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Meta information
0% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
3% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.49 s
File size
450.50 kB
Words
1335
Media files
49
Number of links
121 internal / 51 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
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American Fisheries Society
The length of the page title is perfect. (247 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
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Canonical URL
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https://fisheries.org/
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Language
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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
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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 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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Page quality

Content
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The average number of words per sentence of 26.9 words is high.
This page contains 1335 words. That's ok.
26.4% 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.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-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 27 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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49 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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 112 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Mission Statement
H2 Quick Links
H2 Latest Science
H2 Our Work
H2 AFS for Everyone
H3 Who We Are
H3 Students
H3 Professionals
H3 Policymakers
H3 Partners
H4 American Fisheries Society Family of Websites
H4 Center for Technology and Collaboration
H4 Who We Are Duplicate text
H4 Contact Us
H4 Support AFS
H4 What Are Fisheries?
H4 Membership
H4 My Account
H4 Join/Renew
H4 Organizational Membership
H4 POLICY
H4 Advocacy Guidelines
H4 Science Guidelines
H4 Briefings
H4 Resolutions
H4 News
H4 Newsletter
H4 Press Releases
H4 Events
H4 Fisheries Events Calendar
H4 Add Your Event Listing
H4 Jobs
H4 Find a Job
H4 Post a Job
H4 Publications
H4 Bookstore
H4 Journal Online Access
H4 Gray Literature Database
H4 Professional Development
H4 Webinars
H4 More Online Resources
H4 Engagement
H4 Shop AFS
H4 Join or Renew Now
H4 Annual Meeting
H4 Journals
H4 Migratory Passage and Run Size of American Shad and River Herring in the Raritan River, New Jersey, USA
H4 Variables Influencing Stream-type Juvenile Chinook Salmon Density within Floodplain Habitat in the Skagit River Basin, Washington
H4 Annual Meeting Duplicate text
H4 Committees
H4 Bookstore Duplicate text
H4 Submit a Journal Article
H4 Continuing Education
H4 About
H4 Quick Links Duplicate text
H4 Contact
H5 Journals Duplicate text
H5 Gray Literature Database Duplicate text
H5 Annual Meeting Duplicate text
H5 Divisions, Chapters, Sections
H5 Climate Change and Fisheries
H5 Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program
H5 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Fisheries
H5 Center for Fisheries Technology and Collaboration
H5 Governance
H5 Divisions, Sections, Chapters
H5 Committees Duplicate text
H5 Awards & Recognition
H5 Diversity
H5 AFS Celebrates 150+ Years
H5 AFS Fisheries Partnerships
H5 Meet the Staff
H5 Member Directory
H5 Types of Membership
H5 Give the Gift of Membership
H5 Who Are Our Members
H5 Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
H5 Climate Change
H5 Magnuson-Stevens Act
H5 Waters of the US
H5 Water Quality
H5 Pebble Mine
H5 National Fish Habitat Partnership
H5 Infrastructure
H5 Aquaculture
H5 Future of the Nation’s Aquatic Resources
H5 Recent Policy Statements
H5 Recent Policy Letters
H5 Announcements
H5 Annual Meeting Duplicate text
H5 Members in the News
H5 Policy News
H5 Beneath the Surface Podcast
H5 Annual Meeting Duplicate text
H5 Future Annual Meetings
H5 Past Annual Meetings
H5 World Fisheries Congress 2024
H5 Other Past Events
H5 Career Help from AFS
H5 Other Career Tips
H5 AFS Journals Program
H5 AFS Books Program
H5 Submit Journal Article
H5 Fisheries Magazine
H5 Writing Tools
H5 Continuing Education Duplicate text
H5 Professional Certification
H5 Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program Duplicate text
H5 Leadership Opportunities
H5 Strategic Partners
H5 Support AFS Duplicate text
H5 The 1870 Society
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
22 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 6 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (51) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://fisheries.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://fisheries.org/about/American Fisheries Society Family of Websites
https://afspubs.onlinelibrary....External Subdomain Journals
https://graylitreports.fisheri...External Subdomain Gray Literature Database
https://afsannualmeeting.fishe...External Subdomain Annual Meeting
/unit-websites/Divisions, Chapters, Sections
https://climate.fisheries.org/External Subdomain Climate Change and Fisheries
https://hutton.fisheries.org/External Subdomain Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program
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https://units.fisheries.org/fi...External Subdomain Center for Fisheries Technology and Collaboration
/about/contact-us/No Text
/about/contact-us/Center for Technology and Collaboration
https://fisheriesstandardsampl...New window External Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fish Website
https://units.fisheries.org/ro...External Subdomain Rotenone Stewardship Program Information Site
http://fishionary.fisheries.org/New window External Subdomain Fishionary: A blog about fish words!
