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Overview of the SEO Check

Meta information

75%

Page quality

81%

Page structure

100%

Link structure

90%

Server

60%

External factors

100%

SEO Score

SEO Score Widget

Response time

0.95 s

File size

76.60 kB

Words

1127

Media files

Number of links

48 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements 5 Tasks

Try to reduce the number of used CSS files.Very important!
Try to reduce the number of used JavaScript files.Very important!
Improve the text of the meta description.Important!
Use good alternative descriptions (alt attributes) for your images.Important!
Improve the page response time.Tip!

Meta specifications 75% achieved

Title

(Critically important)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | IES

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 Title

Meta description

(Critically important)

Since 1867, NCES has been the federal statistical agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on the condition of U.S. education—from early childhood to adult education—to help improve student outcomes.

The meta description is too long: 1390 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description

Meta Description

Crawlability

(Critically important)

There are no problems in accessing the website.

Search Engine Crawlers

Canonical URL

(Important)

https://nces.ed.gov/national-center-education-statistics-nces

The specified canonical link points to a different page.

Canonical Tag

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

Declaring language in HTML

Alternate/Hreflang Links

(Somewhat important)

There are no alternate links specified on this page.

Hreflang

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.

Meta Tags

Domain

(Somewhat important)

The domain is no subdomain.

The domain length is good.

The domain does not contain non-latin characters.

Domain for SEO

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.

SEO-friendly URLs

Charset encoding

(Somewhat important)

The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.

Character Encoding

Doctype

(Nice to have)

The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.

The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.

HTML Doctype

Favicon

(Nice to have)

The favicon is linked correctly.

Favicon

Meta tags

Name	Value
description	Since 1867, NCES has been the federal statistical agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on the condition of U.S. education—from early childhood to adult education—to help improve student outcomes.
keywords	National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimized	width
HandheldFriendly	true
viewport	width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
lang	en
charset	utf-8

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Page quality 81% achieved

Content

(Critically important)

This page contains 1127 words. That's ok.

26.5% 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.

12 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 19.3 words is good.

Content is King

Frames

(Critically important)

This page does not use a frameset.

Frames and framesets

Mobile optimization

(Somewhat important)

No Apple touch icon is specified.

This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.

A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.

Mobile Optimization

Bold and strong tags

(Somewhat important)

The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 23 tags for this page.

Strong and Bold Tags

Image SEO

(Somewhat important)

6 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.

Image SEO

There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.

Social Sharing

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.

HTTPS

Media list

URL	Alt attribute	Title
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...cons/search-illustrative-icon-yellow.svg	Search document
...s/lightbulb-illustrative-icon-yellow.svg	Lightbulb
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...in class raising hands.jpg?itok=ET2TCkj3	No alt attribute provided
.../DataReport-illustrative-icon-yellow.svg	No alt attribute provided
.../DataSearch-illustrative-icon-yellow.svg	No alt attribute provided
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.../DataSearch-illustrative-icon-yellow.svg	No alt attribute provided
...hutterstock_1955306800.jpg?itok=tLBT1sj9	Boy Sitting at Desk Taking Notes
...hutterstock_2296804117.jpg?itok=BwphELqI	Child raising hand in classroom
...holder pattern 3-blue2.png?itok=pvk5LUPg	Zoomed in IES logo
...holder pattern 1-blue3.png?itok=FBf1x5j5	Blue 3 Placeholder Pattern 1
...holder pattern 6-blue3.png?itok=vabdF0jI	Zoomed in IES logo
...ces/image/2024/10/NAEP.jpg?itok=V5nyWNjg	NAEP

Page structure 100% achieved

H1 heading

(Critically important)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

The H1 heading is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Headings

(Important)

The heading structure is perfect.

H1-H6 headings

Heading structure

Heading level	Content
H1	National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
H2	Breadcrumb
H2	Explore NCES
H2	Featured Survey/Programs
H2	NCES Dashboards
H2	Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) Program
H2	Most recent NCES reports
H2	Nation's Report Card
H2	Latest blogs
H2	Tools to find information
H3	Containing key indicators that summarize important developments and trends using the latest statistics
H3	Built on a solid infrastructure to inform education policy and improve practices
H3	View our updated calendar to present you with the latest from NCES
H3	We collect data to provide insights on the condition of education in the United States and how it changes over time.
H3	We produce reports on all aspects of education in the United States.
H3	Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year ...
H3	2024 NAEP Mathematics Assessment: Results at Grades 4 and 8 for the Nation, States, a...
H3	2024 NAEP Reading Assessment: Results at Grades 4 and 8 for the Nation, States, and D...
H3	Press Releases
H3	Happy New Year from the ECLS-K: 2024!
H3	Celebrating the ECLS-K: 2024: Learning about Our Nation’s Teachers, Principals, and S...
H3	Civics Education in Public Schools: Lessons and Activities Around the 2024 Election
H3	Common Core of Data (CCD) Nonfiscal Data Releases - How the National Center for Educa...

Link structure 90% achieved

Internal links

(Important)

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.

Internal Linking

External links

(Nice to have)

There are 2 external links on this page.

