Afajof.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
88% 
Page structure
62% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
46% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.11 s
File size
108.30 kB
Words
907
Media files
2
Number of links
93 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The American Finance Association, publishers of the Journal of Finance
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 640 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The American Finance Association (AFA) is the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (959 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://afajof.org/
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
(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
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 907 words. That's ok.
21.8% 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.
9 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 18.4 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" 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 18 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The American Finance Association
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The American Finance Association
H2 AFA 2026 Annual Meeting Submissions – OPEN
H2 The AFA Board of Directors has voted to approve the following editorial teams:
H2 Steve Kaplan selected as new AFA Fellow
H2 Tyler Muir awarded the AFA’s 2025 Fischer Black Prize
H2 Videos
H2 The Journal of Finance
H2 News and Events
H2 AFA 2026 Annual Meeting Submissions – OPEN Duplicate text
H2 The AFA Board of Directors has voted to approve the following editorial teams: Duplicate text
H2 Steve Kaplan selected as new AFA Fellow Duplicate text
H2 Tyler Muir awarded the AFA’s 2025 Fischer Black Prize Duplicate text
H2 Finance Jobs
H2 Search afajof.org
H5 Latest Content
H5 Most Cited
H5 Call for Submissions
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 4 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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://afajof.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://afajof.org/The American Finance Association
https://afajof.org/Home
https://afajof.org/about-the-afa/About the AFA
https://afajof.org/join-the-afa/Join the AFA
/officers-and-directors/Officers and Directors
https://afajof.org/board-reports/Board Reports
https://afajof.org/financials/Financials
https://afajof.org/affect/AFFECT
/committee-on-racial-diversity/Committee on Racial Diversity
/ethics-committee/Ethics Committee
/investment-committee/Investment Committee
/nominating-committee/Nominating Committee
https://afajof.org/bylaws/Bylaws
/code-of-professional-conduct-...Code of Ethics
https://afajof.org/policies/Policies
/fischer-black-prize/Fischer Black Prize
/morgan-stanley-american-finan...Morgan Stanley AFA Award
https://afajof.org/affect/AFFECT Home
/affect/about-us/About AFFECT
/affect/affect-events/AFFECT Events
/affect/women-in-finance/Women in Finance Directory
/affect/dei-in-academia/Research in Academia
/committee-on-racial-diversity/CORD
https://afajof.org/fellows/Fellows
https://afajof.org/ombudsperson/Ombudsperson
https://afajof.org/history/AFA History
/past-presidents/Past AFA Presidents
/executive-secretary-treasurers/Past Executive Secretary Treasurers
https://afajof.org/in-memoriam/In Memoriam
https://afajof.org/contact-us/Contact Us
/journal-of-finance/Read the Journal
/comments-and-rejoinders/Replications and Comments
/clarifications/Corrigenda and Errata
https://afajof.org/supplements/Supplements
/aims-and-scope/Aims and Scope
/editorial-board/Editorial Board
/editorial-policies/Editorial Policies
/journal-statistics/Journal Statistics
https://afajof.org/editors/Current and Past Editors
/journal-of-finance-editor-rep...Editor Reports
https://afajof.org/nobel-prizes/Nobel Prizes
https://afajof.org/prizes/Annual Paper Prizes
/prize-winner-webinars/Prize Winner Webinars
/rick-green-prize/Rick Green Prize
https://afajof.org/submissions/Submit a Paper
https://afajof.org/subscriptions/Subscribe to the Journal
/annual-meeting/AFA Annual Meeting
/forthcoming-meetings/Future Meetings
https://afajof.org/past-meetings/Past Meetings
/finance-directory/AFA Finance Directory
/wp-content/uploads/afa-profes...New window AFA Professional Climate Report
/presidential-address-videos/Presidential Addresses
/annual-meeting-videos/Annual Meetings
