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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.25 s
File size
67.40 kB
Words
430
Media files
16
Number of links
55 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Derek Bok Center, Harvard University | The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 792 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 430 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: The Bok Center is currently developing new programming and new resourc...
25.8% 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.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.22 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 174 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"the bok center is currently developing new programming and new resources for the fas community. thank ..."
The following tag is repeated too often: the bok center is currently developing new programming and new resources for the fas community. thank ...
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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
(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
...in/images/svg/header-logo-horizontal.svgHarvard University
...hwp_hyard/logo/bok_logo_HarvardSites.svgNo alt attribute provided
...hwp_hyard/logo/bok_logo_HarvardSites.svgThe Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
...hwp_hyard/logo/bok_logo_HarvardSites.svgNo alt attribute provided
...hwp_hyard/logo/bok_logo_HarvardSites.svgThe Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
...24-10/NFI 2024 Faculty.jpg?itok=8Z58vN9RHarvard faculty at the 2024 New Faculty Institute
...958982071_eaf55cc352_k.jpg?itok=-qoFRUd9Students talk in small groups during a workshop at the Fall Teaching Conference.
...536713256_6f10f77840_o.jpg?itok=TmZz3FIULearning Lab Fellows meeting around a table.
...9913706_6461d54eb5_c_1.jpg?itok=lk4ABihtbok_bookshelf_vertical.jpg
...584258651_aed73ea78d_c.jpg?itok=zmzf9X6Lcivil discourse
...ing in the age of AI 3.jpg?itok=x5oLPm7hstudents exploring AI tools at the Science Center
...shadowbok/files/studio.jpg?itok=DkXsOI_jcomputer in the Learning Lab's studio
...399725948_b178f37bfd_c.jpg?itok=4lFJP3ydITF Speak More Slowly Cards.jpg
.../2025-02/ABL connect .jpg?itok=uqw_F_fostudent with glasses at a laptop
...vard_fas_horizontal_large_rgb (1)(1).svgHarvard University
...rd/hwp-goldin/images/svg/footer-logo.svgHarvard University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Derek Bok Center, Harvard University
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Derek Bok Center, Harvard University
H1 Partnering with faculty to create transformative experiences
H1 Creating a Community of Graduate Student Teachers
H1 Where Students Design their Own Educations
H2 All Upcoming Events
H2 Follow us
H3 Faculty Support
H3 Civil Discourse
H3 AI
H3 Learning Lab
H3 Discussion Group for International PhD Students
H3 ABLConnect
H4 Hero Pagination
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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/Anchor Skip to main content arrow_circle_down
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Harvard University
https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/IMG-ALT The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
http://eepurl.com/drqp5DExternal Join Our Email List
/contact-usContact Us
https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
/aboutAbout
/staffPeople
/historyHistory
/contact-usText duplicate Contact Us
/eventsEvents
/newsNews
/make-giftMake a Gift
/teaching-resourcesTeaching Resources
/designDesign
/teachTeach
/assessAssess
/graduate-studentsGraduate Students
/teaching-fellow-trainingTeaching Training
/international-teachers-and-sc...Professional Communication Program for International Teachers and Scholars
/feedback-consultations-gradFeedback
/workshopsWorkshops
/class-observations-gradObservations
/professional-and-scholarly-co...Professional & Scholarly Communication
/teaching-certificateTeaching Certificates
/seminarsBok Seminars
/learning-lab-services-graduat...Learning Lab Services for Graduate Students
/pedagogy-fellowsPedagogy Fellows
/bok-graduate-fellowsBok Graduate Fellows
/undergraduatesUndergraduate Students
/learning-lab-undergraduate-fe...Learning Lab Undergraduate Fellows
/culture-and-communication-con...Culture and Communication Consultants
/undergraduate-pedagogy-fellowsUndergraduate Pedagogy Fellows
/initiativesInitiatives
/civil-discourseCivil Discourse
/gen-edGeneral Education
/harvard-horizonsHarvard Horizons
/teaching-aiTeaching and AI
/curricular-renewalCurricular Renewal
/writing-supportWriting Support
/herschbach-lectureHerschbach Lecture
/international-summer-instituteInternational Summer Institute
/faculty-research-supportFaculty Research Support
/campus-resourcesCampus Resources
/teaching-resourcesarrow_forward Learn more about our resources for faculty
/graduate-students-2arrow_forward Learn more about our programming for graduate students
/learning-lab-services-facultyarrow_forward Learn more about the Learning Lab
/360-support-facultyLearn more arrow_circle_right
/civil-discourseText duplicate Civil Discourse
/teaching-aiAI
/learning-labLearning Lab
/event/discussion-group-intern...Discussion Group for International PhD Students
/calendarMore Eventsarrow_circle_right
https://ablconnect.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Visit ABLConnect arrow_circle_right
https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Harvard University
https://www.instagram.com/dere...External Subdomain Instagram
/aboutText duplicate About
/contact-usText duplicate Contact Us
http://eepurl.com/drqp5DExternal Text duplicate Join Our Email List
/loginAdmin login
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Harvard University
https://accessibility.harvard....External Subdomain Accessibility
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
https://www.harvard.edu/copyri...External Subdomain Report Copyright Infringement
https://hwp.harvard.edu/harvar...External Subdomain Info Practices

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/"
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 excellent with 0.25 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (67 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-languageen
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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server-timingcdn-cache; desc=HIT
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 102 referring domains.
This page has 6,806 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 97 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.ico
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password/
Disallow: /index.php/user/register/
Disallow: /index.php/user/login/
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout/

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