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Meta information
58% 
Page quality
69% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
40% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.93 s
File size
57.10 kB
Words
1000
Media files
19
Number of links
99 internal / 47 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 696 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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langen
Content-Typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
KeywordsFSF, Free Software Foundation, Free Software, Libre Software
DescriptionThe FSF is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: In a win for free software activists, the United States Social Securit...
This page contains 1000 words. That's ok.
30.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
19 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.04 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width; initial-scale=0.6666; maximum-scale=1.0; minimum-scale=0.6666" is provided.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 20 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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
static.fsf.org/common/img/logo-new.pngNo alt attribute provided
https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/join.en.pngJoin now
...15e98b47-3bc3-4944-94d8-54246fd09e4a.pngNo alt attribute provided
...5700e09f-ea36-41a8-9c75-a50a0222c908.pngNo alt attribute provided
...c.fsf.org/nosvn/images/socials/share.pngShare
...sf.org/nosvn/images/socials/mastodon.pngMastodon
...fsf.org/nosvn/images/socials/twitter.pngTwitter
...sf.org/nosvn/images/socials/peertube.pngPeertube
...es/images/dbd_color_logo_trim_square.pngDefective By Design
...n/screenshots/step2a-01-make-keypair.pngEmail Self-Defense
static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/esp-b.pngEnd Software Patents
static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/freejs.pngFree JS
...fsf.org/nosvn/logos/fsd_logo_stacked.svgFree Software Directory
....org/nosvn/logos/campaigns_gnu.small.pngGNU Project
...c.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/lp-logo-square.svgLibrePlanet
static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/LCL_red.pngLicensing and Compliance Lab
https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/ryf.svgRespects Your Freedom
...breplanet/speaker-pics/snowden-large.jpgPhoto of Edward Snowden
....fsf.org/nosvn/fsf40/logo-contest/JL.pngA white dove flying on top of a red 40 and the FSF logo

Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 US Social Security Administration reverses freedom-impeding identity verification policy
H2 Interview with Mia Bajić
H2 Follow Us on Social Media
H2 Our initiatives
H2 Take Action
H2 Bulletin
H2 FSF40
H2 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 25, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
H2 US Social Security Administration reverses freedom-impeding identity verification policy Duplicate text
H2 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 18, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
H2 More than fifteen free software socials to be held globally
H2 Community meetup Toronto Canada
H2 Interview with Mia Bajić Duplicate text
H2 Community meetup in Athens, Greece
H2 Community meetup in Thessaloniki, Greece
H2 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 11, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
H2 March GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali
H3 FSF SysOps cleaning up the Internet
H3 Society will never be free under nonfree software
H3 Tracing the FSF's footsteps
H3 New energies for a remote FSF
H3 What abandonware teaches us about the importance of software freedom
H4 Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software. Thus, free software is a matter of liberty, not price. We have been defending the rights of ...
H5 Personal tools
H5 fsf.org is powered by:
Baselink: https://www.fsf.org/
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
5 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (47) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.fsf.org/sitemapsitemap
https://www.fsf.org/search_formskip to search
https://www.fsf.org/No Text
https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mem...External Subdomain Log in
http://www.fsf.org/help-menuSubdomain Help!
/associate/about-the-members-f...Subdomain Members forum
https://www.fsf.org/jfbIMG-ALT Join now
https://www.fsf.org/about/About
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/Campaigns
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/Licensing
https://www.fsf.org/associate/Membership
https://www.fsf.org/resources/Resources
https://www.fsf.org/community/Community
https://www.fsf.org/donate/♥Donate♥
https://shop.fsf.org/External Subdomain Shop
https://www.fsf.org/@@searchSubdomain Search
https://www.fsf.org/about/No Text
/blogs/community/us-social-sec...Subdomain No Text
/blogs/community/us-social-sec...Subdomain US Social Security Administration reverses freedom-impeding identity verification policy
/blogs/community/us-social-sec...Subdomain In a win for free software activists, the United States Social Security Administration reversed its policy plan that would require using a freedom-disrespect...
/blogs/community/interview-wit...Subdomain No Text
/blogs/community/interview-wit...Subdomain Interview with Mia Bajić
/blogs/community/interview-wit...Subdomain No Text
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain run, edit, contribute to, and share
https://my.fsf.org/joinExternal Subdomain become an associate member today.
/free-software-supporter/Free Software Supporter
https://hostux.social/@fsfExternal Mastodon
IMG-ALT Mastodon
https://www.fsf.org/twitterTwitter
IMG-ALT Twitter
https://framatube.org/accounts...External Peertube
IMG-ALT Peertube
https://defectivebydesign.org/...External Defective by Design is a grassroots campaign to eliminate Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) in media and devices.
IMG-ALT Defective By Design
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.o...External Subdomain Read the Email Self-Defense Guide to get started with email encryption, a skill necessary to combat bulk surveillance.
IMG-ALT Email Self-Defense
https://endsoftwarepatents.org...External The End Software Patents initiative fights to abolish software patents around the world.
IMG-ALT End Software Patents
/campaigns/freejs?mtm_campaign...Subdomain Join us in calling for a Web that respects our freedom by being compatible with free software and stand up against nonfree JavaScript.
IMG-ALT Free JS
https://directory.fsf.org/?pk_...External Subdomain The Free Software Directory is a collaborative catalog of computer programs and apps that are fully free.
IMG-ALT Free Software Directory
https://gnu.org/?pk_campaign=f...External The GNU operating system is a continuously evolving, complete operating system made entirely of free software.
IMG-ALT GNU Project
https://libreplanet.org/?pk_ca...External LibrePlanet is our global network of free software activism, including events like our annual conference, and online collaboration spaces.
IMG-ALT LibrePlanet
https://libreplanet.org/confer...External annual conference
/licensing?pk_campaign=fsfhomeSubdomain The Licensing and Compliance Lab is the preeminent resource for public education on licensing best practices and enforcing the GPL.
IMG-ALT Licensing and Compliance Lab
https://ryf.fsf.org/?pk_campai...External Subdomain The "Respects Your Freedom" program certifies retailers who sell hardware in a manner that respects the rights of their users.
IMG-ALT Respects Your Freedom
https://media.libreplanet.org/...External Subdomain -- Edward Snowden
/blogs/community/2025-awards-n...Subdomain Nominate someone for a Free Software Award!
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/G...External Collaborate with us to build the freedom ladder
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki...External Subdomain Make the switch to free software
/about/ways-to-donate/Contribute to the FSF
/bulletin/2024/fall/fsf-sysops...Subdomain FSF SysOps cleaning up the Internet
/bulletin/2024/fall/society-wi...Subdomain Society will never be free under nonfree software
/bulletin/2024/fall/tracing-th...Subdomain Tracing the FSF's footsteps
/bulletin/2024/fall/new-energi...Subdomain New energies for a remote FSF
/bulletin/2024/fall/what-aband...Subdomain What abandonware teaches us about the importance of software freedom
https://www.fsf.org/bulletinRead the current issue of the Bulletin and check out the archives.
/blogs/community/forty-years-o...Subdomain Join us in celebrating 40 years of fighting for software freedom!
IMG-ALT A white dove flying on top of a red 40 and the FSF logo
https://fsf.org/blogsBlog
https://fsf.org/newsNews
https://fsf.org/events/aggregatorEvents
/events/fsd-2025-04-25-ircSubdomain Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 25, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
/events/fsd-2025-04-25-ircSubdomain Join the FSF and friends on Friday, April 25 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
/blogs/community/us-social-sec...Subdomain Text duplicate US Social Security Administration reverses freedom-impeding identity verification policy
/blogs/community/us-social-sec...Subdomain Text duplicate In a win for free software activists, the United States Social Security Administration reversed its policy plan that would require using a freedom-disrespect...
/events/fsd-2025-04-18-ircSubdomain Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 18, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
/events/fsd-2025-04-18-ircSubdomain Join the FSF and friends on Friday, April 18 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
/news/fifteen-librelocal-meetu...Subdomain More than fifteen free software socials to be held globally
/news/fifteen-librelocal-meetu...Subdomain BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, April 15, 2025), The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that more than fifteen free software socials will be...
/events/community-meetup-toron...Subdomain Community meetup Toronto Canada
/events/community-meetup-toron...Subdomain Come for the pizza, stay for the free hardware and software demos! All fediverse friends are welcome!
/blogs/community/interview-wit...Subdomain Text duplicate Interview with Mia Bajić
/blogs/community/interview-wit...Subdomain No Text
/events/community-meetup-athen...Subdomain Community meetup in Athens, Greece
/events/community-meetup-athen...Subdomain We are celebrating FSF40 -- connect with us and discuss software freedom!
/events/community-meetup-thess...Subdomain Community meetup in Thessaloniki, Greece
/events/community-meetup-thess...Subdomain Text duplicate We are celebrating FSF40 -- connect with us and discuss software freedom!
/events/fsd-2025-04-11Subdomain Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 11, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
/events/fsd-2025-04-11Subdomain Join the FSF and friends on Friday, April 11 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
/blogs/community/march-gnu-spo...Subdomain March GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali
/blogs/community/march-gnu-spo...Subdomain Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of March 31, 2025):
https://www.fsf.org/aboutlearn about our history and work.
/about/contact.htmlFree Software Foundation
A-TITLE Find out how to contact us
https://my.fsf.org/donate/priv...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://creativecommons.org/li...External Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 license (or later version)
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/l...External Subdomain Anchor Why this license?
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip sitemap
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor skip to licensing items
https://www.fsf.org/about/Text duplicate About
/about/staff-and-boardStaff and Board
/about/contact.htmlContact Us
https://www.fsf.org/pressPress Information
/resources/jobsJobs
https://www.fsf.org/volunteerVolunteering and Internships
https://www.fsf.org/historyHistory
https://my.fsf.org/donate/priv...External Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy Policy
https://weblabels.fsf.org/www....External Subdomain JavaScript Licenses
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hwHardware Database
https://directory.fsf.org/External Subdomain Free Software Directory
https://www.fsf.org/resources/Free Software Resources
/about/dmca-noticeCopyright Infringement Notification
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip to general items
https://www.fsf.org/campaignsText duplicate Campaigns
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/G...External Freedom Ladder
/campaigns/fight-to-repairSubdomain Fight to Repair
/campaigns/freejs/Free JavaScript
/campaigns/priority-projects/High Priority Free Software Projects
/campaigns/campaigns/secure-bo...Secure Boot vs Restricted Boot
/campaigns/surveillance/Surveillance
https://www.fsf.org/windows/Upgrade from Windows
/working-togetherWorking Together for Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/External Subdomain GNU Operating System
https://defectivebydesign.org/External Defective by Design
http://endsoftpatents.org/External End Software Patents
/campaigns/opendocument/OpenDocument
/campaigns/free-bios.htmlFree BIOS
https://libreplanet.org/External Connect with free software users
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip to philosophical items
https://www.fsf.org/licensingText duplicate Licensing
/licensing/educationEducation
/licensing/licensesLicenses
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g...External Subdomain GNU GPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/a...External Subdomain GNU AGPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/l...External Subdomain GNU LGPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/f...External Subdomain GNU FDL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g...External Subdomain Licensing FAQ
/licensing/complianceCompliance
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g...External Subdomain How to use GNU licenses for your own software
https://www.fsf.org/news/Latest News
https://www.fsf.org/events/Upcoming Events
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/FSF Blogs
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip list
/about/ways-to-donateSubdomain Donate to the FSF
https://www.fsf.org/jfbJoin the FSF
https://www.fsf.org/patronsSubdomain Patrons
https://www.fsf.org/associate/Associate Members
/associate/account/My Account
/working-together/fundWorking Together for Free Software Fund
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/External Subdomain Philosophy
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain The Free Software Definition
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Free Software and Free Manuals
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Selling Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Motives for Writing Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain The Right To Read
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
https://www.fsf.org/sitemapComplete Sitemap
https://plone.org/External Plone
A-TITLE Plone Powered
https://zope.org/External Zope
A-TITLE Powered by Zope
https://python.org/External Python
A-TITLE Powered by Python
https://civicrm.org/External CiviCRM
A-TITLE Powered by CiviCRM
https://www.w3.org/htmlExternal Subdomain HTML5

