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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
87% 
Page quality
95% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
96% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.47 s
File size
143.40 kB
Words
727
Media files
34
Number of links
80 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | The International Center for Language Studies
The length of the page title is perfect. (483 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Achieve language proficiency in over 85 languages with ICLS. Learn English fluency in Washington, D.C., or online with public and private learning environment options.
The meta description is too long: 1033 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.icls.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)
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 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 727 words. That's ok.
28.2% 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.
12 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 14.13 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 15 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/hubfs/icls-white-logo.svgInternational Center for Language Studies logoInternational Center for Language Studies logo
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...t=516&name=smiling-woman-at-laptop-3.jpgStudents attending a language class at ICLS
...0&height=1080&name=Untitled design-2.pngFront view of the International Center for Language Studies building
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/hubfs/icls-placeholder-img.jpegICLS Blog Post Image
...nnial texting from their BlackBerry.jpegNo alt attribute provided
https://www.icls.edu/hubfs/new.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Your Path to Global Success
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Your Path to Global Success
H2 I'd like to learn
H2 Learn 85+ Languages
H2 Become Fluent in English
H2 Gain Professional Experience in the USA
H2 What's New
H2 ICLS' Accreditations, Certifications, and Memberships
H2 Corporate Language Training
H2 Latest From ICLS
H3 Language Adventures Await!
H3 Your English Adventure is Waiting for You!
H3 Calling all Language Educators!
H3 Are you a Mature Adult Wanting to Learn a New Language?
H3 4 Brazilian Festivals You Can’t Miss
H3 8 Fire Gen Z Slang Terms And The Millennial Equivalent
H3 Weird numbers in French, German and Danish: Why?
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.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.icls.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.icls.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT International Center for Language Studies logo
https://www.icls.edu/aboutSubdomain About
https://www.icls.edu/blogSubdomain News & Blog
https://www.icls.edu/careersSubdomain Careers
/foreign-language-programsSubdomain Foreign Languages
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Online Group Classes
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Arabic
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Chinese
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain French
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Brazilian Portuguese
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Russian
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Spanish
/foreign-language-programs/pri...Subdomain Private Language Instruction
/foreign-language-programs/lif...Subdomain Lifelong Language Program
/professional-development-prog...Subdomain Professional Development Program
/foreign-language-programs/ilr...Subdomain Foreign Language Proficiency Testing
/foreign-language-programs/lan...Subdomain Languages We Teach
/english-language-programsSubdomain English Language
/english-language-programs/int...Subdomain Intensive English Language
/english-language-programs/vac...Subdomain Vacation English Program
/english-language-programs/pri...Subdomain Private English Language Instruction
/english-language-programs/eng...Subdomain English Pronunciation for Global Professionals
/foreign-language-programs/ilr...Subdomain English Language Test for Speaking
/english-language-programs/gat...Subdomain Gateway for Business Success Courses
https://learning.icls.edu/engl...External Subdomain Information for Agents
/english-language-programs/hou...Subdomain Housing
/english-language-programs/j-1...Subdomain J-1 Intern and Trainee Program
https://www.icls.edu/toeflSubdomain TOEFL® Preparation Course
/corporate-language-trainingSubdomain Corporate
/government-language-trainingSubdomain Government
/government-language-training/...Subdomain ILR Proficiency Levels
/government-language-training/...Subdomain GSA Schedule
https://www.icls.edu/contactSubdomain Contact Us
/foreign-language-programsSubdomain Text duplicate Foreign Languages
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Text duplicate Online Group Classes
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Text duplicate Arabic
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Text duplicate Chinese
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Text duplicate French
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Text duplicate Brazilian Portuguese