https://fisheries.org/No Text
/2024/08/jeff-kopaska-selected...Jeff Kopaska Selected as Next AFS Executive Director
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/2024/08/afs-nominating-commit...AFS Nominating Committee Seeks Nominations for Second Vice President
/2023/12/latest-newsletter/Latest Newsletter
https://secure.fisheries.org/d...External Subdomain Donate
https://secure.fisheries.org/w...External Subdomain Login
https://secure.fisheries.org/w...External Subdomain Logout
https://fisheries.org/No Text
https://fisheries.org/about/Who We Are
/about/governance/Governance
/about/units/Divisions, Sections, Chapters
/about/committees/Committees
/about/awards-recognition/Awards & Recognition
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/policy-media/fisheries-partne...AFS Fisheries Partnerships
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/about/contact-us/No Text
/about/contact-us/Contact Us
/about/support-afs/No Text
/about/support-afs/Support AFS
/membership/new-to-fisheries/No Text
/membership/new-to-fisheries/What Are Fisheries?
https://fisheries.org/membership/Membership
https://secure.fisheries.org/M...External Subdomain Member Directory
/membership/types-of-membership/Types of Membership
https://fisheries.org/gift/Give the Gift of Membership
/membership/meet-our-members/Who Are Our Members
https://secure.fisheries.org/M...External Subdomain No Text
https://secure.fisheries.org/M...External Subdomain My Account
/membership/join/No Text
/membership/join/Join/Renew
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/membership/meet-our-members/s...Organizational Membership
/category/policy-news/POLICY
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/policy-media/wotus/Waters of the US
/category/water-quality/Water Quality
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/policy-media/national-fish-ha...National Fish Habitat Partnership
/category/infrastructure/Infrastructure
/category/aquaculture/Aquaculture
/policy-media/future-of-the-na...Future of the Nation’s Aquatic Resources
/policy-media/recent-policy-st...Recent Policy Statements
/policy-media/recent-policy-le...Recent Policy Letters
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/policy-media/advocacy-guideli...Advocacy Guidelines
/policy-media/science-guidelines/No Text
/policy-media/science-guidelines/Science Guidelines
/policy-briefings/No Text
/policy-briefings/Briefings
/policy-media/resolutions/No Text
/policy-media/resolutions/Resolutions
https://fisheries.org/news/News
/category/announcements/Announcements
/category/annual-meeting/Text duplicate Annual Meeting
/category/members-in-the-news/Members in the News
/category/policy-news/Policy News
https://americanfisheriessocie...External Subdomain Beneath the Surface Podcast
https://fisheries.org/newsletter/No Text
https://fisheries.org/newsletter/Newsletter
/category/press-releases/No Text
/category/press-releases/Press Releases
https://fisheries.org/events/Events
https://afsannualmeeting.fishe...External Subdomain Text duplicate Annual Meeting
/events-page/future-afs-meetings/Future Annual Meetings
/events-page/past-afs-meetings/Past Annual Meetings
https://wfc2024.fisheries.org/External Subdomain World Fisheries Congress 2024
/events-page/calendar/No Text
/events-page/calendar/Fisheries Events Calendar
/events-page/add-your-event/No Text
/events-page/add-your-event/Add Your Event Listing
http://jobs.fisheries.org/External Subdomain Jobs
/employment/career-help/Career Help from AFS
https://jobs.fisheries.org/car...External Subdomain Other Career Tips
https://jobs.fisheries.org/External Subdomain No Text
https://jobs.fisheries.org/External Subdomain Find a Job
https://jobs.fisheries.org/External Subdomain No Text
https://jobs.fisheries.org/External Subdomain Post a Job
/books-journals/Publications
/about/governance/constitution...AFS Journals Program
/books-journals/afs-books/AFS Books Program
/submit-a-journal-article/Submit Journal Article
/books-journals/fisheries-2/Fisheries Magazine
/books-journals/writing-tools/Writing Tools
https://fisheries.org/bookstore/No Text
https://fisheries.org/bookstore/Bookstore
https://secure.fisheries.org/M...External Subdomain No Text
https://secure.fisheries.org/M...External Subdomain Journal Online Access
https://graylitreports.fisheri...External Subdomain No Text
