Writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
76% 
Page quality
60% 
Page structure
39% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.13 s
File size
44.10 kB
Words
276
Media files
6
Number of links
21 internal / 17 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Harvard College Writing Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (348 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)
https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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
(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

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 276 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.3% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 22 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...in/images/svg/header-logo-horizontal.svgHarvard University
...enter/files/barkergate.jpg?itok=ssMhcxa1decorative image that says "writing center"
.../files/vanessabarker_0.jpg?itok=2jrL9qG1lilink to writing center blog over picture of Barker Center, Harvard campus
...els-george-pak-7972506.jpg?itok=0Ijb-wRHstudents walking on campus
...enter_Signature_Horizontal_Large_RGB.svgHarvard University
...rd/hwp-goldin/images/svg/footer-logo.svgHarvard University

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 A message to Expos students
H2 Visit the tutor blog for writing advice from our staff
H2 News & Announcements
H2 Quick Links
H2 Writing Center Services and Staff
H3 Attention Seniors: It's time for the 3-Minute Thesis Competition
H3 Strategies for Essay Writing Handouts
H3 Schedule an Appointment
H3 English Grammar and Language Tutor
H3 Drop-in hours
H3 Harvard Guide to Using Sources
H3 Departmental Writing Fellows
H3 Writing Advice: The Harvard Writing Tutor Blog
H3 Schedule an Appointment Duplicate text
H3 Tutoring
H3 Writing Resources
H3 Meet the Staff
H3 Contact / Employment
H4 Hero Pagination
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 17 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to main content arrow_circle_down
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Harvard University
/Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard College Writing Center
http://writingprogram.fas.harv...External Subdomain Questions about Expos?
http://writingproject.fas.harv...External Subdomain Writing Support for Instructors
/Text duplicate Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard College Writing Center
https://wcscheduler.fas.harvar...External Subdomain Schedule an appointment
/pages/undergraduatesTutoring
/pages/resourcesWriting Resources
/pages/strategies-essay-writingStrategies for Essay Writing
/pages/brief-guides-writing-di...Brief Guides to Writing in the Disciplines
/pages/blogWriting Advice: The Barker Underground Blog
/peopleMeet the staff
/contact-writing-centerContact/Employment
https://youtu.be/p053Ob5iVfcExternal Why come to the Writing Center? A tutor explains. arrow_circle_right
https://harvardwritingcenterbl...External Visit arrow_circle_right
/thesis-competitionSubdomain Learn more about 3MT arrow_circle_right
/2024-3mt-three-minute-thesisSubdomain 2024 3MT Presentations chevron_right
http://writingcenterfas.hwpiac...External Subdomain arrow_forward Check out our new handouts
https://wcscheduler.fas.harvar...External Subdomain Schedule an Appointment
/pages/egl-tutorEnglish Grammar and Language Tutor
/pages/drop-hoursDrop-in hours
https://usingsources.fas.harva...External Subdomain Harvard Guide to Using Sources
/dwfDepartmental Writing Fellows
http://harvardwritingcenterblo...External Writing Advice: The Harvard Writing Tutor Blog
https://wcscheduler.fas.harvar...External Subdomain Text duplicate Schedule an Appointment
/pages/undergraduatesText duplicate Tutoring
/pages/resourcesText duplicate Writing Resources
/meet-staffMeet the Staff
/pages/contactContact / Employment
/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Harvard University
https://www.instagram.com/harv...External Subdomain Instagram
/loginAdmin login
https://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Harvard University
https://accessibility.harvard....External Subdomain Accessibility
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Digital Accessibility
https://www.harvard.edu/copyri...External Subdomain Report Copyright Infringement
https://hwp.harvard.edu/harvar...External Subdomain Info Practices

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/"
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 0.13 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (44 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
last-modifiedSun, 25 May 2025 22:34:46 GMT
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x-request-idv-75ef6042-39b8-11f0-9fb0-2b4bd0f95d28
x-ah-environment01live
x-cache-hits223
x-age16570
accept-rangesbytes
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content-encodinggzip
cache-controlpublic, max-age=300, s-maxage=86400
expiresTue, 27 May 2025 04:46:35 GMT
dateTue, 27 May 2025 04:41:35 GMT
content-length10837
varyAccept-Encoding
server-timingcdn-cache; desc=HIT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 140 referring domains.
This page has 298 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 129 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

#
# robots.txt
#
# 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
Allow: /profiles/*.ico
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /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/
# 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/

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