Merckmanuals.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
85% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
61% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.61 s
File size
42.80 kB
Words
546
Media files
21
Number of links
14 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Trusted Provider of Medical Information since 1899
The length of the page title is perfect. (497 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Merck Manuals (known as the MSD Manuals outside US & Canada) are the global standard in medical reference for Doctors, Students & Consumers - since 1899.
The meta description is too long: 1030 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.merckmanuals.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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
viewportinitial-scale=1
descriptionThe Merck Manuals (known as the MSD Manuals outside US & Canada) are the global standard in medical reference for Doctors, Students & Consumers - since 1899.
langen-us
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
content-languageen-US

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
The average number of words per sentence of 28.64 words is high.
This page contains 546 words. That's ok.
34.8% 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.
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)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
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/Content/Images/Redesign/mm_logo.svglogo
/Content/Images/Redesign/logo_white.svglogo
...al/landing/editionboxes/professional.jpgProfessional
...manual/landing/editionboxes/consumer.jpgConsumer
...nual/landing/editionboxes/veterinary.jpgVeterinary
...a/manual/landing/mer_gmk_vertical_sm.gifGlobal Medical Knowledge
/Content/Images/mmanual_foot_logo.pngNo alt attribute provided
/Content/Images/Redesign/mm_logo.svglogo
/Content/Images/Redesign/logo_white.svglogo
...76242a69ccde7019ce007ac.ashx?h=261&w=477Merck Manual for Mobile
...s/Redesign/social/social-media-icons.svgfollow us on facebookView Our facebook Page
...s/Redesign/social/social-media-icons.svgfollow us on InstagramView Our Instagram Page
...s/Redesign/social/social-media-icons.svgfollow us on YouTubeView our YouTube Channel
...s/Redesign/social/social-media-icons.svgfollow us on TwitterView Our Twitter Page
/-/media/manual/footer/accessibility.pngThis icon serves as a link to download the eSSENTIAL Accessibility assistive technology app for individuals with physical disabilities. It is featured as part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion. M
...s/Redesign/social/social-media-icons.svgNo alt attribute providedView Our Facebook Page
...s/Redesign/social/social-media-icons.svgNo alt attribute providedView Our Twitter Page
...s/Redesign/social/social-media-icons.svgNo alt attribute providedView our YouTube Channel
/-/media/manual/footer/accessibility.pngThis icon serves as a link to download the eSSENTIAL Accessibility assistive technology app for individuals with physical disabilities. It is featured as part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion. M
/Content/Images/mmanual_foot_logo.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
The Trusted Provider of Medical Information since 1899
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 The Trusted Provider of Medical Information since 1899
H2 The Merck Manuals are a comprehensive medical information source covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine. They are offered as a free public service to health care professionals and t...
H2 Choose the version that best meets your needs
H2 Our mission is simple:
H2 Merck and the Merck Manuals
H3 Professional Version
H3 For Medical Professionals and Students, more advanced content and features
H3 I’m a medical professional or student.
H3 Go to Professional Version
H3 Consumer Version
H3 For the General Public, information that is clear and easy to understand
H3 I’m a patient, parent or caregiver.
H3 Go to Consumer Version
H3 Veterinary Manual
H3 For Veterinary Professionals and Students, the world's most widely used veterinary reference
H3 I’m a vet or pet owner.
H3 Go to Veterinary Manual
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
There are 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/n3wbr@ndsNofollow honeypot link
https://www.addtoany.com/shareExternal No Text
/professionalMerck Manual Professional Version For Medical Professionals and Students, more advanced content and features I’m a medical professional or student. Go to Pro...
https://www.merckmanuals.com/homeMerck Manual Consumer Version For the General Public, information that is clear and easy to understand I’m a patient, parent or caregiver. Go to Consumer Ver...
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/External Merck Veterinary Manual Veterinary Manual For Veterinary Professionals and Students, the world's most widely used veterinary reference I’m a vet or pet owner...
https://www.merckmanuals.com/Anchor No Text
/~/link.aspx?_id=697ADA1B49B54...making the best current medical information accessible
/professional/resourcespages/g...Global Medical Knowledge
https://www.facebook.com/Merck...External IMG-ALT follow us on facebook
https://www.instagram.com/merc...External IMG-ALT follow us on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/channe...External IMG-ALT follow us on YouTube
https://twitter.com/merckmanua...External IMG-ALT follow us on Twitter
/professional/resourcespages/a...About
/professional/resourcespages/d...Disclaimer
/professional/content/permissionsPermissions
https://www.msdprivacy.com/New window External Privacy
http://www.merck.com/policy/te...New window External Terms of use
/professional/content/partners...Licensing
/professional/content/contact-usContact Us
/professional/resourcespages/g...Text duplicate Global Medical Knowledge
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/External Veterinary Manual
/Professional/ResourcesPages/B...Print Editions
/professional/resourcespages/m...Mobile Apps
https://www.essentialaccessibi...New window External IMG-ALT This icon serves as a link to download the eSSENTIAL Accessibility assistive technology app for individuals with physical disabilities. It is featured as par...
https://www.essentialaccessibi...New window External Text duplicate IMG-ALT This icon serves as a link to download the eSSENTIAL Accessibility assistive technology app for individuals with physical disabilities. It is featured as par...

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.merckmanuals.com/"
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 0.61 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 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (43 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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dateFri, 29 Mar 2024 04:29:08 GMT
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
pragmano-cache
expires-1
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
content-security-policydefault-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https://apps.sitecore.net *; img-src 'self' data: *; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://fonts.googleapis.com; font-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://fonts.gstatic.com ;script-src * 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval';connect-src * 'unsafe-inline'; frame-src *;
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 ccfe5851ecd4194e2d976fb32dec7538.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 23,073 referring domains.
This page has 2,415,491 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 13,777 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: */sitecore
Disallow: */Sitecore
Disallow: */custom/
Disallow: */Custom/
Disallow: */news/external/
Disallow: */News/External/
Disallow: */multimedia/zk/
Disallow: */Multimedia/zk/
Disallow: */multimedia/Zk/
Disallow: */Multimedia/Zk/
Disallow: */multimedia/ZK/
Disallow: */Multimedia/ZK/
Disallow: */professional/drug-names-generic-and-brand
Disallow: */home/drug-names-generic-and-brand
Disallow: */home/monograph/*
Disallow: */professional/monograph/*
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: *blausen*
#Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /zh/

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User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: *blausen*

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The Trusted Provider of Medical Information since 1899
The Merck Manuals (known as the MSD Manuals outside US & Canada) are the global standard in medical reference for Doctors, Students & Consumers - since 1899.

Most important keywords

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KeywordResultRecheck
Medical79%Check
Medical Information72%Check
Medical Information 189971%Check
Manual70%Check
Merck68%Check
Merck Manual68%Check
Manuals66%Check
Merck Manuals66%Check
Information65%Check
Trusted62%Check
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