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Meta information
75% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
29% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.72 s
File size
71.60 kB
Words
1070
Media files
16
Number of links
85 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home Page | Grants & Funding
The length of the page title is perfect. (280 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
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)
https://grants.nih.gov/node/1
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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
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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
(Somewhat important)
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
(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.

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 1070 words. That's ok.
29.8% 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.
18 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 18.52 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 21 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
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Page structure

H1 heading
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NIH Central Resource for Research Grants and Funding Information
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 48 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 NIH Central Resource for Research Grants and Funding Information
H1 Welcome to the New NIH Grants and Funding Website!
H2 Just Getting Started?
H2 Policy and Compliance
H2 Policy Updates
H2 Upcoming Events
H2 Browse by Role
H2 Curious about previously funded research?
H2 Extramural Nexus Blog Posts
H3 Announcements
H3 New to NIH
H3 Grants Process Overview
H3 Research Training and Career Development Programs
H3 NIH Grants Policy Statement
H3 Notices of Policy Changes
H3 Compliance and Oversight
H3 Select Policy Topics
H3 Questions?
H3 Guidance on Salary Limitation for Grants and Cooperative Agreements FY 2025
H3 NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution
H3 Implementation Update: Promoting Maximal Transparency Under the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules
H3 Protecting Human Genomic Data when Developing Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools and Applications
H3 Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
H3 Implementation Update: Delayed Effective Date for the NIH Intramural Research Program Access Planning Policy
H3 Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
H3 NIH Implementation of Uniform Administrative Requirements for Federal Financial Assistance
H3 NIH Implementation of the U.S. Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP)
H3 NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution Duplicate text
H3 Researchers
H3 Research Administrators
H3 Reviewers
H3 Small Businesses
H3 Foreign Applicants
H3 Media and the Public
H3 NIH Staff
H4 Help, FAQs, And More
H4 Stay Connected
H4 Government Sites
H4 Web Policies and Notices
H4 Site Map
H5 Redirect Notice
H5 Tools
H5 Main navigation
H5 Implementation of New Initiatives and Policies Page Now Available
H5 How Can You Effectively Prepare NIH Research Project Grant Applications for Due Dates in 2025 and Beyond?
H5 Find NIH Funding Information More Quickly and Easily with RCDC’s New Look and Feel
H5 Reviewer Guidance for the Simplified Review Framework
H5 Tools | Mobile Only
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://grants.nih.gov/Anchor Skip to main content
https://grants.nih.gov/Anchor Here's how you know
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https://www.nih.gov/New window External Subdomain National Institutes of Health
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https://nexus.od.nih.gov/External Subdomain Nexus Blog
https://www.era.nih.gov/External Subdomain eRA
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https://grants.nih.gov/fundingFunding
A-TITLE As the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, NIH supports a variety of programs from grants and contracts to loan repayment. Learn about...
https://grants.nih.gov/fundingExplore Funding
A-TITLE As the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, NIH supports a variety of programs from grants and contracts to loan repayment. Learn about...
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/funding/find-a-fit-for-your-r...Find a Fit for Your Research: NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices
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A-TITLE Take time to learn about each step in the grants process from planning to apply through developing and submitting your application to award and post-award re...
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A-TITLE Plan ahead, assess funding opportunities, and take other early steps. Learn to work with your organization, assess resources and teammates, identify a fundin...
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/grants-process/submitSubmit
A-TITLE Learn about the steps you must take after filling out your application forms to complete the submission process, how NIH checks your application for complete...
/grants-process/reviewReview
A-TITLE What happens between the time you submit the application and NIH lets you know you will be funded? Learn more about receipt and referral and NIH’s peer revie...
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A-TITLE When NIH awards a grant, we are formalizing our partnership with the recipient to ensure compliance with federal laws, regulations and policies.
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A-TITLE If your organization is the recipient of a grant from the NIH, you will need to pay close attention to the terms of award to be successful stewards of federa...
/policy-and-compliancePolicy & Compliance
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/news-eventsExplore News & Events
A-TITLE Get the "scoop" on the latest news related to the NIH grant application and award processes, grants policy, research funding and biomedical workforce analyse...
/news-events/calendar-of-eventsCalendar of Events
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/news-events/subscribe-followSubscribe and Follow
https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/c...External Subdomain "Open Mike" Blog
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/news-events/podcastsPodcasts
https://grants.nih.gov/aboutoerAbout Us
A-TITLE Office of Extramural Research (OER) provides the corporate framework for NIH research administration, ensuring scientific integrity, public accountability, a...
https://grants.nih.gov/aboutoerExplore About Us
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/grants-process/write-applicat...How to Apply
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/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT...Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT...Implementation Update: Delayed Effective Date for the NIH Intramural Research Program Access Planning Policy
/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT...Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT...NIH Implementation of Uniform Administrative Requirements for Federal Financial Assistance
/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT...NIH Implementation of the U.S. Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP)
/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT...Text duplicate NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution
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https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2...External Subdomain How Can You Effectively Prepare NIH Research Project Grant Applications for Due Dates in 2025 and Beyond?
https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2...External Subdomain Find NIH Funding Information More Quickly and Easily with RCDC’s New Look and Feel
https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2...External Subdomain Reviewer Guidance for the Simplified Review Framework
https://nexus.od.nih.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate Nexus Blog
https://www.era.nih.gov/External Subdomain Text duplicate eRA
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https://www.hhs.gov/External Subdomain Health and Human Services
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https://extramural-intranet.ni...External Subdomain NIH Staff (Intranet)
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https://www.hhs.gov/vulnerabil...External Subdomain HHS Vulnerability Disclosure
https://www.nih.gov/institutes...External Subdomain FOIA
/web-policies-and-notices/priv...Privacy Notice
/web-policies-and-notices/disc...Disclaimer
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/news-eventsText duplicate News & Events
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://grants.nih.gov/"
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 of 0.72 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 (72 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

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This page has backlinks from 14,370 referring domains.
This page has 5,502,112 backlinks.
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Links from Wikipedia

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