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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
68% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
87% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
5.03 s
File size
184.70 kB
Words
483
Media files
15
Number of links
112 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - National Speleological Society
The length of the page title is perfect. (341 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Since 1941 the National Speleological Society has been dedicated to protecting, studying, and exploring caves. With 8,000 members we are the largest cave focused membership organization in the world.
The meta description is too long: 1254 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://caves.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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 483 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
20.7% 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.
7 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 12.92 words is good.
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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
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...9dff4cee5c47376e3e467d-6114ae7d1b1d0.jpgLechuguilla Expedition Frost - Stephen EginoireLechuguilla Expedition Frost - Stephen Eginoire
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Studying, exploring, and protecting caves
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Studying, exploring, and protecting caves
H2 Join us in Cobleskill!
H2 Latest news
H2 Come Caving With Us!
H2 Upcoming events
H3 join nss
H3 Support
H3 Get Involved
H4 NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://caves.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://caves.org/member-page/Member Page
https://caves.org/member-page/Login
https://caves.org/contact/Contact
https://caves.org/shop/A-TITLE Start shopping
https://caves.org/IMG-ALT National Speleological Society Logo
https://caves.org/about-nss/About the NSS
/nss-organization-contacts/Structure
https://caves.org/find-a-grotto/Go Caving
https://caves.org/find-a-grotto/Find A Grotto
https://caves.org/preserves/Preserves
https://caves.org/calendar/Events
https://caves.org/ncrc/NCRC
https://caves.org/vtc/VTC
https://caves.org/training/Classes
https://caves.org/convention/Convention
https://caves.org/conservation/Conservation
https://caves.org/education/Education
https://caves.org/science/Science
https://caves.org/about-nss/Our Work
https://caves.org/news/Articles & News
https://caves.org/avlibrary/The AV Library
https://caves.org/salons/Salons
https://caves.org/nss-awards/Awards
https://caves.org/nss-grants/Grants
https://members.caves.org/store/External Subdomain Shop
https://caves.org/publications/Publications
https://caves.org/publications/All Publications
/publications-search/Search Issues
/publications-search/?_collect...NSS News
/publications-search/?_collect...ACA
/publications-search/?_collect...JCKS
https://caves.org/join-us/Join Us
https://caves.org/about-nss/ABOUT THE NSS
https://caves.org/virtualcave/Join us in Cobleskill!
A-TITLE Join us in Cobleskill!
/convention/2025-nss-convention/Learn More
https://caves.org/news/More News
/caves/a-historic-first-the-ns...A-TITLE A Historic First: The NSS Announces Its Inaugural Executive Director
/caves/meet-the-cave-shrimp-20...A-TITLE Meet the Cave Shrimp: 2025 USA Cave Animal of the Year
/caves/optimizing-the-frog-sys...A-TITLE Optimizing The Frog System For Rescue: Rescuers’ Perspectives
/articles/2025-nss-director-ca...A-TITLE 2025 NSS Director Candidate’s Statements
/caves/upcoming-nss-webinar-se...A-TITLE Upcoming NSS Webinar Series
/news/nss-and-us-forest-servic...A-TITLE NSS and US Forest Service Unite to Protect and Manage Cave and Karst Resources
/caves/execution-of-master-par...A-TITLE Execution of Master Participating Agreement between USDA Forest Service andthe National Speleological Society
/articles/may-2024-presidents-...A-TITLE May 2024 President’s Column: NSS Restructuring
/nss/help-us-build-a-vertical-...A-TITLE Help Us Build a Vertical Tower!
/nss/congratulations-to-our-20...A-TITLE Congratulations to our 2024 NSS Directors!
/state/international/International
/state/traveling-grotto/Travelling Grottos
https://caves.org/state/arizona/Arizona
https://caves.org/state/arkansas/Arkansas
https://caves.org/state/alaska/Alaska
https://caves.org/state/alabama/Alabama
/state/california/California
https://caves.org/state/colorado/Colorado
/state/Connecticut/Connecticut
https://caves.org/state/delaware/Delaware
https://caves.org/state/dc/District of Columbia
https://caves.org/state/florida/Florida
https://caves.org/state/georgia/Georgia
https://caves.org/state/hawaii/Hawaii
https://caves.org/state/idaho/Idaho
https://caves.org/state/illinois/Illinois
https://caves.org/state/indiana/Indiana
https://caves.org/state/iowa/Iowa
https://caves.org/state/kansas/Kansas
https://caves.org/state/kentucky/Kentucky
/state/louisiana/Louisiana
https://caves.org/state/maine/Maine
https://caves.org/state/maryland/Maryland
/state/massachusetts/Massachusetts
https://caves.org/state/michigan/Michigan
/state/minnesota/Minnesota
/state/mississippi/Mississippi
https://caves.org/state/missouri/Missouri
https://caves.org/state/montana/Montana
https://caves.org/state/nebraska/Nebraska
https://caves.org/state/nevada/Nevada
/state/new-hampshire/New Hampshire
/state/new-jersey/New Jersey
/state/new-mexico/New Mexico
https://caves.org/state/new-york/New York
/state/north-carolina/North Carolina
/state/north-dakota/North Dakota
https://caves.org/state/ohio/Ohio
https://caves.org/state/oklahoma/Oklahoma
https://caves.org/state/oregon/Oregon
/state/pennsylvania/Pennsylvania
/state/rhode-island/Rhode Island
/state/south-carolina/South Carolina
/state/south-dakota/South Dakota
/state/tennessee/Tennessee
https://caves.org/state/texas/Texas
https://caves.org/state/utah/Utah
https://caves.org/state/vermont/Vermont
https://caves.org/state/virginia/Virginia
/state/washington/Washington
/state/west-virginia/West Virginia
/state/wisconsin/Wisconsin
https://caves.org/state/wyoming/Wyoming
/event/nss-webinar-introductio...VIEW DETAILS
A-TITLE VIEW DETAILS
/event/speleofest-2025-ye-olde...Text duplicate VIEW DETAILS
A-TITLE VIEW DETAILS
/event/karst-o-rama-2025/Text duplicate VIEW DETAILS
A-TITLE VIEW DETAILS
/event/young-timers-reunion/Text duplicate VIEW DETAILS
A-TITLE VIEW DETAILS
/event/nss-vertical-training-c...Text duplicate VIEW DETAILS
A-TITLE VIEW DETAILS
/event/2025-nss-convention/Text duplicate VIEW DETAILS
A-TITLE VIEW DETAILS
https://caves.org/calendar/View All Events
https://caves.org/join-us/Join
https://members.caves.org/gene...External Subdomain Donate
https://caves.org/volunteer/Volunteer
https://www.facebook.com/Natio...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/c/Nati...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/NSScavesNew window External No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/group...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/nssc...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.pinterest.com/nssc...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://caves.org/contact/Text duplicate Contact
/photographers-cartographers/Photographers & Cartographers
https://caves.org/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
https://caves.org/open-positions/Open Positions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://caves.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is very slow (5.03 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (185 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This page has backlinks from 320 referring domains.
This page has 895 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 277 different ip addresses.

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