Edge.gbci.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
74% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
88% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.50 s
File size
30.80 kB
Words
411
Media files
18
Number of links
26 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
EDGE | Green building certification
The length of the page title is perfect. (313 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://edge.gbci.org/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
GeneratorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
langen
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

Test up to 1.000 webpages of edge.gbci.org with our free plan!

Try For Free
No trial. It's just free!

Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 411 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
29.2% 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.
8 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 20.92 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
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
1 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
EDGE is a green building certification system focused on making buildings more resource-efficient.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 EDGE is a green building certification system focused on making buildings more resource-efficient.
H2 How EDGE works
H2 Why EDGE
H2 Latest news
H2 Green Business Certification Inc.
H3 EDGE software
H3 Global standard
H3 Certification system
H3 Investment planning
H3 Project savings
H3 Powered by data
H3 Simplicity
H3 International recognition
H3 Service excellence
H4 Stay connected
H4 Contact
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.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://edge.gbci.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://edge.gbci.org/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://edge.gbci.org/IMG-ALT English
/?language=esIMG-ALT Español
https://edge.gbci.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT English
/?language=esText duplicate IMG-ALT Español
/certificationCertification
https://edge.gbci.org/auditorsExperts & Auditors
https://edge.gbci.org/resourcesSubdomain Training & Resources
https://support.usgbc.org/hc/e...External Subdomain Help
https://edge.gbci.org/resourcesIMG-ALT Learn More
https://edge.gbci.org/resourcesLearn about EDGE
/certificationIMG-ALT Certify
/certificationCertify your project
https://edge.gbci.org/auditorsIMG-ALT Become an Auditor
https://edge.gbci.org/auditorsEarn EDGE Expert credential or become an EDGE Auditor
/project-profilesIMG-ALT “Project
/project-profilesView EDGE certified projects
/where-edge-availableNew window Subdomain most countries around the world
https://www.edgebuildings.com/New window External Subdomain edgebuildings.com
/deadlines-achieving-edge-cert...IMG-ALT An aerial view of a city full of tall buildings.
/deadlines-achieving-edge-cert...Deadlines for achieving EDGE certification in 2024
/meeting-your-edge-certificati...IMG-ALT EDGE deadlines
/meeting-your-edge-certificati...Meeting your EDGE certification deadline
/grow-your-green-building-cons...No Text
/grow-your-green-building-cons...Grow your green building consultancy as a GBCI EDGE One-Stop Shop
https://edge.gbci.org/articlesRead more articles
https://twitter.com/edgebuildi...New window External IMG-ALT Follow us on Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/edgeb...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Follow us on Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Follow us on Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/channe...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Follow us on YouTube
https://edge.gbci.org/contactGeneral
https://support.usgbc.org/hc/e...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Help
http://www.gbci.org/pressNew window External Subdomain Press
http://gbci.org/legalExternal Legal
https://www.gbci.org/gbci-cook...External Subdomain Cookie Statement
https://www.gbci.org/gbci-priv...External Subdomain Privacy Statement
https://www.gbci.org/gbci-lega...External Subdomain Terms and Conditions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://edge.gbci.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 of 0.50 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.
A Content Delivery Network like Bootstrap CDN can save bandwidth for Bootstrap front-end component library.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (31 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 19 Sep 2024 11:48:20 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
cache-controlno-cache, must-revalidate
content-languageen
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
link</node/3>; rel="shortlink",<https://edge.gbci.org/blogapi/rsd>; rel="EditURI"; type="application/rsd+xml"; title="RSD",</home>; rel="canonical"
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-generatorDrupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostnamestyx-fe3-a-7584f75649-sz4nr
x-styx-req-id10f75699-767d-11ef-a293-26dca5094da0
x-served-bycache-chi-klot8100063-CHI, cache-fra-eddf8230156-FRA
x-cacheMISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0
x-timerS1726746500.876918,VS0,VE397
varyAccept-Encoding, Cookie, Cookie
age0
via1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
report-to{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v4?s=%2FxFJLE81pAzaFmUImTZQjVpMj07zHcsiBh9vjBuXqsoV2nFT7cAp20xBsvSIhjWZnZf%2FLwntwu%2BsQOdGRtmyDq%2BMB5UpMUsky3%2F83siyq4CH14otZh0qHqal3LOZPgI%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
nel{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
servercloudflare
cf-ray8c595897ed7cbbd4-FRA
content-encodinggzip
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 156 referring domains.
This page has 823 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 142 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

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

Search preview

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
EDGE86%Check
EDGE certification77%Check
Certification68%Check
Building Certification67%Check
green building certification67%Check
green66%Check
Green Building66%Check
EDGE Auditor66%Check
building63%Check
certification system62%Check

Test up to 1.000 webpages of edge.gbci.org with our free plan!

Try For Free
No trial. It's just free!

Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our site work and also for analytics and advertising purposes. You can enable or disable optional cookies as desired. See the following links for more information.

We need these so the site can function properly

So we can better understand how visitors use our website

So we can serve you tailored ads and promotions