Fsf.org - SEO Checker

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Meta information
58% 
Page quality
74% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
36% 
Server
31% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.04 s
File size
56.80 kB
Words
952
Media files
19
Number of links
98 internal / 48 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 698 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page title.
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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
(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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
generatorPlone - https://plone.org
langen
Content-Typetext/html;charset=UTF-8
KeywordsFSF, Free Software Foundation, Free Software, Libre Software
DescriptionThe FSF is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 952 words. That's ok.
29.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
17 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 20.05 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width; initial-scale=0.6666; maximum-scale=1.0; minimum-scale=0.6666" is provided.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 19 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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
static.fsf.org/common/img/logo-new.pngNo alt attribute provided
https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/join.en.pngJoin now
...51433a3-5dd4-4de1-81c9-a3f6838a4b9f.jpegMichael McMahon live-streaming LibrePlanet 2024
...44f3c4c-b012-498a-ae55-ab088049f216.jpegBSOD at Dulles Airport due to the CrowdStrike incident
...c.fsf.org/nosvn/images/socials/share.pngShare
...sf.org/nosvn/images/socials/mastodon.pngMastodon
...fsf.org/nosvn/images/socials/twitter.pngTwitter
...sf.org/nosvn/images/socials/peertube.pngPeertube
...es/images/dbd_color_logo_trim_square.pngDefective By Design
...n/screenshots/step2a-01-make-keypair.pngEmail Self-Defense
static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/esp-b.pngEnd Software Patents
static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/freejs.pngFree JS
...fsf.org/nosvn/logos/fsd_logo_stacked.svgFree Software Directory
....org/nosvn/logos/campaigns_gnu.small.pngGNU Project
...c.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/lp-logo-square.svgLibrePlanet
static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/LCL_red.pngLicensing and Compliance Lab
https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/logos/ryf.svgRespects Your Freedom
...breplanet/speaker-pics/snowden-large.jpgPhoto of Edward Snowden
....fsf.org/nosvn/Screenshot-Peertube-2.pngScreenshot of the PeerTube page with workshops about Kdenlive, BigCode, and digital colonialism.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 A world where software freedom has a fighting chance and hope exists
H2 Let's not celebrate CrowdStrike -- let's point to a better way
H2 Follow Us on Social Media
H2 Our initiatives
H2 Take Action
H2 Bulletin
H2 PEERTUBE
H2 Thank you Odile Bénassy for four years of service on the FSF Board of Directors!
H2 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 30, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
H2 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 23, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
H2 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 16, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
H2 Join us in saying goodbye to our beloved office on August 16!
H2 Call for volunteers: Help us with the GNU Press shop and new member mailings
H2 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 9, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
H2 Free Software Supporter -- Issue 196, August 2024
H2 Free Software Supporter -- Número 196, août 2024
H2 Free Software Supporter - Edição 196, agosto 2024
H3 Interview with Dragora developer Matías Fonzo
H3 What we're up against
H3 From curiosity to commitment: a personal adventure to freedom
H3 Can a license protect against future threats to computer user freedom?
H3 The programs we use every day
H4 Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software. Thus, free software is a matter of liberty, not price. We have been defending the rights of ...
H5 Personal tools
H5 fsf.org is powered by:
Baselink: https://www.fsf.org/
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.
8 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (48) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.fsf.org/sitemapsitemap
https://www.fsf.org/search_formskip to search
https://www.fsf.org/No Text
https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mem...External Subdomain Log in
http://www.fsf.org/help-menuSubdomain Help!
/associate/about-the-members-f...Subdomain Members forum
https://www.fsf.org/jfbIMG-ALT Join now
https://www.fsf.org/about/About
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/Campaigns
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/Licensing
https://www.fsf.org/associate/Membership
https://www.fsf.org/resources/Resources
https://www.fsf.org/community/Community
https://www.fsf.org/donate/♥Donate♥
https://shop.fsf.org/External Subdomain Shop
https://www.fsf.org/@@searchSubdomain Search
https://www.fsf.org/about/No Text
/blogs/community/a-world-where...Subdomain IMG-ALT Michael McMahon live-streaming LibrePlanet 2024
/blogs/community/a-world-where...Subdomain A world where software freedom has a fighting chance and hope exists
/blogs/community/a-world-where...Subdomain No Text
/news/lets-not-celebrate-crowd...Subdomain IMG-ALT BSOD at Dulles Airport due to the CrowdStrike incident
/news/lets-not-celebrate-crowd...Subdomain Let's not celebrate CrowdStrike -- let's point to a better way
/news/lets-not-celebrate-crowd...Subdomain No Text
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain run, edit, contribute to, and share
https://my.fsf.org/joinExternal Subdomain become an associate member today.
/free-software-supporter/Free Software Supporter
https://hostux.social/@fsfExternal Mastodon
IMG-ALT Mastodon
https://www.fsf.org/twitterTwitter
IMG-ALT Twitter
https://framatube.org/accounts...External Peertube
IMG-ALT Peertube
https://defectivebydesign.org/...External Defective by Design is a grassroots campaign to eliminate Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) in media and devices.
IMG-ALT Defective By Design
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.o...External Subdomain Read the Email Self-Defense Guide to get started with email encryption, a skill necessary to combat bulk surveillance.
IMG-ALT Email Self-Defense
https://endsoftwarepatents.org...External The End Software Patents initiative fights to abolish software patents around the world.
IMG-ALT End Software Patents
/campaigns/freejs?mtm_campaign...Subdomain Join us in calling for a Web that respects our freedom by being compatible with free software and stand up against nonfree JavaScript.
IMG-ALT Free JS
https://directory.fsf.org/?pk_...External Subdomain The Free Software Directory is a collaborative catalog of computer programs and apps that are fully free.
IMG-ALT Free Software Directory
https://gnu.org/?pk_campaign=f...External The GNU operating system is a continuously evolving, complete operating system made entirely of free software.
IMG-ALT GNU Project
https://libreplanet.org/?pk_ca...External LibrePlanet is our global network of free software activism, including events like our annual conference, and online collaboration spaces.
IMG-ALT LibrePlanet
https://libreplanet.org/confer...External annual conference
/licensing?pk_campaign=fsfhomeSubdomain The Licensing and Compliance Lab is the preeminent resource for public education on licensing best practices and enforcing the GPL.
IMG-ALT Licensing and Compliance Lab
https://ryf.fsf.org/?pk_campai...External Subdomain The "Respects Your Freedom" program certifies retailers who sell hardware in a manner that respects the rights of their users.
