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Meta information
61% 
Page quality
94% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.64 s
File size
54.70 kB
Words
525
Media files
2
Number of links
61 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Common Errors in English Usage and More | Washington State University
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 659 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://brians.wsu.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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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)
This page contains 525 words. That's ok.
26.9% 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.
4 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.33 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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
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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
...p-cas/uploads/sites/3483/2016/04/pb.jpegPaul Brians in profile
.../2016/04/common-errors-cover-396x612.jpgBook cover: Paul Brians Common Errors in English Usage, Third Edition - Revised and Expanded; forward by "Grammar Girl" Mignon Fogarty

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Web Site of Professor Paul Brians
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Web Site of Professor Paul Brians
H2 Most Popular Pages
H2 About Paul Brians
H2 Common Errors in English Usage
H2 Books by Paul Brians
H3 What is an error in English?
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://brians.wsu.edu/Anchor Skip to site navigation
https://brians.wsu.edu/Anchor Text duplicate Skip to site navigation
https://brians.wsu.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://wsu.edu/External Washington State University
https://wsu.edu/External No Text
https://brians.wsu.edu/Subdomain The Web Site of Professor Paul Brians Common Errors in English Usage and More
https://foundation.wsu.edu/give/External Subdomain Give
https://brians.wsu.edu/Subdomain Home
/common-errors-in-english-usage/Subdomain Common Errors in English Usage
/common-errors/Subdomain List of Common Errors
/videos-created-by-nbc-based-o...Subdomain Videos Created by NBC Based on This Web Site
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Commonly Made Suggestions
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain More Errors (Eggcorns)
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Non-errors
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Other Commonly Misspelled Words
/2016/12/05/paul-brians-public...Subdomain Common Errors: The Book
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Common Errors: The Podcast
/science-fiction-related-mater...Subdomain Science Fiction-Related Materials
/nuclear-war-related-materials/Subdomain Nuclear War-Related Materials
/bibliographies-discographies-...Subdomain Bibliographies & Filmographies
/bibliographies-discographies-...Subdomain Nuke Pop: Popular Culture Images
/study-guides/Subdomain Study Materials
/paul-brians-photo-tours/Subdomain Paul Brians' Photos
/humor-miscellany/Subdomain Humor & Miscellany
/the-chernobyl-poems/Subdomain The Chernobyl Poems
https://brians.wsu.edu/archives/Subdomain Archives
/archives/nuclear-texts-and-co...Subdomain Nuclear Texts and Contexts Newsletter Archives
/documents/2026/02/archive-ill...Illustrated History of WSU Student Activism in the 60s
https://libraries.wsu.edu/wp-c...External Subdomain "Tour of WSU and the Palouse" Photo Archive
https://brians.wsu.edu/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/common-errors-in-english-usage/Subdomain Text duplicate Common Errors in English Usage
/common-errors/Subdomain Text duplicate List of Common Errors
/videos-created-by-nbc-based-o...Subdomain Text duplicate Videos Created by NBC Based on This Web Site
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Text duplicate Commonly Made Suggestions
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Text duplicate More Errors (Eggcorns)
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Text duplicate Non-errors
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Text duplicate Other Commonly Misspelled Words
/2016/12/05/paul-brians-public...Subdomain Text duplicate Common Errors: The Book
/common-errors-in-english-usag...Subdomain Text duplicate Common Errors: The Podcast
/science-fiction-related-mater...Subdomain Text duplicate Science Fiction-Related Materials
/nuclear-war-related-materials/Subdomain Text duplicate Nuclear War-Related Materials
/bibliographies-discographies-...Subdomain Text duplicate Bibliographies & Filmographies
/bibliographies-discographies-...Subdomain Text duplicate Nuke Pop: Popular Culture Images
/study-guides/Subdomain Text duplicate Study Materials
/paul-brians-photo-tours/Subdomain Text duplicate Paul Brians' Photos
/humor-miscellany/Subdomain Text duplicate Humor & Miscellany
/the-chernobyl-poems/Subdomain Text duplicate The Chernobyl Poems
https://brians.wsu.edu/archives/Subdomain Text duplicate Archives
/archives/nuclear-texts-and-co...Subdomain Text duplicate Nuclear Texts and Contexts Newsletter Archives
/documents/2026/02/archive-ill...Text duplicate Illustrated History of WSU Student Activism in the 60s
https://libraries.wsu.edu/wp-c...External Subdomain Text duplicate "Tour of WSU and the Palouse" Photo Archive
/nuclear-war-related-materials/Text duplicate Nuclear War-Related Materials
/study-guides/Text duplicate Study Materials
/paul-brians-photo-tours/Paul Brians’ Photo Tours
https://english.wsu.edu/External Subdomain Department of English at Washington State University
/books-by-paul-brians/Subdomain Books by Paul Brians
/paul-brians-vita/Subdomain Paul Brians Vita
/retirement-address/Subdomain “Politics & Me”: 2008 Retirement address
https://commonerrorspodcast.wo...External Subdomain Paul Brians’ Weekly Podcast (see disclaimer: next link)
https://brians.wsu.edu/Anchor See disclaimer
https://www.facebook.com/paul....External Subdomain Connect with Paul Brians on Facebook
/wp-admin/post.php?post=2&acti...Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate See disclaimer
/common-errors/Subdomain Go to list of errors
/books-by-paul-brians/Subdomain Anchor Text duplicate Common Errors in English Usage
/books-by-paul-brians/Subdomain Anchor Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984
/books-by-paul-brians/Subdomain Anchor Reading About the World, Vols. 1 & 2
/books-by-paul-brians/Subdomain Anchor Modern South Asian Literature in English
/books-by-paul-brians/Subdomain Anchor Four Seasons on Bainbridge Island, 2010
/books-by-paul-brians/Subdomain Anchor Bawdy Tales from the Courts of Medieval France
https://access.wsu.edu/External Subdomain Access
https://policies.wsu.edu/External Subdomain Policies
https://portal.wsu.edu/External Subdomain MyWSU
https://socialmedia.wsu.edu/External Subdomain Follow WSU

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://brians.wsu.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 very slow (1.64 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (55 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 150 referring domains.
This page has 240 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 42 different ip addresses.

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