citylit.ac.uk | Website SEO Review

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Title

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City Lit | Adult Education | Courses Online & in London

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Meta Title

Meta description

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Explore 1000s of online and in-person courses taught by experts and experienced professionals. Learn from City Lit — London's biggest adult education college.

The length of the meta description is perfect. (985 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)

Meta Description

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There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

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https://www.citylit.ac.uk/

There is a valid canonical link specified.

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Language detected in text: en

Language defined in HTML: en

Server location: United States of America

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The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

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The URL does not have too many subdirectories.

SEO-friendly URLs

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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

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Name	Value
title	City Lit \| Adult Education \| Courses Online & in London
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Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content

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Duplicate: At City Lit, we empower you to enrich your life through learning. Whet...

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16% 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.

5 paragraphs were found on this page.

No placeholders texts or images were found.

The average number of words per sentence of 13.85 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

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This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

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Mobile Optimization

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The amount of tags is very high (29). We recommend using a maximum of 26 tags for this page.

The following tag is repeated too often: welcome to city lit

Some tags are too long. With 119 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"cyber weekend discount ends midnight monday 2nd december 2024. only valid on one course between £99 an..."

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

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20 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.

Social Sharing

Additional markup

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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.

HTTPS

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Welcome to City Lit

The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.

Too many H1 headings

The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

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Some headings occur twice on the page.

There are 37 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Some headings do not have any content.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	Welcome to City Lit
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H1	Empty heading
H2	Gift vouchers
H2	January Courses
H2	Top rated courses
H2	Courses for beginners
H2	Taster courses
H2	Find out more
H2	Our courses Art & design Culture, history & humanities Business, marketing & technology Health & wellbeing Languages Performing arts Skills for life Specialist learning Writing
H2	Our courses
H2	Discover more at City Lit
H2	Why Learn HTML & CSS?
H2	Malorie Blackman Scholarships
H2	Pronunciation: The Key to Native Speech
H2	Why Study the Humanities?
H2	Our partners
H3	Art & design
H3	Culture, history & humanities
H3	Business, marketing & technology
H3	Health & wellbeing
H3	Languages
H3	Performing arts
H3	Skills for life
H3	Specialist learning
H3	Writing
H3	Sign up for City Lit updates and information
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H3	Get in touch
H3	Help and support
H3	My City Lit
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H3	About us Duplicate text
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H4	Locate us on the map

Link structure 36% achieved

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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.

5 links don't have an anchor text.

The number of internal links is ok.

None of the anchor texts is too long.