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Text duplicate Russian
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Text duplicate Spanish
/foreign-language-programs/pri...Subdomain Text duplicate Private Language Instruction
/foreign-language-programs/lif...Subdomain Text duplicate Lifelong Language Program
/professional-development-prog...Subdomain Text duplicate Professional Development Program
/foreign-language-programs/ilr...Subdomain Text duplicate Foreign Language Proficiency Testing
/foreign-language-programs/lan...Subdomain Text duplicate Languages We Teach
/english-language-programsSubdomain Text duplicate English Language
/english-language-programs/int...Subdomain Text duplicate Intensive English Language
/english-language-programs/vac...Subdomain Text duplicate Vacation English Program
/english-language-programs/pri...Subdomain Text duplicate Private English Language Instruction
/english-language-programs/eng...Subdomain Text duplicate English Pronunciation for Global Professionals
/foreign-language-programs/ilr...Subdomain Text duplicate English Language Test for Speaking
/english-language-programs/gat...Subdomain Text duplicate Gateway for Business Success Courses
https://learning.icls.edu/engl...External Subdomain Text duplicate Information for Agents
/english-language-programs/hou...Subdomain Text duplicate Housing
/english-language-programs/j-1...Subdomain Text duplicate J-1 Intern and Trainee Program
https://www.icls.edu/toeflSubdomain Text duplicate TOEFL® Preparation Course
/corporate-language-trainingSubdomain Text duplicate Corporate
/government-language-trainingSubdomain Text duplicate Government
/government-language-training/...Subdomain Text duplicate ILR Proficiency Levels
/government-language-training/...Subdomain Text duplicate GSA Schedule
https://www.icls.edu/contactSubdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/contact?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
/foreign-language-programs?hsL...Subdomain Learn More
/english-language-programs?hsL...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/english-language-programs/j-1...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/foreign-language-programs/onl...Subdomain Get Started
/english-language-programs?hsL...Subdomain Text duplicate Get Started
/professional-development-prog...Subdomain Text duplicate Get Started
/foreign-language-programs/lif...Subdomain Text duplicate Get Started
/corporate-language-training?h...Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/blog/brazilian-festivals-you-...Subdomain Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blog/8-fire-gen-z-slang-terms...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/blog/weird-numbers-in-french-...Subdomain Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/foreign-language-programsSubdomain Text duplicate Foreign Languages
/english-language-programsSubdomain Text duplicate English Language
/corporate-language-trainingSubdomain Text duplicate Corporate
/government-language-trainingSubdomain Text duplicate Government
https://www.icls.edu/careersSubdomain Text duplicate Careers
https://www.icls.edu/contactSubdomain Text duplicate Contact Us
https://learning.icls.edu/know...External Subdomain Knowledge Base
https://www.facebook.com/ICLSdcNew window External Subdomain Facebook
A-TITLE Facebook
https://twitter.com/iclsNew window External X
A-TITLE X
https://www.youtube.com/c/Inte...New window External Subdomain Youtube
A-TITLE Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/icls...New window External Subdomain Instagram
A-TITLE Instagram
/privacy-policy?hsLang=enNew window Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.rakacreative.com/New window External Subdomain Raka

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.icls.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 0.47 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 (143 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 35 referring domains.
This page has 278 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 32 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Disallow: /es/blog/author/admin/*
Disallow: /es/blog/tag/english
Disallow: /es/blog/tag/english-language-programs
Disallow: /blog/author/admin
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Disallow: /blog/tag/french/page/1
Disallow: /blog/tag/english/page/1
Disallow: /blog/tag/lifelong-learning/page/1

Sitemap: https://www.icls.edu/sitemap.xml

# Allow HubSpot Site Search Indexing
Disallow: /_hcms/preview/
Disallow: /hs/manage-preferences/
Disallow: /hs/preferences-center/
Disallow: /*?*hs_preview=*
Disallow: /*?*hsCacheBuster=*

User-agent: HubSpotContentSearchBot
Allow: /


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Home | The International Center for Language Studies
Achieve language proficiency in over 85 languages with ICLS. Learn English fluency in Washington, D.C., or online with public and private learning environment options.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
ICLS70%Check
Language68%Check
English Language63%Check
Language Studies61%Check
English58%Check
Language Learning58%Check
language proficiency58%Check
Learn English56%Check
Language Test56%Check
learn54%Check
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