Skillsbuild.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
82% 
Page quality
50% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
62% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.57 s
File size
116.90 kB
Words
367
Media files
7
Number of links
79 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Free Skills-Based Learning From Technology Experts | IBM SkillsBuild
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 624 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Get free, online, skills-based learning and support no matter where you are in your career journey, developed by technology experts.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (812 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://skillsbuild.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 367 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
21.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
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)
1 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
data:[...] Base64Young man in wheel chair at library
data:[...] Base64Man teaches class of students
data:[...] Base64Teacher leaning over desk to assist student at laptop in classroom
data:[...] Base64Smiling woman and man working at computer.
data:[...] Base64Focused software developer coding at a standing desk, wearing headphones for deep concentration.
data:[...] Base64Person working at computer
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
IBM SkillsBuildPower your future in tech with job skills, courses, and credentials—for free.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 IBM SkillsBuildPower your future in tech with job skills, courses, and credentials—for free.
H2 Explore resources for:
H2 Featured news
H2 Featured events
H2 For high school students
H2 For college students
H2 For adult learners
H2 For high school educators
H2 For college educators
H2 For organizations
H2 About IBM SkillsBuild
H2 Support
H3 IBM is equipping the next generation of student developers across universities with AI skills
H3 IBM is committed to training 2 million people in Artificial Intelligence in 3 years
H3 IBM commits to training/re-skilling 30 million people globally by 2030
H3 View all events
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 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://skillsbuild.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://skillsbuild.org/studentsOverview
/students/course-catalogExplore learning
/students/digital-credentialsDigital credentials
/students/try-it-before-you-re...Try it before you register
/college-studentsText duplicate Overview
/college-students/course-catalogCourse catalog
/adult-learnersText duplicate Overview
/adult-learners/explore-learningText duplicate Explore learning
/adult-learners/digital-creden...Text duplicate Digital credentials
/adult-learners/try-it-before-...Text duplicate Try it before you register
/secondary-educatorsText duplicate Overview
https://sso.yourlearning.ibm.c...External Subdomain Teacher toolkit
/college-educatorsText duplicate Overview
/college-students/course-catalogText duplicate Course catalog
/organizations-supporting-stud...Text duplicate Overview
/organizations-supporting-stud...Register
/organizations-supporting-coll...Text duplicate Overview
/organizations-supporting-coll...Text duplicate Register
/organizations-supporting-adul...Text duplicate Overview
/organizations-supporting-adul...Text duplicate Register
/spotlightsSpotlights
https://skillsbuild.org/eventsEvents
http://www.ibm.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://skillsbuild.org/SkillsBuild
https://skillsbuild.org/studentsHigh school students
https://skillsbuild.org/studentsText duplicate Overview
/students/course-catalogText duplicate Explore learning
/students/digital-credentialsText duplicate Digital credentials
/students/try-it-before-you-re...Text duplicate Try it before you register
/college-studentsCollege students
/college-studentsText duplicate Overview
/college-students/course-catalogText duplicate Course catalog
/adult-learnersAdult learners
/adult-learnersText duplicate Overview
/adult-learners/explore-learningText duplicate Explore learning
/adult-learners/digital-creden...Text duplicate Digital credentials
/adult-learners/try-it-before-...Text duplicate Try it before you register
/secondary-educatorsHigh school educators
/secondary-educatorsText duplicate Overview
https://sso.yourlearning.ibm.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Teacher toolkit
/college-educatorsCollege Educators
/college-educatorsText duplicate Overview
/college-students/course-catalogText duplicate Course catalog
/organizations-supporting-stud...Supporting high school students
/organizations-supporting-stud...Text duplicate Overview
/organizations-supporting-stud...Text duplicate Register
/organizations-supporting-coll...Supporting college students
/organizations-supporting-coll...Text duplicate Overview
/organizations-supporting-coll...Text duplicate Register
/organizations-supporting-adul...Supporting adult learners
/organizations-supporting-adul...Text duplicate Overview
/organizations-supporting-adul...Text duplicate Register
/spotlightsText duplicate Spotlights
https://skillsbuild.org/eventsText duplicate Events
https://skillsbuild.org/learnersLearners
https://skillsbuild.org/educatorsEducators
/organizationsOrganizations
https://newsroom.ibm.com/blog-...New window External Subdomain IBM Newsroom IBM is equipping the next generation of student developers across universities with AI skills
IMG-ALT Focused software developer coding at a standing desk, wearing headphones for deep concentration.
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-...New window External Subdomain IBM Newsroom IBM is committed to training 2 million people in Artificial Intelligence in 3 years
IMG-ALT Person working at computer
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-...New window External Subdomain IBM Newsroom IBM commits to training/re-skilling 30 million people globally by 2030
https://skillsbuild.org/eventsView all events
https://skillsbuild.org/Anchor Skip carousel content
https://www.ibm.com/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://skillsbuild.org/studentsText duplicate Overview
/students/course-catalogText duplicate Explore learning
/students/digital-credentialsText duplicate Digital credentials
/students/try-it-before-you-re...Text duplicate Try it before you register
/college-studentsText duplicate Overview
/college-students/course-catalogText duplicate Course catalog
/adult-learnersText duplicate Overview
/adult-learners/explore-learningText duplicate Explore learning
/adult-learners/digital-creden...Text duplicate Digital credentials
/adult-learners/try-it-before-...Text duplicate Try it before you register
/secondary-educatorsText duplicate Overview
https://sso.yourlearning.ibm.c...External Subdomain Text duplicate Teacher toolkit
/college-educatorsText duplicate Overview
/college-students/course-catalogText duplicate Course catalog
/organizations-supporting-stud...Text duplicate Supporting high school students
/organizations-supporting-coll...Text duplicate Supporting college students
/organizations-supporting-adul...Text duplicate Supporting adult learners
https://skillsbuild.org/Homepage
/frequently-asked-questionsFAQ
https://skillsbuild.org/contactContact us
https://skillsbuild.org/contactContact
https://www.ibm.com/privacyNew window External Subdomain Privacy
/terms-of-use-students-and-edu...Terms of use for students and educators
https://www.ibm.com/legalNew window External Subdomain Terms of use for adult learners
https://www.ibm.com/ableNew window External Subdomain Accessibility
/security-and-standards-studen...Security and Standards

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://skillsbuild.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.57 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 (117 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 1,095 referring domains.
This page has 2,514 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 764 different ip addresses.

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skillsbuild.org
Free Skills-Based Learning From Technology Experts | IBM SkillsBuild
Get free, online, skills-based learning and support no matter where you are in your career journey, developed by technology experts.

Most important keywords

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SkillsBuild76%Check
free73%Check
tech73%Check
IBM SkillsBuild72%Check
job skills71%Check
IBM65%Check
learning58%Check
Technology Experts58%Check
technology56%Check

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