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Meta information
70% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.24 s
File size
39.40 kB
Words
542
Media files
5
Number of links
30 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Distance project website
The title contains the word Welcome to! More content should be covered in the title.
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)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 8.43 words is low.
This page contains 542 words. That's ok.
33.9% 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.
11 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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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

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/posts/2024-11-07-webinars/EFI_Logo.jpgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Distance project website
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to the Distance project website
H2 On this page
H2 Recent news
H5 Introductory workshop, May 2025
H5 Design workshop, March 2025
H5 Two upcoming webinars of interest to distance samplers
H5 New CRAN release of mrds and Distance R packages
H5 New CRAN release of mrds and Distance packages
H5 New versions of Distance and mrds packages
H5 Design and Simulation R packages
H5 New versions of R packages
H5 Release of Distance 7.5
H5 Distance for Windows and R 4.2
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/index.htmlHome
/training/training.htmlTraining
/software/downloaddistwin.htmlDistance for Windows 8.0 download
/software/Rpackages.htmlR packages
/software/activity.htmlActivity for CTDS
/resources/citations.htmlCitations for distance sampling software
/resources/whatisds.htmlWhat is distance sampling?
/resources/books_and_papers.htmlBooks and papers
/resources/distancelist.htmlE-mail support list
/resources/bibliography/dbib.htmlCurated bibliography of distance sampling publications
/resources/vignettes.htmlCase studies
/about/authors.htmlAuthors
/about/distancesponsors.htmlSponsors
/about/distancehistory.htmlHistory
/about/downloadstats.htmlDownload statistics
/posts.htmlNews
https://github.com/distancedev...External Repositories
https://github.com/DistanceDev...External Report a bug (Distwin)
https://github.com/DistanceDev...External Report a bug (R package)
https://distancesampling.org/Anchor Recent news
https://unsplash.com/@faxmachi...External Simon Greenwood
https://unsplash.com/photos/ti...External Unsplash
/resources/whatisdsdistance sampling surveys of wildlife populations
https://www.creem.st-andrews.a...External Subdomain Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/External Subdomain University of St Andrews
/software/downloaddistwinDownload Distance for Windows
A-TITLE Standalone Windows software
/software/RpackagesDistance R Packages
A-TITLE R packages
/posts/2025-03-17-intromay25/i...Introductory workshop, May 2025 Registration now open introductory workshop; closes 23Apr25. Eric Rexstad 17 Mar 2025
/posts/2025-02-06-designmarch2...Design workshop, March 2025 Registration now open design workshop; closes 28Feb25. Len Thomas 03 Jan 2025
/posts/2024-11-07-webinars/202...Two upcoming webinars of interest to distance samplers February webinar on CTDS analysis and May webinar on ecological applications Rexstad 07 Nov 2024
/posts/2024-11-05-pkg-updates/...New CRAN release of mrds and Distance R packages Announcing new major releases of the mrds package, version 3.0.0, and Distance package, version 2.0.0. Len T...
/posts/oldsite/2024-01-04-rpac...New CRAN release of mrds and Distance packages Release of mrds 2.3.0 and Distance 1.0.9 on CRAN. An important update is that the default encounter rate varia...
/posts/oldsite/2023-08-03-rupd...New versions of Distance and mrds packages We are pleased to announce the release of new versions of our R packages Distance and mrds. The new release adds t...
/posts/oldsite/2023-01-12-dssd...Design and Simulation R packages We would like to make you aware that our design and simulation packages (dssd and dsims) are temporarily only available from...
/posts/oldsite/2022-11-16-rupd...New versions of R packages Imminent release of new versions of our R packages Distance and mrds. The information below will be particularly relevant to users...
/posts/oldsite/2022-09-07-dist...Release of Distance 7.5 Release of a new version of Distance for Windows, Distance 7.5. This version upgrades to use 64 bit R and also contains new versions ...
/posts/oldsite/2022-06-06-dist...Distance for Windows and R 4.2 Users of Distance for Windows who make use of the analysis engines that call R - that is the MRDS, DSM and MA analysis engines...
https://besjournals.onlinelibr...External Subdomain 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01737.x
https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v...External 10.18637/jss.v089.i01

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://distancesampling.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 0.24 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (39 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 134 referring domains.
This page has 202 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 121 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Distance project69%Check
Distance project website65%Check
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website62%Check
Welcome62%Check
distance sampling61%Check
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