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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
95% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
41% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.07 s
File size
183.60 kB
Words
564
Media files
47
Number of links
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Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Foundation for Intentional Community
The length of the page title is perfect. (334 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Intentional Communities include ecovillages, cohousing, community land trusts, communes, co-ops, coliving, and housing cooperatives.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (832 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.ic.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Germany
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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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
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The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

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This page contains 564 words. That's ok.
27.7% of the text are stop words.
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The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
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There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.6 words is good.
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This page does not use a frameset.
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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Some tags are too long. With 77 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"learn how to join, start, and grow an intentional community with fic courses."
Image SEO
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This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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.

Media list

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H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

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H2 A New World Awaits
H2 Learn how to join, start, and grow an intentional community with FIC courses.
H2 Upcoming Courses and Events
H2 Join The Movement
H2 Featured Books
H2 Are You Ready to Start Building?
H2 Community Classifieds
H2 BIPOC Intentional Community Council
H3 Building Sustainable Communities
H3 Who Decides Who Decides?
H3 Finding Community
H3 OUR SPONSORS
H3 OUR PARTNERS
H3 AS FEATURED IN
H4 SITE PAGES
H5 OUR MISSION
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (44) on this page.

Found links on this page

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HTTP redirects
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
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The page response time is excellent with 0.07 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (184 kB).

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