Doaj.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
81% 
Link structure
63% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.37 s
File size
70.30 kB
Words
687
Media files
1
Number of links
104 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ
The length of the page title is perfect. (387 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
The meta description is too long: 1248 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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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.
This page contains 687 words. That's ok.
20.2% 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.
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 17.29 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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1 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
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No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
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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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Find open access journals & articles.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 32 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 Find open access journals & articles.
H2 The Directory of Open Access Journals
H2 Main actions
H2 Secondary actions
H2 DOAJ in numbers
H2 Quick search
H2 About the directory
H2 Funding
H2 News Service
H2 Volunteers
H2 Recently-added journals
H2 Search
H2 Documentation
H2 About
H2 Support
H2 Apply
H2 Stay up to date
H2 Legal & admin
H2 The Directory of Open Access Journals Duplicate text
H3 Meet the DOAJ Team: Head of Editorial and Deputy Head of Editorial (Quality)
H3 VACANCY: Operations manager
H3 Press release: PubScholar joins the movement to support the Directory of Open Access Journals
H3 New major version of the API to be released
H3 Fei Yu
H3 Lut Tamam
H3 Natalia Pamuła
H3 Pablo Hernandez
H3 Paola Galimberti
H3 Dawam M. Rohmatulloh
H3 Kadri Kıran
H3 Nataliia Kaliuzhna
H3 WeChat QR code
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 25 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://doaj.org/privacy/Learn more about DOAJ’s privacy policy.
/cookie_consent?continue=/Hide this message
https://doaj.org/Anchor No Text
https://doaj.org/The Directory of Open Access Journals Open Global Trusted
https://doaj.org/support/Institutions and libraries
/support/publisher-supporters/Publishers
/support/supporters/Institutional and library supporters
https://doaj.org/apply/Application form
https://doaj.org/apply/guide/Guide to applying
https://doaj.org/apply/seal/The DOAJ Seal
/apply/transparency/Transparency & best practice
/apply/publisher-responsibilit...Publisher information
/apply/copyright-and-licensing/Licensing & copyright
https://doaj.org/search/journalsJournals
https://doaj.org/search/articlesArticles
https://doaj.org/docs/api/API
https://doaj.org/docs/oai-pmh/OAI-PMH
https://doaj.org/docs/widgets/Widgets
/docs/public-data-dump/Public data dump
https://doaj.org/docs/openurl/OpenURL
https://doaj.org/docs/xml/XML
https://doaj.org/docs/faq/Metadata help
https://doaj.org/preservation/Preservation
https://doaj.org/about/About DOAJ
https://doaj.org/at-20/DOAJ at 20
https://doaj.org/about/team/DOAJ team
/about/ambassadors/Ambassadors
/about/advisory-board-council/Advisory Board & Council
/about/editorial-policy-adviso...Editorial Policy Advisory Group
/about/volunteers/Volunteers
https://blog.doaj.org/External Subdomain News
https://doaj.org/support/Text duplicate Institutions and libraries
/support/publisher-supporters/Text duplicate Publishers
/support/supporters/Text duplicate Institutional and library supporters
https://doaj.org/apply/Text duplicate Application form
https://doaj.org/apply/guide/Text duplicate Guide to applying
https://doaj.org/apply/seal/Text duplicate The DOAJ Seal
/apply/transparency/Text duplicate Transparency & best practice
/apply/publisher-responsibilit...Text duplicate Publisher information
/apply/copyright-and-licensing/Text duplicate Licensing & copyright
https://doaj.org/account/loginLogin
https://doaj.org/account/loginText duplicate Login
/search/journals?source={"quer...13,777 journals without APCs
https://doaj.org/search/journals20,972 journals
https://doaj.org/search/articles10,538,243 article records
https://doaj.org/about/Text duplicate About DOAJ
https://doaj.org/apply/guide/How to apply
https://doaj.org/apply/Apply now
https://doaj.org/at-20/Fund our 20th anniversary campaign
/support/supporters/from academic organisations
/support/publisher-supporters/from contributors
https://doaj.org/support/Support DOAJ
https://blog.doaj.org/2024/06/...New window External Subdomain 26 June 2024 Meet the DOAJ Team: Head of Editorial and Deputy Head of Editorial (Quality)
https://blog.doaj.org/2024/06/...New window External Subdomain 17 June 2024 VACANCY: Operations manager
