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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
47.00 kB
Words
627
Media files
14
Number of links
46 internal / 31 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage - Creative Commons
The length of the page title is perfect. (288 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://creativecommons.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

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article:modified_time2023-11-16T20:42:03+00:00
langen-us
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og:typewebsite
og:titleHomepage - Creative Commons
og:urlhttps://creativecommons.org/
og:site_nameCreative Commons
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
The average number of words per sentence of 28.4 words is high.
This page contains 627 words. That's ok.
34.6% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 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 13 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
.../Farmer-and-his-brother-making-music.jpgBlack and white photo of two people with short, greased-back hair sitting on a couch and playing a violin and a guitar.
...ve-Commons-Global-Summit-2019-Lisbon.jpgA group of about 18 people of all ages smiling and waving in front of the doors of a white historical building.
...2023/09/Novel-Coronavirus-SARS-CoV-2.jpgColor photo of an extreme close-up of a virus that looks like a greyish-green ovoid, surrounded by chains of bright orange globules, all in a dark purple environment.
...r-in-Nagahama-warrior-Kumagai-12-y.o.jpgColor photo of a kabuki actor with dramatic red and black face makeup and traditional hairstyle, staring intently and wearing an ornate gold and blue costume and holding up an open yellow fan with a red dot in the middle.
...nt/uploads/2025/04/Blog-Image-Size-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/2025/04/Blog-Image-Size.pngNo alt attribute provided
...-Original-Views-of-London-as-It-Is-1.pngRegent Street Looking Towards the Duke of York’s Column, plate twelve from Original Views of London as It Is by Thomas Shotter Boys is marked with CC0 1.0
...uploads/2025/03/New-Board-Members_WP.pngNew Board Members 03_2025
...tent/uploads/2025/02/Blog-Image-Size.pngAstronomical clock
...tent/uploads/2025/04/Blog-Image-Size.pngNo alt attribute provided
...-Original-Views-of-London-as-It-Is-1.pngRegent Street Looking Towards the Duke of York’s Column, plate twelve from Original Views of London as It Is by Thomas Shotter Boys is marked with CC0 1.0
...uploads/2025/03/New-Board-Members_WP.pngNew Board Members 03_2025
...tent/uploads/2025/02/Blog-Image-Size.pngAstronomical clock

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Creative Commons
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Creative Commons
H2 Better Sharing, Brighter Future
H2 The nonprofit behind the licenses and tools the world uses to share
H2 Wikipedia
H2 The Met
H2 Khan Academy
H2 Latest News
H2 Images Attribution
H2 Contact Us
H2 Subscribe to our Newsletter
H2 Support Our Work
H3 55+ million articles
H3 492,000+ images
H3 100,000+ lessons
H3 CC @ SXSW: Protecting the Commons in the Age of AI
H3 Reciprocity in the Age of AI
H3 Community in 2025
H3 Welcoming New CC Board Members
H3 From Strategy to Action: Focus Areas for 2025
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 too many external links (31) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://creativecommons.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://creativecommons.org/Creative Commons
/about/missionWho We Are
https://creativecommons.org/aboutWhat We Do
/share-your-workLicenses and Tools
https://creativecommons.org/blogBlog
/about/support-cc/Support Us
https://creativecommons.org/?sSearch
https://www.classy.org/give/31...New window External Subdomain Donate
https://network.creativecommon...New window External Subdomain Global Network
https://certificate.creativeco...New window External Subdomain Certificate
https://summit.creativecommons...New window External Subdomain Global Summit
/chooseNew window Chooser
https://search.creativecommons...New window External Subdomain Search Portal
https://opensource.creativecom...New window External Subdomain Open Source
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Twenty Years of Creative Commons (in Sixty Seconds)
http://www.junell.net/External Subdomain Ryan Junell
https://www.linkedin.com/in/go...External Subdomain Glenn Otis Brown
https://creativecommons.org/Text duplicate Creative Commons
/licenses/by/4.0/CC BY 4.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain on Flickr
/missionLearn more
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/i...External Subdomain Farmer and his brother making music
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/r...External Subdomain Russell Lee
/publicdomain/mark/1.0/CC PDM 1.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Flickr photowalk at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2019, Lisbon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Sebastiaan ter Burg
/licenses/by/2.0/CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain NIAID
/licenses/by/2.0/Text duplicate CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Children kabuki theater in Nagahama (warrior Kumagai, 12 y.o.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain lensonjapan
/licenses/by/2.0/Text duplicate CC BY 2.0
/2025/04/09/cc-sxsw-protecting...CC @ SXSW: Protecting the Commons in the Age of AI
/person/annacreativecommons-org/Anna Tumadóttir
/person/jocelyncreativecommons...Jocelyn Miyara
/category/about-cc/events/Events
/category/policy/Policy
/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1New window Text duplicate CC BY 4.0
/2025/04/02/reciprocity-in-the...Reciprocity in the Age of AI
/person/annacreativecommons-org/Text duplicate Anna Tumadóttir
/category/about-cc/About CC
/category/policy/Text duplicate Policy
/2025/03/13/community-in-2025/Community in 2025
/person/jocelyncreativecommons...Text duplicate Jocelyn Miyara
/category/community/Community
/2025/03/06/creative-commons-a...Welcoming New CC Board Members
/person/cc/Text duplicate Creative Commons
/category/about-cc/Text duplicate About CC
/2025/03/03/from-strategy-to-a...From Strategy to Action: Focus Areas for 2025
/person/annacreativecommons-org/Text duplicate Anna Tumadóttir
/category/about-cc/Text duplicate About CC
/blog/archive/more posts
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Reciprocal Roof (Shed)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Ziggy Liloia
/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en?re...New window CC BY-NC 2.0
https://www.artic.edu/artworks...External Subdomain Regent Street Looking Towards the Duke of York’s Column, plate twelve from Original Views of London as It Is
https://www.artic.edu/artists/...External Subdomain Thomas Shotter Boys
/publicdomain/zero/1.0/CC0 1.0
https://openverse.org/image/02...External Astronomical Clock
https://openverse.org/image/co...External olemartin
/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?New window CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/Text duplicate Creative Commons
/about/contactContact
https://mail.creativecommons.o...New window External Subdomain Newsletter
/privacyPrivacy
/policiesPolicies
https://creativecommons.org/termsTerms
https://bsky.app/profile/creat...New window External Bluesky
https://mastodon.social/@creat...New window External Mastodon
https://www.facebook.com/creat...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.classy.org/give/31...New window External Subdomain Donate Now
/policies/noted
/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
https://fontawesome.com/New window External Font Awesome

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://creativecommons.org/"
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 0.31 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (47 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 01 May 2025 15:58:51 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://creativecommons.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
varyAccept-Encoding
cache-controlmax-age=1800
cf-cache-statusHIT
age2005
last-modifiedThu, 01 May 2025 15:25:26 GMT
servercloudflare
cf-ray93907b94eb072a0e-CDG
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 18,857 referring domains.
This page has 3,415,362 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,814 different ip addresses.

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