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Meta information
78% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.95 s
File size
25.10 kB
Words
389
Media files
8
Number of links
48 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
OVAL - Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language
The length of the page title is perfect. (482 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®) is a community effort to standardize how to assess and report upon the machine state of computer systems. OVAL includes a language to encode system details, and community repositories of content. Tools and services that use OVAL provide enterprises with accurate, consistent, and actionable information to improve their security. Use of OVAL also provides for reliable and reproducible information assurance metrics and enables interoperability and automation among security tools and services.
The meta description is too long: 3429 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The Doctype markup is not in the first line of your HTML document. There must be no white spaces before the doctype markup.
The doctype XHTML 1.0 Transitional is set correctly.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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keywordsOVAL, Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language, OVAL Community Forum, OVAL Community, OVAL Developer, OVAL Developer's List, OVAL Board, OVAL Working Group, OVAL Language, OVAL Repository, OVAL repositories, OVAL content repositories, OVAL content, OVAL definitions, vulnerability definitions, compliance definitions, patch definitions, OVAL Schema, OVAL Definition Schema, OVAL System Characteristics Schema, OVAL Results Schema, OVAL Adoption, OVAL Adopter, Official OVAL Adopter, OVAL-Compatible, OVAL Compatibility, OVAL Declarations, XML, OVAL Definition Interpreter, OVAL Interpreter, reference definition interpreter, network assessment, vulnerability assessment, vulnerability, vulnerabilities, computer vulnerability, computer vulnerabilities, network vulnerability, network vulnerabilities, computer configuration, configuration management, patch management, policy compliance, security advisory distribution, auditing and centralized audit validation, security information management systems, SIM, system inventory, malware and threat indicator sharing, computer security policy, network security, information security, information security standards, standards, network security standards, information security tools and services, network tool, scanning tool, scanning service, security web site, vulnerability database, security advisory, security alert, vendor advisory, vendor alert, vulnerability scanners, host-based vulnerability scanners, Windows, UNIX, IOS, MAC OS, PIX IOS, Android, Linux, Solaris, CVE, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, CVE entry, CVE Identifier, CVE-ID, CVE name, Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format, XCCDF, interoperability, automation, information security automation, Security Content Automation Protocol, SCAP, Developer Days, Security Automation Developer Days, Making Security Measurable, US-CERT, National Cyber Security Division, NCSD, DHS, Department of Homeland Security, MITRE, MITRE Corporation.
descriptionOpen Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®) is a community effort to standardize how to assess and report upon the machine state of computer systems. OVAL includes a language to encode system details, and community repositories of content. Tools and services that use OVAL provide enterprises with accurate, consistent, and actionable information to improve their security. Use of OVAL also provides for reliable and reproducible information assurance metrics and enables interoperability and automation among security tools and services.
langen
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 389 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.2% 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.
4 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 16.18 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No viewpoint tag is provided.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 77 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"oval has transitioned to the naval information warfare center (niwc) atlantic"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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)
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
/images/masthead-2014.jpgOVAL
/images/feed-icon-12x12.gifOVAL News RSS Feed
/images/layout/corner_border_ul.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/layout/corner_border_ur.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/layout/corner_border_bl.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/layout/corner_border_br.gifNo alt attribute provided
/images/mitre_logo.gifMITRE
https://oval.mitre.org/images/msm-logo.gifMember of Making Security Measurable

