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Meta information
66% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.93 s
File size
70.90 kB
Words
1212
Media files
26
Number of links
96 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
American Counseling Association - Home for professional counseling
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 617 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Experience a supportive community dedicated to professional counseling through advocacy, community, inclusion and research. Our inclusive approach promotes advocacy, research, and personal growth. Join us today.
The meta description is too long: 1344 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.counseling.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
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
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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
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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.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1212 words. That's ok.
30.3% 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.
22 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.58 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 24 tags for this page.
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
We are the home for professional counseling.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 We are the home for professional counseling.
H2 What Is the Counseling Compact?
H2 Latest News
H3 Nevada Becomes 38th State to Sign Interstate Counseling Compact into Law
H3 Integrating Telemental Health Practice into Counselor Education Training
H4 The Impact of the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ on Counselors and Mental Health Care
H4 Indiana Counselors: Take Action to Stave Off Reimbursement Rate Cuts
H4 M. Elsa Soto Leggett Begins Term as American Counseling Association President
H4 Nevada Becomes 38th State to Sign Interstate Counseling Compact into Law Duplicate text
H4 Proposed Health and Human Services Budget
H4 American Counseling Association Adds Upheal to Prestigious Strategic Partner Network
H4 Call for Editors: Second Edition of The ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling
H4 American Counseling Association Announces Syvonne Carter as Interim CEO
H4 Executive Order on College Accreditation Process
H4 Cuts to the Health and Human Services Department
H4 ACA Awards Recognize Achievement and Excellence in Professional Counseling
H4 Counseling Experts Present Latest Research at the 2025 ACA Conference & Expo, March 27-29 in Orlando, Fla.
H4 ACA Conference to Feature Sessions on Climate Change, Today’s Political Landscape, Impact of the Loneliness Epidemic on Youth & More
H4 Boynes Announces Departure; ACA Governing Council Announces Plans for Interim Leadership
H4 Continuing Resolution Extends Telehealth Through September
H4 Artificial Intelligence Policy and Counseling
H4 The U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case on Conversion Therapy Ban
H4 The Expiration of Telehealth Extensions
H4 Government Funding Deadline Quickly Approaching
H4 House Passes Budget Resolution That Threatens to Reduce Medicaid
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/advocacy/federal-issues/medic...Medicare Coverage for Counseling
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/publications/counseling-journ...Journal of Counseling & Development
/publications/counseling-journ...The Career Development Quarterly
/publications/counseling-journ...Counselor Education and Supervision
/publications/counseling-journ...Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling
/publications/counseling-journ...Journal of Employment Counseling
/publications/counseling-journ...The Journal of Humanistic Counseling
/publications/counseling-journ...The Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.counseling.org/"
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The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.93 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 (71 kB).

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Experience a supportive community dedicated to professional counseling through advocacy, community, inclusion and research. Our inclusive approach promotes advocacy, research, and personal growth. Join us today.

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