Els.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
91% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
256.00 kB
Words
1351
Media files
57
Number of links
78 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
English Courses | Study English with ELS | ELS
The length of the page title is perfect. (425 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Learn English with ELS at our English school in the USA. Our English schools are based on USA university campuses, offering an American student experience.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (985 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.els.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1351 words. That's ok.
33.8% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
19 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 17.79 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 27 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
16 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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Learn English at ELS
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
There are 35 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.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Learn English at ELS
H1 Get a Quote
H2 Learning English in the USA
H2 Learn English on a University Campus
H2 Find the right English Program!
H2 University Admissions Service
H2 Why Choose ELS?
H2 Discover the perfect ELS City
H2 Accreditation & Memberships
H2 What Our Students Say About Us
H2 Study in Canada or Australia
H2 REQUEST MORE INFORMATION | CONNECT WITH AN ADVISOR
H2 Enter your date of birth
H3 Empty heading
H3 Our focus is on your success and we can guide you there.
H3 Tell us where you live
H4 SEARCH
H4 USA
H4 Explore Our Programs
H4 Most Popular Programs
H4 Special Programs
H4 University Programs
H4 Changing Lives through Language
H4 Intensive English
H4 Semi-Intensive English
H4 American Explorer
H4 English for Executives
H4 Super Intensive English
H4 ELS 2 + 2 Program
H4 College Year Program
H4 PROGRAMS & SERVICES
H4 ADMISSIONS
H4 ABOUT ELS
H4 OUR NETWORK
H5 Learn English in the USA at one of our amazing destinations.
H5 We'll provide your quote in your local currency*
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
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.
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https://www.instagram.com/elsc...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/E...New window External Subdomain No Text
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/arrival-information/els-policiesSubdomain Policy
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.els.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 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (256 kB).

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 365 referring domains.
This page has 36,709 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 282 different ip addresses.

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www.els.edu
English Courses | Study English with ELS | ELS
Learn English with ELS at our English school in the USA. Our English schools are based on USA university campuses, offering an American student experience.

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Study English69%Check
English Language63%Check
Intensive English63%Check
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