Bscb.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
58% 
Page quality
77% 
Page structure
41% 
Link structure
78% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.51 s
File size
49.60 kB
Words
592
Media files
16
Number of links
59 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
British Society for Cell Biology | Dedicated to the advancement of research in all branches of cell biology.
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 935 pixels long. Optimize title
There are word repetitions in the page 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://bscb.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
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)
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
generatorWordPress Download Manager 3.3.05
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 592 words. That's ok.
33.3% 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.
7 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 21.53 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)
Some tags are too long. With 203 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"we are currently looking for new committee members. if you are interested in applying, send your cv, a..."
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
11 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)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
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)
Home
The H1 heading contains the words Home! Use important keywords instead.
Too many H1 headings
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
H1 Welcome to the British Society for Cell Biology website
H1 The virtues and vices of protein citrullination
H2 Latest News
H2 BSCB Meetings
H3 youtube
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
9 links don't have an 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 5 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://bscb.org/British Society for Cell Biology
IMG-ALT British Society For Cell Biology logo
A-TITLE British Society for Cell Biology
https://bscb.org/about/About the BSCB
/members/why-its-good-to-be-a-...Member Benefits
/about/activities/Activities
https://bscb.org/about/committee/Committee
/about/ambassadors/Ambassadors
https://bscb.org/advertising-2/Advertise with the BSCB
/meetings/sponsored-meetings/b...BSCB Meetings
/meetings/sponsored-meetings/BSCB Sponsored Meetings
/meetings/other-meetings/Other Meetings
/meetings/past-meetings/Past Meetings
/learning-resources/softcell-e...softCell e-learning
/learning-resources/cell-service/CELLservice
/category/blogsandbytes/Blogs and Bytes
/learning-resources/im-a-scien...I’m a Scientist
https://bscb.org/members-login/Members Login
/members/why-its-good-to-be-a-...Why should I join the BSCB?
/members/membership-fees/Membership Fees
/members/become-a-member/Become a Member
/members/membership-benefits/Membership Benefits
/competitions-awardsgrants/tra...Travel Bursaries
https://bscb.org/science-policy/Science Policy
/members/fellowship-info/Fellowship Info
/members/postdoc-associations/Postdoc Associations
/category/magazine-archive/Magazine Archive
/competitions-awardsgrants/hoo...Hooke Medal
/competitions-awardsgrants/wom...Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal
/competitions-awardsgrants/bsc...BSCB Postdoctoral Researcher Medal
/competitions-awardsgrants/bsc...BSCB PhD Award – Raff Medal
/competitions-awardsgrants/stu...BSCB Summer Studentships
/competitions-awardsgrants/ima...Image Competition
/competitions-awardsgrants/sci...Science Writing Prize
/competitions-awardsgrants/bsc...BSCB Young Cell Biologist of the Year
/competitions-awardsgrants/bsc...BSCB Post-doc Poster of the Year
/funding-for-regional-career-d...Funding for Regional Career Development Meetings for PhD Students and Postdocs
/competitions-awardsgrants/tra...Honor Fell / Company of Biologists Travel Awards
/competitions-awardsgrants/tra...Childcare Award
/competitions-awardsgrants/cob...The Company of Biologists Support Grants
/postdoctoral-researcher-medal...No Text
/bscb-phd-award-raff-medal-win...No Text
/wicb-early-career-medal-winne...No Text
/hooke-medal-winner-2025-ian-g...No Text
/science-writing-prize-winner-...No Text
/image-competition-2024/No Text
/bscb-phd-award-raff-medal-win...No Text
/postdoctoral-researcher-medal...No Text
/competitions-awardsgrants/cob...No Text
https://bscb.org/Home
https://bscb.org/16/01/2014
A-TITLE 5:00 pm
/author/administrator/administrator
A-TITLE View all posts by administrator
/category/latest-newsLatest News
/the-virtues-and-vices-of-prot...The virtues and vices of protein citrullination
/the-virtues-and-vices-of-prot...Read more...
/the-company-of-biologists-app...The Company of Biologists appoint SPUR Infosolutions as exclusive partner in India
/the-company-of-biologists-app...The Company of Biologists appoint Library Information Service (LIS KOREA) as exclusive representative in South Korea
/launch-of-the-forest-of-biolo...Launch of The Forest of Biologists
/meetings/bscb-meetings/Text duplicate BSCB Meetings
https://www.biologists.com/External Subdomain No Text
https://focalplane.biologists....External Subdomain No Text
http://thenode.biologists.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT TheNode_RGB_AW
http://www.rsb.org.uk/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT RSBlogo
https://bscb.org/advertising-2/page.
A-TITLE Advertising
https://bscb.org/contact-us/Contact Us
https://blue2.co.uk/External blue2 digital
A-TITLE blue2 digital

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://bscb.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.51 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (50 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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accept-rangesbytes
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varyAccept-Encoding
x-fw-serveTRUE
x-fw-staticNO
x-fw-typeFLYWHEEL_BOT
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 152 referring domains.
This page has 410 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 82 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
BSCB56%Check
cell52%Check
biology52%Check
Society52%Check
Cell Biology52%Check
British52%Check
British Society52%Check
org52%Check
research45%Check
advancement45%Check

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