Plc.sas.upenn.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
18% 
Link structure
77% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.19 s
File size
97.90 kB
Words
657
Media files
10
Number of links
59 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Penn Language Center
The length of the page title is perfect. (278 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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://plc.sas.upenn.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
(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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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)
The average number of words per sentence of 37.17 words is high.
This page contains 657 words. That's ok.
27.1% 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.
10 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 84 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"an interactive workbook for beginners to learn how to write and read korean quickly!"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...fault/files/SAS_simplifiedlogo_small.pngHome
...lic/2023-07/banner1_0.jpeg?itok=dQqnWldGColorful loom with shuttle
...ic/2023-07/augenblicke.jpg?itok=DFHjF4SoTextbook cover showing open book, photos, and cup of coffee on desk
...ese_heritage_beginners.jpg?itok=EtcKnABiBook cover depicting color Chinese storefront
.../2023-07/Korean_hangul.jpg?itok=Qz30m4XTTextbook cover black and gold text on white background
...ak_and_act_beg_chinese.jpg?itok=bGQunkwFBook cover with green and blue squares
...3-07/african languages.jpg?itok=3O8s9hieYellow and black book cover
...c/2023-07/chinese_bios.jpg?itok=iKKZjwhnChinese man in black suit holding up Oscar award
...il Language in Context.jpg?itok=8hYzN6G2Textbook cover showing the Indian state of Tamil
...-07/cartoonyatra cover.png?itok=AoUwpkqKCartoon book cover

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
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
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Main navigation
H2 Empty heading
H2 Center News
H2 Faculty Bookshelf
H2 Contact Us
H4 Language Testing for Penn Students
H4 Summer 2024 Courses
H4 New Spring 2024 Language Courses
H4 Filipino Featured in Penn Today
H4 PLC is Hiring Language Tutors
H4 Workshops on Technology and Pedagogy 2023-2024
H4 New Fall 2023 Courses
H4 Luganda Comes to PLC
H4 Medical Spanish for Summer 2021
H4 Summer 2021 Courses
H4 Augenblicke
H4 Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners: Stories about Us
H4 Korean Hangul for Beginners
H4 Speak and Act: Beginning Chinese (Volume 1)
H4 African Languages in Time and Space A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi
H4 Chinese Biographies: Ang Lee, 2nd Edition
H4 Tamil Language in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Tamil
H4 Cartoonyatra
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 10 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 11 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/Anchor Skip to main content
http://www.college.upenn.edu/External Subdomain College of Arts & Sciences
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/gradu...External Subdomain Graduate Division
http://www.lps.upenn.edu/External Subdomain College of Liberal and Professional Studies
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/No Text
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/Penn Language Center
A-TITLE Home
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/aboutAbout
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/peoplePeople
/languagesLanguages
/faculty-0For Faculty
/studentsFor Students
/programsPrograms
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/newsNews
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/eventsEvents
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/Anchor No Text
/faculty/plc-workshops-pedagog...PLC Workshops PLC organizes workshops on pedagogy and technology for language educators.
/faculty/penn-resourcesPenn Resources Penn offers rich resources to enhance language teaching.
/faculty/travel-grants-plc-lec...Travel Grants PLC lecturers may apply for support to travel to national conferences.
/faculty/sas-language-teaching...Teaching Grants Applications are accepted every October through early January.
/students/language-coursesLanguage Courses Learn a new language - PLC has over forty languages to choose from!
/languagedirectTutoring PLC provides free peer tutoring. Request a tutor or apply to be one.
/students/language-waiversLanguage Waivers Request to waive the language requirement with proof of proficiency in a PLC language.
/students/language-proficiency...Proficiency Testing Students with proficiency in a PLC language may test out of the language requirement.
/news/2024/07/03/proficiency2024Language Testing for Penn Students
/news/2024/07/03/proficiency2024Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/2024/03/01/summer-2024-c...Summer 2024 Courses
/news/2024/03/01/summer-2024-c...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/2023/11/15/new-spring-20...New Spring 2024 Language Courses
/news/2023/11/15/new-spring-20...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/2023/11/15/filipino-feat...Filipino Featured in Penn Today
/news/2023/11/15/filipino-feat...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/2023/09/05/plc-hiring-la...PLC is Hiring Language Tutors
/news/2023/09/05/plc-hiring-la...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/news/2023/09/05/workshops-tec...Workshops on Technology and Pedagogy 2023-2024
/news/2023/09/05/workshops-tec...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/news/2023/07/20/new-fall-2023...New Fall 2023 Courses
/news/2023/07/20/new-fall-2023...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/2022/08/19/luganda-comes...Luganda Comes to PLC
/news/2022/08/19/luganda-comes...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/2021/05/12/medical-spani...Medical Spanish for Summer 2021
/news/2021/05/12/medical-spani...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/2021/04/14/summer-2021-c...Summer 2021 Courses
/news/2021/04/14/summer-2021-c...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/node/4358IMG-ALT Textbook cover showing open book, photos, and cup of coffee on desk
/node/4358Augenblicke
/node/4416IMG-ALT Book cover depicting color Chinese storefront
/node/4416Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners: Stories about Us
/node/4361IMG-ALT Textbook cover black and gold text on white background
/node/4361Korean Hangul for Beginners
/node/4390IMG-ALT Book cover with green and blue squares
/node/4390Speak and Act: Beginning Chinese (Volume 1)
/node/4377IMG-ALT Yellow and black book cover
/node/4377African Languages in Time and Space A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi
/node/4359IMG-ALT Chinese man in black suit holding up Oscar award
/node/4359Chinese Biographies: Ang Lee, 2nd Edition
/node/4360IMG-ALT Textbook cover showing the Indian state of Tamil
/node/4360Tamil Language in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Tamil
/node/4386IMG-ALT Cartoon book cover
/node/4386Cartoonyatra
http://www.instagram.com/pennl...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/m...External Subdomain Subscribe to our mailing list
https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/No Text
https://www.college.upenn.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate College of Arts & Sciences
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/grad...External Subdomain Text duplicate Graduate Division
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/lpsExternal Subdomain College of Liberal & Professional Studies
http://www.upenn.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://accessibility.web-reso...New window External Subdomain Report Accessibility Issues and Get Help
/saml_loginPenn Weblogin
A-TITLE Penn Weblogin

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://plc.sas.upenn.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 0.19 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (98 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
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x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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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 48 referring domains.
This page has 63 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 46 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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# 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.
#
# 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
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
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: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
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Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
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Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
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Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
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Disallow: /index.php/user/login
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Disallow:  /system/
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Disallow:  /wp-content/
Disallow:  /wp-admin/
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Disallow: /pantheon_healthcheck
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Disallow: /*.xml$
Disallow: /*.php
Disallow: /node?*
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Disallow: /

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Home | Penn Language Center

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Penn66%Check
Penn Language61%Check
Penn Language Center58%Check
Language56%Check
PLC54%Check
Language Center54%Check
Penn Today54%Check
Penn Students54%Check
Tamil Language51%Check
Center50%Check

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