Ipss-addis.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
89% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
92% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.56 s
File size
281.40 kB
Words
508
Media files
6
Number of links
51 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
IPSS | Institute for Peace and Security Studies
The length of the page title is perfect. (417 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
https://ipss-addis.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
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress Download Manager 3.3.06
tec-api-versionv1
tec-api-originhttps://ipss-addis.org
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0
msapplication-TileImagehttps://ipss-addis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-siteIdentity-270x270.png
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 508 words. That's ok.
28.5% 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.
8 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 22.14 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
...ntent/uploads/2020/03/IPSS_LOGO_FULL.jpg
Insecure Content		IPSS
.../uploads/2025/01/call-for-app-global.jpgCall for Applications:Joint MA and PhD Programme Global Studies: Peace and Security in Africa
...on-for-students-regarding-ACLED-data.pngThe ACLED Training Sessions at IPSS
.../African-Solutions-Jornal-1536x864-2.jpgCall for papers: African Solutions Journal
.../uploads/2022/03/Home@Knowledge_1080.jpgNo alt attribute providedHome@Knowledge_1080
...t/uploads/2020/04/IPSS_logo_short_40.png
Insecure Content		No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Latest News & Events
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Latest News & Events
H1 Ranks among the TOP 50 think-tanks in Africa
H1 Latest Publications
H1 Upcoming Events
H1 IPSS Calendar of Events
H2 An Academic and Research Institute with a Pan-African Reach
H2 Academic Programmes
H2 Policy Dialogues
H2 Tana Forum
H2 Research
H2 Call for Applications:Joint MA and PhD Programme Global Studies: Peace and Security in Africa
H2 The ACLED Training Sessions at IPSS
H2 Call for papers: African Solutions Journal
H2 Subscribe
H2 Success!
H5 Who We Are
H5 What We Do
H5 Latest
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ipss-addis.org/arua/ARUA
https://afsol.ipss-addis.org/External Subdomain AfSOL JOURNAL
https://ipss-addis.org/IMG-ALT IPSS
/who-we-are/WHO WE ARE
/who-we-are/history/History
/who-we-are/vision-mission-cor...Vision Mission & Core Values
/who-we-are/africa-peace-and-s...Africa Peace & Security Programme (APSP)
/who-we-are/team/Team
/who-we-are/careers/Careers
/who-we-are/contact-us/Contact Us
/what-we-do/WHAT WE DO
/what-we-do/academic-programmes/Academic Programmes
/what-we-do/academic-and-appli...Academic and Applied Research
/what-we-do/policy-dialogues/Policy Dialogues
/what-we-do/dialogue-facilitat...Dialogue Facilitation
/what-we-do/academic-staff/Academic Staff
https://ipss-addis.org/latest/LATEST
/latest/news-events/News & Events
/latest/upcoming-events/Upcoming Events
/latest/ipss-digest/IPSS Digest
/our-partners/OUR PARTNERS
/publications/PUBLICATIONS
https://ipss-addis.org/An Academic and Research Institute with a Pan-African Reach
https://ipss-addis.org/Trivial anchor text
Read More
/what-we-do/academic-programmes/Text duplicate Academic Programmes
/what-we-do/academic-programmes/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/what-we-do/policy-dialogues/Text duplicate Policy Dialogues
/what-we-do/policy-dialogues/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://tanaforum.org/External Tana Forum
https://tanaforum.org/New window External Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/what-we-do/academic-and-appli...Research
/what-we-do/academic-and-appli...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/latest/news-events/Latest News & Events
/call-for-applicationsjoint-ma...IMG-ALT Call for Applications:Joint MA and PhD Programme Global Studies: Peace and Security in Africa
/call-for-applicationsjoint-ma...Text duplicate Call for Applications:Joint MA and PhD Programme Global Studies: Peace and Security in Africa
/category/news/News
/the-acled-training-sessions-a...IMG-ALT The ACLED Training Sessions at IPSS
/the-acled-training-sessions-a...Text duplicate The ACLED Training Sessions at IPSS
/category/news/Text duplicate News
/call-for-papers-african-solut...IMG-ALT Call for papers: African Solutions Journal
/call-for-papers-african-solut...Text duplicate Call for papers: African Solutions Journal
/category/news/Text duplicate News
/resource/publications/New window Latest Publications
/who-we-are/history/Text duplicate History
/who-we-are/vision-mission-cor...Vision, Mission & Core Values
/who-we-are/africa-peace-and-s...APSP
/who-we-are/careers/Work For Us
/who-we-are/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
/what-we-do/academic-programmes/Text duplicate Academic Programmes
/what-we-do/academic-and-appli...Text duplicate Academic and Applied Research
/what-we-do/policy-dialogues/Text duplicate Policy Dialogues
/latest/news-events/Text duplicate News & Events
/latest/upcoming-events/Text duplicate Upcoming Events
/latest/ipss-digest/Text duplicate IPSS Digest
https://www.facebook.com/ipss....New window External Subdomain Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Facebook
https://twitter.com/IPSS_AddisNew window External Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on X
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on LinkedIn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Follow
A-TITLE Follow on Flickr

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ipss-addis.org/"
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 0.56 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 (281 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
varyUser-Agent,Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
set-cookie72 Characters
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://ipss-addis.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-tec-api-versionv1
x-tec-api-roothttps://ipss-addis.org/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-originhttps://ipss-addis.org
content-encodinggzip
dateThu, 30 Jan 2025 16:21:24 GMT
serverLiteSpeed
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 597 referring domains.
This page has 68,608 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 353 different ip addresses.

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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
IPSS70%Check
LATEST59%Check
Latest News56%Check
Latest News Events56%Check
Events54%Check
News Events54%Check
News and Events54%Check
Security52%Check
Peace52%Check
Peace Security52%Check
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