Research.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
70% 
Page quality
43% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
20% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
3.27 s
File size
21.00 kB
Words
174
Media files
1
Number of links
14 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Research.gov - Homepage
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Research.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amongst partner agencies.
The meta description is too long: 1381 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.research.gov/
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
(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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
dc.titleResearch.gov - Homepage
http-equivContent-Type
contenttext/html; charset=UTF-8
dc.descriptionResearch.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amongst partner agencies.
dc.creatorNational Science Foundation, NSF
dc.date.created2010-01-15
dc.languageEN-US
dc.keywordsNational Science Foundation, NSF, Research.gov, research
dc.date.reviewed2010-09-15
descriptionResearch.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amongst partner agencies.
robotsindex, follow
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
og:localeen_US
og:site_nameNational Science Foundation, NSF
og:typetext/html
og:titleResearch.gov - Homepage
og:descriptionResearch.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amongst partner agencies.
og:urlhttps://www.research.gov/
og:imagehttps://resources.research.gov/common/images/logo.png
og:image:altResearch.gov
WT.seg_1Not Registered/Logged In
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=Edge
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Script-Typetext/javascript

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 174 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
12.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 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
...n/images/CyberSecurityBannerFeb2025A.pngCyber Security Website Banner

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Prepare & Submit Proposals
H2 Reviews, Panels & Meetings
H2 Awards & Reporting
H2 Fellowships & Opportunities
H2 Manage Financials
H2 Administration
H4 NSF Award Highlights
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2025/...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Cyber Security Website Banner
A-TITLE Cyber Security Website
/proposalprep/Letters of Intent and Proposals
https://web.demo.research.gov/...External Subdomain Anchor Demo Site: Prepare Proposals
/gapps-web/gapps/searchResultsCheck Proposal Status
https://apps.research.gov/revi...New window External Subdomain Reviews, Panels and Other Meetings
/rppr-web/Project Reports
/research-web/content/rpprdemo...New window Demo Site: Project Reports
A-TITLE Link to Demo Site: Project Reports
https://www.research.gov/nr-web/Subdomain Notifications & Requests
https://identity.research.gov/...External Subdomain Deposit Public Access Publication
/award-documents-web/Award Documents
/proposalprep/New window Subdomain Anchor Supplemental Funding Requests
A-TITLE Link to Supplemental Funding Requests
https://web.demo.research.gov/...New window External Subdomain Anchor Demo Site: Supplement Funding Requests
A-TITLE Link to Demo Site: Supplemental Funding Requests
/orgreports-web/searchContinuing Grant Increments Reports
/grfp/Login.doNew window Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
A-TITLE Link to Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Applicants, Fellows and Officials
https://www.nsf.gov/awards/pre...New window External Subdomain Honorary Awards
A-TITLE Link to Honorary Awards
https://apps.research.gov/mana...New window External Subdomain Manage Reference Letters
A-TITLE Link to Manage Reference Letters (Writers for GRFP and Postdoctoral Fellowships)
https://etap.nsf.gov/api/edge/...New window External Subdomain Education and Training Application (ETAP)
A-TITLE Link to Education and Training Application (ETAP)
/acms-web/Submit or manage payment transactions
/research-web/oauth2/authoriza...Subdomain Foreign Financial Disclosure Report (FFDR)
/research-web/content/programi...Program Income Reporting
/research-web/content/aboutibMore about Individual Banking
A-TITLE Link to Individual Banking
/accountmgmt/User Management
https://par.nsf.gov/New window External Subdomain Explore Scholarly publications in the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR)
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/External Subdomain Search awards going back to 1994

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.research.gov/research-web/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (3.27 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 4 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (21 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 22 Apr 2025 07:45:58 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
connectionclose
servernginx/1.27.4
set-cookie81 Characters
content-security-policyscript-src 'nonce-TFLMt8P2010UqIQgl79udQ==' https://www.research.gov https://resources.research.gov https://dap.digitalgov.gov https://www.googletagmanager.com https://www.google-analytics.com https://script.crazyegg.com http://script.crazyegg.com http://google.com https://www.google.com https://gateway.foresee.com https://wt.research.gov; style-src 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' *;
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection0
cache-controlno-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
pragmano-cache
expires0
x-frame-optionsDENY
content-languageen
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 162 referring domains.
This page has 7,256 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 143 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Award43%Check
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Proposals38%Check
Awards38%Check
Manage38%Check
Prepare38%Check
Panels38%Check
Fellowships38%Check
  
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