Cast-science.org - SEO Checker

Sign up for free! PDF Export
Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
59% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
47% 
Server
69% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.89 s
File size
268.40 kB
Words
1135
Media files
25
Number of links
108 internal / 14 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
CAST - The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
The length of the page title is perfect. (537 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
CAST Science is a nonprofit organization composed of scientific societies and many individual, student, company, nonprofit, and associate society members.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (963 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://cast-science.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
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionCAST Science is a nonprofit organization composed of scientific societies and many individual, student, company, nonprofit, and associate society members.
robotsfollow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large
generatorWP Rocket 3.18
theme-color#fff
msapplication-TileImagehttps://cast-science.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CAST_Favicon-300x300.png
article:published_time2022-12-28T01:00:01-06:00
article:modified_time2025-03-03T15:49:26-06:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleCAST - The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
twitter:descriptionCAST Science is a nonprofit organization composed of scientific societies and many individual, student, company, nonprofit, and associate society members.
twitter:label1Written by
twitter:data1admin
twitter:label2Time to read
twitter:data24 minutes
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleCAST - The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
og:descriptionCAST Science is a nonprofit organization composed of scientific societies and many individual, student, company, nonprofit, and associate society members.
og:urlhttps://cast-science.org/
og:site_nameCAST Science
og:updated_time2025-03-03T15:49:26-06:00
charsetUTF-8

Automatically check cast-science.org including all subpages at once!

Try for free
Guaranteed free of charge during trial period.

Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are 5 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Apparently we had reached a great height in the atmosphere, for the sk...
  • Duplicate 2: CAST, through its network of experts, assembles, interprets, and commu...
This page contains 1135 words. That's ok.
33.4% 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.
24 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.65 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 23 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
22 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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
...2025/02/cast-logo_tag-e1739211442626.pngNo alt attribute provided
...2025/02/Untitled-design-1-2-1024x277.pngNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Image.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ncluding-cows-chickens-goats-and-pi.webpNo alt attribute provided
...-domes-with-plants-and-sensors-moni.webpNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/2025/02/2025-BCCA-2-1024x527.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/2025/02/Untitled-design-3-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
...nternational-1920-x-1080-px-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
...2025/02/Voices-of-Ag-Banner-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ads/2025/02/Untitled-design-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
...25/01/Voices-of-Ag-Banner-1-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ads/2024/10/Untitled-design-1024x576.pngNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2024/08/CAST-Divider.svgNo alt attribute provided
...2022/12/cast-logo-white-websitev2-01.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Strengthening the Voice of Agricultural Science and Innovation
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 27 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Strengthening the Voice of Agricultural Science and Innovation
H1 Donate to CAST’s Student Programs
H1 Expertise You Can Trust
H1 Join CAST Today
H1 What Our Members & Volunteers Say
H2 What We Do
H2 Our Workgroups
H2 Join CAST Today Duplicate text
H2 Latest Resources
H2 Our Events
H2 Get Involved
H2 Volunteer With CAST
H2 Submit An Idea
H2 Donate to CAST
H3 CAST Facts
H3 CAST Volunteers
H3 Our Mission
H3 Join CAST
H3 Get In Touch
H3 Follow Us
H4 Webinar Release of the “Potential for U.S. Agriculture to Be Greenhouse Gas Negative” ReportExpired
H6 Coming Soon: 2025 Borlaug CAST Communication Award Nominations
H6 SoAR Foundation Joins Forces with CAST to Strengthen Agricultural Innovation and Science-Based Policy
H6 Exciting Internship Opportunity at CAST: Join Us in Advancing International Agricultural Policy
H6 From Iowa to Uganda: Learning Sustainable Development Through Agricultural Innovation
H6 CAST Welcomes New Interns
H6 Bridging the Gap: The Critical Role of Scientists in Policy Debates
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
6 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 14 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://cast-science.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://cast-science.org/No Text
https://cast-science.org/Anchor No Text
/about/who-we-are/Who We Are
/about/staff/Staff
/about/our-work/Our Work
/about/governance/Governance
/soar-foundation-joins-forces-...SoAR Foundation Joins Forces with CAST
https://members.cast-science.o...External Subdomain Careers
https://cast-science.org/contact/Contact
/about/who-we-are/Text duplicate Who We Are
/about/staff/Text duplicate Staff
/about/our-work/Text duplicate Our Work
/about/governance/Text duplicate Governance
/soar-foundation-joins-forces-...Text duplicate SoAR Foundation Joins Forces with CAST
https://members.cast-science.o...External Subdomain Text duplicate Careers
https://cast-science.org/contact/Text duplicate Contact
https://councilforagricultural...External Subdomain Member Login
https://councilforagricultural...External Subdomain Donate
/publications/Publications
/resources/Resources
/ask-the-expert/Ask the Expert
/meet-the-expert/Meet the Expert
/cast-webinars/CAST Webinars
/the-cast-hour/The CAST Hour Podcast
/resources/soar-foundation-mat...SoAR Foundation Reports
/membership/Membership
https://cast-science.org/Anchor Awards
/borlaug-cast-communication-aw...Borlaug CAST Communication Award
/presidents-award/President’s Award
/champion-award/Champion Award
/cast-events/Events
https://cast-science.org/news/News
/publications/Text duplicate Publications
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/ask-the-expert/Text duplicate Ask the Expert
/meet-the-expert/Text duplicate Meet the Expert
/cast-webinars/Text duplicate CAST Webinars
/the-cast-hour/Text duplicate The CAST Hour Podcast
/resources/soar-foundation-mat...Text duplicate SoAR Foundation Reports
/membership/Text duplicate Membership
https://cast-science.org/Anchor Text duplicate Awards
/borlaug-cast-communication-aw...Text duplicate Borlaug CAST Communication Award
/presidents-award/Text duplicate President’s Award
/champion-award/Text duplicate Champion Award
/cast-events/Text duplicate Events
https://cast-science.org/news/Text duplicate News
/soar-foundation-joins-forces-...Learn More
/future-harvest-supporting-stu...DONATE NOW
/resources/Explore the Resources
https://cast-science.org/about/Learn More About Cast
https://cast-science.org/engage/Become A CAST Member
https://cast-science.org/about/Text duplicate Learn More About Cast
/about/our-work/Learn More About Our Work
/publications/Food Sciences Ensuring the safety, quality, and sustainability of our food supply through cutting-edge research in food safety, nutrition, and processing tec...
