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Meta information
75% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
16% 
Link structure
82% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.99 s
File size
91.10 kB
Words
796
Media files
11
Number of links
48 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Exchange Cultures - Be a Global Citizen - Pass Peace Forward - AFS-USA
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 670 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Study Abroad, Host an International Exchange Student, or Volunteer with a Mission-Driven Nonprofit. Join 400,000 Global Citizens & 100 Years of History.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (944 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.afsusa.org/usa/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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

NameValue
authorAFS-USA
HandheldFriendlyTrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no
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descriptionStudy Abroad, Host an International Exchange Student, or Volunteer with a Mission-Driven Nonprofit. Join 400,000 Global Citizens & 100 Years of History.
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article:modified_time2025-06-05T19:38:02+00:00
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@afsusa
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og:typewebsite
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og:descriptionStudy Abroad, Host an International Exchange Student, or Volunteer with a Mission-Driven Nonprofit. Join 400,000 Global Citizens & 100 Years of History.
og:urlhttps://usa.afssite.afs.org/
og:site_nameAFS-USA
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cleartypeon
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 796 words. That's ok.
32.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 16.89 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=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 90 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"nbc chief foreign correspondent and afs alumnus richard engel addresses the afs-usa family"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
...hite-logo-2416x3300px-e1593628283146.pngAFS International Logo
...16181149/AFS_Logo-USA-e1586370044709.pngAFS International Logo
...hite-logo-2416x3300px-e1593628283146.pngNo alt attribute provided
...hite-logo-2416x3300px-e1593628283146.pngAFS International Logo
...16181149/AFS_Logo-USA-e1586370044709.pngAFS International Logo
...hite-logo-2416x3300px-e1593628283146.pngNo alt attribute provided
...content/themes/core/img/shims/medium.pngStudy Abroad GCSA
...content/themes/core/img/shims/medium.pngHost Family Info Session
...content/themes/core/img/shims/medium.pngAFS x Global Citizen Corporate Council Logo (1)
...mes-like-these-v3-white800w1-300x123.pngNo alt attribute provided
Video URLWidthHeight
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Amm8l1Gzung420315

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
AFS-USA
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (7 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 AFS-USA
H1 AFS-USA Duplicate text
H1 Connecting Cultures, Creating Global Citizens
H2 Join a global community of over 500,000
H2 Exchange your perspective
H2 Scholarships and Aid
H2 Host Family Info Sessions
H2 Information for Educators and Schools
H2 NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent and AFS Alumnus Richard Engel Addresses the AFS-USA Family
H2 Our Mission and Impact
H2 Become a Member of the Global Citizen Corporate Council
H2 The AFS Effect
H3 Study Abroad
H3 Host a Student
H3 Volunteer in the U.S.
H3 Schools and Educators
H3 100 years of volunteerism. 75+ years of exchange.
H3 The World Needs More Global Citizens
H5 Primary Navigation
H5 Primary Navigation Duplicate text
H5 Secondary Navigation
H5 Legal Navigation
H6 Contact Us
H6 About AFS
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.afsusa.org/Subdomain AFS-USA
https://www.afsusa.org/Subdomain AFS AFS-USA
/host-family/Subdomain Host a Student
/study-abroad/Subdomain Study Abroad
/volunteer-with-afsVolunteer
https://www.afsusa.org/educators/Subdomain Educators
https://www.afsusa.org/alumni/Subdomain Alumni
https://www.afsusa.org/donate/Subdomain Donate
https://www.afsusa.org/sign-upCreate Account | Login
/host-family/Subdomain Text duplicate Host a Student
/study-abroad/Subdomain Text duplicate Study Abroad
/volunteer-with-afsText duplicate Volunteer
https://www.afsusa.org/educators/Subdomain Text duplicate Educators
https://www.afsusa.org/alumni/Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni
https://www.afsusa.org/donate/Subdomain Text duplicate Donate
https://www.afsusa.org/sign-upText duplicate Create Account | Login
https://www.afsusa.org/about-afs/Subdomain About AFS-USA
/about-afs/our-leadership/Subdomain Our Leadership
/study-abroad/parents/Subdomain For Parents & Guardians
/global-citizen-corporate-coun...Subdomain Partner with Us
https://www.afsusa.org/podcast/Subdomain Listen to Our Podcast
/afs-usa/info-sessions/Subdomain Join an Information Session
/about-afs/contact/Subdomain Contact Us
https://www.afsusa.org/Subdomain Text duplicate AFS-USA
/study-abroad/Text duplicate Study Abroad
/host-family/Text duplicate Host a Student
/volunteer-with-afs/Volunteer in the U.S.
https://www.afsusa.org/educators/Schools and Educators
/study-abroad/scholarships/Subdomain Learn More
https://afsusa.zoom.us/meeting...New window External Subdomain Register Now
https://www.afsusa.org/educators/New window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.afsusa.org/about-afs/Subdomain Anchor Mission and Values
https://www.afsusa.org/impact/Subdomain Our Impact
/global-citizen-corporate-coun...New window Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://www.afsusa.org/donate/New window Subdomain DONATE TODAY
https://www.afsusa.org/impact/Subdomain Text duplicate Our Impact
https://www.facebook.com/AFSUSA/External Subdomain Facebook
https://instagram.com/afs_usaExternal Instagram
https://twitter.com/AFSUSAExternal Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/a...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.linkedin.com/schoo...External Subdomain LinkedIn
/host-family/Subdomain Text duplicate Host a Student
/study-abroad/Subdomain Text duplicate Study Abroad
/volunteer-with-afsText duplicate Volunteer
https://www.afsusa.org/educators/Subdomain Text duplicate Educators
https://www.afsusa.org/alumni/Subdomain Text duplicate Alumni
https://www.afsusa.org/donate/Subdomain Text duplicate Donate
https://www.afsusa.org/sign-upText duplicate Create Account | Login
https://www.afsusa.org/Subdomain Text duplicate AFS-USA
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/about-afs/afs-usa-accessibili...Subdomain Accessibility Statement
/about-afs/public-diplomacy-in...Subdomain Public Diplomacy Initiatives
/about-afs/our-leadership/Subdomain Text duplicate Our Leadership
https://shop.afsusa.org/External Subdomain Merchandise
https://www.paycomonline.net/v...External Subdomain Careers
/about-afs/contact/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.afsusa.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 is very slow (1.99 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 (91 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 01 Aug 2025 07:36:40 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
servercloudflare
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x-tec-api-versionv1
x-tec-api-roothttps://www.afsusa.org/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-originhttps://www.afsusa.org
cache-controlpublic
expiresFri, 01 Aug 2025 07:36:39 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=0; includeSubDomains
access-control-allow-headersOrigin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
content-encodingbr
set-cookie178 Characters
cf-ray9683aa6c3883f82e-CDG
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 180 referring domains.
This page has 2,732 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 159 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.afsusa.org/sitemap_index.xml

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
AFS85%Check
Global70%Check
Citizen70%Check
Global Citizen70%Check
AFS-USA69%Check
Exchange66%Check
Global Citizens62%Check
Exchange Student60%Check
AFS programs60%Check
Exchange Cultures60%Check
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