https://blog.doaj.org/2024/06/...New window External Subdomain 14 June 2024 Press release: PubScholar joins the movement to support the Directory of Open Access Journals
https://blog.doaj.org/2024/05/...New window External Subdomain 22 May 2024 New major version of the API to be released
https://blog.doaj.org/New window External Subdomain → All blog posts
/about/volunteers/→ Meet our volunteers
https://doaj.org/feedSee Atom feed
https://docs.google.com/spread...External Subdomain A log of journals added (and withdrawn)
https://doaj.org/csvDOWNLOAD all journals as CSV
https://doaj.org/toc/2719-4841Acta Archaeologica Carpathica
https://doaj.org/toc/0976-9439RGUHS Journal of Dental Sciences
https://doaj.org/toc/2757-9077Engineering Perspective
https://doaj.org/toc/2717-6401Sakarya Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi
https://doaj.org/toc/2948-1600Discover Electronics
https://doaj.org/toc/2602-2923Turkish Academic Research Review
https://doaj.org/toc/2731-6955Discover Data
https://doaj.org/toc/1852-6446Anuario Escuela de Archivología
https://doaj.org/toc/2244-8128Agroalimentaria
https://doaj.org/toc/2407-7445Paedagogi: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu Pendidikan
https://doaj.org/toc/2392-3458Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej
https://doaj.org/toc/2657-7828Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists
https://doaj.org/toc/2308-8850Муниципалитет: экономика и управление
https://doaj.org/toc/1467-9744Zygon
https://doaj.org/toc/2615-4978Coopetition
https://doaj.org/toc/2580-376XGERAM (Gerakan Aktif Menulis)
https://doaj.org/search/journalsText duplicate Journals
https://doaj.org/search/articlesText duplicate Articles
https://doaj.org/docs/api/Text duplicate API
https://doaj.org/docs/oai-pmh/Text duplicate OAI-PMH
https://doaj.org/docs/widgets/Text duplicate Widgets
/docs/public-data-dump/Text duplicate Public data dump
https://doaj.org/docs/openurl/Text duplicate OpenURL
https://doaj.org/docs/xml/Text duplicate XML
https://doaj.org/docs/faq/Text duplicate Metadata help
https://doaj.org/preservation/Text duplicate Preservation
https://doaj.org/about/Text duplicate About DOAJ
https://doaj.org/at-20/Text duplicate DOAJ at 20
https://doaj.org/about/team/Text duplicate DOAJ team
/about/ambassadors/Text duplicate Ambassadors
/about/advisory-board-council/Text duplicate Advisory Board & Council
/about/editorial-policy-adviso...Text duplicate Editorial Policy Advisory Group
/about/volunteers/Text duplicate Volunteers
https://blog.doaj.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate News
https://doaj.org/support/Text duplicate Institutions and libraries
/support/publisher-supporters/Text duplicate Publishers
/support/supporters/Text duplicate Institutional and library supporters
https://doaj.org/apply/Text duplicate Application form
https://doaj.org/apply/guide/Text duplicate Guide to applying
https://doaj.org/apply/seal/Text duplicate The DOAJ Seal
/apply/transparency/Text duplicate Transparency & best practice
/apply/publisher-responsibilit...Text duplicate Publisher information
/apply/copyright-and-licensing/Text duplicate Licensing & copyright
https://twitter.com/DOAJplusExternal Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/Direc...External Subdomain Facebook
https://github.com/DOAJExternal Github
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain Linkedin
https://doaj.org/feedAtom feed
https://doaj.org/Text duplicate The Directory of Open Access Journals Open Global Trusted
https://doaj.org/terms/unless otherwise specified
https://doaj.org/accessibility/Accessibility
https://doaj.org/privacy/Privacy
https://doaj.org/contact/Contact
https://doaj.org/terms/T&Cs
https://doaj.org/media/Media
https://is4oa.org/External IS4OA
https://cottagelabs.com/External Cottage Labs
https://creativecommons.org/li...New window External A-TITLE See license summary
https://creativecommons.org/li...New window External Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license
https://creativecommons.org/pu...New window External Text duplicate A-TITLE See license summary
https://creativecommons.org/pu...New window External CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0) Public Domain Dedication
https://unsplash.com/@davidjorreNew window External David Jorre
https://unsplash.com/@jipy32New window External Jean-Philippe Delberghe
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://doaj.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 is excellent with 0.37 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (70 kB).

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 22,221 referring domains.
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This page has backlinks from 15,086 different ip addresses.

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doaj.org
Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

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