Sparkmed.stanford.edu - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
69% 
Page quality
95% 
Page structure
81% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.11 s
File size
53.10 kB
Words
966
Media files
15
Number of links
73 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
SPARK Stanford
The page title is too short. (150 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
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://sparkmed.stanford.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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.
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsmax-image-preview:large
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 966 words. That's ok.
32.3% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
14 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 20.3 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" is provided.
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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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)
SPARK Program in Translational Research
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 SPARK Program in Translational Research
H2 Our Mission: Advance Academic Discoveries from Laboratory to Patient Care
H3 SPARK is accepting applications for 2025 Pilot Grants
H3 SPARK Emphasizes New Ways To Bridge The Gap Between Academic Discoveries And Products That Benefit Patients.
H3 Learn About Career Opportunities And Find Your New Passion
H3 We’re in the Business of Saving Lives
H3 SPARK Succeeds With Help From People Like You!
H3 TEDMED: SPARKing a new generation in translational research
H3 News
H4 Light Your SPARK!
H4 Ignite Your Own SPARK!
H4 The SPARK Opportunities
H4 Turn SPARK into a Flame!
H4 SPARK publishes manuscript in Nature Biotechnology
H4 SPARK publishes 2nd edition of Drug Development in Academia
H4 AIRNA emerges from stealth with $30M financing
H4 More From SPARK
H4 Events
H5 Get Involved With SPARK:
H5 Get Involved With SPARK: Duplicate text
H5 Get Involved With SPARK: Duplicate text
H5 Get Involved With SPARK: Duplicate text
H5 SPARK: A Practical Guide to Drug Development in Academia
H5 Supporting Child and Maternal Health
H5 SPARK Global
H6 Explore
H6 Quick Links
H6 SPARK Address
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 15 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://sparkmed.stanford.edu/Subdomain Home
/about-spark/Subdomain About SPARK
/about-spark/what-is-spark/Subdomain What is SPARK
/about-spark/who-we-are/Subdomain Who We Are
/about-spark/membership//Subdomain Membership
/about-spark/current-spark-pro...Subdomain Current SPARK Projects
/about-spark/current-funders/Subdomain Current Funders
/about-spark/news/Subdomain News
/about-spark/blog/Subdomain Blog
/about-spark/events/Subdomain Events
/about-spark/spark-global/Subdomain SPARK Global
/spark-scholars/Subdomain SPARK Scholars
/spark-scholars/award-for-exce...Subdomain SPARK at Stanford Award for Excellence
/spark-scholars/latest-spark-a...Subdomain Latest SPARK Award Recipients
/spark-scholars/resources/Subdomain Resources
/commercializing-spark/Subdomain Commercializing SPARK
/commercializing-spark/success...Subdomain Success Stories
/commercializing-spark/partner...Subdomain Partnerships
/commercializing-spark/startups/Subdomain Startups
/commercializing-spark/partner...Subdomain Partnering and Business Opportunities
/about-spark/current-spark-pro...Subdomain Text duplicate Current SPARK Projects
/get-involved/Subdomain Get Involved
/about-spark/membership//Subdomain Text duplicate Membership
/get-involved/success-stories/Subdomain Text duplicate Success Stories
/get-involved/contribute/Subdomain Contribute
/get-involved/industry-advisors/Subdomain Industry Advisors
/contact-spark/Subdomain Contact SPARK
/contact-spark/location/Subdomain Location
/about-spark/news/Subdomain Latest News
/about-spark/blog/Subdomain Bridging the Gap
/about-spark/events/Subdomain SPARK Events
/about-spark/spark-global/Subdomain Text duplicate SPARK Global
https://sparkmed.stanford.edu/Subdomain IMG-ALT SPARK Program in Translational Research
/about-spark/Subdomain Learn More
/get-involved/contribute/Subdomain Donate
/spark-scholars/resources/New window Read more and apply
/about-spark/Subdomain Text duplicate About SPARK
/about-spark/events/Subdomain Attend a Lecture
/commercializing-spark/success...Subdomain Read Success Stories
/about-spark/current-spark-pro...Subdomain Learn about Current Projects
/get-involved/Subdomain Join SPARK!
/spark-scholars/Subdomain Text duplicate SPARK Scholars
/spark-scholarsSubdomain Anchor Learn about Drug Development
/spark-scholars/resources/Subdomain Connect with Resources
/about-spark/Subdomain Text duplicate Attend a Lecture
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Join SPARK!
/commercializing-spark/Subdomain Text duplicate Commercializing SPARK
/commercializing-spark/partner...Subdomain Successful Partnerships
/commercializing-spark/startups/Subdomain Successful Startups
/commercializing-spark/partner...Subdomain Current Business Opportunities
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Join SPARK!
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Involved
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Join SPARK!
/get-involved/success-stories/Subdomain Text duplicate Read Success Stories
/get-involved/industry-advisors/Subdomain Become an Advisor
/get-involved/contribute/Subdomain Text duplicate Contribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...New window External Subdomain Watch on YouTube
/spark-publishes-manuscript-in...Subdomain SPARK publishes manuscript in Nature Biotechnology
/spark-publishes-2nd-edition-o...Subdomain SPARK publishes 2nd edition of Drug Development in Academia
/airna-emerges-from-stealth-wi...Subdomain AIRNA emerges from stealth with $30M financing
/about-spark/news/Subdomain See All
/spark-scholars/resources/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
/get-involved/success-stories/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn More
https://sparkglobal.io/External Text duplicate Learn More
/events/spark-project-updates-...Subdomain SPARK Project Updates 11/20
https://sparkmed19.wpengine.co...External Subdomain See All Events
/about-spark/Subdomain Text duplicate About SPARK
/spark-scholars/Subdomain Text duplicate SPARK Scholars
/commercializing-spark/Subdomain Text duplicate Commercializing SPARK
/get-involved/Subdomain Text duplicate Get Involved
/contact-spark/Subdomain Text duplicate Contact SPARK
/about-spark/news/Subdomain Text duplicate Latest News
/about-spark/blog/Subdomain Text duplicate Bridging the Gap
/about-spark/events/Subdomain Text duplicate SPARK Events
/about-spark/spark-global/Subdomain Text duplicate SPARK Global
https://sparkmed.stanford.edu/New window Subdomain IMG-ALT SPARK Stanford - SPARK Program in Translational Research
http://med.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Stanford Medicine
https://www.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Stanford Medicine
https://www.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain Stanford Home
https://visit.stanford.edu/plan/New window External Subdomain Maps & Directions
https://www.stanford.edu/search/New window External Subdomain Search Stanford
https://emergency.stanford.edu/New window External Subdomain Emergency Info
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...New window External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...New window External Subdomain Privacy
https://uit.stanford.edu/secur...New window External Subdomain Copyright
https://adminguide.stanford.ed...New window External Subdomain Trademarks
https://exploredegrees.stanfor...New window External Subdomain Non-Discrimination
https://www.stanford.edu/site/...New window External Subdomain Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://sparkmed.stanford.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.11 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 (53 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 77 referring domains.
This page has 203 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 73 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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sparkmed.stanford.edu
SPARK Stanford

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
SPARK73%Check
SPARK Stanford67%Check
Stanford61%Check
SPARK Program60%Check
Research56%Check
Translational56%Check
Translational Research56%Check
SPARK publishes55%Check
SPARK Projects54%Check
SPARK Programs54%Check

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