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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
114.60 kB
Words
826
Media files
17
Number of links
49 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | The British Academy
The length of the page title is perfect. (254 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Ireland
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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
(Somewhat important)
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.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.68 words is high.
This page contains 826 words. That's ok.
35.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
15 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
15 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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Page structure

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.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 We are the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences
H2 Empty heading
H2 Around the Academy
H2 Research funding opportunities
H2 Empty heading
H2 Policy and research
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H2 Support the British Academy
H2 Sign up to our email newsletters
H2 Preferences
H2 Site map
H2 Follow us
H2 Visiting Us
H3 Folklore Reimagined
H3 How the value of libraries and other community assets can be recognised in policymaking
H3 How can multilingualism strengthen the UK's research sector?
H3 Ronald Hutton on Matthew Hopkins, the English Civil War's 'Witchfinder General'
H3 Partial randomisation trial extended after diversity of applicants and award holders increases
H3 On recent closures and threats of closure in the Humanities and Social Sciences
H3 Mapping the availability of humanities and social sciences courses across the UK
H3 Journal of the British Academy
H3 Investing in a 21st Century Educational Research System
H3 The Landscape of Educational Research in the UK
H3 Understanding SHAPE in R&D: bridging the evidence gap
H3 British Academy SHAPE Observatory
H3 Global Challenges Research Fund policy briefings
H3 Support us
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/funding/Funding
/policy-and-research/Policy and Research
/events/Events
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/about/About
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/press-and-media/Press
/prizes-medals/british-academy...Subdomain British Academy Book Prize
/publishing/Publishing
/art/Art
/early-career-researcher-network/Early Career Researcher Network
https://10-11cht.com/External Venue hire
https://britishacademy.flexigr...External Subdomain Flexi-Grant Login
/funding/Our research funding opportunities
/policy/Our policy work
/about/More about the British Academy
/seasons/folklore-reimagined/Folklore Reimagined How have global folklore traditions, stories, and customs shaped our identities? And what does contemporary folklore look like? Delve int...
/news/value-of-social-and-cult...News How the value of libraries and other community assets can be recognised in policymaking
/publications/language-skills-...Policy How can multilingualism strengthen the UK's research sector?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain 10-Minute Talks Ronald Hutton on Matthew Hopkins, the English Civil War's 'Witchfinder General'
/news/partial-randomisation-tr...News Partial randomisation trial extended after diversity of applicants and award holders increases
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/policy-and-research/british-a...SHAPE Observatory Mapping the availability of humanities and social sciences courses across the UK
/funding/open opportunities or search for upcoming grants
https://journal.thebritishacad...External Subdomain Journal of the British Academy The Journal of the British Academy has been relaunched to improve access to its diverse range of world-class SHAPE research. T...
/publications/investing-21st-c...Investing in a 21st Century Educational Research System
/publications/landscape-educat...The Landscape of Educational Research in the UK
/publications/understanding-sh...Understanding SHAPE in R&D: bridging the evidence gap
/policy-and-research/british-a...British Academy SHAPE Observatory Bringing independence, authority and objectivity, the SHAPE Observatory monitors the health and development of the humaniti...
/projects/gcrf-policy-briefings/Global Challenges Research Fund policy briefings The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is a £1.5 billion fund that supports researchers seeking to addre...
/support-us/Support us As a charity, we rely on donations and gifts from individuals and organisations to invest in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas, ...
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/press-and-media/Press and media
/support-us/Support us
/prizes-medals/Prizes and Medals
/publishing/Text duplicate Publishing
/art/Text duplicate Art
/about/jobs/Subdomain Jobs
https://10-11cht.com/External Text duplicate Venue hire
/about-our-library/Library
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/theb...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/thebri...External Subdomain YouTube
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https://www.google.com/maps/pl...New window External Subdomain View on a map
/about/accessibility-at-the-br...Accessibility
/about/website-accessibility/Website accessibility
/about/privacy-policy/Privacy policy
/about/privacy-and-cookies/Cookies policy
/about/copyright/Copyright

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/"
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 is excellent with 0.22 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (115 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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