External Links

Found links on this page

Link	Attributes	Anchor text
https://nces.ed.gov/	Anchor	Skip to main content
https://nces.ed.gov/		Home
https://nces.ed.gov/	Text duplicate	Home
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/	Subdomain	View the Condition of Education
/national-center-education-sta...		Learn more about NCES
https://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/	Subdomain	Explore What's New
/use-work/data-collection-prog...		Learn more
https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Learn more
/Programs/SLDS/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Visit Site Read More Learn more
https://nces.ed.gov/ecls/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Visit Site Read More Learn more
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More National Teacher and Principal Survey
/surveys/piaac/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
/nationsreportcard/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
/national-center-education-sta...		Find publications and products
/national-center-education-sta...		View new product/publication releases
/programs/digest-dashboard	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Digest State Dashboard
/surveys/spp/results.asp	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More School Pulse Panel Dashboard
/programs/edge/acsdashboard	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More American Community Survey Education Dashboard
/surveys/ntps/ntpsdashboard/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Teacher and Principal Dashboard
https://www.nationsreportcard....	External Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Achievement Gap Dashboard
/programs/edge/	Subdomain	Explore EDGE
/use-work/resource-library/rep...		View more
/use-work/resource-library/rep...	Text duplicate	View more
/use-work/resource-library/rep...	Text duplicate	View more
/national-center-education-sta...	Subdomain	Browse all reports
/whatsnew/ncesNews.asp	Subdomain	Explore
/nationsreportcard/	Subdomain Text duplicate	Learn more
/national-center-education-sta...	Subdomain	Browse all NCES blogs
/about/directory/jill-mccarroll		Jill McCarroll
/learn/blog/happy-new-year-ecl...	Text duplicate	View more
/about/directory/jill-mccarroll	Text duplicate	Jill McCarroll
/learn/blog/celebrating-ecls-k...	Text duplicate	View more
/about/external-person/ies-staff		IES Staff
/learn/blog/civics-education-p...	Text duplicate	View more
/about/external-person/ies-staff	Text duplicate	IES Staff
/learn/blog/common-core-data-c...	Text duplicate	View more
/national-center-education-sta...	Subdomain Text duplicate	Browse all NCES blogs
/programs/edge/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates
/edfin/search/search_intro.asp	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Public School District Finance Peer Search
/ccd/finance_data.asp	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Public School Finance Data Visualization
https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/elsi/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Elementary/Secondary Information System
/ccd/schoolmap/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Public School and District Navigator
/programs/slds/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More State Longitudinal Data System Grant Information
/collegenavigator/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More College Navigator
https://www.nationsreportcard....	External Subdomain	Visit Site Read More National Assessment of Education Progress Data Tools
/surveys/international/ide/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More International Data Explorer
/ipeds/use-the-data	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Analysis and Download Tools
https://nces.ed.gov/datalab/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Datalab for online data analysis and table library
/surveys/spp/results.asp	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More School Pulse Panel (SPP) Dashboard
https://nces.ed.gov/bibliography/	Subdomain	Visit Site Read More Bibliography Search for Studies Using NCES Data

Server configuration 60% achieved

HTTP redirects

(Critically important)

This page redirects to "https://nces.ed.gov/"

WWW Redirect

HTTP header

(Important)

No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.

The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.

HTTP headers

Performance

(Somewhat important)

The page response time of 0.95 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.

This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.

This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.

The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

Page Speed

HTTP Response Header

Name	Value
date	Mon, 19 May 2025 11:58:40 GMT
content-type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
connection	close
cache-control	max-age=21600, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cache	MISS
content-language	en
x-content-type-options	nosniff
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN
expires	Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modified	Mon, 19 May 2025 11:16:18 GMT
vary	Cookie,Accept-Encoding
x-generator	Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cache	MISS
etag	W/"1747653378-gzip"
accept-ranges	bytes
cache-tags	HIT
strict-transport-security	max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-security-policy	upgrade-insecure-requests; frame-ancestors 'self' https://.ed.gov http://.ed.gov; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https:; object-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https:; script-src-elem 'unsafe-inline' blob: https:;
x-xss-protection	1; mode=block
referrer-policy	same-origin
content-encoding	gzip
content-length	13033
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http_version	HTTP/1.1

External factors 100% achieved

Backlinks

(Critically important)

This page is referenced by wikipedia.

This website has excellent links from other websites.

This page has backlinks from 4,705 referring domains.

This page has 838,323 backlinks.

This page has backlinks from 2,770 different ip addresses.

Backlinks

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Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /programs/coe/2005/section2/tableXLS.asp
Disallow: /blogs/research/search
Disallow: /blogs/nces/search
Disallow: /blogs/search

Sitemap: https://nces.ed.gov/help/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

Keyword	Result	Recheck
NCES	90%	Check
Education	77%	Check
National Center Education	70%	Check
National Center Education Statistics	68%	Check
National	66%	Check
Center	66%	Check
National Center	66%	Check
Statistics	65%	Check
Adult Education	63%	Check
education policy	60%	Check
Education Demographic	60%	Check
data	56%	Check
Report	56%	Check
Studies Using NCES Data	56%	Check
National Assessment	54%	Check
National Teacher	54%	Check
Education Progress Data Tools	54%	Check
IES	53%	Check
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data	53%	Check
Postsecondary Education Data System	53%	Check
Education Data System Analysis	53%	Check
reporting data	52%	Check
Condition	50%	Check
improve	50%	Check
collect	50%	Check

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Page quality 81% achieved

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Page structure 100% achieved

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Heading structure

Link structure 90% achieved

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Found links on this page

Server configuration 60% achieved

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External factors 100% achieved

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