https://afajof.org/affect-videos/AFFECT Videos
/masters-of-finance-videos/Masters of Finance
/historical-textbooks/Historical Textbooks
https://afajof.org/ombudsperson/Text duplicate Ombudsperson
https://afajof.org/news/AFA News
/conference-calendar/Conference Calendar
/call-for-papers-calendar/Call for Papers Calendar
/virtual-conferences-and-events/Virtual Conferences and Events Calendar
/submit-an-event/Submit an Event
https://careers.afajof.org/External Subdomain For Job Seekers – Main Site
https://careers.afajof.org/sta...External Subdomain For Job Seekers – Postdoc Career Connections
https://afacareers-rs.madgexjb...External Subdomain For Employers – Main
https://afacareers-rs.madgexjb...External Subdomain For Employers – Postdoc Career Connections
/news/afa-2026-annual-meeting-...AFA 2026 Annual Meeting Submissions – OPEN
/news/afa-2026-annual-meeting-...Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/the-afa-board-of-directo...The AFA Board of Directors has voted to approve the following editorial teams:
/news/the-afa-board-of-directo...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/steve-kaplan-selected-as...Steve Kaplan selected as new AFA Fellow
/news/steve-kaplan-selected-as...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/tyler-muir-awarded-the-a...Tyler Muir awarded the AFA’s 2025 Fischer Black Prize
/news/tyler-muir-awarded-the-a...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://afajof.org/affect/Academic Female Finance Committee (AFFECT)
/committee-on-racial-diversity/Committee on Racial Diversity (CORD)
https://careers.afajof.org/sta...External Subdomain for job seekers
https://afacareers-rs.madgexjb...External Subdomain for employers
/2025-annual-meeting-and-panel...see more videos from the 2025 annual meeting
/forthcoming-articles/Forthcoming Articles
/issue/volume-80-issue-1/Volume 80: Issue 1 (February 2025)
/issue/volume-79-issue-6/Volume 79: Issue 6 (December 2024)
/issue/volume-79-issue-5/Volume 79: Issue 5 (October 2024)
/issue/volume-79-issue-4/Volume 79: Issue 4 (August 2024)
/most-cited-recent-articles/Top 25 Recent Articles
/most-cited-articles/Top 50 Articles of All Time
https://afajof.org/submissions/Submit a Paper to the JF
/news/afa-2026-annual-meeting-...Text duplicate AFA 2026 Annual Meeting Submissions – OPEN
/news/afa-2026-annual-meeting-...Continue reading “AFA 2026 Annual Meeting Submissions – OPEN”
/news/the-afa-board-of-directo...Text duplicate The AFA Board of Directors has voted to approve the following editorial teams:
/news/the-afa-board-of-directo...Continue reading “The AFA Board of Directors has voted to approve the following editorial teams:”
/news/steve-kaplan-selected-as...Text duplicate Steve Kaplan selected as new AFA Fellow
/news/steve-kaplan-selected-as...Continue reading “Steve Kaplan selected as new AFA Fellow”
/news/tyler-muir-awarded-the-a...Text duplicate Tyler Muir awarded the AFA’s 2025 Fischer Black Prize
/news/tyler-muir-awarded-the-a...Continue reading “Tyler Muir awarded the AFA’s 2025 Fischer Black Prize”
https://careers.afajof.org/job...External Subdomain Wenzhou-Kean University: 2025 Finance Assistant/Associate Professor
https://careers.afajof.org/job...External Subdomain Immaculata University: Executive Director of Financial Planning & Administration
https://careers.afajof.org/job...External Subdomain GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT: Director of Tolls and Revenue Operations
https://careers.afajof.org/job...External Subdomain GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT: Director of Budget and Financial Analysis
https://careers.afajof.org/job...External Subdomain GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT: Electronic Revenue Operations Program Analyst
https://careers.afajof.org/New window External Subdomain See more jobs
https://afajof.org/contact-us/Contact
/terms-and-conditions/Terms of Use
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://afajof.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 slow (1.11 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.
This page loads 14 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (108 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 301 referring domains.
This page has 4,073 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 264 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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