Developingchild.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

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Meta information
93% 
Page quality
79% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
64% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.00 s
File size
275.10 kB
Words
814
Media files
10
Number of links
64 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
The length of the page title is perfect. (475 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Our mission is to leverage the power of science in pursuit of better, more equitable outcomes for young children facing adversity.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (788 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/homepage/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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
(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.
This page contains 814 words. That's ok.
29.9% 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.
12 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 24.15 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: topics:
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
5 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
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...s/3707/boston-frog-pond-1-640x360-c.webpNo alt attribute provided
...ages/3713/girl-out-in-sun-640x360-c.webpNo alt attribute provided
...4/brain-architecture-updated-360x360.pngbrain architecture icon
...timing-critical-periods-icon-360x360.pngtiming and critical periods icon
...1/developmental-environments-360x360.pngdevelopmental environments icon
...ages/2009/baby-with-bottle-640x360-c.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Featured Resources
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Featured Resources
H2 What Surrounds Us Shapes Us
H2 Key Concepts in Early Childhood Development
H2 Resource Library
H2 Solutions Spotlight: How Communities Are Leading Efforts to Ensure Clean Water Access
H2 Growing Up in a Warming World: How Wildfire Smoke Affects Early Childhood Development
H2 How Early Childhood Experiences Affect Lifelong Health and Learning
H2 Subscribe for Updates
H3 Brains are built over time, from the bottom up, through an ongoing process that begins before birth.
H3 Responsive, attentive interactions between a child and a caring adult, known as serve and return interactions, shape brain architecture.
H3 Toxic stress—the excessive or prolonged activation of our stress response systems—can disrupt the development of brain architecture and other biological systems.
H3 Our earliest experiences and exposures, beginning well before birth, shape the development of brain architecture and other biological systems in interconnected ways.
H3 Our biological sensitivity to environmental influences varies throughout life, making the timing of those influences particularly important.
H3 The developmental environment includes the full range of experiences and exposures children have in the places where they live, learn, play, and grow.
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Anchor Skip to content
/Subdomain Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
/Anchor Menu Close
/our-approachOur Approach
/our-approachText duplicate Our Approach
/our-approach/councils/Subdomain Scientific Councils
/strategic-science-communicati...Subdomain Strategic Science Communications
/our-approach/partnerships-eng...Subdomain Partnerships and Engagements
/our-approach/edib/Subdomain Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
/key-conceptsKey Concepts
/key-conceptsText duplicate Key Concepts
/key-concepts/what-surrounds-u...Subdomain What Surrounds Us Shapes Us
/key-concepts/brain-architecture/Brain Architecture
/key-concepts/serve-and-return/Serve and Return
/key-concepts/toxic-stress/Toxic Stress
/key-concept/lifelong-health/Lifelong Health and Well-being
/key-concept/timing-and-critic...Timing and Critical Periods
/key-concept/developmental-env...Developmental Environments
/resource-library/Resource Library
/resource-library/Text duplicate Resource Library
/resources/?post_type=resource...Browse All Resources
/resource-guides/Resource Guides
/news-insights/News and Insights
/news-insights/Text duplicate News and Insights
/news-insights/center-happenings/Subdomain Center Happenings
/in-the-news/In The News
/news-insights/podcasts/Subdomain Podcasts
/news-insights/newsletter/Subdomain Newsletter
/about-us/About Us
/about-us/Text duplicate About Us
/about-us/mission-vision/Subdomain Mission and Vision
/about-us/our-people/Subdomain Our People
/founding-director/Subdomain Founding Director
/about-us/our-investors/Subdomain Our Investors
/about-us/history/Subdomain Our History
/about-us/careers/Subdomain Careers and Opportunities
/center-events/Subdomain Events
/contact/Subdomain Contact
/resources/webinars/addressing...Subdomain Watch the Webinar
/resources/policy-insights/bos...Subdomain Read the Q&A
/resource-guides/guide-extreme...Subdomain Explore the Guide
/about-us/mission-vision/Subdomain Learn More
/key-concepts/what-surrounds-u...Subdomain Read Our Expanded Story of Early Childhood Development
/key-concept/brain-architecture/Subdomain Text duplicate Brain Architecture
/key-concept/serve-and-return/Subdomain Text duplicate Serve and Return
/key-concept/toxic-stress/Subdomain Text duplicate Toxic Stress
/key-concept/lifelong-health/Subdomain Text duplicate Lifelong Health and Well-being
/key-concept/timing-and-critic...Subdomain Text duplicate Timing and Critical Periods
/key-concept/developmental-env...Subdomain Text duplicate Developmental Environments
/resource-library/Subdomain Browse the Resource Library
/resource-type/podcasts/Subdomain Podcast
/resources/podcasts/communitie...Subdomain Solutions Spotlight: How Communities Are Leading Efforts to Ensure Clean Water Access
/resource-type/briefs/Subdomain Brief
/resources/briefs/wildfire-smo...Subdomain Growing Up in a Warming World: How Wildfire Smoke Affects Early Childhood Development
/resource-type/videos/Subdomain Video
/resources/videos/how-early-ch...Subdomain How Early Childhood Experiences Affect Lifelong Health and Learning
/Subdomain Text duplicate Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
/about-us/Subdomain Text duplicate About Us
/our-approach/Subdomain Text duplicate Our Approach
/key-concepts/Subdomain Text duplicate Key Concepts
/resource-library/Subdomain Text duplicate Resource Library
/news-insights/Subdomain News & Insights
https://www.youtube.com/user/H...New window External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/deve...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/Cente...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://x.com/HarvardCenterNew window External X
https://il.linkedin.com/compan...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.threads.net/@devel...New window External Subdomain Threads
/privacy-policy/Subdomain Privacy Policy
/terms-and-conditions/Subdomain Terms and Conditions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://developingchild.harvard.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 1.00 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (275 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 948 referring domains.
This page has 7,279 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 770 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /*?*

Sitemap: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/sitemap_index.xml

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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Our mission is to leverage the power of science in pursuit of better, more equitable outcomes for young children facing adversity.

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