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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
2% 
Link structure
68% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.09 s
File size
31.30 kB
Words
395
Media files
6
Number of links
79 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | MIT Economics
The length of the page title is perfect. (208 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://economics.mit.edu/
There is a valid canonical link 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
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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
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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
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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)
There are only 395 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 28.67 words is high.
24.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
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No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
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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
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 43 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H2 Utility navigation
H2 Main navigation
H2 About
H2 Academics
H2 People
H2 Research
H2 News
H2 Main navigation Duplicate text
H2 Utility
H2 Seeking solutions to the world's most pressing challenges through innovative economic research
H2 Research Duplicate text
H2 Faculty
H2 Recent Publications
H2 Academic programs
H2 Featured News
H3 History
H3 Valuing Diversity
H3 PhD Program
H3 Master's Programs
H3 Undergraduate Program
H3 Faculty Duplicate text
H3 Visitors
H3 PhD Students
H3 Staff
H3 Publications & Papers
H3 Labs & Centers
H3 Interest Rate Cuts vs. Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result
H3 Choices and Outcomes in Assignment Mechanisms: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys
H3 Professor Emeritus Stanley Fischer dies at 81
H3 PhD candidate Nagisa Tadjfar receives Horowitz Foundation grant
H4 Admissions
H4 Financial Support
H4 FAQ
H4 Curriculum and Thesis
H4 Student Resources
H4 Job Market
H4 Master’s in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy
H4 Majors
H4 Minor and Concentrations
H4 Transfer Credits
H4 Research Duplicate text
H4 For Current Students
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 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://economics.mit.edu/contactContact
https://economics.mit.edu/searchSearch
https://web.mit.edu/External Subdomain MIT
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https://shass.mit.edu/External Subdomain SHASS

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
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HTTP header
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.09 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 219 referring domains.
This page has 714 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 125 different ip addresses.

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