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Meta information
58% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.06 s
File size
75.10 kB
Words
775
Media files
18
Number of links
40 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 2101 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
The meta description is too long: 1244 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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No canonical link is 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
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The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
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
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Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 775 words. That's ok.
37.3% 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.
14 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 19.96 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 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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1 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
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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.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
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American Civil Liberties Union
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 American Civil Liberties Union
H2 Defend the rights of all people nationwide
H2 Spotlight
H2 Issues
H2 Freedom To Be
H2 News and Commentary
H2 On the Ground
H2 Resources
H3 Takeaways from the Supreme Court's Term
H3 The Court Threatened Trans Rights. Take Action Now
H3 Trump’s Order on Birthright Citizenship, Explained
H3 Shut Down "Alligator Alcatraz"
H3 AI Could Exacerbate Inequality, Experts Warn
H3 Court Strikes Down NIH's Unlawful Termination of Research Grants on Topics Including DEI and Gender Identity
H3 60 Years Later: How a Civil Rights-Era Defamation Case Empowers the Press
H3 Actions Needed Now
H3 Actions Needed Now Duplicate text
H3 Actions Needed Now Duplicate text
H4 Shut Down "Alligator Alcatraz" Duplicate text
H4 Keep DOGE Out of Our Data
H4 Protect Trans Care Now
H4 Shut Down "Alligator Alcatraz" Duplicate text
H4 Keep DOGE Out of Our Data Duplicate text
H4 Protect Trans Care Now Duplicate text
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/about/privacy/archive/2025-07...Subdomain Update
/about/privacy/archive/2025-07...Subdomain Our privacy statement is changing. Changes will be in effect July 31, 2025.
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Performance
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The file size of the HTML document is fine (75 kB).

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