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Meta information
89% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
68% 
Link structure
48% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.21 s
File size
92.90 kB
Words
809
Media files
33
Number of links
51 internal / 56 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | Gut
The page title is too short. (146 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Publishing Cutting-Edge Gastroenterology & Hepatology Research And Reviews. Sign up for Email Alerts. Regular Podcasts. Impact on Practice.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (891 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://gut.bmj.com/
There is a valid canonical link 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
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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)
The average number of words per sentence of 28.75 words is high.
This page contains 809 words. That's ok.
25.7% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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.
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" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 16 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.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Gut,
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)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Gut,
H2 Visual Abstracts
H2 Education in Gastroenterology
H2 Latest Articles
H2 Most Read Articles
H2 Altmetrics
H2 Podcasts
H2 Featured Video
H2 Empty heading
H2 Related Journals
H3 Carbon footprinting and environmental impact of gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures at a tertiary care institution: a prospective multi-dimensional assessment
H3 BMJ Open Gastroenterology
H3 eGastroenterology
H3 Frontline Gastroenterology
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (56) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://journals.bmj.com/External Subdomain No Text
/pages/subscribe/Subscribe
https://gut.bmj.com/userLogin
https://gut.bmj.com/searchAdvancedsearch
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https://gut.bmj.com/IMG-ALT logo
/pages/education-in-gastroente...CME/CPD
/content/early/recentLatest content
/content/currentCurrent issue
/content/by/yearArchive
/pages/authors/Authors
https://gut.bmj.com/pages/about/About
https://myaccount.bmj.com/myac...External Subdomain Email alerts
https://gut.bmj.com/pages/about/All metrics >>
https://www.bsg.org.uk/External Subdomain British Society of Gastroenterology
https://fg.bmj.com/External Subdomain Frontline Gastroenterology
https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/External Subdomain BMJ Open Gastroenterology
/pages/editorial-board/Meet the Editor and Editorial Board
/pages/top-cited-articles/Gut
https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/...External Subdomain Text duplicate BMJ Open Gastroenterology
https://twitter.com/Gut_BMJExternal Twitter
https://facebook.com/Gut.BMJExternal Facebook
https://youtube.com/channel/UC...External YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/gut_...External Subdomain Instagram
https://blogs.bmj.com/gut/External Subdomain latest posts from the team
https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodc...External IMG-ALT Podcast icon
https://gutbmj.podbean.com/External Subdomain Gut publishes podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/...External Subdomain Apple Podcasts
https://www.stitcher.com/podca...External Subdomain Stitcher
https://open.spotify.com/show/...External Subdomain Spotify
https://gut.bmj.com/pages/authorsFind further details and the Gut template here.
/content/currentCurrent Issue
/content/currentIMG-ALT Journal Current Issue
/gut/wp-content/uploads/sites/...high-resolution version of the Visual Abstract
/content/early/2025/02/26/gutj...New window full article
/gut/wp-content/uploads/sites/...IMG-ALT Visual abstract: E-twenty-six-specific sequence variant 5 (ETV5) facilitates hepatocellular carcinoma progression and metastasis through enhancing polymorpho...
/pages/visual-abstractsBrowse all Gut Visual Abstracts
/pages/education-in-gastroente...MCQ modules
/pages/education-in-gastroente...IMG-ALT BMJ-Learning-Logo
/pages/education-in-gastroente...Browse papers with MCQs
/cgi/content/short/gutjnl-2025...Response to: 'Perspective on enhancing CRC risk prediction by Zheng and Wang
/cgi/content/short/gutjnl-2025...Cold snare endoscopic resection for large colon polyps: a randomised trial
/cgi/content/short/gutjnl-2025...Purastat post-EMR: unresolved questions from the PURPLE trial
/cgi/content/short/gutjnl-2024...High-protein diets alleviate tumour growth and drug resistance by promoting AKT aggregation and turnover
/cgi/content/short/gutjnl-2025...Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us
/content/73/11/1893What defines a healthy gut microbiome?
