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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
91% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
61% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.93 s
File size
76.60 kB
Words
746
Media files
23
Number of links
26 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
The length of the page title is perfect. (326 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the nation's leading source for rigorous, independent education research, evaluation and statistics.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (936 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://ies.ed.gov/
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
(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)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 746 words. That's ok.
27.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
14 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 17.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
10 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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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...cons/search-illustrative-icon-yellow.svgSearch document
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...certificate-illustrative-icon-yellow.svgCertificate
...holder pattern 5-blue2.png?itok=jF6ELhu1Zoomed in IES logo
.../EnhancingLiteracyBlog.jpg?itok=09cA8T_AThree students lie on their stomachs reading a book.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) Homepage
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
There are 29 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) Homepage
H2 What we do
H2 Featured resources and reports
H2 Featured tools
H2 IES Topic Pages
H2 Latest blogs
H2 Upcoming events
H3 Fund education sciences
H3 We fund development and rigorous testing of new approaches for improving education outcomes for all students.
H3 Evaluate federal programs
H3 We conduct large-scale evaluations of federal education programs and policies.
H3 Support evidence-based policies and practices
H3 We provide objective information about what works to improve outcomes for all learners.
H3 Collect & report education statistics
H3 We provide data that describes how well the United States is educating its students.
H3 Scientific peer review
H3 We oversee the scientific peer review processes for IES reports and grant applications.
H3 Learn About the New Condition of Education 2025: Part I
H3 Elementary and Secondary School and School District Locator
H3 Data Lab
H3 IPEDS Data Explorer
H3 Postsecondary Institution Locator
H3 NAEP Data Explorer
H3 Data tools
H3 From Plan to Practice: Enhancing Literacy Through a Five-Step Continuous Improvement Cycle
H3 Data Science Methods for Digital Learning Platforms
H3 Meta-Analysis Training Institute (MATI)
H3 Bayesian Longitudinal Data Modeling in Education Sciences
H3 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials
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.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ies.ed.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://ies.ed.gov/fundingExplore funding opportunities
/use-work/evaluationsExplore our evaluations
/what-we-do/supporting-evidenc...Learn more
/national-center-education-sta...Learn more about our data
/what-we-do/peer-reviewExplore our peer review process
/use-work/resource-library/rep...View more
/search-results?mcontenttype=S...Subdomain Explore more
https://nces.ed.gov/datalab/startExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Explore more
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/SearchExternal Subdomain Text duplicate Explore more
/search-results?mcontenttype=P...Subdomain Text duplicate Explore more
https://www.nationsreportcard....External Subdomain Text duplicate Explore more
/use-work/data-toolsText duplicate Explore more
/career-and-technical-educationRead More Career and Technical Education (CTE)
/postsecondary-educationRead More Postsecondary Education
/english-learnersRead More English Learners
/science-technology-engineerin...Read More Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
/early-childhood-educationRead More Early Childhood Education
https://ies.ed.gov/literacyRead More Literacy
/social-emotional-behavioral-i...Read More Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Influences on Learning
/education-technologyRead More Education Technology
/adult-basic-skillsRead More Adult Basic Skills
https://ies.ed.gov/covid19Read More COVID-19
/about/external-person/ies-staffIES Staff
/learn/blog/plan-practice-enha...Text duplicate View more
/learn/events/workshoptraining...Text duplicate View more
/learn/events/workshoptraining...Text duplicate View more
/learn/events/workshoptraining...Text duplicate View more
/learn/events/workshoptraining...Text duplicate View more

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ies.ed.gov/"
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 0.93 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.
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 826 referring domains.
This page has 3,129 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 631 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
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# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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Welcome to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the nation's leading source for rigorous, independent education research, evaluation and statistics.

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