Aarweb.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.75 s
File size
175.50 kB
Words
907
Media files
16
Number of links
89 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home
The title contains the word Home! More content should be covered in the title.
The page title is too short. (52 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
(Critically important)
American Academy of Religion
The meta description is too short. (190 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://aarweb.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 907 words. That's ok.
32.2% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 20.73 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" 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 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
American Academy of Religion
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
There are 37 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 American Academy of Religion
H2 Discounted Registration Rates for the November Annual Meeting Available Until September 25
H2 News & Publications
H2 Benefits of Membership
H2 WebinAAR Recordings
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 More to Explore
H2 Religious Studies Matters
H3 Awards
H3 Grants
H3 Professional Development
H3 Resource Library
H3 Mentoring
H3 Committees & Groups
H3 AAR Regions
H3 Member Directory
H3 Volunteer with AAR
H3 Present at Our Annual Meetings
H3 Develop Your Skills and Career
H3 Grow Your Network and Community
H3 Access Professional Resources, Discounts, and More
H3 Emilie Townes
H3 Asma Afsaruddin
H3 Wendy Mallette
H4 Careers
H4 Community
H4 Opportunities Calendar
H4 Book Reviews
H5 MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Tamisha A. Tyler
H5 Announcing the 2025-2026 AAR Grant Cycle
H5 Disability Pride Month Reading List
H5 Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 (2025 Inclusive Pedagogy Series #2)
H5 Steps Toward a New PhD
H5 Recent Changes in Higher Education and What We Can Do About It
H5 Academic Job Market Boot Camp
H5 XXIII IAHR World Congress
H5 How to Use the PhD Training Platform in Your Job Search
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 11 external links on this page.
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https://aarweb.org/Anchor Skip to content
/how-to-use-our-new-website/New window Read our guide
https://aarweb.org/IMG-ALT AAR-logo
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/about-aar/support-aar/Donate
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/religious-studies-matters/adv...Advocacy
/religious-studies-matters/pub...Public Engagement
/religious-studies-matters/tea...Teaching Religion Today
/religious-studies-matters/sha...Share With Us
https://aarweb.org/events/Events
/events/event-calendar/Event Calendar
/events/annual-meetings/Annual Meetings
/events/webinaars/WebinAARs
/events/calls-for-opportunitie...Calls for Opportunities Calendar
/events/past-events/Past Events
/career-community/Careers & Community
/career-community/awards/Awards
/career-community/grants/Grants
/career-community/professional...Professional Development
/career-community/resource-lib...Resource Library
/career-community/mentoring/Mentoring
/career-community/committees-g...Committees & Groups
/career-community/aar-regions/AAR Regions
/membership/member-directory/Member Directory
/career-community/volunteer-wi...Volunteer with AAR
/career-community/Text duplicate Careers & Community
/career-community/awards/Text duplicate Awards
/career-community/grants/Text duplicate Grants
/career-community/professional...Text duplicate Professional Development
/career-community/resource-lib...Text duplicate Resource Library
/career-community/mentoring/Text duplicate Mentoring
/career-community/committees-g...Text duplicate Committees & Groups
/career-community/aar-regions/Text duplicate AAR Regions
/career-community/volunteer-wi...Text duplicate Volunteer with AAR
/news-publications/News & Publications
/news-publications/news-insights/News & Insights
/news-publications/aar-publica...AAR Publications
https://readingreligion.org/New window External Reading Religion
/news-publications/aar-publica...Religious Studies News
/news-publications/Anchor Newsletters
/news-publications/recommended...Recommended Readings
/news-publications/podcasts/Podcasts
/about-aar/for-the-press/For the Press
https://aarweb.org/about-aar/About AAR
/about-aar/mission-and-values/Mission and Values
/about-aar/history-of-the-aar/History
/about-aar/governance-and-staff/Governance and Staff
/about-aar/policies-and-key-do...Policies and Key Documents
/about-aar/governance-and-staf...Board Statements & Endorsements
/about-aar/support-aar/Support the AAR
/about-aar/contact/Contact Us
https://aarweb.org/membership/Membership
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/membership/member-benefits/Member Benefits
/membership/types-of-membership/Types of Membership
/membership/member-spotlights/Member Spotlights
/membership/member-directory/Text duplicate Member Directory
/membership/membership-faq/Membership FAQ
/membership/partner-with-aar/Partner with AAR
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/about-aar/support-aar/Text duplicate Donate
/membership/become-a-member/Text duplicate Become a Member
https://aarweb.org/about-aar/Text duplicate About AAR
/event/november-annual-meeting/Anchor Register Now
/news-publications/View Newsroom
/news/member-spotlight-tamisha...MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Tamisha A. Tyler
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/news/announcing-the-2025-2026...Announcing the 2025-2026 AAR Grant Cycle
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/news/disability-pride-month-r...Disability Pride Month Reading List
A-TITLE Disability Pride Month Reading List
https://us10.campaign-archive....New window External Subdomain View and Subscribe to Our Newsletter
/membership/member-benefits/Learn More
/membership/types-of-membership/Text duplicate Types of Membership
/events/webinaars/View All WebinAARs
/webinar/universal-design-for-...Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 (2025 Inclusive Pedagogy Series #2)
A-TITLE Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 (2025 Inclusive Pedagogy Series #2)
/webinar/inclusive-pedagogy-we...the latest guidelines for Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
/webinar/steps-toward-a-new-phd/Steps Toward a New PhD
A-TITLE Steps Toward a New PhD
/webinar/recent-changes-in-hig...Recent Changes in Higher Education and What We Can Do About It
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https://aarweb.org/events/See All Events
/event/academic-job-market-boo...Academic Job Market Boot Camp
A-TITLE Academic Job Market Boot Camp
/event/xxiii-iahr-world-congress/XXIII IAHR World Congress
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/event/how-to-use-the-phd-trai...How to Use the PhD Training Platform in Your Job Search
A-TITLE How to Use the PhD Training Platform in Your Job Search
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https://readingreligion.org/New window External Read Reviews
/religious-studies-matters/Get Involved
https://aarweb.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT AAR-logo
https://www.facebook.com/ameri...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://bsky.app/profile/aarwe...New window External Bluesky (Bsky)
https://vimeo.com/aarNew window External Vimeo
/membership/become-a-member/Join AAR
/about-aar/support-aar/Text duplicate Support the AAR
/terms-conditions/Terms of Use
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/about-aar/contact/Contact AAR
https://www.aarsbl.org/New window External Subdomain Job Board
http://eepurl.com/g4aMabNew window External Newsletter
https://www.yokoco.com/referra...New window External Subdomain Website by Yoko Co

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://aarweb.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.75 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 (176 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 392 referring domains.
This page has 578 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 167 different ip addresses.

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