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Meta information
77% 
Page quality
57% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.26 s
File size
149.00 kB
Words
414
Media files
53
Number of links
45 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Hacking for Defense
The page title is too short. (183 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Hacking for Defense is a university course sponsored by the United States Department of Defense that teaches students to work with the Defense and Intelligence Communities to rapidly address the nation’s emerging threats and security challenges. It is program of the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), powered by BMNT, Inc. and the Common Mission Project.
The meta description is too long: 2298 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.h4d.us/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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
(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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportinitial-scale=1
descriptionHacking for Defense is a university course sponsored by the United States Department of Defense that teaches students to work with the Defense and Intelligence Communities to rapidly address the nation’s emerging threats and security challenges. It is program of the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), powered by BMNT, Inc. and the Common Mission Project.
langen-us
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twitter:urlhttps://www.h4d.us
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:descriptionHacking for Defense is a university course sponsored by the United States Department of Defense that teaches students to work with the Defense and Intelligence Communities to rapidly address the nation’s emerging threats and security challenges. It is program of the National Security Innovation Ne
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og:titleHacking for Defense
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og:typewebsite
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og:image:width477
og:image:height149
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Accept-CHSec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Model
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 414 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
32.4% 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.
6 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 22.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on this page.
The amount of tags is very high (9). We recommend using a maximum of 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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)
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
...-487e-9c72-1bb615ea62ef/DIU+H4D+Logo.pngHacking for Defense
...-487e-9c72-1bb615ea62ef/DIU+H4D+Logo.pngHacking for Defense
...347-829N793RETQKH8I5NG1N/steve_blank.jpgsteve_blank.jpg
...ent+Success+Story+Image+for+homepage.jpgA student team presents during a Hacking for Defense class.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Nation’s Brightest Minds Tackling Your Toughest Problems
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Nation’s Brightest Minds Tackling Your Toughest Problems
H2 Real results. Real impact.
H2 The H4D Ecosystem
H2 DoD Sponsors
H2 Universities
H2 Corporate Mentors
H2 Participating Universities
H2 Student Success Stories
H2 Ready to get involved?
H2 Stay up to date with H4D
H3 HACKING for DEFENSE®
H3 Hacking for Defense is a university course sponsored by the Department of Defense that teaches students to work with the Defense and Intelligence Communities to rapidly address the nation’s emergin...
H3 It is a program powered by BMNT, Inc. and the Common Mission Project.
H3 See what people are saying about the Hacking for Defense program at Stanford University:
H6 HACKING FOR DEFENSE® IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF BMNT, INC. AND H4D™ IS A TRADEMARK OF BMNT, INC.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
4 links don't have an 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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.h4d.us/IMG-ALT Hacking for Defense
https://www.h4d.us/searchNo Text
/upcoming-eventsUPCOMING EVENTS
https://app.smartsheetgov.com/...External Subdomain SUBMIT A PROBLEM
https://www.h4d.us/contactCONTACT
https://www.h4d.us/about-h4dABOUT
/student-success-storiesSUCCESS STORIES
https://www.h4d.us/pressPRESS
/government-sponsorsDoD Sponsors
https://www.h4d.us/universitiesUniversities
/corporate-mentorsCorporate Mentors
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text
/upcoming-eventsText duplicate UPCOMING EVENTS
https://app.smartsheetgov.com/...External Subdomain Text duplicate SUBMIT A PROBLEM
https://www.h4d.us/contactText duplicate CONTACT
https://www.h4d.us/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Hacking for Defense
https://www.h4d.us/about-h4dText duplicate ABOUT
/ecosystem-folderECOSYSTEM
/government-sponsorsText duplicate DoD Sponsors
https://www.h4d.us/universitiesText duplicate Universities
/corporate-mentorsText duplicate Corporate Mentors
/student-success-storiesText duplicate SUCCESS STORIES
https://www.h4d.us/pressText duplicate PRESS
https://vimeo.com/175258417External Hacking for Defense: Stanford Management Science and Engineering 297
https://stvp.stanford.edu/External Subdomain Stanford Tech Ventures Program
/government-sponsorsNo Text
/government-sponsorsText duplicate IMG-ALT DoD Sponsors
https://www.h4d.us/universitiesNo Text
https://www.h4d.us/universitiesText duplicate IMG-ALT Universities
/corporate-mentorsNo Text
/corporate-mentorsText duplicate IMG-ALT Corporate Mentors
/student-success-storiesRead the Stories
https://www.h4d.us/contactContact Us Today
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home - Banner
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home About
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home Video
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home Testimonial
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home - Audiences Title
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home Audiences Gallery
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home - Universities
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home - Success Stories
https://www.h4d.us/Anchor Home CTA
https://www.h4d.us/No Text
https://www.bmnt.com/External Subdomain BMNT, Inc.
https://www.commonmission.us/External Subdomain The Common Mission Project
https://www.h4d.us/about-h4dAbout
/government-sponsorsText duplicate DoD Sponsors
https://www.h4d.us/universitiesText duplicate Universities
/corporate-mentorsText duplicate Corporate Mentors
https://www.h4d.us/pressPress
/upcoming-eventsUpcoming Events
https://app.smartsheetgov.com/...New window External Subdomain Submit a Problem
https://www.h4d.us/contactContact
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.h4d.us/"
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 0.26 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (149 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
age0
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
dateMon, 21 Apr 2025 08:54:28 GMT
etagW/"902dde5a12dfa63fdb861b608fae003c"
expiresThu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
serverSquarespace
set-cookie72 Characters
strict-transport-securitymax-age=0
varyAccept-Encoding
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-contextidho9HAUyf/MGnRq4SX
content-length24413
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 407 referring domains.
This page has 807 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 95 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# Squarespace Robots Txt

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User-agent: AdsBot-Google
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /config
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /account$
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /commerce/digital-download/
Disallow: /api/
Allow: /api/ui-extensions/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow:/*?author=*
Disallow:/*&author=*
Disallow:/*?tag=*
Disallow:/*&tag=*
Disallow:/*?month=*
Disallow:/*&month=*
Disallow:/*?view=*
Disallow:/*&view=*
Disallow:/*?format=json
Disallow:/*&format=json
Disallow:/*?format=page-context
Disallow:/*&format=page-context
Disallow:/*?format=main-content
Disallow:/*&format=main-content
Disallow:/*?format=json-pretty
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Disallow:/*&format=ical
Disallow:/*?reversePaginate=*
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Hacking for Defense is a university course sponsored by the United States Department of Defense that teaches students to work with the Defense and Intelligence Communities to rapidly address the nation’s emerging threats and security challenges. It is program of the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), powered by BMNT, Inc. and the Common Mission Project.

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DEFENSE68%Check
HACKING68%Check
Nation68%Check
Defense Program61%Check
Defense Intelligence60%Check
university58%Check
Student58%Check
H4D56%Check
sponsor56%Check
PROBLEM55%Check
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