Software-carpentry.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
65% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.06 s
File size
12.80 kB
Words
281
Media files
1
Number of links
11 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Software Carpentry
The page title is too short. (176 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Software Carpentry is a volunteer project dedicated to teaching basic computing skills to researchers.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (625 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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
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msapplication-TileColor#da532c
msapplication-TileImage/mstile-144x144.png
msapplication-config/browserconfig.xml
theme-color#ffffff
langen
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:url/index.html
twitter:titleEmpty
twitter:site@swcarpentry
twitter:domainsoftware-carpentry.org
twitter:descriptionTeaching researchers the foundational computing skills they need to get more done in less time
twitter:imagehttps://files.software-carpentry.org/logo_circle.jpg
og:localeen_EN
og:typewebsite
og:titleSoftware Carpentry
og:descriptionSoftware Carpentry is a volunteer project dedicated to teaching basic computing skills to researchers.
og:urlhttps://software-carpentry.org//index.html
og:site_nameSoftware Carpentry
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 281 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
These Typos were found:
  • verison => version
The average number of words per sentence of 31.63 words is high.
39.5% 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.
4 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=1.0" 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 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)
This page uses Google authorship markup.
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
/assets/img/logo-white.svgSoftware Carpentry – Teaching Basic Lab Skills for Scientific Computing

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Software Carpentry
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Software Carpentry
H1 Empty heading
H2 What is Software Carpentry?
H3 Teaching basic lab skills for research computing
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 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://software-carpentry.org/Software Carpentry
/search/Search
https://software-carpentry.org/Home
/governance/Governance
/curriculum-advisors/Curriculum Advisors
https://software-carpentry.org/Workshops
/workshops/upcomingUpcoming Workshops
/workshops/pastPast Workshops
/lessons/Lessons
https://carpentries.org/New window External The Carpentries
https://software-carpentry.org/IMG-ALT Software Carpentry – Teaching Basic Lab Skills for Scientific Computing
A-TITLE Software Carpentry – Teaching Basic Lab Skills for Scientific Computing
https://carpentries.org/External Text duplicate The Carpentries
https://carpentries.org/instru...External volunteer Instructors
http://f1000research.com/artic...External Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned
https://software-carpentry.org/Anchor
http://phlow.github.io/feeling...External Subdomain Feeling Responsive
http://github.com/swcarpentryNew window External A-TITLE Source on GitHub
https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpe...New window External A-TITLE The Carpentries on Mastodon
https://www.youtube.com/user/s...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE Software Carpentry Videos
https://www.linkedin.com/group...New window External Subdomain A-TITLE LinkedIn Instructors Group

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://software-carpentry.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 is excellent with 0.06 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
dateMon, 19 Aug 2024 12:08:08 GMT
last-modifiedMon, 19 Aug 2024 12:03:13 GMT
etagW/"78d00de4b8e0a54380446dd2a78a0e46"
serverAmazonS3
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 425709fb5486bea91d36ef6c75d4ffac.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P10
x-amz-cf-idLuVK9GjgDeDF0clRkDKMaGXS-uEyapWPVtEdeduaBwe3rd9GI2QJtQ==
age7799
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 1,611 referring domains.
This page has 27,873 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,117 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: *
Sitemap: https://software-carpentry.org/sitemap.xml

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