Vkc.vumc.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
76% 
Page quality
69% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
38% 
External factors
99% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.96 s
File size
27.20 kB
Words
446
Media files
21
Number of links
65 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (241 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
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: 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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 446 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.7% 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.
8 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 14.07 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 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=5" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
/assets/images/vkc/vkc-logo.jpgVanderbilt Kennedy Center
/vkc/images/donate-heart-hands-icon.pngHeart in hands-icon
/assets/images/vkc/search-blk.pngsearch icon
/assets/images/vkc/home-web-survey.jpg<p>Please answer our VKC website satisfaction survey here.</p>
...ets/images/vkc/home-informed-consent.jpg<p>The purpose of this toolkit is to present ways for researchers to better include individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their work. Learn more here.</p>
/assets/images/vkc/home-kindred25.jpg<p>Tennesseans share their personal stories about behavior supports and practices in Tennessee schools in the latest issue of Kindred Stories of Disability.</p>
/assets/images/vkc/home-tnviva23.jpg<p>Professional development series for educators, community stakeholders, and families looking to best serve students with visual impairments</p>
/assets/images/vkc/home-donate23.jpg<p>Contributions from individuals and organizations help fuel the VKC’s mission by allowing it to expand its research, training, clinical services, and more. Learn more.</p>
/assets/images/vkc/home-pathfinder.jpg<p>Pathfinder’s new website has easier and improved navigation.</p>
/assets/images/vkc/home-idd-toolkit.jpg<p>The IDD Toolkit website provides information for the primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Iddtoolkit.org</p>
/assets/images/vkc/1people.pngPeople with Disabilities and Families
/assets/images/vkc/2professionals.pngFor Community Professionals
/assets/images/vkc/3researchers.pngFor Researchers and Clinicians
/assets/images/vkc/4students.pngFor Students and Trainees
/assets/images/news/DuffM-2019-tmb.jpgMelissa Duff, PhD, professor and vice chair for Research for Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, has been named chair of the department. She will assume this new role July 1.
/assets/images/news/Malow-2019-tmb.jpgVKC Member Beth Malow was recently awarded the Pat Edmiston Leadership in Advocacy Award by the Tennessee Council on Autism Spectrum Disorder in recognition of her outstanding advocacy and contributions to improving the lives of individuals with autism in Tennessee.
/assets/images/vkc/icon-studyfinder.pngStudy Finder Button
/assets/images/vkc/icon-browse.pngBrowse by Topics Button
/assets/images/vkc/icon-subscribe.pngSubscribe Button
/assets/images/vkc/icon-science.pngVKC Members: Share your science
/vkc/Images/facebook_logo.pngFacebook Link

