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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
56% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
70% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.11 s
File size
27.30 kB
Words
328
Media files
12
Number of links
43 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 629 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.
The meta description is too long: 1253 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://medlineplus.gov/
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
(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 character encoding is not specified.
The character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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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langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@medlineplus
twitter:creator@medlineplus
twitter:titleMedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
twitter:descriptionFind information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.
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og:urlhttps://medlineplus.gov/
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og:descriptionFind information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.
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window-target_top
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charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 328 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.7% 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 9.79 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 7 tags for this page.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
/uswds/img/us_flag_small.pngNo alt attribute provided
/uswds/img/icon-dot-gov.svgNo alt attribute provided
/uswds/img/icon-https.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://medlineplus.gov/images/nihlogo.pngNational Institutes of Health
/images/m_logo_primary_25.pngMedlinePlus Trusted Health Information for You
...DiabetesandPregnancy_share2_featured.jpgDiabetes and Pregnancy
https://medlineplus.gov/images/feed.pngRSSRSS
/images/i_share_twitter.pngXX
/images/i_share_fb.pngFacebookFacebook
/images/Instagram_Glyph_Gradient_RGB.pngInstagramInstagram
/images/i_social_media_toolkit.pngSocial Media ToolkitSocial Media Toolkit
/images/return-top.pngReturn to top

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Welcome to MedlinePlus
The H1 heading contains the words Welcome to! Use important keywords instead.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Welcome to MedlinePlus
Anchor text is an URL
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://medlineplus.gov/Anchor Skip navigation
https://www.nih.gov/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT National Institutes of Health
A-TITLE National Institutes of Health
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/New window External Subdomain National Library of Medicine
https://medlineplus.gov/IMG-ALT MedlinePlus Trusted Health Information for You
/healthtopics.htmlHealth Topics
/druginformation.htmlDrugs & Supplements
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/Genetics
/lab-tests/Medical Tests
/encyclopedia.htmlMedical Encyclopedia
https://medlineplus.gov/about/About MedlinePlus
https://medlineplus.gov/about/Text duplicate About MedlinePlus
https://medlineplus.gov/whatsnew/What's New
/sitemap.htmlSite Map
https://support.nlm.nih.gov/kn...New window External Subdomain Customer Support
/healthtopics.htmlText duplicate Health Topics
/druginformation.htmlText duplicate Drugs & Supplements
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/Text duplicate Genetics
/lab-tests/Text duplicate Medical Tests
/encyclopedia.htmlText duplicate Medical Encyclopedia
https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/Español
A-TITLE Español
https://medlineplus.gov/about/Learn more about MedlinePlus
A-TITLE Learn more about MedlinePlus
/diabetesandpregnancy.htmlIMG-ALT Diabetes and Pregnancy
A-TITLE Diabetes and Pregnancy
/diabetesandpregnancy.htmlLearn more
A-TITLE Learn more about Diabetes and Pregnancy
/healthtopics.htmlHealth Topics Find information on health, wellness, disorders and conditions
/encyclopedia.htmlMedical Encyclopedia Articles and images for diseases, symptoms, tests, treatments
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/Genetics Explore genetic conditions, genes, and how genetic variations affect health
/druginformation.htmlDrugs & Supplements Prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, herbs, and supplements
/lab-tests/Medical Tests Learn why your doctor orders medical tests and what the results may mean
https://medlineplus.gov/recipes/Healthy Recipes These recipes show you how to prepare tasty, quick meals as part of a healthy lifestyle
/all_easytoread.htmlEasy-to-Read Health Information
/languages/languages.htmlHealth Information in Multiple Languages
/medlineplus-connect/MedlinePlus Connect for EHRs
/allofus.htmlAll of Us
https://magazine.medlineplus.gov/New window External Subdomain NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
https://clinicaltrials.gov/New window External Clinical Trials
https://medlineplus.gov/about/Text duplicate About MedlinePlus
https://medlineplus.gov/whatsnew/Text duplicate What's New
/sitemap.htmlText duplicate Site Map
https://support.nlm.nih.gov/kn...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Customer Support
https://medlineplus.gov/rss.htmlSubscribe to RSS
IMG-ALT RSS
https://twitter.com/medlineplusNew window External IMG-ALT X
https://facebook.com/Mplus.gov/New window External IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/mplu...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
/social-media-toolkit/Social Media Toolkit
IMG-ALT Social Media Toolkit
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/web_po...New window External Subdomain NLM Web Policies
/about/using/usingcontent/Copyright
/accessibility.htmlAccessibility
/about/using/criteria/Guidelines for Links
/plugins.htmlViewers & Players
https://www.hhs.gov/vulnerabil...New window External Subdomain HHS Vulnerability Disclosure
/medlineplus-connect/Text duplicate MedlinePlus Connect for EHRs
/about/developers/For Developers
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate National Library of Medicine
https://www.hhs.gov/New window External Subdomain U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
https://www.nih.gov/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate National Institutes of Health
https://www.nih.gov/icd/od/foi...New window External Subdomain FOIA
https://www.usa.gov/New window External Subdomain USA.gov
https://medlineplus.gov/URL anchor text
https://medlineplus.gov
https://medlineplus.gov/Anchor IMG-ALT Return to top
A-TITLE Return to top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://medlineplus.gov/"
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 very slow (2.11 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (27 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 91,180 referring domains.
This page has 12,158,870 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 49,563 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

Sitemap: https://medlineplus.gov/sitemap.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /URLchecker/
Disallow: /usp/
Disallow: /cgi/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /glftp/
Disallow: /feeds/topics/
Disallow: /groupfeeds/
Disallow: /spanish/feeds/topics/
Disallow: /spanish/groupfeeds/
Disallow: /xml/
Disallow: /xml/vocabulary/
Disallow: /scwidget/topsearch.html
Disallow: /spanish/scwidget/topsearch.html
Disallow: /tutorials/*.swf$
Disallow: /spanish/tutorials/*.swf$

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