Research.stlouisfed.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
56% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
76% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.92 s
File size
25.10 kB
Words
332
Media files
7
Number of links
43 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Economic Research - St. Louis Fed
The length of the page title is perfect. (318 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Providing free U.S. and international economic data, graphs and other data-related tools, plus quality research from St. Louis Fed economists.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (873 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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 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

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descriptionProviding free U.S. and international economic data, graphs and other data-related tools, plus quality research from St. Louis Fed economists.
keywordsFederal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, Fed, St. Louis Fed, FRED, Monetary Policy, Monetary Trends, Interest Rates, GDP, CPI, Inflation, Exchange Rates, Discount Rate, Economic Data, Economic Indicators, Economists, CRE8, Monetary Aggregates, Global Economy,International Data, Regional Data, U.S. Data
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 332 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 28.83 words is high.
19.9% 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.
8 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 75 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"mismatch unemployment during covid-19 and the post-pandemic labor shortages"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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

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/images/EconomicResearch.svgEconomic Research - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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...os/Birinci_Serdar-web-20221014082141.jpgSerdar Birinci
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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 IP, Inflation, and Liquidity Premia
H2 St. Louis Fed Economists Support Wider Efforts
H3 SUBSCRIBE TO THE RESEARCH DIVISION NEWSLETTER
H3 Research Division
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 13 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://research.stlouisfed.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.stlouisfed.org/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis logo
https://research.stlouisfed.org/IMG-ALT Economic Research - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
/econ/Economists
/econ/Research Economists
/econ/Research Fellows
/econ/Emeritus
/research-associatesResearch Associates
/econ/View all A-Z
/publications/Research and Publications
/wp/Working Papers
/publications/Research Division Publications
/resources/covid-19/COVID-19 Research
https://fedinprint.org/External Fed in Print
https://ideas.repec.org/d/frbs...External Subdomain St. Louis Fed at RePEc IDEAS
/regecon/Eighth District Economy
/about.htmlThe Research Division
/about.htmlAbout
/publications/research-news/Research News
/careers/Careers
/conferences/Events
/info-services.htmlInformation Services
/staff/Research Staff
https://www.econlowdown.org/External Subdomain econlowdown
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/External Subdomain FRASER
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/External Subdomain FRED
https://fredaccount.stlouisfed...External Subdomain My Account
https://research.stlouisfed.org/Anchor Text duplicate Skip to main content
/publications/research-news/ip...Subdomain IP, Inflation, and Liquidity Premia
/econ/santacreu/sel/Subdomain Ana Maria Santacreu
https://direct.mit.edu/rest/ar...External Subdomain Review of Economics and Statistics
/econ/martin/sel/Subdomain Fernando Martin
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...External Subdomain Review of Economic Dynamics
/wp/more/2024-025Mismatch Unemployment During COVID-19 and the Post-Pandemic Labor Shortages
/wp/more/2024-024Hours Worked and Lifetime Earnings Inequality
/wp/more/2024-023Measuring Trends in Work From Home: Evidence from Six U.S. Datasets
/wp/more/2024-022Economic Surveillance using Corporate Text
/wp/more/2024-021A High-Frequency Measure of Income Inequality
/econ/birinciIMG-ALT Serdar Birinci
/econ/birinci/Text duplicate Serdar Birinci
/wp/more/2024-025Text duplicate Mismatch Unemployment During COVID-19 and the Post-Pandemic Labor Shortages
/publications/research-news/st...Subdomain St. Louis Fed Economists Support Wider Efforts
https://www.minneapolisfed.org...External Subdomain Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute
/publications/research-news/See all news stories
/conferences/UPCOMING EVENTS
/conferences/econ_sem/Subdomain Seminar - Raquel Fernandez
/conferences/See all events
https://research.stlouisfed.org/Research Division
/contactus/Contact
/conferences/Text duplicate Events
/careers/Text duplicate Careers
/rss/RSS
/legal.htmlLegal and Privacy
https://www.stlouisfed.org/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.stlouisfed.org/abo...External Subdomain Information for Visitors
https://twitter.com/stlouisfedExternal follow @stlouisfed
IMG-ALT twitter x

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://research.stlouisfed.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.92 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (25 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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strict-transport-securitymax-age=86400
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 9,535 referring domains.
This page has 1,647,859 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 6,229 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

# Allows all robots to visit all files.
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 2 
Disallow: /useraccount/login/
Disallow: /fred2/series/charts
Disallow: /financial_indicators/
Disallow: /useraccount/addemailnotification/*

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research.stlouisfed.org
Economic Research - St. Louis Fed
Providing free U.S. and international economic data, graphs and other data-related tools, plus quality research from St. Louis Fed economists.

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