Sitn.hms.harvard.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
43% 
Server
46% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.12 s
File size
85.90 kB
Words
764
Media files
17
Number of links
129 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Science in the News - Opening the lines of communication between research scientists and the wider community
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 1010 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Opening the lines of communication between research scientists and the wider community
The length of the meta description is perfect. (555 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Rel next URL https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/page/2/
The rel next and prev tags are set correctly.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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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
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No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 25.07 words is high.
This page contains 764 words. That's ok.
25.3% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 18 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 15 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
16 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Science in the News
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Science in the News
H1 Gene Editing to Treat Disease: A success story in sickle cell disease
H1 Our Cyborg Future: Brain-computer interfaces and their unique privacy challenges
H1 Science by the Pint presents: “Blood, drugs, and bugs!”
H1 Quantum Shorts Contest
H1 A New Way to Beat the Heat: Scientists Develop an ‘Elastocaloric’ Cooling Device
H1 Injuries can also Injure Your Metabolism
H1 From Benchtop to Breakthrough: Mini-Colon Models Pave the Way for Cancer Research
H1 Buzzing Bee-haviors: Cooperativity in Insects
H1 Try, try, and try again: prehistoric plant fossils help carve out the evolution of complex vein networks in flowering plants
H1 Researchers create interspecies brain chimeras from mice and rats
H1 This habitable zone exoplanet may have liquid water
H1 A Potential Drug to Treat Acute Respiratory Distress Caused by Severe Influenza A Virus
H1 Anti-Aging Antibodies Rejuvenate the Immune System to Help Fight Pathogens
H1 Putting the Pedal to the Metal: Improving CAR-T Cell Therapy
H1 Move over Cheerios – gut microbes lower cholesterol just fine
H2 Opening the lines of communication between research scientists and the wider community
H2 Posts navigation
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
15 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 11 external links on this page.
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/"
HTTP header
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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
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The page response time is slow (1.12 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 9 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 18 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (86 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

Blacklists
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This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 12,975 referring domains.
This page has 561,296 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 7,945 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
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The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Science in the News - Opening the lines of communication between re...
Opening the lines of communication between research scientists and the wider community

Most important keywords

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

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Science70%Check
New70%Check
News66%Check
research scientists66%Check
research65%Check
scientists65%Check
Opening62%Check
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wider community62%Check
communication61%Check

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