Economics.illinois.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
82% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.25 s
File size
63.90 kB
Words
823
Media files
14
Number of links
58 internal / 43 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

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Title
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Home | Department of Economics | Illinois
The length of the page title is perfect. (375 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://economics.illinois.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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.
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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
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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.

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Content
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The average number of words per sentence of 29.75 words is high.
This page contains 823 words. That's ok.
14% of the text are stop words.
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.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
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Mobile optimization
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Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 16 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
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Department of Economics
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Department of Economics
H1 Economics
H2 PhD Job Market Candidates
H2 Wilfried Adohinzin
H2 Yue Bao
H2 Youning Chen
H2 Minyoung Cho
H2 Yuqing Han
H2 Yiqui Liu
H2 Vinicius Okada da Silva
H2 Alok Ranjan
H2 Abigail Stocker
H2 Chenxi Tang
H2 Yifan Wang
H2 A win-win concept in the lab
H2 Helping policymakers make more informed decisions
H2 Startup Success
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Career Paths in Economics
H2 Additional links
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 too many external links (43) on this page.
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://economics.illinois.edu/"
HTTP header
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This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.25 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (64 kB).

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 506 referring domains.
This page has 2,194 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 298 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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