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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
75% 
Server
60% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.56 s
File size
20.50 kB
Words
485
Media files
1
Number of links
66 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Archive of Our Own
The length of the page title is perfect. (247 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
The length of the meta description is perfect. (484 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in meta tags: en-us
Server location: United States of America
There are different language information within the page markup.
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
(Nice to have)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
keywordsfanfiction, transformative works, otw, fair use, archive
languageen-US
subjectfandom
descriptionAn Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
distributionGLOBAL
classificationtransformative works
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langen
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 485 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
31.3% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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 18.36 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
/images/ao3_logos/logo_42.pngArchive of Our Own

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Archive of Our Own beta Archive of Our Own
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Archive of Our Own beta Archive of Our Own
H2 A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
H3 Find your favorites
H3 News All News
H3 Follow us
H3 Footer
H4 With an AO3 account, you can:
H4 AO3 Celebrates 14 Million Fanworks
H4 Fan Fiction Writers Archive is Moving to the AO3
H4 Celebrating AO3's 15th Anniversary
H4 About the Archive
H4 Contact Us
H4 Development
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://archiveofourown.org/Anchor Main Content
https://archiveofourown.org/Archive of Our Own beta
IMG-ALT Archive of Our Own
/users/loginLog In
/users/password/newForgot password?
/invite_requestsGet an Invitation
/menu/fandomsFandoms
https://archiveofourown.org/mediaAll Fandoms
/media/Anime *a* Manga/fandomsAnime & Manga
/media/Books *a* Literature/fa...Books & Literature
/media/Cartoons *a* Comics *a*...Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels
/media/Celebrities *a* Real Pe...Celebrities & Real People
/media/Movies/fandomsMovies
/media/Music *a* Bands/fandomsMusic & Bands
/media/Other Media/fandomsOther Media
/media/Theater/fandomsTheater
/media/TV Shows/fandomsTV Shows
/media/Video Games/fandomsVideo Games
/media/Uncategorized Fandoms/f...Uncategorized Fandoms
/menu/browseBrowse
https://archiveofourown.org/worksWorks
/bookmarksBookmarks
https://archiveofourown.org/tagsTags
/collectionsCollections
/menu/searchSearch
/works/searchText duplicate Works
/bookmarks/searchText duplicate Bookmarks
/tags/searchText duplicate Tags
/people/searchPeople
/menu/aboutAbout
https://archiveofourown.org/aboutAbout Us
/admin_postsNews
https://archiveofourown.org/faqFAQ
/wrangling_guidelinesWrangling Guidelines
/donateDonate or Volunteer
http://transformativeworks.org/External Organization for Transformative Works
/invite_requestsGet Invited!
https://archiveofourown.org/mediaText duplicate All Fandoms
/media/Anime *a* Manga/fandomsText duplicate Anime & Manga
/media/Books *a* Literature/fa...Text duplicate Books & Literature
/media/Cartoons *a* Comics *a*...Text duplicate Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels
/media/Celebrities *a* Real Pe...Text duplicate Celebrities & Real People
/media/Movies/fandomsText duplicate Movies
/media/Music *a* Bands/fandomsText duplicate Music & Bands
/media/Other Media/fandomsText duplicate Other Media
/media/Theater/fandomsText duplicate Theater
/media/TV Shows/fandomsText duplicate TV Shows
/media/Video Games/fandomsText duplicate Video Games
/media/Uncategorized Fandoms/f...Text duplicate Uncategorized Fandoms
/admin_postsAll News
/admin_posts/30610AO3 Celebrates 14 Million Fanworks
/admin_posts/30610?show_commen...19
/admin_posts/30610Read more...
/admin_posts/30550Fan Fiction Writers Archive is Moving to the AO3
/admin_posts/30550?show_commen...62
/admin_posts/30550Text duplicate Read more...
/admin_posts/30463Celebrating AO3's 15th Anniversary
/admin_posts/30463?show_commen...248
/admin_posts/30463Text duplicate Read more...
https://www.transformativework...External Subdomain Organization for Transformative Works' news outlets
https://twitter.com/AO3_StatusExternal @AO3_Status on Twitter
https://ao3org.tumblr.com/External Subdomain ao3org on Tumblr
/site_mapSite Map
/diversityDiversity Statement
https://archiveofourown.org/tosTerms of Service
/contentContent Policy
/privacyPrivacy Policy
https://archiveofourown.org/dmcaDMCA Policy
/abuse_reports/newPolicy Questions & Abuse Reports
/supportTechnical Support & Feedback
https://github.com/otwcode/otw...External otwarchive v0.9.382.6}
/known_issuesKnown Issues
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/o...External Subdomain GPL-2.0-or-later
A-TITLE View License
https://transformativeworks.org/External OTW
A-TITLE Organization for Transformative Works

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://archiveofourown.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.56 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 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 14 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servercloudflare
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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 14,978 referring domains.
This page has 6,778,184 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 9,440 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

# See https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file

User-agent:	*
Disallow: /works? # cruel but efficient
Disallow: /autocomplete/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /external_works/
# disallow indexing of search results
Disallow: /bookmarks/search?
Disallow: /people/search?
Disallow: /tags/search?
Disallow: /works/search?

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /autocomplete/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /external_works/
# Googlebot is smart and knows pattern matching
Disallow: /works/*?
Disallow: /*search?
Disallow: /*?*query=
Disallow: /*?*sort_
Disallow: /*?*selected_tags
Disallow: /*?*view_adult
Disallow: /*?*tag_id
Disallow: /*?*pseud_id
Disallow: /*?*user_id
Disallow: /*?*pseud=

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 30

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