Thegsa.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
40% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
67% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.49 s
File size
32.40 kB
Words
423
Media files
7
Number of links
102 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home | German Studies Association
The length of the page title is perfect. (324 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://thegsa.org/home
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 423 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
15.1% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.25 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
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 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (4 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Home
H2 Search form
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 7 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://thegsa.org/Anchor Skip to main content
https://thegsa.org/IMG-ALT Home
A-TITLE Home
https://thegsa.org/members/log-inLogin
https://thegsa.org/aboutabout GSA
/about/executive-boardexecutive board
/about/executive-councilexecutive council
/about/committeescommittees
/about/committees/archives-com...archives committee
/about/committees/arts-night-c...arts night committee
/about/committees/berlin-progr...berlin program selection committee
/about/committees/climate-emer...climate emergency and technology committee
/about/committees/committee-in...committee for institutional transformation and social justice
/about/committees/community-fu...community fund committee
/about/committees/developmentl...development/local affairs committee
/about/committees/emerging-sch...emerging scholars workshop committee
/about/committees/financeinves...finance/investment committee
/about/committees/interdiscipl...interdisciplinary networks committee
/about/committees/member-surve...member survey committee
/about/committees/mentoring-aw...mentoring award and initiatives committee
/about/committees/nominating-c...nominating committee
/about/committees/treff-initia...'treff' initiative (regional and virtual gatherings) working group
/about/committees/vision-and-a...vision and advocacy group
/about/volunteervolunteer
/about/policies-and-documentspolicies and documents
https://thegsa.org/about/by-lawsby-laws
/about/policies-and-documents/...conduct and harassment policy
/about/policies-and-documents/...social media policy
/about/policies-and-documents/...interdisciplinary networks best practices
https://thegsa.org/about/faqFAQ
/about/support-gsasupport the GSA
/about/contact-uscontact us
https://thegsa.org/news-and-medianews
https://thegsa.org/news/archivenews archive
/member-servicesmember services
/member-services/my-membershipmy membership
/members/profileprofile
/members/directorydirectory
/members/order-historyorder history
https://thegsa.org/members/joinjoin GSA
https://thegsa.org/members/donatedonate
/members/conferenceconference registration
/member-services/our-instituti...our institutional members
/member-services/electionselections
https://faq.press.jhu.edu/gsaExternal Subdomain Text duplicate FAQ
/member-services/gsr-onlineGSR online
https://thegsa.org/publicationspublications
/publications/german-studies-r...german studies review
/publications/spektrumspektrum
/publications/gsa-newsletterGSA newsletter
https://thegsa.org/prizesgrants & prizes
https://thegsa.org/prizes/berlinberlin program
/prizes/berlin/berlin-program-...berlin program fellows, 2024-25
/prizes/berlin/berlin-program-...berlin program fellows, 2023-24
/prizes/berlin/berlin-program-...berlin program fellows, 2022-23
/prizes/gsa-conference-communi...GSA conference community fund
/prizes/travel-grantstravel grants
/prizes/barclay-book-prizebarclay book prize
/prizes/daadgsa-book-prizesDAAD/GSA book prize
/prizes/daadgsa-book-prizes/da...DAAD/GSA book prize, literature & cultural studies
/prizes/daadgsa-book-prizes/da...DAAD/GSA book prize, history & social science
/prizes/gsa-article-prizeDAAD/GSA article prize
/prizes/radomir-luza-prizeradomír luža prize
/prizes/sybil-halpern-milton-m...milton book prize
/prizes/graduate-student-essay...graduate student essay prize
https://thegsa.org/conferenceconference
/conference/current-conferencecurrent conference
/conference/current-conference...submission guidelines
/conference/program-committeeprogram committee 2025
/conference/current-conference...accessibility guidelines
/conference/current-conference...crafting proposals: a guide
/conference/past-conferencespast conferences
/conference/future-conferencesfuture conferences
https://thegsa.org/resourcesresources
/resources/resources-german-st...resources for german studies
/resources/resources-german-st...Related organizations
/resources/resources-german-st...ACLS doctoral program navigation guide
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2024
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2023
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2022
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2021
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2020
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2019
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2018
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2017
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2016
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2015
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2014
/resources/dissertations-germa...dissertations in german studies 2013
/resources/climate-emergency-r...climate emergency report
/resources/mediamedia
/resources/media/40th-annivers...40th anniversary podcast series
/resources/media/videosvideos
/resources/media/ghs-glimpses-...GHS Glimpses of German History
/resources/interdisciplinary-n...interdisciplinary networks
/resources/ombudsombuds
/resources/conduct-and-harassm...conduct and harassment committee members
https://thegsa.org/homeText duplicate Home
/blog/call-seminar-proposals-g...Call for Seminar Proposals GSA 2025
/blog/cfa-gsa-emerging-scholar...CfA: GSA Emerging Scholars Workshop 2025
/blog/gsa-winter-2024-newsletterGSA Winter 2024 Newsletter
/blog/cfp-gsa-49th-annual-conf...CfP: GSA 49th Annual Conference
/blog/gsa-2025-panelsroundtabl...GSA 2025 Panels/Roundtables: Finding Participants
https://www.facebook.com/Germa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/germ...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@germa...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://bsky.app/profile/thegs...New window External No Text
http://www.press.jhu.edu/External Subdomain Johns Hopkins University Press

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://thegsa.org/"
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 of 0.49 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
This page loads 8 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 7 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (32 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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referrer-policyno-referrer
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
transfer-encodingchunked
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 317 referring domains.
This page has 8,435 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 251 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
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Allow: /modules/*.png
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: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# 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/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
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