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63% 
Page quality
73% 
Page structure
98% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
95.60 kB
Words
853
Media files
45
Number of links
122 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Harvard Forest
The page title is too short. (136 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Harvard Forest, Harvard University. Since 1907, the scientists and students at Harvard Forest have explored the ways biological, physical, and human systems interact to change our earth.
The meta description is too long: 1156 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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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
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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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

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Page quality

Content
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This page contains 853 words. That's ok.
22.2% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
12 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 18.52 words is good.
Frames
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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 17 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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9 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
(Somewhat important)
At least one javascript file was found, which is not integrated via HTTPS.
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
News & Highlights
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

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H1 News & Highlights
H2 Search form
H2 Approaching Ecosystems as Family Networks: Studying the Decline of Red-Tailed Hawks
H2 Schoolyard Ecology Program Launches Giving Campaign
H2 Boston Globe: Neil Pederson, Other Experts Answer Key Questions About Drought Conditions
H2 New Study Reveals Unexpected Soil Carbon Response to Nitrogen and Warming
H2 Immersive Global Change Ecology Course Expands Experience of First-Years
H2 Schoolyard Ecology Winter Data Workshop Registration Now Open!
H2 Explore Our Work
H2 IN THE WOODS
H2 LONG-TERM STUDIES
H2 STUDENT PROGRAMS
H2 CONSERVATION SCIENCE
H2 JOIN OUR TEAM!
H2 Wildlife Cam
H2 Webcams
H2 Real Time Data
H2 Events at Harvard Forest
H2 Initiatives & Partner Organizations
H2 Contact
H2 Harvard Forest Weather
H2 Google Maps & Directions
H2 Stay Connected
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/news/boston-globe-neil-peders...Boston Globe: Neil Pederson, Other Experts Answer Key Questions About Drought Conditions
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/news/new-study-reveals-unexpe...New Study Reveals Unexpected Soil Carbon Response to Nitrogen and Warming
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/news/immersive-global-change-...Immersive Global Change Ecology Course Expands Experience of First-Years
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/news/schoolyard-ecology-winte...Schoolyard Ecology Winter Data Workshop Registration Now Open!
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https://lternet.edu/New window External Text duplicate logo
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https://accessibility.huit.har...New window External Subdomain Harvard University Digital Accessibility Policy
/inquiriesSubdomain Contact us
/meteorological-hydrological-s...Current Conditions & Data
/directionsA-TITLE Google Maps & Directions
https://www.facebook.com/pages...New window External Subdomain Follow us on Facebook
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https://www.instagram.com/harv...New window External Subdomain Follow @harvard.forest on Instagram
/news/rss.xmlNew window Subscribe via RSS
http://eepurl.com/cX1pKbNew window External Sign up for our quarterly e-news

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/"
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 is excellent with 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (96 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,626 referring domains.
This page has 7,864 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,101 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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