IMG-ALT Respects Your Freedom
https://media.libreplanet.org/...External Subdomain -- Edward Snowden
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/G...External Collaborate with us to build the freedom ladder
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki...External Subdomain Make the switch to free software
/blogs/community/fsf-giving-gu...Subdomain Read and share this year's Giving Guide
/about/ways-to-donate/Contribute to the FSF
/bulletin/2024/spring/intervie...Subdomain Interview with Dragora developer Matías Fonzo
/bulletin/2024/spring/what-wer...Subdomain What we're up against
/bulletin/2024/spring/from-cur...Subdomain From curiosity to commitment: a personal adventure to freedom
/bulletin/2024/spring/can-a-li...Subdomain Can a license protect against future threats to computer user freedom?
/bulletin/2024/spring/the-prog...Subdomain The programs we use every day
https://www.fsf.org/bulletinRead the current issue of the Bulletin and check out the archives.
https://framatube.org/a/fsf/vi...External Follow the FSF's PeerTube channel and discover exciting workshops and talks.
IMG-ALT Screenshot of the PeerTube page with workshops about Kdenlive, BigCode, and digital colonialism.
https://fsf.org/blogsBlog
https://fsf.org/newsNews
https://fsf.org/events/aggregatorEvents
/news/thank-you-odile-benassy-...Subdomain Thank you Odile Bénassy for four years of service on the FSF Board of Directors!
/news/thank-you-odile-benassy-...Subdomain BOSTON (August 27, 2024) -- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Board Member Odile Bénassy has stepped down from the Board after four years of service.
/events/fsd-2024-08-30-ircSubdomain Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 30, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
/events/fsd-2024-08-30-ircSubdomain Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 30 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
/events/fsd-2024-08-23-ircSubdomain Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 23, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
/events/fsd-2024-08-23-ircSubdomain Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 23 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
/events/fsd-2024-08-16-ircSubdomain Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 16, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
/events/fsd-2024-08-16-ircSubdomain Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 16 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
/blogs/community/fsf-office-cl...Subdomain Join us in saying goodbye to our beloved office on August 16!
/blogs/community/fsf-office-cl...Subdomain No Text
/blogs/community/help-us-with-...Subdomain Call for volunteers: Help us with the GNU Press shop and new member mailings
/blogs/community/help-us-with-...Subdomain No Text
/events/fsd-20240809-ircSubdomain Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 9, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
/events/fsd-20240809-ircSubdomain Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 9 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
/free-software-supporter/2024/...Subdomain Free Software Supporter -- Issue 196, August 2024
/free-software-supporter/2024/...Subdomain No Text
/free-software-supporter/2024/...Subdomain Free Software Supporter -- Número 196, août 2024
/free-software-supporter/2024/...Subdomain No Text
/free-software-supporter/2024/...Subdomain Free Software Supporter - Edição 196, agosto 2024
/free-software-supporter/2024/...Subdomain No Text
https://www.fsf.org/aboutlearn about our history and work.
/about/contact.htmlFree Software Foundation
A-TITLE Find out how to contact us
https://my.fsf.org/donate/priv...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://creativecommons.org/li...External Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 license (or later version)
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/l...External Subdomain Anchor Why this license?
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip sitemap
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor skip to licensing items
https://www.fsf.org/about/Text duplicate About
/about/staff-and-boardStaff and Board
/about/contact.htmlContact Us
https://www.fsf.org/pressPress Information
/resources/jobsJobs
https://www.fsf.org/volunteerVolunteering and Internships
https://www.fsf.org/historyHistory
https://my.fsf.org/donate/priv...External Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy Policy
https://weblabels.fsf.org/www....External Subdomain JavaScript Licenses
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hwHardware Database
https://directory.fsf.org/External Subdomain Free Software Directory
https://www.fsf.org/resources/Free Software Resources
/about/dmca-noticeCopyright Infringement Notification
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip to general items
https://www.fsf.org/campaignsText duplicate Campaigns
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/G...External Freedom Ladder
/campaigns/fight-to-repairSubdomain Fight to Repair
/campaigns/freejs/Free JavaScript
/campaigns/priority-projects/High Priority Free Software Projects
/campaigns/campaigns/secure-bo...Secure Boot vs Restricted Boot
/campaigns/surveillance/Surveillance
https://www.fsf.org/windows/Upgrade from Windows
/working-togetherWorking Together for Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/External Subdomain GNU Operating System
https://defectivebydesign.org/External Defective by Design
http://endsoftpatents.org/External End Software Patents
/campaigns/opendocument/OpenDocument
/campaigns/free-bios.htmlFree BIOS
https://libreplanet.org/External Connect with free software users
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip to philosophical items
https://www.fsf.org/licensingText duplicate Licensing
/licensing/educationEducation
/licensing/licensesLicenses
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g...External Subdomain GNU GPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/a...External Subdomain GNU AGPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/l...External Subdomain GNU LGPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/f...External Subdomain GNU FDL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g...External Subdomain Licensing FAQ
/licensing/complianceCompliance
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g...External Subdomain How to use GNU licenses for your own software
https://www.fsf.org/news/Latest News
https://www.fsf.org/events/Upcoming Events
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/FSF Blogs
https://www.fsf.org/Anchor Skip list
/about/ways-to-donateSubdomain Donate to the FSF
https://www.fsf.org/jfbJoin the FSF
https://www.fsf.org/patronsSubdomain Patrons
https://www.fsf.org/associate/Associate Members
/associate/account/My Account
/working-together/fundWorking Together for Free Software Fund
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/External Subdomain Philosophy
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain The Free Software Definition
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Free Software and Free Manuals
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Selling Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Motives for Writing Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain The Right To Read
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...External Subdomain Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
https://www.fsf.org/sitemapComplete Sitemap
https://plone.org/External Plone
A-TITLE Plone Powered
https://zope.org/External Zope
A-TITLE Powered by Zope
https://python.org/External Python
A-TITLE Powered by Python
https://civicrm.org/External CiviCRM
A-TITLE Powered by CiviCRM
https://www.w3.org/htmlExternal Subdomain HTML5