Internal Linking

External links

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There are too many external links (40) on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/	Anchor	Skip to Content
/about-us		About
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/blog		Blog
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/events		Events
/support-us		Support Us
https://help.citylit.ac.uk/hc/...	External Subdomain	Help Centre
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/		IMG-ALT City Lit A-TITLE City Lit
https://help.citylit.ac.uk/hc/...	External Subdomain Text duplicate	Help Centre
/customer/account/login/refere...		My Account
/checkout/cart/		Basket
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/	Anchor	Menu
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses		Courses
/courses/art-and-design		Art & design
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/courses/art-and-design/photog...		Photography
/courses/art-and-design/photog...		Photography skills & workshops
/courses/art-and-design/photog...		Photography editing & printing
/courses/art-and-design/photog...		Creative, commercial & documentary photography
/courses/art-and-design/photog...		Photography theory, talks & discussions
/courses/art-and-design/photog...		Location & wildlife photography
/courses/art-and-design/drawin...		Drawing
/courses/art-and-design/drawin...		Drawing techniques & processes
/courses/art-and-design/drawin...		Sketchbooks & location drawing
/courses/art-and-design/drawin...		Life drawing & portraiture
/courses/art-and-design/drawin...		Mindfulness, drawing & creativity
/courses/art-and-design/drawin...		Mixed media & Collage
/courses/art-and-design/visual...		Graphic design & illustration
/courses/art-and-design/visual...		Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign
/courses/art-and-design/visual...		Children's book illustration
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/courses/art-and-design/visual...		Illustration
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/courses/art-and-design/painti...		Life painting & portraiture
/courses/art-and-design/painti...		Watercolour painting
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/courses/art-and-design/printm...		Contemporary printmaking studio & personal projects
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/courses/art-and-design/printm...		Monoprinting, mixed media & miscellaneous
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/courses/art-and-design/fashio...		Clothesmaking
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/courses/art-and-design/fashio...		Embroidery & stitch
/courses/art-and-design/fashio...		Textile design & software
/courses/art-and-design/fashio...		Textile dye & print
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/courses/art-and-design/3d-and...		Interior, spatial & garden design
/courses/art-and-design/3d-and...		Model & prop making
/courses/art-and-design/animat...		Animation & Filmmaking
/courses/art-and-design/animat...		Filmmaking & production
/courses/art-and-design/animat...		Filmmaking & editing
/courses/art-and-design/animat...		Animation
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/courses/art-and-design/sculpt...		Sculpture
/courses/art-and-design/sculpt...		Ceramics & pottery
/courses/art-and-design/sculpt...		Carving & modelling
/courses/art-and-design/sculpt...		Metalwork
/courses/art-and-design/sculpt...		Mould making & casting
/courses/art-and-design/sculpt...		Mixed material
/courses/art-and-design/contem...		Contemporary crafts
/courses/art-and-design/contem...		Basketry
/courses/art-and-design/contem...		Bookbinding
/courses/art-and-design/contem...		Calligraphy
/courses/art-and-design/contem...		Mosaics
/courses/art-and-design/jewell...		Jewellery design & making
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/courses/art-and-design/jewell...		Metal & silversmithing
/courses/art-and-design/jewell...		Stone setting
/courses/art-and-design/jewell...		Non-precious & experimental materials
/courses/art-and-design/jewell...		Gemmology and appraising jewellery
/courses/art-and-design/talks-...		Talks & events
/courses/art-and-design/talks-...		Artist talks
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/courses/humanities/history/af...		African history
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/courses/humanities/history/br...		British & Irish history
/courses/humanities/history-po...		The Caribbean & Americas
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/courses/humanities/history/wo...		Global & imperial history
/courses/humanities/history/fu...		Histories, memories & heritage
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/courses/humanities/history/lo...		London history & walks
/courses/humanities/history/th...		The Middle East & North Africa
/courses/humanities/art-history		Art history
/courses/humanities/art-histor...		Introductory & general art history courses
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/courses/humanities/art-histor...		Art trips abroad
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/courses/humanities/literature...		Introductory Literature courses
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/courses/humanities/literature...		Drama
/courses/humanities/literature...		Poetry
/courses/humanities/literature...		Literary history
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/courses/humanities/literature...		Advanced literary study
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/courses/humanities/politics-a...		Global & regional politics
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/courses/humanities/film-studi...		Introductory & general
/courses/humanities/film-studi...		American film
/courses/humanities/film-studi...		Advanced film studies
/courses/humanities/film-studi...		European film
/courses/humanities/film-studi...		Masters of Cinema
/courses/humanities/film-studi...		TV & media studies
/courses/humanities/film-studi...		World film
/courses/humanities/film-studi...		Ciné-club
/courses/humanities/philosophy...		Philosophy, religion, & ideas
/courses/humanities/philosophy...		The history of ideas
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/courses/humanities/science-an...		Science & nature
/courses/humanities/science-an...		Astronomy
/courses/humanities/science-an...		Geology
/courses/humanities/science-an...		Physics
/courses/humanities/science-an...		Habitats, Ecology & the natural world
/courses/humanities/ancient-ci...		Ancient civilisations
/courses/humanities/ancient-ci...		Classical literature
/courses/humanities/ancient-ci...	Text duplicate	Ancient civilisations
/courses/humanities/culture		Cultural studies
/courses/humanities/anthropology		Anthropology
/courses/humanities/archaeology		Archaeology
/courses/humanities/archaeolog...	Text duplicate	Archaeology
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/courses/languages/european/hu...		Hungarian
/courses/languages/european/it...		Italian
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/courses/languages/european/po...		Polish
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/courses/languages/european/sw...		Swedish
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/courses/performing-arts/actin...		Directing
/courses/performing-arts/actin...		Drama therapy
/courses/performing-arts/actin...		Physical skills for actors
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/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Ballet
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Ballroom
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Burlesque
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Charleston
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Contemporary dance
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Flamenco
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		General dance
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Jazz dance
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Latin American dance
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Swing
/courses/performing-arts/dance...		Tap dance
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/courses/performing-arts/music...		Ensembles
/courses/performing-arts/music...		Jazz & popular music
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/courses/performing-arts/music...		Music history
/courses/performing-arts/music...		Music production
/courses/performing-arts/music...		Piano/keyboards classes
/courses/performing-arts/music...		Piano workshops
/courses/performing-arts/music...		Singing
/courses/performing-arts/music...		Strings
/courses/performing-arts/music...		Winds
/courses/performing-arts/music...		World music
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/courses/performing-arts/voice...		Voice for everyone
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/courses/technology-science-an...	Text duplicate	Machine Learning
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