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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
65% 
Page quality
93% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.28 s
File size
268.50 kB
Words
709
Media files
3
Number of links
63 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - PLOS
The page title is too short. (124 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://plos.org/
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 709 words. That's ok.
33.6% 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.
8 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 23.39 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, shrink-to-fit=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on 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
...uploads/2024/11/logo-plos-full-color.svgPLOS logo
...tent/uploads/2024/11/logo-plos-white.svgPLOS logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all
H2 A catalyst for better
H2 Open science
H3 PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy and practice.
H3 Open science publishing
H3 Open science policy
H3 Open science practice
H4 Pave the way
H4 Advocate for change
H4 Share and inspire
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 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 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://plos.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://plos.org/IMG-ALT PLOS logo
https://plos.org/about/Our mission and vision
/research-integrity-and-ethics/Research integrity and publication ethics
/our-commitment-to-sustainabil...Sustainability
https://plos.org/about/executive/The Executive Team
/about/board-of-directors/The Board of Directors
/about/scientific-advisory-cou...The Scientific Advisory Council
https://plos.org/governance/Governance
https://plos.org/careers/Careers at PLOS
https://plos.org/about/contact/Contact us
https://plos.org/open-science/What is Open Science?
/open-science-publishing/Open Science Publishing
https://plos.org/our-journals/> Research journals
https://plos.org/metrics/> Publication metrics
https://plos.org/fees/> Publication fees
/open-science-practice/Open Science Practice
/research-by-plos/> Research by PLOS
/open-science-policies/Open Science Policy
https://plos.org/dora/> DORA
https://plos.org/libraries/Institutional Sales
/libraries/support/Supporting researchers
/libraries/agreements/Institutional agreements
/libraries/partners/Our partners
/libraries/terms-of-service/Terms of service
https://plos.org/libraries/faq/FAQs
/research-communities/cancer/Cancer
/research-communities/digital-...Digital health
/research-communities/impacts-...Impacts of hazards
/research-communities/marine-e...Marine ecosystems
/research-communities/populati...Population and aging
/research-communities/smart-ci...Smart cities
/research-communities/terrestr...Terrestrial ecosystems
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2...External Subdomain PLOS’s response to US Executive Orders
/an-exciting-new-era/An exciting new era
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2...External Subdomain PLOS receives $3.3m grant
/redefining-publishing/Redefining publishing
https://plos.org/open-letter/PLOS pledge
https://plos.org/blogs/Blogs
https://plos.org/media/Media inquiries
/media/embargo-policy/Embargo policy
/media/author-media-toolkit/Author media toolkit
https://plos.org/media/guideline/Guidelines
https://plos.org/careers/Why join PLOS?
https://journals.plos.org/plos...External Subdomain PLOS Biology
https://journals.plos.org/climateExternal Subdomain PLOS Climate
https://journals.plos.org/comp...External Subdomain PLOS Complex Systems
https://journals.plos.org/plos...External Subdomain PLOS Computational Biology
https://journals.plos.org/digi...External Subdomain PLOS Digital Health
https://journals.plos.org/plos...External Subdomain PLOS Genetics
https://journals.plos.org/glob...External Subdomain PLOS Global Public Health
https://journals.plos.org/plos...External Subdomain PLOS Medicine
https://journals.plos.org/ment...External Subdomain PLOS Mental Health
https://journals.plos.org/plos...External Subdomain PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://journals.plos.org/plos...External Subdomain PLOS One
https://journals.plos.org/plos...External Subdomain PLOS Pathogens
https://journals.plos.org/sust...External Subdomain PLOS Sustainability and Transformation
https://journals.plos.org/waterExternal Subdomain PLOS Water
https://plos.org/blogs/PLOS Blogs
https://collections.plos.org/External Subdomain PLOS Collections
/an-exciting-new-era/Find out more
https://plos.org/open-science/Trivial anchor text
Read more
https://plos.org/about/About us
https://plos.org/our-journals/Our journals
https://plos.org/libraries/Institutional sales
https://plos.org/careers/Career opportunities
https://plos.org/media/Media engagement
https://plos.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT PLOS logo
https://bsky.app/profile/plos.orgExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/plos.orgExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://plos.org/about/contact/Contact
/financial-overview/Finance
https://plos.org/pay-invoice/Pay invoice
/payment-terms-and-conditions/Terms and Conditions
https://plos.org/blogs/Text duplicate Blogs
https://plos.org/advertise/Advertise
https://plos.org/privacy-policy/Legal
https://plos.org/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
https://plos.org/cookies-policy/Cookie Policy
https://plos.org/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
https://plos.org/privacy-policy/Text duplicate Privacy Policy
A-TITLE Privacy Policy
https://plos.org/Anchor Back to top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://plos.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 0.28 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (269 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,825 referring domains.
This page has 92,425 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,479 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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Disallow:

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