Afi.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
70% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
42% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.76 s
File size
352.30 kB
Words
1167
Media files
63
Number of links
88 internal / 61 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
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American Film Institute
The length of the page title is perfect. (205 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Homepage 2026 [vc_se
The meta description is too short. (146 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length) Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
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https://www.afi.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
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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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Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1167 words. That's ok.
24.8% 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.
9 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
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There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 24.43 words is good.
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 23 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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44 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
(Critically important)
LEARN ABOUT THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 LEARN ABOUT THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
H2 DISCOVER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
H2 READ NEWS
H2 VIEW AFI’s TOP 100 LISTS
H2 WATCH NOW
H2 Get the Picture
H2 SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER
H2 PROGRAMS
H2 MEMBER PORTAL
H2 LEGAL
H2 STAY CONNECTED
H3 Mel Brooks and THE ELEPHANT MAN – AFI Catalog Spotlight
H3 AFI Conservatory Alumni at the Academy Awards®
H3 What to Watch: AFI Alumni Projects | June 2026
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (61) on this page.
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https://www.afi.com/protect/Protect
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https://www.afi.com/archive/AFI Archive
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https://www.afi.com/sign-up/AFI Newsletter
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Performance
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The page response time is very slow (1.76 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (352 kB).

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External factors

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This page has 5,820 backlinks.
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