Shear.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
41% 
Page structure
73% 
Link structure
67% 
Server
68% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.91 s
File size
69.80 kB
Words
414
Media files
9
Number of links
72 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
SHEAR
The page title is too short. (71 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://shear.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

NameValue
descriptionEmpty
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorElementor 3.23.1; features: e_optimized_css_loading, e_font_icon_svg, additional_custom_breakpoints, e_lazyload; settings: css_print_method-external, google_font-enabled, font_display-swap
tec-api-versionv1
tec-api-originhttps://shear.org
msapplication-TileImagehttps://shear.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-shear-icon-md-270x270.png
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 414 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 42.75 words is high.
31.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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
...ontent/uploads/2023/11/shear-logo-lg.jpghome
/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nav-blue.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nav-blue.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nav-blue.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nav-blue.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nav-blue.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/speaker_bg.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/speaker_bg.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...loads/2023/11/shear-logo-vertical-lg.jpghome

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
SHEAR
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (5 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 SHEAR
H2 JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC
H2 OUR MISSION
H2 ABOUT US
H3 Membership
H3 Annual Meeting
H3 Announcement
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 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://shear.org/IMG-ALT home
https://shear.org/about-us/About Us
https://shear.org/about-us/Learn More
https://shear.org/about-us/Overview
/about-us/mission/The Mission of SHEAR
/about-us/officers/Officers
/about-us/past-presidents/Past Presidents
/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Co...Constitution
/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SH...Statement of Values
/about-us/contact-us/Contact Us
https://shear.org/membership/Membership
https://shear.org/membership/Text duplicate Learn More
https://shear.org/membership/Join or Renew
/membership/friends-of-shear/Friends of SHEAR
/shear-book-prizes/SHEAR Prizes
/shear-book-prizes/Text duplicate Learn More
/shear-book-prizes/Text duplicate SHEAR Prizes
/shear-book-prizes/prize-winners/Prize Winners
/shear-book-prizes/past-prize-...Past Prize Winners
https://shear.org/awards/SHEAR Distinguished Service Award Recipients
/shear-book-prizes/shear-disti...About the SHEAR Distinguished Service Award
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/Annual Meeting
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/Text duplicate Learn More
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/Text duplicate Overview
/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/Call for Papers
/annual-meeting/proposal-guide...Proposal Guidelines
/annual-meeting/for-exhibitors/Advertisers, Sponsors, & Exhibitors
/annual-meeting/future-confere...Future Conferences
/annual-meeting/past-conferences/Past Conferences
/annual-meeting/archive-of-pro...Archive of Programs
https://shear.org/jer/JER
https://shear.org/jer/Text duplicate Learn More
https://shear.org/jer/About the JER
https://thepanorama.shear.org/New window External Subdomain The Panorama
https://shear.org/about-us/Text duplicate About Us
https://shear.org/about-us/Text duplicate Overview
/about-us/mission/Text duplicate The Mission of SHEAR
/about-us/officers/Text duplicate Officers
/about-us/past-presidents/Text duplicate Past Presidents
/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Co...Text duplicate Constitution
/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SH...Text duplicate Statement of Values
/about-us/contact-us/Text duplicate Contact Us
https://shear.org/membership/Text duplicate Membership
https://shear.org/membership/Text duplicate Join or Renew
/membership/friends-of-shear/Text duplicate Friends of SHEAR
/shear-book-prizes/Text duplicate SHEAR Prizes
/shear-book-prizes/Text duplicate SHEAR Prizes
/shear-book-prizes/prize-winners/Text duplicate Prize Winners
/shear-book-prizes/past-prize-...Text duplicate Past Prize Winners
https://shear.org/awards/Text duplicate SHEAR Distinguished Service Award Recipients
/shear-book-prizes/shear-disti...Text duplicate About the SHEAR Distinguished Service Award
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/Text duplicate Annual Meeting
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/Text duplicate Overview
/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/Text duplicate Call for Papers
/annual-meeting/proposal-guide...Text duplicate Proposal Guidelines
/annual-meeting/for-exhibitors/Text duplicate Advertisers, Sponsors, & Exhibitors
/annual-meeting/future-confere...Text duplicate Future Conferences
/annual-meeting/past-conferences/Text duplicate Past Conferences
/annual-meeting/archive-of-pro...Text duplicate Archive of Programs
https://shear.org/jer/Text duplicate JER
https://shear.org/jer/Text duplicate About the JER
https://thepanorama.shear.org/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate The Panorama
/shear-book-prizes/prize-winners/Congratulations Prize Winners!
https://uncpress.org/journals/...External Text duplicate Learn More
https://shear.org/membership/Text duplicate Learn More
/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/New window Read the Call for Proposals HERE
/2024/04/18/shear-dissertation...READ MORE HERE
https://shear.org/about-us/Text duplicate Learn More
https://shear.org/about-us/Text duplicate Learn More
https://shear.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT home
A-TITLE SHEAR
https://shear.org/about-us/Text duplicate About Us
https://shear.org/membership/Text duplicate Membership
/shear-book-prizes/Text duplicate SHEAR Prizes
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/Text duplicate Annual Meeting
https://shear.org/jer/Text duplicate JER
https://thepanorama.shear.org/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate The Panorama
https://www.facebook.com/Socie...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/@SHEARitesExternal No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://shear.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.91 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 (70 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.26.1
dateThu, 29 Aug 2024 08:37:37 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
last-modifiedFri, 23 Aug 2024 16:00:49 GMT
x-proxy-cacheDISABLED
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 211 referring domains.
This page has 579 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 186 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 30

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Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
SHEAR75%Check
SHEAR Distinguished Service47%Check
SHEAR Distinguished Service Award44%Check
early38%Check
Mission38%Check
REPUBLIC38%Check
JOURNAL38%Check
Membership38%Check
Annual38%Check
Meeting38%Check
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