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80% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
56% 
Server
70% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.86 s
File size
163.40 kB
Words
483
Media files
29
Number of links
105 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Smarthistory
The page title is too short. (113 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
World-class resources on art and cultural objects for learners from around the globe
The length of the meta description is perfect. (514 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://smarthistory.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
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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
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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
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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
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 483 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 18.75 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
13 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

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/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Hatshepsut.jpgHatshepsut
/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Matisse.jpgHenri Matisse, The Green Stripe (Portrait of Mme Matisse), 1905.
.../2025/06/FieldsElementsThumb-870x566.jpgAnita Fields, Elements of Being, 1997, earthenware with terra sigillata slip, 182.9 x 152.4 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) © Anita Fields
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H3 Ancient Mediterranean
H3 Modernisms 1900-1980
H3 Just Published
H3 Empty heading
H3 The Islamic World
H3 Africa
H3 Asia
H3 Empty heading
H3 Art that brings U.S. history to life
H3 Europe 1300 - 1800
H3 Medieval Europe + Byzantine
H3 Europe 1800 - 1900
H3 Oceania
H3 ARCHES
H3 The Americas to 1900
H3 Prehistoric
H3 Global cultures 1980 - now
H3 Understanding museums
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
15 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://smarthistory.org/IMG-ALT Smarthistory Logo
https://smarthistory.org/about/What is Smarthistory?
/cite-smarthistory/Is Smarthistory reliable?
https://smarthistory.org/staff/Smarthistory Staff
/author-list/Content editors and contributors
/our-board/Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors
/smarthistory-partners/Museum and institutional partners
/major-donors/Major donors
https://smarthistory.org/press/Press coverage
https://smarthistoryblog.org/External Our blog
/contribute-an-essay/Contribute an essay
/contact-us/Contact us
/introductory-guides-overview/Start here
/prehistoric-art-landing/Prehistoric
/the-art-of-africa/Africa
/americas-before-1900/Americas
https://smarthistory.org/asia/Asia
/ancient-mediterranean/Ancient Mediterranean + Europe
/medieval-europe-byzantium/Medieval Europe + Byzantine
https://smarthistory.org/islamic/The Islamic World
/europe-1300-1800/Europe 1300–1800
/europe-19th-century/Europe 1800–1900
/art-oceania/Pacific Islands
/modernisms-1900-1980/Modernisms 1900–1980
/global-cultures-1980-now/Art since 1980
/reframing-art-history/Reframing Art History, a new kind of textbook
/guide-to-byzantine-art/Guide to Byzantine Art
/guide-to-ancient-roman-art/Guide to Ancient Roman Art
/smarthistory-books/ap-art-his...Guide to AP® Art History vol. 1 (#1–47)
/ap-art-history-volume-2/Guide to AP® Art History vol. 2 (#48–98)
/ap-art-history-vol-3/Guide to AP® Art History vol. 3 (#99–152)
/smarthistory-books/See complete collection of titles
/reframing-art-history/Reframing Art History a new kind of textbook
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/guide-to-byzantine-art/Guide to Byzantine art
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/curated-guide/the-basics-of-a...The Basics of Art History
/curated-guide/the-basics-of-r...The Basics of Religion in Art
/curated-guide/art-appreciation/Art Appreciation (new, more complete version coming soon)
/curated-guide/ap-art-history/AP®︎ Art History
/curated-guide/a-level-history...A-level History of Art
/curated-guide/early-modern-ar...Early Modern Art (c. 1400–1800)
/curated-guide/world-art-histo...World Art History
/curated-guide/prehistory-midd...Prehistory to the Middle Ages: the Mediterranean
/curated-guide/renaissance-to-...Renaissance to the Modern Era: Europe
/curated-guide/medieval-and-by...Medieval and Byzantine Art and Architecture
/curated-guide/ancient-greek-a...Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
/curated-guide/19th-century-eu...19th-Century European Art
/curated-guide/history-of-phot...History of Photography
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/curated-guide/global-contempo...Global Contemporary Art
/curated-guide/understanding-m...Understanding Museums
/curated-guide/creating-and-co...Creating and Conserving
/curated-guide/visitflanders/Art in Flanders
/curated-guide/latinx-futures/Latinx Futures
/curated-guide/not-your-grandf...Not your grandfather’s art history
/curated-guide/arches-at-risk-...ARCHES (At-Risk Cultural Heritage Series)
/curated-guide/the-u-s-civil-w...The U.S. Civil War in Art
/curated-guide/seeing-america/Seeing America
/financial-support/Donate
/contribute-an-essay/Text duplicate Contribute an essay
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/ancient-mediterranean/Ancient Mediterranean
/modernisms-1900-1980/IMG-ALT Henri Matisse, The Green Stripe (Portrait of Mme Matisse), 1905.
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/anita-fields-elements-being/IMG-ALT Anita Fields, Elements of Being, 1997, earthenware with terra sigillata slip, 182.9 x 152.4 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) © Anita ...
/anita-fields-elements-being/Just Published
/anita-fields-elements-being/Anita Fields, Elements of Being
/just-publishedView All
https://smarthistory.org/aboutLearn More
/reframing-art-history/No Text
/reframing-art-history/No Text
https://smarthistory.org/islamic/No Text
https://smarthistory.org/islamic/Text duplicate The Islamic World
/the-art-of-africa/No Text
/the-art-of-africa/Text duplicate Africa
https://smarthistory.org/asia/No Text
https://smarthistory.org/asia/Text duplicate Asia
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/seeing-america-2/No Text
/seeing-america-2/Art that brings U.S. history to life
/europe-1300-1800/No Text
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/medieval-europe-byzantium/No Text
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/europe-19th-century/No Text
/europe-19th-century/Europe 1800 - 1900
/art-oceania/No Text
/art-oceania/Oceania
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/americas-before-1900/No Text
/americas-before-1900/The Americas to 1900
/prehistoric-art-landing/No Text
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/global-cultures-1980-now/No Text
/global-cultures-1980-now/Global cultures 1980 - now
/curated-guide/understanding-m...No Text
/curated-guide/understanding-m...Understanding museums
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https://smarthistory.org/aboutAbout Smarthistory
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https://smarthistoryblog.org/External Smarthistory's blog
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A-TITLE Contribute an essay
/author-listText duplicate Content editors and contributors
A-TITLE Content editors and contributors
/contact-usContact Us
A-TITLE Contact Us
/financial-supportText duplicate Donate
A-TITLE Donate
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/smar...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/group...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/smar...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/group...New window External Subdomain No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://smarthistory.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 0.86 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 (163 kB).

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 731 referring domains.
This page has 3,298 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 609 different ip addresses.

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

# Disallow feeds (RSS/Atom)
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/

# Disallow WordPress REST API crawling
Disallow: /wp-json/

# Disallow comment posting endpoint
Disallow: /wp-comments-post.php

# Crawl pacing
Crawl-delay: 10

Sitemap: https://smarthistory.org/wp-sitemap.xml

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