Smarthistory.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
55% 
Server
71% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.84 s
File size
253.20 kB
Words
467
Media files
31
Number of links
102 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Smarthistory
The page title is too short. (115 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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World-class resources on art and cultural objects for learners from around the globe
The length of the meta description is perfect. (516 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://smarthistory.org/
There is a valid canonical link 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
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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.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 467 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 18.75 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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15 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
(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
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

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H3 Modernisms 1900-1980
H3 Just Published
H3 Empty heading
H3 The Islamic World
H3 Africa
H3 Asia
H3 Empty heading
H3 Art that brings U.S. history to life
H3 Europe 1300 - 1800
H3 Medieval Europe + Byzantine
H3 Europe 1800 - 1900
H3 Oceania
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H3 Global cultures 1980 - now
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
16 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 10 external links on this page.
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https://smarthistory.org/staff/Who is Smarthistory?
/cite-smarthistory/Is Smarthistory reliable?
/smarthistory-partners/Museum and institutional partners
/major-donors/Major donors
https://smarthistory.org/press/Press coverage
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/contact-us/Contact us
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/the-art-of-africa/Africa
/americas-before-1900/Americas
https://smarthistory.org/asia/Asia
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https://smarthistory.org/islamic/The Islamic World
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/global-cultures-1980-now/Art since 1980
/look-at-this/Art Appreciation
/required-works-for-ap/AP® Art History
https://smarthistory.org/a-level/A-Level Art History
/photography/History of photography
/creating-and-conserving/Creating and conserving
/seeing-america-2/civil-war-in...The U.S. Civil War in Art
/seeing-america-2/Seeing America
/bipoc-reader/Not your grandfather’s art history: a BIPOC Reader
/arches-at-risk-cultural-herit...ARCHES: At-risk Cultural Heritage
/courses/expanding-ideas-about...Expanding the Renaissance
/across-cultures-2/Across Cultures
/locations/Virtual Visits
/reframing-art-history/Reframing Art History, a new kind of textbook
/guide-to-byzantine-art/Guide to Byzantine Art
/guide-to-ancient-roman-art/Guide to Ancient Roman Art
/smarthistory-books/ap-art-his...Guide to AP® Art History vol. 1 (#1–47)
/ap-art-history-volume-2/Guide to AP® Art History vol. 2 (#48–98)
/ap-art-history-vol-3/Guide to AP® Art History vol. 3 (#99–152)
/smarthistory-books/See complete collection of titles
/reframing-art-history/Reframing Art History a new kind of textbook
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/guide-to-byzantine-art/Guide to Byzantine art
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/commons-landing/All content for teaching
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https://smarthistory.org/aboutLearn More
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://smarthistory.org/"
HTTP header
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The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.84 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 (253 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
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This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 7,771 referring domains.
This page has 113,032 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,090 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

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smarthistory.org
Smarthistory
World-class resources on art and cultural objects for learners from around the globe

Most important keywords

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