Ygdp.yale.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
54% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.22 s
File size
25.90 kB
Words
259
Media files
1
Number of links
57 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 642 pixels long. Optimize title
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://ygdp.yale.edu/welcome
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 259 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32% 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 19.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=10, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes" 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 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)
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

No media files were found.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project English in North America
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Yale Grammatical Diversity Project English in North America
H1 Welcome
H2 New to the Site:
H2 Phenomena
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 12 external links on this page.
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https://ygdp.yale.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale University
https://ygdp.yale.edu/contact-usContact Us
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/1Yale Grammatical Diversity Project English in North America
/project-descriptionProject Description
/research-teamResearch Team
/phenomena-by-categoryPhenomena
/publicationsPublications
/links-other-resources-geograp...External Links
https://ygdp.yale.edu/faqFAQ
https://ygdp.yale.edu/glossaryGlossary
/phenomena/alternative-oneSubdomain Alternative one
/phenomena/gen-z-constructionsSubdomain Gen Z constructions: an overview
/phenomena/wickedSubdomain Wicked as an intensifier
http://map.ygdp.yale.edu/External Subdomain Trivial anchor text
here
https://ygdp.shinyapps.io/ygdp...External Subdomain YGDP Data Explorer
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/26A-prefixing
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/phenomena/after-perfectsSubdomain After-perfects
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/31All the further
A-TITLE All the further
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/136Alls construction
A-TITLE The alls-construction
/phenomena/alternative-oneSubdomain Text duplicate Alternative one
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https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/146Bare got
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https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/662Canadian eh
A-TITLE Canadian eh
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/151Come with
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https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/156Dative presentatives
A-TITLE Dative Presentatives
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/161Done my homework
A-TITLE Done my homework
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/166Double comparatives
A-TITLE Double Comparatives
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/171Double is
A-TITLE Double IS
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/176Drama SO
A-TITLE Drama SO
/phenomena/phenomena/expletive...Subdomain Expletive they
/phenomena/fixin-toFixin’ to
/phenomena/fortoSubdomain For to infinitives
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/181Have yet to
A-TITLE Have yet to
/invariant-beInvariant be
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/186Inversion in embedded questions
A-TITLE Inversion in Embedded Questions
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/191Liketa
A-TITLE Liketa
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/196Long-distance reflexives
A-TITLE Long-distance reflexives
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/201Multiple modals
A-TITLE Multiple modals
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/206Needs washed
A-TITLE Needs washed
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/211Negative concord
A-TITLE Negative concord
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/216Negative inversion
A-TITLE Negative inversion
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/256Null copula
A-TITLE Null copula
/phenomena/perfective-donePerfective done
A-TITLE Perfective done
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/221Personal datives
A-TITLE Personal datives
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/226Positive anymore
A-TITLE Positive anymore
/phenomena/relative-thatsSubdomain Relative possessive that's
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/141Repetition clefts
A-TITLE Repetition Clefts
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/231So don't I
A-TITLE So don't I
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/236Split subjects
A-TITLE Split Subjects
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/651Steady
A-TITLE Steady
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/241Stressed BIN (been)
A-TITLE Stressed BIN
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/246Subject contact relatives
A-TITLE Subject contact relatives
/phenomena/try-getSubdomain Try get
/phenomena/trynaSubdomain Tryna
/phenomena/try-andSubdomain Try and
https://ygdp.yale.edu/node/251Verbal rather
A-TITLE Verbal Rather
/phenomena/wants-inSubdomain Wants in
/phenomena/what-allSubdomain What all
/phenomena/wickedSubdomain Text duplicate Wicked as an intensifier
/phenomena/you-do-youSubdomain You do you
http://www.yale.edu/External Subdomain Yale
https://usability.yale.edu/web...External Subdomain Accessibility at Yale
http://www.yale.edu/privacy-po...External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://www.facebook.com/YaleU...External Subdomain Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/yaleExternal Subdomain Twitter
http://itunes.yale.edu/External Subdomain iTunes
http://www.youtube.com/yaleExternal Subdomain YouTube
http://weibo.com/yaleuniversityExternal Sina Weibo
http://yaleuniversity.tumblr.com/External Subdomain Tumblr

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ygdp.yale.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 0.22 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (26 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 156 referring domains.
This page has 311 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 72 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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# 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.
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# 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
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# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
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Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
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Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
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Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
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Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
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Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
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Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
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Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
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Disallow: /publications/export/
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Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Yale73%Check
Yale Grammatical Diversity65%Check
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project64%Check
Diversity62%Check
Grammatical62%Check
North America62%Check
Project61%Check
English61%Check
Yale University54%Check
Welcome50%Check

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