/publications/Animal Sciences Advancing the health, welfare, and productivity of animals through research and innovation in livestock management, nutrition, and veterinary...
/publications/Plant & Soil Sciences Enhancing crop production and environmental stewardship by exploring the intricate relationships between plants, soils, and agricultura...
https://cast-science.org/engage/Join CAST Today
https://cast-science.org/contact/Contact Us
/resources/See All CAST Resources
/coming-soon-2025-borlaug-cast...No Text
/category/news/Text duplicate News
/coming-soon-2025-borlaug-cast...Coming Soon: 2025 Borlaug CAST Communication Award Nominations
/soar-foundation-joins-forces-...No Text
/category/press-release/Press Release
/soar-foundation-joins-forces-...SoAR Foundation Joins Forces with CAST to Strengthen Agricultural Innovation and Science-Based Policy
/exciting-internship-opportuni...No Text
/category/news/Text duplicate News
/exciting-internship-opportuni...Exciting Internship Opportunity at CAST: Join Us in Advancing International Agricultural Policy
/from-iowa-to-uganda-learning-...No Text
/category/voices-of-agriculture/Voices of Agriculture
/from-iowa-to-uganda-learning-...From Iowa to Uganda: Learning Sustainable Development Through Agricultural Innovation
/cast-welcomes-new-interns/No Text
/category/news/Text duplicate News
/cast-welcomes-new-interns/CAST Welcomes New Interns
/bridging-the-gap-the-critical...No Text
/category/voices-of-agriculture/Text duplicate Voices of Agriculture
/bridging-the-gap-the-critical...Bridging the Gap: The Critical Role of Scientists in Policy Debates
/webinar-release-of-the-potent...EVENT DETAIL
https://cast-science.org/engage/Volunteer With CAST
https://cast-science.org/engage/Anchor Submit An Idea
https://cast-science.org/careers/Anchor Text duplicate Volunteer With CAST
https://cast-science.org/engage/Anchor Text duplicate Submit An Idea
https://councilforagricultural...New window External Subdomain Donate to CAST
https://cast-science.org/No Text
https://cast-science.org/engage/Become A Member
https://maps.app.goo.gl/SRE4fe...New window External Subdomain 2625 N Loop Dr #2610, Ames, IA 50010
https://cast-science.org/contact/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Linkedin
http://youtube.com/castagscienceNew window External Youtube
http://twitter.com/castagscienceNew window External Twitter
http://instagram.com/castagsci...New window External Instagram
http://facebook.com/castagscienceNew window External Facebook
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
https://saltechsystems.com/?ut...New window External Saltech Systems
A-TITLE Iowa Web Design, Development, IT, Hosting | Saltech Systems - Ames, IA
https://cast-science.org/No Text
https://cast-science.org/Home
https://cast-science.org/about/About
/about/who-we-are/Text duplicate Who We Are
/about/staff/Text duplicate Staff
/about/our-work/Text duplicate Our Work
/about/governance/Text duplicate Governance
/publications/Text duplicate Publications
/resources/Text duplicate Resources
/category/ask-the-expert/Text duplicate Ask the Expert
/category/meet-the-expert/Text duplicate Meet the Expert
/category/the-cast-hour-podcast/Text duplicate The CAST Hour Podcast
/category/cast-webinars/Text duplicate CAST Webinars
/resources/soar-foundation-mat...SoAR Foundation Materials
/membership/Text duplicate Membership
https://cast-science.org/events/Text duplicate Events
/presidents-award/Text duplicate President’s Award
/borlaug-cast-communication-aw...Text duplicate Borlaug CAST Communication Award
/bcca-2024/BCCA 2024
/champion-award/Text duplicate Champion Award
/distinguished-service-award/Distinguished Service Award
https://cast-science.org/news/Text duplicate News
/news/press-releases/Press Releases
https://cast-science.org/contact/Text duplicate Contact
https://councilforagricultural...External Subdomain Text duplicate Member Login
https://councilforagricultural...External Subdomain Text duplicate Donate

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://cast-science.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.89 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (268 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateFri, 14 Mar 2025 10:29:26 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length43023
x-powered-byPHP/8.2.27
last-modifiedFri, 14 Mar 2025 03:02:50 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
cache-controlmax-age=0
expiresFri, 14 Mar 2025 10:29:26 GMT
x-cache-statusMISS
strict-transport-securitymax-age=60; includeSubDomains
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,346 referring domains.
This page has 6,969 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 719 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://cast-science.org/sitemap_index.xml

Similar sites

Search preview

cast-science.org
CAST - The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
CAST Science is a nonprofit organization composed of scientific societies and many individual, student, company, nonprofit, and associate society members.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Science90%Check
CAST Science79%Check
Agricultural Science78%Check
CAST72%Check
Agricultural66%Check
Science Communication66%Check
Agricultural Innovation60%Check
Join CAST55%Check
Innovation54%Check
CAST Resources53%Check
Show more keywords and terms

Automatically check cast-science.org including all subpages at once!

Try for free
Guaranteed free of charge during trial period.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our site work and also for analytics and advertising purposes. You can enable or disable optional cookies as desired. See the following links for more information.

Contact | Privacy

We need these so the site can function properly

So we can better understand how visitors use our website

So we can serve you tailored ads and promotions