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.fsf.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.93 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.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (57 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateWed, 23 Apr 2025 16:05:14 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
content-length58473
x-cache-operationplone.app.caching.moderateCaching
content-languageen
expiresSun, 26 Apr 2015 16:05:14 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 26 Jul 2013 22:50:28 GMT
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x-cache-ruleplone.content.feed
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
age82
x-cacheHIT from www.fsf.org
x-cache-lookupHIT from www.fsf.org:3128
via1.0 www.fsf.org (squid/3.1.19)
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.0

External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 22,866 referring domains.
This page has 25,170,084 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 13,691 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

# robots.txt for https://www.fsf.org/

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 4
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /?set_language
Disallow: /@@search
Disallow: /associate/forum/
Disallow: /norobotsnorhumansshouldevervisithispage/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /search_rss
Disallow: /share
Disallow: /software/
Disallow: /software/winboard/whats_new/
Sitemap: https://www.fsf.org/sitemap.xml

# Majestic - SEO
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# DataForSeo - SEO
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# webmeup - SEO
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# Ahrefs - SEO
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# Begin Moz - SEO
# Not to be confused with Mozilla.
User-agent: DotBot
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User-agent: rogerbot
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# End Moz - SEO

# Begin Semrush - SEO
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User-agent: SiteAuditBot
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User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
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User-agent: SemrushBot-SI
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User-agent: SplitSignalBot
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# oncrawl - SEO
User-agent: Oncrawl
Disallow: /

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User-agent: AwarioRssBot
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User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
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User-agent: AwarioBot
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# SERPSTAT - SEO
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# Ignores crawl-delay and does not help us.
User-Agent: panscient.com
Disallow: /

# Aggressive Latvian Academic Integrity bot that does not help us.
User-agent: AcademicBotRTU
Disallow: /

# SEOkicks - SEO
User-agent: SEOkicks
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# Timpi NFT
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