Chds.hsph.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.09 s
File size
123.10 kB
Words
383
Media files
8
Number of links
34 internal / 29 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Center for Health Decision Science
The length of the page title is perfect. (315 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://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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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langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 383 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 34.43 words is high.
25.6% 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.
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)
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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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
/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PS_FAMNET.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ntent/uploads/2024/09/PS_DecTreehome.jpgDecision Science Mentoring Tree
...ntent/uploads/2024/09/PS_StudentGrad.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2024/09/PS_20151007_CHDS_Retreat_021.jpgNick Menzies smiling at camera
.../sq_Nicole_Campos_Headshot_2-150x150.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...s/2024/12/Sq_LRobinsonJEvans-150x150.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...LH_JJ_SY_composite-250x250-1-150x150.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...5-9DB6-A5F1A440D9D9_1_201_a-150x150.jpegNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H3 Family Well-being Research Summit
H3 Decision Science Mentorship
H3 Incoming Doctoral Students
H3 Disparities in Tuberculosis Incidence
H4 “One Screen” Cervical Cancer Control
H4 New “Risk and Decisions” Course
H4 CHDS at INFORMS 2024
H4 Lancet Commission Global Health 2050 Report
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (29) on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/a...External Subdomain About the School
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/a...External Subdomain Academics
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/a...External Subdomain Admissions
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/r...External Subdomain Research
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/f...External Subdomain Faculty
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/s...External Subdomain Student Life
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/newsExternal Subdomain News
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/a...External Subdomain Alumni
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/f...External Subdomain Frontiers
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/g...External Subdomain Make A Gift
https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/Subdomain No Text
https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/Subdomain Home
/approaches/Subdomain Approaches
/media-hub/Subdomain Media Hub
http://repository.chds.hsph.ha...External Subdomain Resources
/at-harvard/Subdomain At Harvard
/about-us/Subdomain About Us
https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/Center for Health Decision Science faculty and scholars create a vibrant research and teaching community
https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/Faculty and affiliates at the Center for Health Decision Science collaborate on decision science research and initiatives
https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/Faculty at the Center for Health Decision Science use visual methods to convey complex concepts
/famnet-family-well-being-rese...Subdomain No Text
/famnet-family-well-being-rese...Subdomain Family Well-being Research Summit
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/p...External Subdomain Eve Wittenberg
https://www.nursing.pitt.edu/p...External Subdomain Heidi Donovan
/about-us/people/researchers-s...Subdomain Kiran Ahmad
/decision-science-mentorship/Subdomain IMG-ALT Decision Science Mentoring Tree
/decision-science-mentorship/Subdomain Decision Science Mentorship
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/p...External Subdomain Sue J. Goldie
https://hsph.harvard.edu/profi...External Subdomain Jane Kim
https://hsph.harvard.edu/profi...External Subdomain Ankur Pandya
https://healthpolicy.fas.harva...External Subdomain Janice Jhang
/two-doctoral-students-join-chds/Subdomain STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
/two-doctoral-students-join-chds/Subdomain No Text
/two-doctoral-students-join-chds/Subdomain Incoming Doctoral Students
https://healthpolicy.fas.harva...External Subdomain Hanxuan (Astrid) Yu
https://healthpolicy.fas.harva...External Subdomain Text duplicate Janice Jhang
/disparities-in-tb-incidence/Subdomain RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
/disparities-in-tb-incidence/Subdomain IMG-ALT Nick Menzies smiling at camera
/disparities-in-tb-incidence/Subdomain Disparities in Tuberculosis Incidence
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/p...External Subdomain Nicolas Menzies
/one-screen-cervical-cancer-co...Subdomain A-TITLE “One Screen” Cervical Cancer Control
/one-screen-cervical-cancer-co...Subdomain Text duplicate “One Screen” Cervical Cancer Control
A-TITLE “One Screen” Cervical Cancer Control
/one-screen-cervical-cancer-co...Subdomain Read more...
/new-risk-and-decisions-course/Subdomain A-TITLE New “Risk and Decisions” Course
/new-risk-and-decisions-course/Subdomain Text duplicate New “Risk and Decisions” Course
A-TITLE New “Risk and Decisions” Course
/new-risk-and-decisions-course/Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
/chds-at-informs-2024/Subdomain A-TITLE CHDS at INFORMS 2024
/chds-at-informs-2024/Subdomain Text duplicate CHDS at INFORMS 2024
A-TITLE CHDS at INFORMS 2024
/chds-at-informs-2024/Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
/lancet-commission-global-heal...Subdomain A-TITLE Lancet Commission Global Health 2050 Report
/lancet-commission-global-heal...Subdomain Text duplicate Lancet Commission Global Health 2050 Report
A-TITLE Lancet Commission Global Health 2050 Report
/lancet-commission-global-heal...Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
/category/news/Subdomain See more news
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Harvard Chan Home
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c...External Subdomain Contact Us
http://www.harvard.edu/External Subdomain Harvard University Home
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c...External Subdomain Make a Gift
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/p...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
http://www.harvard.edu/copyrig...External Subdomain Report Copyright Violation
https://accessibility.huit.har...External Subdomain Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/"
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 is excellent with 0.09 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (123 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 178 referring domains.
This page has 300 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 155 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Center for Health Decision Science

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Decision56%Check
Decision Science55%Check
Health Decision Science54%Check
Science52%Check
CHDS52%Check
Health50%Check
Harvard48%Check
Center46%Check
Global Health44%Check
CHDS faculty43%Check

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