Simplemachines.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
90% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
60% 
Server
71% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.67 s
File size
25.00 kB
Words
703
Media files
2
Number of links
25 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Simple Machines Forum - Free & open source community software
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 598 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Free Open Source Forum Software
The length of the meta description is perfect. (219 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-us
Server location: Canada
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionFree Open Source Forum Software
theme-color#557EA0
langen-us
og:site_nameSimple Machines
og:titleHome of Open Source Free Forum Community Software
og:descriptionFree Open Source Forum Software
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 29.83 words is high.
This page contains 703 words. That's ok.
40.7% 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.
10 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.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 14 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
...ges/custom/frontpage_logo_large.png?v4.1Simple Machines Community Forum
...inesweb.com/images/icons/smf_preview.pngAn SMF forum

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Simple Machines Community Forum
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Simple Machines Community Forum
H3 Elegant, Effective, Powerful, Free
H3 Easily Customizable
H3 High Quality Support
H3 Latest news
H3 Learn SMF
H3 Localize SMF
H3 Improve SMF
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/community/index.php?action=loginLog in
/community/index.php?action=si...Sign up
https://simplemachines.org/Nofollow Anchor No Text
https://simplemachines.org/Nofollow Anchor No Text
https://www.simplemachines.org/Home
/community/index.phpCommunity
https://download.simplemachine...External Subdomain Download
https://custom.simplemachines....External Subdomain Customize
https://custom.simplemachines....External Subdomain Modifications
https://custom.simplemachines....External Subdomain Themes
https://custom.simplemachines....External Subdomain Patches
https://support.simplemachines...External Subdomain Support
https://wiki.simplemachines.or...External Subdomain Online Manual
/about/About
/contribute/Contribute
https://dev.simplemachines.org/External Subdomain Development
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External Bug tracker
/community/index.phpIMG-ALT Simple Machines Community Forum
https://download.simplemachine...External Subdomain Download SMF
/about/features.phpSee More Features
https://custom.simplemachines....External Subdomain Customize Site
https://support.simplemachines...External Subdomain Support Options
/community/index.php?topic=586...SMF 2.1.4 Released
/community/index.php?topic=584...SMF 2.1.3 Released
/community/index.php?topic=582...SMF 2.1.2 Released
/community/index.php?board=202.0Doc Helper Board
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/External Subdomain Text duplicate Online Manual
/community/index.php?topic=577...Become a Translator
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External GitHub (SMF 2.1)
/community/index.php?board=3.0Feature Requests
https://download.simplemachine...External Subdomain What do our users think?
https://wiki.simplemachines.or...External Subdomain Can I convert my forum to SMF?
/about/index.phpGet the complete story
/about/smf/team.phpMeet the team!
/about/opensource.phpWhat does the SMF license mean
https://download.simplemachine...External Subdomain Integrating with other software
https://support.simplemachines...External Subdomain Need help with SMF?
https://custom.simplemachines....External Subdomain Browse the modifications for SMF
https://custom.simplemachines....External Subdomain Themes for your SMF forum
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/External Subdomain Read our Online Manual
/contribute/advertise.phpAdvertise with us
/contribute/Ways to support this project
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External Simple Machines on GitHub
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External Tools
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External Sphinx for SMF
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External smfCurve
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External SMF MW Auth
https://github.com/SimpleMachi...External Converters
/community/index.php?action=helpHelp
/community/index.php?action=ag...Terms and Rules
https://simplemachines.org/Anchor Go Up ▲
https://www.simplemachines.org/Simple Machines

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://simplemachines.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 0.67 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 loads 5 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 8 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (25 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 27 Mar 2024 09:38:01 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
pragmano-cache
cache-controlprivate
expiresMon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
set-cookie78 Characters
last-modifiedWed, 27 Mar 2024 09:38:01 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
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nel{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
servercloudflare
cf-ray86ae67b26cdd2c42-FRA
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 16,827 referring domains.
This page has 635,207,580 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,669 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /adsystem/
Crawl-delay: 15

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 5

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Simple Machines82%Check
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Forum80%Check
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