Git-scm.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
61% 
Page quality
39% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
100% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.18 s
File size
121.00 kB
Words
163
Media files
9
Number of links
18 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Git
The page title is too short. (25 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
The page title is only one word.
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
Server location: Canada
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
generatorHugo 0.139.4
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 163 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
30.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
3 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 14 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
https://git-scm.com/images/logo@2x.pngGit
https://git-scm.com/images/dark-mode.svgNo alt attribute provided
/images/branching-illustration@2x.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/nav-about@2x.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/nav-documentation@2x.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/nav-downloads@2x.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/nav-community@2x.pngNo alt attribute provided
https://git-scm.com/images/progit2.pngNo alt attribute provided
/images/icons/chevron-up@2x.pngscroll-to-top

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H3 About
H3 Documentation
H3 Downloads
H3 Community
H3 Products providing Git hosting
H4 Latest source Release
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://git-scm.com/IMG-ALT Git
/about/free-and-open-sourcefree and open source
https://git-scm.com/doceasy to learn
/about/small-and-fasttiny footprint with lightning fast performance
/about/branching-and-mergingcheap local branching
/about/staging-areastaging areas
/about/distributedmultiple workflows
https://git-scm.com/aboutAbout The advantages of Git compared to other source control systems.
https://git-scm.com/docDocumentation Command reference pages, Pro Git book content, videos and other material.
https://git-scm.com/downloadsDownloads GUI clients and binary releases for all major platforms.
https://git-scm.com/communityCommunity Get involved! Bug reporting, mailing list, chat, development and more.
https://git-scm.com/bookPro Git
https://git-scm.com/bookread online for free
https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Git...External Subdomain Amazon.com
https://raw.github.com/git/git...External Subdomain Release Notes
https://www.kernel.org/pub/sof...External Subdomain Download Source Code
/downloads/guisGraphical UIs
https://www.kernel.org/pub/sof...External Subdomain Tarballs
https://git-scm.com/downloads/winWindows Build
https://github.com/git/gitExternal Source Code
https://tangled.sh/External No Text
https://gitea.com/External No Text
https://codeberg.org/External No Text
https://github.com/External No Text
https://forgejo.org/External No Text
https://gitlab.com/External No Text
https://radicle.xyz/External No Text
https://sourcehut.org/External No Text
https://git-scm.com/siteAbout this site
https://git-scm.com/sfcSoftware Freedom Conservancy
https://git-scm.com/Anchor IMG-ALT scroll-to-top

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://git-scm.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 is excellent with 0.18 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (121 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 05 Jun 2025 17:56:23 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
content-length25042
servercloudflare
cf-ray94b18bdf1f1bcd3b-SOF
last-modifiedTue, 03 Jun 2025 09:28:49 GMT
access-control-allow-origin*
etagW/"683ec051-1e3d8"
expiresThu, 05 Jun 2025 17:38:38 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=14400
content-encodinggzip
x-proxy-cacheMISS
x-github-request-idFD0C:11C33:12C3E18:12F1CAF:6841D3C6
age1665
via1.1 varnish
x-served-bycache-mxp6978-MXP
x-cacheMISS
x-cache-hits0
x-timerS1749144518.174707,VS0,VE171
varyAccept-Encoding
x-fastly-request-id33ef9a3b9b352fcf83484729ce3159da5e807645
cf-cache-statusHIT
accept-rangesbytes
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 27,541 referring domains.
This page has 137,765,447 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 16,284 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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