Cgdev.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.31 s
File size
76.50 kB
Words
593
Media files
17
Number of links
127 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Center for Global Development | Ideas to Action
The length of the page title is perfect. (428 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy & practice.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (982 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://www.cgdev.org/
There is a valid canonical link 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
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
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
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
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There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and i...
This page contains 593 words. That's ok.
23.6% 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.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.71 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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7 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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.

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Page structure

H1 heading
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Center for Global Development
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 36 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

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H1 Center for Global Development
H2 Main navigation
H2 User account menu
H2 Hamburger
H2 Mobile Navigation
H2 Topics
H2 Popular:
H2 About
H2 Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity
H2 Latest Work
H2 Celebrating Ten Years of the international Decision Support Initiative
H2 Events
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H2 24
H2 Oct
H2 1
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H2 About Duplicate text
H2 Explore
H3 Featured
H3 2024
H3 2024 Duplicate text
H3 We believe global prosperity can be built on smart policy.
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H6 Blog Post Duplicate text
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H6 Blog Post Duplicate text
H6 Blog Post Duplicate text
H6 Project Celebrating Ten Years of the international Decision Support Initiative April, 15 2024
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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.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 16 external links on this page.
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https://twitter.com/CGDevNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/CGDev/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/Global...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/cgdev_/New window External Subdomain No Text
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/section/eventsText duplicate Events
/page/press-centerPress
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/page/subscribeText duplicate Subscribe
/page/about-cgdText duplicate About Us
/section/fundingHow We're Funded
/page/impact-and-influenceOur Impact
/our-leadershipText duplicate Leadership
/section/experts/staffText duplicate Staff Directory
/page/board-directorsText duplicate Board of Directors
https://www.cgdev.org/careersText duplicate Careers
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https://twitter.com/CGDevNew window External No Text
https://www.facebook.com/CGDev/New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/Global...New window External Subdomain No Text
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/blog/role-bridge-builders-glo...Blog Post The Role of Bridge-Builders in Global Policy Reform
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/expert/rachel-glennersterSubdomain Rachel Glennerster
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/expert/w-gyude-mooreSubdomain Text duplicate W. Gyude Moore
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/blog/economics-marginalia-sep...Blog Post Economics & Marginalia: September 20, 2024
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/blog/global-south-green-devel...Blog Post A Global South Green Development Plan?
IMG-ALT Construction workers stand in front of wind turbines
/expert/charles-kennySubdomain Charles Kenny
/blog/who-financing-2024-climb...Blog Post WHO Financing in 2024
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/blog/shark-tank-accelerating-...Blog Post A Shark Tank for Accelerating Innovation for Climate and Pandemic Preparedness
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/page/site-searchView latest work
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https://www.facebook.com/CGDev/New window External Subdomain No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cgdev.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 0.31 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (77 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 10,732 referring domains.
This page has 779,152 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 6,834 different ip addresses.

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Center for Global Development | Ideas to Action
The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy & practice.

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