Hai.elliott.gwu.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
56% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
74% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
78% 
External factors
21% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.88 s
File size
63.00 kB
Words
332
Media files
9
Number of links
28 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Humanitarian Action Initiative – at the Elliott School of International Affairs
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 656 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the 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://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorGW Blogs 6.8.1 - https://blogs.gwu.edu/
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleWelcome!
twitter:descriptionThe Humanitarian Action Initiative (HAI) is an academic and research hub housed in the Elliott School of International Affairs that convenes and cultivates the school’s curriculum, scholarly research, and policy expertise on topics related to humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian assistance is a broad field of activity that includes responses to earthquakes, floods, droughts and famines, involves […]
twitter:imagehttps://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/files/2020/11/Banner_home.gif
og:titleWelcome!
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/
og:descriptionThe Humanitarian Action Initiative (HAI) is an academic and research hub housed in the Elliott School of International Affairs that convenes and cultivates the school’s curriculum, scholarly research, and policy expertise on topics related to humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian assistance is a broad field of activity that includes responses to earthquakes, floods, droughts and famines, involves […]
og:site_nameHumanitarian Action Initiative
og:localeen_US
og:imagehttps://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/files/2020/11/Banner_home.gif
og:image:width1050
og:image:height273
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 332 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 40 words is high.
31.9% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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
/files/2020/11/Banner_home.gifHumanitarian Action Initiative
/files/2023/04/DSC00059-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/files/2023/04/image003-2-1024x768.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/files/2023/06/DSCF9874-2-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/files/2023/04/DSC00067-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...00021537_BURST000_COVER_TOP-1024x768.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/files/2023/04/DSC00071-1-1024x683.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...Screenshot-2025-04-24-at-12.19.43 PM.pngNo alt attribute provided
...371/files/2023-07/gw_primary_wht_rev.pngThe George Washington University, Washington, DC

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome!
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome!
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/Anchor Skip to the content
https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/Subdomain Humanitarian Action Initiative
https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/Subdomain Welcome!
/home/about/Subdomain About
/home/about/faculty-experts/Subdomain Faculty Experts
/home/academics/Subdomain Academics
/home/events/Subdomain Events
/foreign-aid-teach-in/Subdomain Foreign Aid Teach-In
/home/research-publications/Subdomain Research & Publications
/humanitarian-action-lab/Subdomain The Power and Politics of Localization
/careers/Subdomain Careers
/careers/humanitarian-career-i...Subdomain Humanitarian Career Insights
/get-involved/Subdomain Get Involved
https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Welcome!
/home/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/home/about/faculty-experts/Subdomain Text duplicate Faculty Experts
/home/academics/Subdomain Text duplicate Academics
/home/events/Subdomain Text duplicate Events
/foreign-aid-teach-in/Subdomain Text duplicate Foreign Aid Teach-In
/home/research-publications/Subdomain Text duplicate Research & Publications
/humanitarian-action-lab/Subdomain Text duplicate The Power and Politics of Localization
/careers/Subdomain Text duplicate Careers
/careers/humanitarian-career-i...Subdomain Text duplicate Humanitarian Career Insights
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Involved
/home/about/Subdomain Learn more about HAI
https://blogs.gwu.edu/elliott-...New window External Subdomain The Power and Politics of Localization Conference
https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/Subdomain WordPress
https://twitter.com/HAI_GWExternal Twitter
https://youtube.com/playlist?l...External YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/hai_...External Subdomain Instagram
https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Humanitarian Action Initiative
https://wordpress.org/External Powered by WordPress
https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/Anchor To the top ↑ Up ↑
https://www.gwu.edu/?utm_mediu...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT The George Washington University, Washington, DC
https://campusadvisories.gwu.e...New window External Subdomain Campus Advisories
https://compliance.gwu.edu/equ...New window External Subdomain EO/Nondiscrimination Policy
https://www.gwu.edu/privacy-no...New window External Subdomain Website Privacy Notice
https://www.gwu.edu/contact-gw...New window External Subdomain Contact GW
https://accessibility.gwu.edu/...New window External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.gwu.edu/terms-use?...New window External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.gwu.edu/copyright?...New window External Subdomain Copyright
https://accessibility.gwu.edu/...New window External Subdomain Report a barrier to accessibility.

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://hai.elliott.gwu.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 0.88 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 (63 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serveropenresty
dateMon, 28 Jul 2025 03:06:07 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyCookie
link<https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
last-modifiedMon, 28 Jul 2025 03:06:06 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=3600, must-revalidate
x-cacheMISS
x-cache-bypass-reason0
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 7 referring domains.
This page only has 11 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 7 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://hai.elliott.gwu.edu/wp-sitemap.xml

Crawl-delay: 30

User-agent: Yandex
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User-agent: moget
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User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /wp-content/mu-plugins/

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Elliott58%Check
Elliott School53%Check
Humanitarian52%Check
Action52%Check
Initiative52%Check
Humanitarian Action Initiative52%Check
Welcome50%Check
International Affairs46%Check
School45%Check
Humanitarian Assistance43%Check
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