrams.htmlKnit Diagrams
A-TITLE Knitting Diagrams
/knitpattern.htmlKnit Pattern
A-TITLE Fringed with Ribbon Scarf
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/Standards
A-TITLE yarn standards
/standardsIntroduction
/standards/project-levelsProject Levels
/standards/body-sizingStandard Body Measurements/Sizing
/standards/yarn-weight-systemStandard Yarn Weight System
/standards/hooks-and-needlesHooks & Needles
/standards/steel-crochet-hook-...Steel Hooks & Crochet Threads
/standards/yarn-label-informationYarn Label Information
/standards/how-measure-wraps-i...Wraps Per Inch (WPI)
/standards/schematicsSchematics
/standards/care-symbolsCare Symbols
/standards/weights-frenchSystème Standard de Grosseur
/standards/weights-spanishSistema de Peso Estandar para Estambre
/standards/faqsFAQs
/standards/downloadable-symbolsDownloadable Project and Yarn Weight Symbols
https://media.craftyarncouncil...External Subdomain Downloadable Standards & Guidelines PDF
/standards/crochet-abbreviationsCrochet Abbreviations
/standards/crochet-abbreviationsTerms & Measurements
/standards/crochet-abbreviationsTunisian Abbreviations
/standards/crochet-abbreviationsTerm Differences U.S./U.K./Canada
/standards/crochet-chart-symbolsCrochet Chart Symbols
/standards/how-to-read-crochet...Crochet Patterns - How to Read
/standards/knitting-abbreviationsKnitting Abbreviations
/standards/knitting-abbreviationsText duplicate Terms & Measurements
/standards/knitting-abbreviationsTerm Differences U.S./Canada
/standards/knit-chart-symbolsKnit Chart Symbols
/standards/knit-chart-symbolsCable Symbols
/standards/loom-knitting-abbre...Loom Knitting Abbreviations
/standards/how-to-read-knittin...Knitting Patterns - How to Read
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/Get Involved
/guilds.phpGuilds & Groups
http://www.warmupamerica.org/w...External Subdomain Warm Up America
http://www.warmupamerica.org/J...External Subdomain Knit One Save One
A-TITLE Caps for Good Campaign November 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011
http://www.warmupamerica.org/t...External Subdomain LEARN TO KNIT!
/welcome.htmlFriendship Shawls
A-TITLE Friendship Shawls
/lp/i-love-yarn-day/New window I Love Yarn Day
A-TITLE I Love Yarn Day Home
/lp/humans-that-yarn/New window Subdomain Humans That Yarn
A-TITLE Humans That Yarn
/lp/stitch-away-stress/New window Subdomain Stitch Away Stress
A-TITLE Stitch Away Stress
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/Wellness
A-TITLE The Truth About Knitting and Crochet....They’re Good for You!
/healthHealth
A-TITLE The Truth About Knitting and Crochet....They’re Good for You!
/health-therapeuticHow Knitting Can...
/health-pressHealth Buzz
/health-resourcesResources
/aboutcyca.htmlAbout
A-TITLE About CYCA
/aboutcyca.htmlText duplicate About
A-TITLE About CYCA
/knit911-home.htmlText duplicate FAQs
A-TITLE Crochet 911 & Knit 911
/questions.htmlQuestions
A-TITLE Questions?
/project.htmlProjects
/blogBlog
http://craftyarncouncil.pressk...External Subdomain Newsroom
/user/loginLogin
/teach.htmlJoin Us!
/node/319Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://warmupamerica.org/donate/New window External No Text
/lp/humans-that-yarn/Subdomain No Text
/lp/humans-that-yarn/Subdomain Meet our Humans That Yarn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain Hear their stories
/humans-that-yarn/patternsSubdomain No Text
/humans-that-yarn/patternsSubdomain Free patterns
https://www.youtube.com/playli...New window External Subdomain Learn More
https://www.youtube.com/playli...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/I-Love-YarnSubdomain IMG-ALT I Love Yarn Day 2019 Logo
/I-Love-YarnSubdomain Learn more
http://warmupamerica.org/External Text duplicate Learn more
/standards.htmlText duplicate Learn More
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/Anchor Go to Top
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/www.craftyarncouncil.com
http://www.iloveyarnday.com/External Subdomain www.iloveyarnday.com
http://www.yarnstandards.com/External Subdomain www.YarnStandards.com
https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/www.knitandcrochet.com
http://www.learntoknit.com/External Subdomain www.learntoknit.com
http://www.learntocrochet.com/External Subdomain www.learntocrochet.com
http://www.warmupamerica.org/External Subdomain www.warmupamerica.org
/healthSubdomain www.craftyarncouncil.com/health

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.73 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 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 16 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 13 Nov 2024 05:01:39 GMT
serverApache
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
content-languageen
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,238 referring domains.
This page has 72,952 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,501 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

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