https://graylitreports.fisheri...External Subdomain Text duplicate Gray Literature Database
/about/committees/standing-com...Professional Development
/membership/continuing-education/Continuing Education
/membership/afs-certification/Professional Certification
http://hutton.fisheries.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program
/about/committees/Leadership Opportunities
/webinar-recordings/No Text
/webinar-recordings/Webinars
/books-journals/online-resources/No Text
/books-journals/online-resources/More Online Resources
/about/support-afs/Engagement
/membership/meet-our-members/s...Strategic Partners
/about/support-afs/Text duplicate Support AFS
/membership/meet-our-members/s...The 1870 Society
/about/shop-afs/No Text
/about/shop-afs/Shop AFS
https://secure.fisheries.org/w...External Subdomain Text duplicate Login
https://secure.fisheries.org/w...External Subdomain Text duplicate Logout
https://afsannualmeeting.fishe...External Subdomain 154th Annual Meeting Honolulu, Hawai’i, September 15-19, 2024 Register
/bookstore/all-titles/professi...The Soft-Shell Clam Mya arenaria Biology, Fisheries, and Mariculture Now Available in the Bookstore Shop Now
https://afspubs.onlinelibrary....External Subdomain In the latest Fisheries Fish Tissue Mercury in Lakes and the Moderating Effects of Selenium Read Now
/bookstore/all-titles/professi...Angler Recruitment, Retention, and Reactivation The Future of Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation Shop now
https://secure.fisheries.org/M...External Subdomain Get Started
https://afsannualmeeting.fishe...External Subdomain Learn More
https://afspubs.onlinelibrary....External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/2024/05/migratory-passage-and...Trivial anchor text
Read more
/2024/05/variables-influencing...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://afsannualmeeting.fishe...External Subdomain No Text
https://afsannualmeeting.fishe...External Subdomain Text duplicate Annual Meeting
/about/committees/No Text
/about/committees/Text duplicate Committees
https://fisheries.org/bookstore/No Text
https://fisheries.org/bookstore/Text duplicate Bookstore
/submit-a-journal-article/No Text
/submit-a-journal-article/Submit a Journal Article
/membership/continuing-education/No Text
/membership/continuing-education/Text duplicate Continuing Education
https://fisheries.org/students/Trivial anchor text
Click here
/professionals/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Click here
/policymakers/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Click here
https://fisheries.org/partners/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Click here
https://fisheries.org/No Text
https://secure.fisheries.org/d...External Subdomain Donate Now
https://fisheries.org/aboutABOUT
/category/news/policy-news/Text duplicate POLICY
https://fisheries.org/eventsEVENTS
/books-journalsPUBLICATIONS
https://fisheries.org/policy-newsNEWS
https://jobs.fisheries.org/External Subdomain JOBS
/about/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://fisheries.org/aboutText duplicate ABOUT
/category/news/policy-news/Text duplicate POLICY
https://fisheries.org/eventsText duplicate EVENTS
/books-journalsText duplicate PUBLICATIONS
https://fisheries.org/policy-newsText duplicate NEWS
https://jobs.fisheries.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate JOBS
/about/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://www.facebook.com/Ameri...New window External Subdomain Facebook-f
https://twitter.com/AmFisherie...New window External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/amer...New window External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Linkedin-in
https://vimeo.com/americanfish...New window External Vimeo-v
/about/contact-us/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
https://wp-tutoring.com/External WP-Tutoring.Com

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://fisheries.org/"
HTTP header
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No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.49 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 (451 kB).

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 3,115 referring domains.
This page has 537,293 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,693 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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