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 15 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://oval.mitre.org/index.htmlIMG-ALT OVAL
/adoption/productlist.htmlPRODUCTS INCLUDING OVAL
https://oval.mitre.org/news/NEWS July 9, 2015
/news/rss/ovalnews.feed.xmlIMG-ALT OVAL News RSS Feed
https://oval.mitre.org/find/SEARCH
https://github.com/OVAL-Commun...External Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic
https://github.com/OVAL-Commun...External URL anchor text
https://github.com/OVAL-Community/OVAL
https://oval.mitre.org/about/About OVAL
/about/documents.htmlDocuments
/about/faqs.htmlFAQs
https://oval.mitre.org/inuse/OVAL in Use
/adoption/productlist.htmlProducts
/adoption/usecasesguide.htmlInteroperability
https://oval.mitre.org/adoption/Adoption Program
https://oval.mitre.org/community/OVAL Community
/community/board/OVAL Board
/community/registration.htmlForums Sign-Up
http://making-security-measura...New window External Subdomain Forum Archives
/community/sponsor.htmlSponsor
https://github.com/OVALProject/New window External GitHub Repositories
/community/registration.htmlFree Newsletter
/repository/OVAL Repository
/repository/about/submission.htmlSubmit Content
/repository/data/search/indexSearch
https://oval.mitre.org/language/OVAL Language
/language/version5.11/Releases
/adoption/usecasesguide.htmlUse Cases
/language/interpreter.htmlOVAL Interpreter
/sitemap.htmlSite Map
/adoption/usecasesguide.htmlVulnerability Assessment
/adoption/usecasesguide.htmlConfiguration Management
/adoption/usecasesguide.htmlPatch Management
/adoption/usecasesguide.htmlPolicy Compliance
/repository/about/other_reposi...Community Repositories of OVAL Content
/adoption/supporters.htmlVulnerability Databases and Advisories
/adoption/capabilitylist.htmlBenchmark Writing
http://scap.nist.gov/New window External Subdomain Security Content Automation
http://cve.mitre.org/New window External Subdomain Vulnerabilities (CVE)
http://maec.mitre.org/New window External Subdomain Malware (MAEC)
http://scap.nist.gov/specifica...New window External Subdomain Checklist Language (XCCDF)
http://scap.nist.gov/New window External Subdomain Security Content Automation (SCAP)
http://measurablesecurity.mitr...New window External Subdomain Making Security Measurable
/news/index.htmlOVAL Repository Announces Top Contributors Awards for Q2-2015
/news/index.htmlOVAL Board holds 9th Transition Follow Up Call
/news/index.htmlOVAL Board holds 8th Transition Follow Up Call
/news/index.htmlOVAL Board holds 7th Transition Follow Up Call
/news/index.htmlOVAL Board holds 6th Transition Follow Up Call
/news/index.htmlOVAL Board holds Q2 2015 Call
/news/index.htmlToolsWatch Makes Declaration to Adopt OVAL
/news/index.htmlScriptRock Makes Declaration to Adopt OVAL
/news/index.htmlOVAL Repository Announces Top Contributors Awards for Q1-2015
/news/index.htmlVersion 5.11.1 of OVAL Now Available
/news/index.htmlOVAL Board holds 5th Transition Follow Up Call
https://oval.mitre.org/news/More News »
http://www.mitre.org/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT MITRE
http://www.dhs.gov/office-cybe...New window External Subdomain Cybersecurity and Communications
http://www.dhs.gov/New window External Subdomain U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://www.mitre.org/New window External Subdomain The MITRE Corporation
https://oval.mitre.org/Subdomain secure site
http://measurablesecurity.mitr...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Member of Making Security Measurable
/sitemap.htmlText duplicate Site Map
/about/privacy_policy.htmlPrivacy Policy
/about/termsofuse.htmlTerms of Use

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://oval.mitre.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 0.95 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 2 CSS files. That's ok.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (25 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15768000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
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content-typetext/html
set-cookie151 Characters
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 565 referring domains.
This page has 239,905 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 412 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /compatible/includes/
Disallow: /compatible/images/
Disallow: /compatible/questionnaires/images/
Disallow: /compatible/questionnaires/certificates/
Disallow: /language/about/images/
Disallow: /news/images/
Disallow: /oval/includes/
Disallow: /repository/includes/
Disallow: /repository/data/

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oval.mitre.org
OVAL - Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®) is a community effort to standardize how to assess and report upon the machine state of computer systems. OVAL includes a language to encode system details, and community repositories of content. Tools and services that use OVAL provide enterprises with accurate, consistent, and actionable information to improve their security. Use of OVAL also provides for reliable and reproducible information assurance metrics and enables interoperability and automation among security tools and services.

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