/content/73/8/1235British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma in adults
/content/73/2/1British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on sedation in gastrointestinal endoscopy
/content/73/10/1749Opening the doors of precision medicine: novel tools to assess intestinal barrier in inflammatory bowel disease and colitis-associated neoplasia
/content/73/11/1799Gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans
http://www.altmetric.com/detai...External Subdomain IMG-ALT altmetric badge
A-TITLE Altmetric details: Gut microbiota composition reflects disease severity and dysfunctional immune responses in patients with COVID-19, score: 2533
https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl...External Gut microbiota composition reflects disease severity and dysfunctional immune responses in patients with COVID-19
http://www.altmetric.com/detai...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT altmetric badge
A-TITLE Altmetric details: Mediterranean diet intervention alters the gut microbiome in older people reducing frailty and improving health status: the NU-AGE 1-year ...
https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl...External Mediterranean diet intervention alters the gut microbiome in older people reducing frailty and improving health status: the NU-AGE 1-year dietary interventio...
http://www.altmetric.com/detai...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT altmetric badge
A-TITLE Altmetric details: Diet quality and risk and severity of COVID-19: a prospective cohort study, score: 1598
https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl...External Diet quality and risk and severity of COVID-19: a prospective cohort study
http://www.altmetric.com/detai...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT altmetric badge
A-TITLE Altmetric details: Integration of lipidomics with targeted, single cell, and spatial transcriptomics defines an unresolved pro-inflammatory state in colon ca...
https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl...External Integration of lipidomics with targeted, single cell, and spatial transcriptomics defines an unresolved pro-inflammatory state in colon cancer
http://www.altmetric.com/detai...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT altmetric badge
A-TITLE Altmetric details: Association of healthy lifestyle behaviours with incident irritable bowel syndrome: a large population-based prospective cohort study, sco...
https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl...External Association of healthy lifestyle behaviours with incident irritable bowel syndrome: a large population-based prospective cohort study
http://www.altmetric.com/detai...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT altmetric badge
A-TITLE Altmetric details: Sugar-sweetened beverage intake in adulthood and adolescence and risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women, score: 1388
https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl...External Sugar-sweetened beverage intake in adulthood and adolescence and risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women
/content/74/6/926Find out more
https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT BMJ Open Gastroenterology
https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/External Subdomain Visit this journal
https://egastroenterology.bmj....External Subdomain IMG-ALT eGastroenterology
https://egastroenterology.bmj....External Subdomain Text duplicate Visit this journal
https://fg.bmj.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Frontline Gastroenterology
https://fg.bmj.com/content/cur...External Subdomain Text duplicate Current issue
https://fg.bmj.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Visit this journal
https://www.bsg.org.uk/External Subdomain IMG-ALT bsg-main-logo
/content/early/recentText duplicate Latest content
/content/currentText duplicate Current issue
/content/by/yearText duplicate Archive
/pages/browse-by-collection/Browse by collection
/pages/visual-abstractsVisual Abstracts
/pages/most-read-articles/Most read articles
/pages/top-cited-articles/Top Cited Articles
https://gut.bmj.com/elettersResponses
/pages/rss-feedsIMG-ALT rss-icon
https://twitter.com/Gut_BMJExternal IMG-ALT x-icon
https://facebook.com/Gut.BMJExternal IMG-ALT facebook-icon
http://blogs.bmj.com/gutExternal Subdomain IMG-ALT social-blogs-icon
https://gutbmj.podbean.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT soundcloud-icon
https://www.youtube.com/@Gastr...External Subdomain IMG-ALT youtube-icon
https://www.instagram.com/gut_...External Subdomain IMG-ALT instagram-icon
https://www.linkedin.com/showc...External Subdomain IMG-ALT linkedin-icon
https://gut.bmj.com/pages/about/Text duplicate About
/pages/editorial-board/Editorial board
/pages/education-in-gastroente...Education in Gastroenterology
https://myaccount.bmj.com/myac...External Subdomain Sign up for email alerts
/pages/subscribe/Text duplicate Subscribe
/pages/thank-you-to-our-review...Thank you to our reviewers
/pages/authors/Instructions for authors
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.c...External Subdomain Submit an article
https://authors.bmj.com/policiesExternal Subdomain Editorial policies
https://openaccess.bmj.com/External Subdomain Open access at BMJ
https://authors.bmj.com/External Subdomain BMJ Author Hub
/pages/contact-us/Contact us
https://journals.bmj.com/cgi/r...External Subdomain Reprints
https://www.bmj.com/company/pr...External Subdomain Permissions
https://www.bmj.com/company/fo...External Subdomain Advertising
https://myaccount.bmj.com/myac...External Subdomain Feedback form
https://www.bmj.com/company/External Subdomain No Text
https://www.bmj.com/company/le...External Subdomain Website Terms & Conditions
https://www.bmj.com/company/yo...External Subdomain Privacy & Cookies
https://www.bmj.com/company/co...External Subdomain Contact BMJ
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://gut.bmj.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.21 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (93 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 281 referring domains.
This page has 763 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 252 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
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# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
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Sitemap: https://gut.bmj.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://gut.bmj.com/pages/sitemap.xml

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Allow: /modules/*.css?
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Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
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Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
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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/
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