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Meta information
94% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
47% 
Server
72% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.99 s
File size
266.10 kB
Words
450
Media files
30
Number of links
83 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Government Performance Lab
The length of the page title is perfect. (273 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Government Performance Lab
The length of the meta description is perfect. (273 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://govlab.hks.harvard.edu/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 450 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
19.1% 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.
7 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 23.57 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, 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 51 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 GPL GA4
H2 GPL GA4 Duplicate text
H2 Highlights
H2 Working at the GPL
H2 Procurement Excellence Network
H2 Supporting Governments in Improving Resident Outcomes: Highlights from 2023
H2 The Journey to a Well-Being-Oriented System
H2 Mayor to Mayor: Taking the Lead on Police Accountability
H2 Homelessness Prevention & Rehousing Accelerator
H2 New at the Government Performance Lab
H2 Initiatives
H2 Alternative 911 Emergency Response
H2 Child and Family Wellbeing Accelerator
H2 Homelessness Prevention & Rehousing Accelerator Duplicate text
H2 Procurement Excellence Network Duplicate text
H2 Pretrial Initiative
H2 Policy Areas
H2 Homelessness & Housing
H2 Icon of mom with two kids
H2 Children & Families
H2 Icon
H2 Criminal Justice
H2 Icon Duplicate text
H2 Procurement Systems
H2 Our Impact
H2 Tools
H2 Data-Driven Performance Management
H2 Designing Service Systems for Client Success
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H2 Results-Driven Contracting
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H2 HWP CSS Styles
H3 Supporting state and local government in solving serious social challenges
H3 240+ intensive projects completed
H3 100 jurisdictions served
H3 $6.2B+ in funds redirected towards outcomes
H3 ABOUT US
H3 NEWSLETTER SIGN UP
H3 RESOURCE LIBRARY
H3 PROJECTS
H3 POLICY AREA
H3 TOOLS
H4 Sign Up for Our Newsletter
H4 Explore Events
H4 Learn About Technical Assistance
H4 Work for the GPL
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://govlab.hks.harvard.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.99 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (266 kB).

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 432 referring domains.
This page has 1,695 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 286 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.

Robots.txt

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