Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
95% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.21 s
File size
64.50 kB
Words
611
Media files
23
Number of links
72 internal / 49 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Center for Open Science
The length of the page title is perfect. (224 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
At the Center for Open Science, our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scholarly research. Promoting these practices within the research funding and publishing communities accelerates scientific progress
The meta description is too long: 1438 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.cos.io/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: 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 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.
This page contains 611 words. That's ok.
29.8% 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.
14 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 18.94 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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: join our mailing list
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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

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/hubfs/Icons/2023/icon-community.pngCommunity ActionCommunity Action
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/hubfs/Icons/2023/icon-bullhorn.pngSpread the MessageSpread the Message
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...png?width=100&name=charity-navigator.pngCharity Navigator
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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Show Your Work. Share Your Work. Advance Science. That’s Open Science.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Show Your Work. Share Your Work. Advance Science. That’s Open Science.
H2 Join Our Mailing List
H2 About the Center for Open Science
H2 The open research lifecycle
H2 Conduct your own open science
H2 Support the open science movement
H3 Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-being Research
H3 Save the Date: Metascience 2025 Conference in London
H3 Global Flourishing Study Releases Wave One Open Research Data
H3 Keep up on what's happening at the Center for Open Science, get new product updates, and learn more about open science with our blog and video updates.
H3 Empty heading
H3 Research Software Tools
H3 Community Action and Culture Change
H3 Metascience and Research
H3 Empty heading
H3 Share Data, Materials, or Code
H3 Share a Paper or Preprint
H3 Register Your Research
H3 Donate
H3 Spread the Message
H3 Join Our Team
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.
2 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (49) on this page.
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/about/supportersSubdomain Supporters
https://www.cos.io/about/newsSubdomain News
https://www.cos.io/impactSubdomain Impact
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https://www.cos.io/about/financesSubdomain Finances
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https://www.cos.io/ideaSubdomain Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access
https://www.cos.io/careersSubdomain Careers
https://www.cos.io/engageSubdomain Engage
https://www.cos.io/toolsSubdomain Tools
/services/trainingSubdomain Training
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/initiatives/registered-reportsSubdomain Registered Reports
/services/researchSubdomain Research
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/lifecyclejournalSubdomain Lifecycle Journal
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/smart-prototypingSubdomain SMART Prototyping
https://www.cos.io/scoreSubdomain SCORE
/r3ct/registered-revisionsSubdomain Registered Revisions
https://www.cos.io/r3ct/gfs-trialSubdomain GFS Trial
https://www.cos.io/rpcbSubdomain RP: Cancer Biology
https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/homeNew window External RP: Psychology
https://www.cos.io/eventsSubdomain Events
https://www.cos.io/eventsSubdomain Webinars
https://metascience.info/External Metascience 2025
/supporter-engagement-seriesSubdomain Enabling Research Innovation
https://www.cos.io/yos-conferenceSubdomain Year of Open Science Conference
https://www.cos.io/blogSubdomain Blog
https://www.cos.io/contact-usSubdomain Contact
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https://www.cos.io/meta?hsLang=enSubdomain Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-being Research
https://metascience.info/External No Text
https://metascience.info/External Save the Date: Metascience 2025 Conference in London
https://www.cos.io/gfs?hsLang=enSubdomain No Text
https://www.cos.io/gfs?hsLang=enSubdomain Global Flourishing Study Releases Wave One Open Research Data
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/communities/ambassadors?hsLan...COS Ambassador program
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https://twitter.com/OSFrameworkNew window External Text duplicate X/Twitter
https://fosstodon.org/@Centerf...New window External Text duplicate Mastodon
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/@Cente...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate YouTube
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/about/board?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Board
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/engage?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Engage
/tools?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Tools
/services/training?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Training
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/initiatives/registered-report...Subdomain Text duplicate Registered Reports
/services/research?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Research
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https://www.cos.io/rpcb?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate RP: Cancer Biology
https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/home/New window External Text duplicate RP: Psychology
/events?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Events
https://www.cos.io/blog?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Blog
/contact-us?hsLang=enSubdomain Text duplicate Contact
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https://osf.io/New window External Text duplicate OSF
https://topfactor.org/New window External Text duplicate TOP Factor
https://www.charitynavigator.o...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Charity Navigator
https://www.guidestar.org/prof...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Platinum Transparency 2023
https://www.aicpa-cima.com/res...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT SOC 2
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.cos.io/"
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 0.21 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (65 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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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 1,856 referring domains.
This page has 13,999 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,312 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 0 shares and comments on Facebook.

Robots.txt

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Search preview

www.cos.io
Center for Open Science
At the Center for Open Science, our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scholarly research. Promoting these practices within the research funding and publishing communities accelerates scientific progress

Most important keywords

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

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Open Science78%Check
Science Center75%Check
Open Research73%Check
Center70%Check
Research65%Check
Support open science64%Check
Share58%Check
Research Communities57%Check

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