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
FEATURED NEWS AND EVENTS
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 FEATURED NEWS AND EVENTS
H2 Search VKC Pages:
H3 CONTACT US
H3 QUICK LINKS
H3 STAY CONNECTED
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.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://vumc.org/External Vanderbilt University Medical Center
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/iddrcIDDRC
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/uceddUCEDD
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/lendLEND
https://triad.vumc.org/External Subdomain TRIAD
https://www.tnpathfinder.org/External Subdomain PATHFINDER
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/aboutAbout
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/about/Overview
/vkc/leadership/Leadership
https://vkc.vumc.org/people/People
/vkc/about/historyHistory
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/contact/Contact Us
/vkc/research/Research
/vkc/research/Research Overview
/vkc/research/takepart/Take Part in Studies
https://vkc.vumc.org/topics/Research Topics
/vkc/iddrc/cores/IDDRC Research Cores
/vkc/ucedd/functions/research/UCEDD Research
/vkc/triad/research/TRIAD Research
/vkc/services/Services
/vkc/services/family/For Persons with Disabilities and Their Families
/vkc/services/educators/For Professionals
/vkc/iddrc/cores/For VKC Researchers and Clinicians
/vkc/research/opportunities/For Students and Trainees
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/contact/Help Finding Services
/vkc/training/Learning
/vkc/training/Training Overview
https://www.vkclearning.org/External Subdomain Online Learning
/vkc/training/community/For Community
/vkc/research/academic_training/For Students
/vkc/lend/training/LEND Training
/vkc/triad/live-training/TRIAD Training Opportunities
/vkc/ucedd/functions/training/UCEDD Training
/vkc/resources/Resources
https://vkc.vumc.org/topics/Topical Index
/vkc/resources/printable/Printable Resources
https://tipsheets.vkcsites.org/External Subdomain Tip Sheets
/vkc/resources/web/Web Resources
https://vimeo.com/channels/vkcExternal Video Resources
/vkc/resources/covid/VKC Resources for COVID-19
https://vkc.vumc.org/news/News/Events
https://vkc.vumc.org/news/Subdomain All VKC News
https://vkc.vumc.org/events/All VKC Events
/vkc/vkc-media/All VKC Media
/vkc/newsletters/Newsletters
/vkc/resources/podcasts/Podcasts
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/giving/Donate
IMG-ALT Heart in hands-icon
https://redcap.vanderbilt.edu/...External Subdomain Please answer our VKC website satisfaction survey here.
/assets/files/resources/inform...Subdomain The purpose of this toolkit is to present ways for researchers to better include individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their work. ...
/vkc/resources/kindred/ Subdomain Tennesseans share their personal stories about behavior supports and practices in Tennessee schools in the latest issue of Kindred Stories of Disability.
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/tn-vivaSubdomain Professional development series for educators, community stakeholders, and families looking to best serve students with visual impairments
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/giving/ Subdomain Contributions from individuals and organizations help fuel the VKC’s mission by allowing it to expand its research, training, clinical services, and more. Le...
https://www.tnpathfinder.org/External Subdomain Pathfinder’s new website has easier and improved navigation.
https://iddtoolkit.vkcsites.org/External Subdomain The IDD Toolkit website provides information for the primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Iddtoolkit.org
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/Anchor Previous
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/Anchor Next
/vkc/services/family/For Families
IMG-ALT People with Disabilities and Families
/vkc/services/educators/Text duplicate For Professionals
IMG-ALT For Community Professionals
/vkc/iddrc/cores/For Researchers
IMG-ALT For Researchers and Clinicians
/vkc/research/opportunities/For Trainees
IMG-ALT For Students and Trainees
https://vkc.vumc.org/news/4180Subdomain THIS STORY
https://vkc.vumc.org/news/MORE NEWS
https://vkc.vumc.org/news/4179Subdomain Text duplicate THIS STORY
https://vkc.vumc.org/news/Text duplicate MORE NEWS
https://vkc.vumc.org/events/7075FEATURED EVENT
https://vkc.vumc.org/events/MORE EVENTS
https://vkc.vumc.org/studyfinder/Study Finder
IMG-ALT Study Finder Button
https://vkc.vumc.org/topics/Browse by Research Topic
IMG-ALT Browse by Topics Button
https://vkc.vumc.org/subscribe/Subscribe
IMG-ALT Subscribe Button
https://redcap.vumc.org/survey...External Subdomain VKC Members: Share your science
IMG-ALT VKC Members: Share your science
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/contact/CONTACT US
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/contact/Map & Directions
https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/giving/Giving
/VKC/dddefined/What is a developmental disability?
/VKC/feedback/Please give feedback
https://www.vumc.org/External Subdomain Vanderbilt Medical Center
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/External Subdomain Vanderbilt University
https://www.childrenshospitalv...External Subdomain Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
https://www.facebook.com/Vande...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook Link

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (1.96 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 4 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (27 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is very well linked from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 33 referring domains.
This page has 892 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 30 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
News and Events55%Check
VKC54%Check
new54%Check
News52%Check
News Events51%Check
Events50%Check
FEATURED50%Check
Vanderbilt48%Check
Center48%Check
Kennedy48%Check

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