Software.ac.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.32 s
File size
148.60 kB
Words
580
Media files
12
Number of links
45 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | Software Sustainability Institute
The length of the page title is perfect. (352 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://www.software.ac.uk/
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)
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

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 580 words. That's ok.
35.7% 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.
11 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.28 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 12 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
/themes/ud/img/SSI_PRIMARY-LOGO.svgSoftware Sustainability Institute
...es/default/files/2023-10/Icon_People.pngPeople
...ault/files/2023-10/Icon_Graph - line.pngGraph lines
...default/files/2023-10/Icon_Lightbulb.pnglightbulb
...fault/files/2023-10/Icon_Certificate.pngCertificate
...cintechchat-com-bPVM4nOy0Rg-unsplash.jpgTwo women on laptop, one pointing to screen of code
...gineering-raeng-XAAGdkSueLo-unsplash.jpgGroup of people standing round table working on a problem
...cintechchat-com-faEfWCdOKIg-unsplash.jpgLarge group of people sitting round table working togther
/themes/ud/img/SSI_PRIMARY-LOGO.svgSoftware Sustainability Institute

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Learn with the Software Sustainability Institute
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Learn with the Software Sustainability Institute
H2 Main navigation
H2 About us
H2 Online Sustainability Evaluation
H2 Training activities
H2 Key successes
H2 Resources
H2 Programmes
H2 Events
H2 Want to hear more?
H2 Footer main menu
H2 Footer sub menu
H3 210+ Fellows
H3 >10,000 Research Software Engineers (RSEs)
H3 8,000+ researchers trained and 120+ guides
H3 260+ successful collaborations
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 2 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.software.ac.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
/site-mapSite map
https://www.software.ac.uk/IMG-ALT Software Sustainability Institute
https://www.software.ac.uk/aboutAbout us
/about/our-outputsOur outputs
/about/our-impactOur impact
/about/people-hubPeople hub
/about/our-fundersFunders
/about/partnersPartners
/about/research-software-engin...Research Software Engineers
/about/contact-usContact
/news-and-blogs-hubNews and blogs hub
/events-workshops-hubEvents
/collaborations-workshopsCollaborations Workshops
/news-events-blogs/write-blog-...Become a contributor
/programmes/fellowship-programmeFellowship programme
/programmes/research-software-...Research Software Healthcheck
/GreenDiSCGreen DiSC
/programmes/apply-our-programmesApply to our programmes
/training/training-hubTraining hub
/training/research-software-campsResearch Software Camps
/training/our-training-servicesOur training services
/training/our-training-activitiesOur training activities
/resource-hubResource hub
/resources/online-sustainabili...Online sustainability evaluation
A-TITLE Online sustainability evaluation
https://www.software.ac.uk/searchSite search
/bookmarkBookmarks
/bookmarkNo Text
https://www.software.ac.uk/No Text
/about-usTrivial anchor text
Read more
/resources/online-sustainabili...Find out if your software is sustainable
/training/our-training-servicesFind out what we offer
https://www.software.ac.uk/SCROLL DOWN
/about/our-impactLearn more about our impact
/resourcesText duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read more
/programmes/get-involved-our-p...Learn more
/events-workshops-hubFind out more
https://software.us7.list-mana...External Subdomain Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
https://www.software.ac.uk/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Software Sustainability Institute
https://software.us7.list-mana...External Subdomain Subscribe
https://www.ed.ac.uk/External Subdomain The University of Edinburgh
https://www.software.ac.uk/Subdomain Text duplicate Software Sustainability Institute
/data-management-planData management
/privacy-policyPrivacy policy
/website-accessibilityWeb accessibility
/contact-usText duplicate Contact
/site-mapText duplicate Site map
https://software.us7.list-mana...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Subscribe
https://twitter.com/SoftwareSavedNew window External Twitter
A-TITLE Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/user/s...New window External Subdomain Youtube
A-TITLE Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.software.ac.uk/Back to Top Button Back to top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.software.ac.uk/"
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 0.32 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (149 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
cache-controlmust-revalidate, no-cache, private
dateTue, 03 Sep 2024 12:34:02 GMT
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
x-generatorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-drupal-cacheHIT
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodinggzip
content-length26337
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
serverApache
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

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 855 referring domains.
This page has 37,746 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 641 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
#
# 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: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
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: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# 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
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

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