Communicate.gse.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
91% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
93% 
External factors
3% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.54 s
File size
30.50 kB
Words
323
Media files
9
Number of links
25 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Writing Center & Communication Lab
The length of the page title is perfect. (331 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Your home for written and oral communication support at HGSE
The length of the meta description is perfect. (391 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://communicate.gse.harvard.edu/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Czechia
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)
The domain name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
descriptionYour home for written and oral communication support at HGSE
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twitter:cardsummary
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twitter:descriptionWritten & Oral Communication Student Support
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og:typeuniversity
og:titleWriting Center & Communication Lab
og:imagehttps://communicate.gse.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/commlab/files/harvard_logo_0.jpg?m=1644590793
x-ua-compatibleIE=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 323 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.5% 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.
4 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 24.33 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)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The amount of tags is very high (8). We recommend using a maximum of 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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
...s/hwpi_basetheme/images/harvard-logo.pngUniversity Logo
...ab/files/harvard_logo_0.jpg?m=1644590793Writing Center & Communication Lab
...-banner_2.png?m=1596137576&itok=kLpQhLZkHarvard Graduate School of EducationHarvard Graduate School of Education
...-unsplash.jpg?m=1594324601&itok=LLD7MhE9errorerror
...nsplash_2.jpg?m=1594325653&itok=UKjUkuHUerrorerror
....13.01_am.png?m=1721312148&itok=UNX8IQucNo alt attribute provided
...faq_icon1.jpg?m=1613162103&itok=-5yO2drDfaq iconGeneral FAQ
..._prep_wc2.jpg?m=1613578162&itok=UxBrV3gRprepprep
...ibrary_vf.jpg?m=1595957914&itok=VPDMEvakGutman Library Logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Empty heading
H2 HGSE Peer-to-Peer Services
H2 Our Mission
H2 Writing Center (virtual)
H2 Communications Lab (virtual)
H2 AI Lab (virtual)
H2 WELCOME!
H2 Individual Student Support
H2 Appointment FAQ
H3 Empty heading
H3 Make an appointment with a (an)
H4 AI Lab TF
H4 CommLab TF
H4 DataLab TF
H4 Writing Center TF
H5 Gutman Library Logo
H5 Empty heading
H5 HARVARD
H5 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
H5 13 Appian Way | Cambridge, MA 02138
H5 Contact Us
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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT University Logo
http://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain HARVARD.EDU
/Subdomain IMG-ALT Writing Center & Communication Lab
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/External Subdomain HGSE
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/li...External Subdomain Gutman Library
https://asklib.gse.harvard.edu...External Subdomain LIBRARY FAQ
/Subdomain HOME
/Subdomain AI Lab
/our-mission-2Subdomain Our Mission
/services-0Subdomain Services
/resources-0Subdomain Resources
/faqsSubdomain FAQ
/communicationslabSubdomain CommLab
/our-mission-1Subdomain Text duplicate Our Mission
/services-1Subdomain Text duplicate Services
/resources-1Subdomain Text duplicate Resources
/faq-1Subdomain Text duplicate FAQ
/writingcenterSubdomain Writing Center
/our-mission-0Subdomain Text duplicate Our Mission
/servicesSubdomain Text duplicate Services
/resourcesSubdomain Text duplicate Resources
/faq-0Subdomain Text duplicate FAQ
/Subdomain About Us
/our-teamSubdomain Our Team
/annual-reportSubdomain Annual Report
https://projects.iq.harvard.ed...External Subdomain IMG-ALT error
https://projects.iq.harvard.ed...External Subdomain Writing Center (virtual)
https://projects.iq.harvard.ed...External Subdomain We aim to assist HGSE students in the acquisition of clear and cogent writing skills through one-on-one appointments & workshops
https://projects.iq.harvard.ed...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT error
https://projects.iq.harvard.ed...External Subdomain Communications Lab (virtual)
https://projects.iq.harvard.ed...External Subdomain We exist to hone HGSE students' academic and professional communication skills across a variety of mixed-medium channels.
https://asklib.gse.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Ask Us
https://libcal.library.harvard...External Subdomain AI Lab TF
https://libcal.library.harvard...External Subdomain CommLab TF
https://libcal.library.harvard...External Subdomain DataLab TF
https://libcal.library.harvard...External Subdomain Writing Center TF
/files/commlab/files/what_to_e...Subdomain IMG-ALT faq icon
/files/commlab/files/preparing...Subdomain IMG-ALT prep
/Subdomain Department Links
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/hg...External Subdomain Centennial
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/di...External Subdomain HGSE Directory
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/li...External Subdomain HGSE Gutman Library
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Harvard University
/user?destination=home?admin_p...Admin Login
https://accessibility.harvard....External Subdomain Accessibility
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
https://www.harvard.edu/copyri...External Subdomain Report Copyright Infringement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://communicate.gse.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 of 0.54 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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last-modifiedTue, 29 Jul 2025 01:06:39 GMT
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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 1 referring domains.
This page only has 1 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 1 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# 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/wc/robots.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: *?f%5B*
Disallow: *&f%5B*
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Allow: /profiles/openscholar/themes/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
Allow: /files/commlab/files
Disallow: /files/*/files

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Writing Center & Communication Lab
Your home for written and oral communication support at HGSE

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