Globalreportingcentre.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
92% 
Page structure
62% 
Link structure
66% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.32 s
File size
113.60 kB
Words
621
Media files
16
Number of links
68 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Global Reporting Centre
The length of the page title is perfect. (289 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
An editorially independent journalism organization working to reimagine global reporting. Based at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (918 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://globalreportingcentre.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-ca
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 621 words. That's ok.
32.7% 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.
13 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.7 words is good.
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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
9 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
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...loads/2023/01/grc-main-purple-accent.svgGlobal Reporting Centre
...G_1093-scaled.jpg?resize=2560,1920&ssl=1A young man in a yellow high-visibility vest holding a camera. A military vehicle is in the near background.
.../al-jazeera-eng.png?resize=386,136&ssl=1Al Jazeera English
...023/01/theworld.png?resize=386,136&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...mongabay-slider.png?resize=415,136&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...3/01/globe-mail.png?resize=400,136&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...ads/2023/01/nbc.png?resize=362,136&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
...2023/01/torstar.png?resize=400,136&ssl=1Toronto Star
...023/01/pbs-news.png?resize=400,136&ssl=1No alt attribute provided
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...oads/2023/01/vi.png?resize=212,136&ssl=1Mongabay
...white-rgb300-e1664237915396-1024x200.pngUBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
About the GRC
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (13 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 About the GRC
H1 Recent media Partners
H2 Support a new approach to global journalism.
H2 In numbers
H2 Recent Highlight
H2 Join the GRC
H2 Updates and Events
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 Meet our Acting Executive Editor, a familiar face
H3 Bribe, Inc. is screening at UBC on Feb 5
H3 State of Play, our “illuminating and alarming” podcast, is out now
H3 Our year in review
H3 How can journalism respond to generative AI?
H3 Why the Global Reporting Centre pursued an investigation into Shell’s new plastics plant
H3 Statement on Meta’s news block in Canada
H3 The Global Reporting Centre announces new leadership
H3 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 8 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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://jwam.ubc.ca/External Subdomain IMG-ALT UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
https://jwam.ubc.ca/External Subdomain jwam.ubc.ca
/donate/donate 🧡
/IMG-ALT Global Reporting Centre
/about/About
/updates/Updates
/people/People
/awards/Awards
/contact/Contact
/about/editorial-ethical-and-d...Policies
/features/Features
/features/#Topics
/features/supply-chains/Supply chains
/features/indigenous-rights/Indigenous rights
/features/public-health/Public health
/features/conflict/Conflict
/features/more/More+
/resources/ResourcesResources
/resources/teaching/Teaching
/resources/guides/Guides
/resources/researchResearchResearch
/donate/Donate 🖤
/about/how we work
/donate/donate now
/about/Here’s how we work
https://www.anthemawards.com/w...External Subdomain Anchor a 2024 Anthem Award
/category/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/updates/meet-our-acting-execu...Meet our Acting Executive Editor, a familiar face
/updates/meet-our-acting-execu...Trivial anchor text
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/category/events/Events
/events/bribe-inc-ubc-screenin...Bribe, Inc. is screening at UBC on Feb 5
/events/bribe-inc-ubc-screenin...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/category/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/updates/state-of-play-summer-...State of Play, our “illuminating and alarming” podcast, is out now
/updates/state-of-play-summer-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
/category/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/updates/annual-report-23-24/Our year in review
/updates/annual-report-23-24/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
/category/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/updates/how-can-journalism-re...How can journalism respond to generative AI?
/updates/how-can-journalism-re...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
/category/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/updates/why-we-pursued-an-inv...Why the Global Reporting Centre pursued an investigation into Shell’s new plastics plant
/updates/why-we-pursued-an-inv...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/category/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/updates/statement-on-metas-ne...Statement on Meta’s news block in Canada
/updates/statement-on-metas-ne...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/category/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/updates/new-leadership/The Global Reporting Centre announces new leadership
/updates/new-leadership/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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https://jwam.ubc.ca/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
/donate/donation
https://twitter.com/GlobalRepC...External Twitter
https://www.instagram.com/glob...External Subdomain Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/globa...External Subdomain Facebook
/donate/Donate
https://us15.list-manage.com/s...External Subdomain Newsletter
/Home
/about/Text duplicate About
/updates/Text duplicate Updates
/people/Text duplicate People
/awards/Text duplicate Awards
/contact/Text duplicate Contact
/about/editorial-ethical-and-d...Text duplicate Policies
https://bsky.app/profile/globa...External Bluesky
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/GlobalRepC...External twitter / X
/features/Text duplicate Features
/features/supply-chains/Text duplicate Supply chains
/features/indigenous-rights/Text duplicate Indigenous rights
/features/public-health/Text duplicate Public health
/features/conflict/Text duplicate Conflict
/features/more/Text duplicate More+
/resourcesResources
/resources/teaching/Text duplicate Teaching
/resources/guides/Text duplicate Guides
/resources/research/Research
/vancouver-institute/Vancouver Institute
https://ubc.ca/External UBC Home
/about/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://globalreportingcentre.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 0.32 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (114 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateThu, 22 May 2025 19:37:43 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
link<https://globalreportingcentre.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 249 referring domains.
This page has 49,137 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 201 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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globalreportingcentre.org
Home - Global Reporting Centre
An editorially independent journalism organization working to reimagine global reporting. Based at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media.

Most important keywords

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reimagine global reporting72%Check
Centre70%Check
Global journalism68%Check
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ubc54%Check

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