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.fsf.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The HTML page should be transferred using GZip compression.
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.04 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.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
This page does not require any JavaScript files.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (57 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx/1.1.19
dateMon, 02 Sep 2024 02:27:08 GMT
content-typetext/html;charset=utf-8
content-length58188
x-cache-operationplone.app.caching.moderateCaching
content-languageen
expiresFri, 05 Sep 2014 02:27:08 GMT
last-modifiedFri, 26 Jul 2013 22:50:28 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=0, s-maxage=86400, must-revalidate
x-cache-ruleplone.content.feed
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
age433
x-cacheHIT from www.fsf.org
x-cache-lookupHIT from www.fsf.org:3128
via1.0 www.fsf.org (squid/3.1.19)
connectionclose
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.0

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 20,750 referring domains.
This page has 28,135,038 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 14,013 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

# robots.txt for https://www.fsf.org/

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 4
Disallow: /search_rss
Disallow: /associate/forum/
Disallow: /software/winboard/whats_new/
Disallow: /software/
Disallow: /share
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /@@search
Disallow: /?set_language
Disallow: /.git/
Sitemap: https://www.fsf.org/sitemap.xml

# Majestic - SEO
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# DataForSeo - SEO
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# webmeup - SEO
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# Ahrefs - SEO
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

# babbar - SEO
User-agent: barkrowler
Disallow: /

# Screamingfrog - SEO
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /

# Seozoom - SEO
User-Agent: ZoomBot
Disallow: /

# Brandwatch - SEO
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

# Begin Moz - SEO
# Not to be confused with Mozilla.
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /
# End Moz - SEO

# Begin Semrush - SEO
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteAuditBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SI
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /

User-agent: SplitSignalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /
# End Semrush - SEO

# cognitiveSEO - SEO
User-agent: JamesBOT
Disallow: /

# oncrawl - SEO
User-agent: Oncrawl
Disallow: /

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