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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
99% 
Page quality
85% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
83% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
79.80 kB
Words
527
Media files
17
Number of links
13 internal / 9 external

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
HSS | Hospital for Special Surgery: U.S. #1 for Orthopedics
The length of the page title is perfect. (530 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
HSS is the #1 ranked hospital in the U.S. for orthopedics, #2 for rheumatology, and top-ranked for pediatric orthopedics. Locations in NY, NJ, CT, and FL.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (938 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.hss.edu/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Sweden
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The Doctype markup is not in the first line of your HTML document. There must be no white spaces before the doctype markup.
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
google-site-verificationieD8bBx3qCY9W_pMZw9PCXBu-ZemrA22MExGbSAHYaE
descriptionHSS is the #1 ranked hospital in the U.S. for orthopedics, #2 for rheumatology, and top-ranked for pediatric orthopedics. Locations in NY, NJ, CT, and FL.
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HandheldFriendlyTrue
langen
twitter:cardEmpty
twitter:site@hspecialsurgery
twitter:titleHSS | Hospital for Special Surgery: U.S. #1 for Orthopedics
twitter:descriptionHSS is the #1 ranked hospital in the U.S. for orthopedics, #2 for rheumatology, and top-ranked for pediatric orthopedics. Locations in NY, NJ, CT, and FL.
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twitter:creator@hspecialsurgery
og:titleHSS | Hospital for Special Surgery: U.S. #1 for Orthopedics
og:typearticle
og:urlhttps://www.hss.edu/index.htm
og:imagehttps://www.hss.edu/images/socialmedia/hss-homepage-man-woman-walking_1600x630.jpg
og:site_nameHospital for Special Surgery
og:descriptionHSS is the #1 ranked hospital in the U.S. for orthopedics, #2 for rheumatology, and top-ranked for pediatric orthopedics. Locations in NY, NJ, CT, and FL.
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Content-Typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 29 words is high.
This page contains 527 words. That's ok.
35.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
11 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)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: view more in our newsroom
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...s-Specialty_Orthopedics-year-2024-25.pngU.S. News Best Hospitals Orthopedics badge
...-Specialty_Rheumatology-year-2024-25.pngU.S. News Best Hospitals Rheumatology badge
.../Badge-Childrens-Orthopedics-2024-25.pngBest Children's Hospital for Orthopedics
/images/icons/banner-arrow2.gifGraphic: learn more
/images/icons/banner-arrow2.gifGraphic: learn more
/images/icons/banner-arrow2.gifGraphic: learn more
/images/icons/banner-arrow2.gifGraphic: learn more
/images/icons/banner-arrow2.gifGraphic: learn more
/images/icons/banner-arrow2.gifGraphic: learn more
/images/banners/myhss-app.pngMyHSS app

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
HSS | Hospital for Special Surgery
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 HSS | Hospital for Special Surgery
H2 Expertise you can trust.
H3 Book your appointment today.
H3 Our patients say it best.
H3 Highlights
H3 Move Better Feel Better
H3 MyHSS App
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.hss.edu/Anchor > Skip repeated content
/find-a-physical-therapist.aspPhysical Therapy
/hss-orthopedics-now.aspGet Immediate Care
https://health.usnews.com/best...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT U.S. News Best Hospitals Orthopedics badge
https://health.usnews.com/best...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT U.S. News Best Hospitals Rheumatology badge
https://health.usnews.com/best...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Best Children's Hospital for Orthopedics
/ratings-rankings-recognition.aspSubdomain See all our rankings
https://backinthegame.hss.edu/External Subdomain Read their stories
/reasons-to-choose-hss.aspSubdomain Learn why you should choose HSS
/ratings-rankings-recognition.aspSubdomain See our top rankings
/reliability-compare-hospitals...Subdomain Compare hospital reliability
https://news.hss.edu/External Subdomain View more in our newsroom
https://news.hss.edu/hss-achie...External Subdomain News The findings, which highlight how this innovative and noninvasive approach eliminated the need for sedation while improving care for young patients, wer...
IMG-ALT Graphic: learn more
https://news.hss.edu/two-hss-s...External Subdomain News The awards recognize innovative research with significant potential to improve patient care, highlighting HSS’s leadership in developing safer, more eff...
IMG-ALT Graphic: learn more
https://news.hss.edu/award-win...External Subdomain News The honor, which recognizes excellence in scientific research, is awarded to three of the top 10 highest-scoring abstracts chosen by the ASRA Research C...
IMG-ALT Graphic: learn more
https://news.hss.edu/External Subdomain Text duplicate View more in our newsroom
/movebetter.htmSubdomain View more
/article_women-and-arthritis.aspWomen may be more likely to develop the disease for reasons they can control, and some they can’t. Read More Why Women Are at Higher Risk for Getting Arthritis
IMG-ALT Graphic: learn more
/article_guide-to-leg-muscles.aspLearn how to strengthen leg muscles, increase their flexibility and when to seek treatment for leg muscle issues. Read More A Guide to Your Leg Muscles, from...
IMG-ALT Graphic: learn more
/article_joint-pain-types-caus...Many factors affect joint pain, including which part of the joint is affected, what’s causing the pain and your overall health. Read More What to Know About ...
IMG-ALT Graphic: learn more
/movebetter.htmSubdomain View more in Move Better Feel Better
/myhss-info.aspLearn more

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.hss.edu/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The web server version is sent within the HTTP header.
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 0.35 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (80 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedWed, 21 May 2025 14:00:09 GMT
accept-rangesbytes
etag"803aaaa958cadb1:0"
varyAccept-Encoding
serverMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
x-powered-byASP.NET
access-control-allow-origin*
dateWed, 21 May 2025 23:18:15 GMT
set-cookie158 Characters
x-cdnImperva
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statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 950 referring domains.
This page has 60,378 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 671 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *

Disallow: /episerver/
Disallow: /education-institute/alumni-assocation/alumni-directory
Disallow: /patient-care/rehab-guides/*
Disallow: *.json
Disallow: /departments/rehabilitation/prof-ed/rehabilitation-clinical-guidelines
Disallow: /globalassets/epic/*
Disallow: /globalassets/no-index/*
Disallow: /globalassets/files/newsletters/*
Disallow: /globalassets/files/rehab/guidelines/*
Disallow: /hss-perform/*
Disallow: /hss-at-nyp/*
Disallow: /patient-care/animations/*
Disallow: /rehab-network-members-site/*
Disallow: /globalassets/physician-files/*
Disallow: /globalassets/files/newsletters/*
Disallow: /test-pages/*
Disallow: /forms/*
Sitemap: https://www.hss.edu/sitemap.xml

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HSS | Hospital for Special Surgery: U.S. #1 for Orthopedics
HSS is the #1 ranked hospital in the U.S. for orthopedics, #2 for rheumatology, and top-ranked for pediatric orthopedics. Locations in NY, NJ, CT, and FL.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
HSS97%Check
Hospital82%Check
HSS Study67%Check
Special63%Check
Surgery62%Check
Special Surgery62%Check
Orthopedics60%Check
Pediatric Orthopedics53%Check
top51%Check
Rheumatology50%Check
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