Sherpa.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
86% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
13.40 kB
Words
235
Media files
4
Number of links
3 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Research Funders' Open Access Policies - Sherpa Services
The length of the page title is perfect. (537 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)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Language defined in HTTP-Equiv meta tag: en
Server location: United States of America
There are different language information within the page markup.
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 XHTML 1.0 Transitional is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1.0
theme-color#191919
GeneratorEPrints 3.4.4
langen-gb
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge
cleartypeon
Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Languageen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 235 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
The average number of words per sentence of 25.2 words is high.
20.4% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
https://sherpa.ac.uk/ux.jisc.2.0.0/logo.pngJisc logo
https://sherpa.ac.uk/img/Asset_Banner_1.pngIllustration of two people using the Sherpa service
/ux.jisc.2.0.0/jisc-logo.pngJisc logo
https://sherpa.ac.uk/img/by-nc-nd.pngLicense

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Research Funders' Open Access Policies
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Research Funders' Open Access Policies
H2 Sherpa Romeo
H2 Sherpa Juliet
H2 OpenDOAR
H2 Sherpa Fact
There are too few (3) internal links on this page.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://sherpa.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Jisc logo
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/contentExternal Subdomain Digital Resources
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/content...External Subdomain Open Access
https://monitor.jisc.ac.uk/localExternal Subdomain Monitor Local
https://jisc.ac.uk/sherpaExternal Sherpa
https://core.ac.uk/External CORE
https://www.pubrouter.jisc.ac.uk/External Subdomain Publications Router
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoarExternal Subdomain OpenDoar
https://www.jisc-collections.a...External Subdomain Jisc Collections
http://irus.mimas.ac.uk/External Subdomain IRUS-UK
https://beta.sherpa.ac.uk/External Subdomain Try the new-look Sherpa Our new site consolidates Sherpa Services (Romeo, Juliet, Fact and OpenDOAR) in to one handy tool, and brings you Open Access policy,...
IMG-ALT Illustration of two people using the Sherpa service
https://sherpa.ac.uk/Sherpa Services
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/External Subdomain Sherpa Romeo
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/External Subdomain Sherpa Juliet
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/External Subdomain OpenDOAR
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/External Subdomain Sherpa Fact
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/api/External Subdomain Sherpa APIs
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/cgi/us...External Subdomain Admin
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeoExternal Subdomain Visit Sherpa Romeo
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/External Subdomain Visit Sherpa Juliet
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/External Subdomain Visit OpenDOAR
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/factExternal Subdomain Visit Sherpa Fact
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides?...External Subdomain Open access guides by Jisc
/accessibility.htmlAccessibility Statement
https://jisc.ac.uk/External Text duplicate IMG-ALT Jisc logo
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/open-re...External Subdomain Find out more at jisc.ac.uk/open-research
http://creativecommons.org/lic...External IMG-ALT License
http://creativecommons.org/lic...External CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/website...External Subdomain About using our content

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sherpa.ac.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (13 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateTue, 13 Aug 2024 03:33:00 GMT
serverApache
x-frame-optionssameorigin
referrer-policysame-origin
content-security-policydefault-src 'self'; script-src 'unsafe-inline' 'self' https://kit.fontawesome.com/771805b96d.js https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js; style-src 'unsafe-inline' 'self' https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com https://fonts.googleapis.com https://use.fontawesome.com; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; connect-src 'self' https://ka-p.fontawesome.com https://region1.google-analytics.com https://www.google-analytics.com; font-src 'self' https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com https://fonts.gstatic.com; frame-src https://www.youtube.com 'self'; img-src 'self' https://www.google-analytics.com https://www.jisc.ac.uk; manifest-src 'self'; media-src 'self'; worker-src 'none';
permissions-policyaccelerometer=(), autoplay=(), camera=(), cross-origin-isolated=(), display-capture=(), encrypted-media=(), fullscreen=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), keyboard-map=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), midi=(), payment=(), picture-in-picture=(), publickey-credentials-get=(), screen-wake-lock=(), sync-xhr=(), usb=(), xr-spatial-tracking=(), clipboard-read=(), clipboard-write=(), gamepad=(), focus-without-user-activation=(), hid=(), idle-detection=(), serial=(), window-placement=()
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
varyUser-Agent,Referer,Accept-Encoding
expiresThu, 12 Sep 2024 03:33:00 GMT
cache-controlno-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
content-encodinggzip
x-clacks-overheadGNU Terry Pratchett
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15780000
content-length4045
connectionclose
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

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 8,058 referring domains.
This page has 3,711,606 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 6,140 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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi/

Sitemap: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Sherpa66%Check
Open66%Check
Open Access65%Check
Open Access Policies65%Check
Research62%Check
Funders62%Check
Policies62%Check
Sherpa Services58%Check
open access publication55%Check
Research Funders' Open Access55%Check
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