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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
71% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.06 s
File size
63.00 kB
Words
476
Media files
15
Number of links
101 internal / 3 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
IDRC - International Development Research Centre
The length of the page title is perfect. (460 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
As part of Canada’s foreign affairs and development efforts, IDRC champions and funds research and innovation within and alongside developing regions to drive global change.
The meta description is too long: 1085 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://idrc-crdi.ca/en
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)
The specified alternate links have no errors.
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)
There are only 476 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26.9% 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.
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 19 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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)
The HTML has geoname information: CA
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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...08/_DSC0879.jpg?h=11b34633&itok=5PK0iXX0A mother takes a picture of her little boy next to his father, in a plaza in Colombia.
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...enre et EIP.jpg?h=11b34633&itok=DPSkUcwwTraining for members of Benin’s community of practice on gender mainstreaming in policies, programs, projects and scientific research, March 2025.
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Page structure

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

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Mobile Main Navigation
H2 Footer
H2 Sub Footer Menu
H2 Main navigation
H2 Research drives global change
H2 News and events
H2 Sign up now for IDRC news
H2 Research in Action
H2 Perspectives
H2 Footer Duplicate text
H2 Sub Footer Menu Duplicate text
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 3 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/en/program/sustainable-inclus...Sustainable inclusive economies
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/en/funding/applyingApplying for funding
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https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/eventsEvents
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https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/storiesStories
A-TITLE Stories
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A-TITLE Media
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https://idrc-crdi.ca/frText duplicate Français
https://idrc-crdi.ca/esText duplicate Español
/en/about-idrc/careersText duplicate Careers
/en/contact-usContact Us
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/en/accessibilityAccessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility Plan
/en/about-idrc/equality-statementEquality Statement
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/en/privacy-noticePrivacy Notice
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A-TITLE Where we work
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A-TITLE How we work
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A-TITLE Partnerships
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/en/about-idrcText duplicate About
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A-TITLE Careers
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/en/about-idrc/safeguarding-an...Text duplicate Safeguarding and reporting misconduct
A-TITLE Safeguarding and reporting misconduct
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https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/newsText duplicate News
https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/eventsText duplicate Events
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A-TITLE Stories
/en/news-and-events/mediaText duplicate Media
A-TITLE Media
/en/about-idrcOur mission
/en/search/content-type/news/c...See all news and events
/en/news/exploring-10-bold-sce...News Exploring 10 bold scenarios for the future of education
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/en/news/towards-care-society-...News Towards a care society: IDRC at the Regional Conference on Women in Mexico
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/en/news/asian-development-ban...News The Asian Development Bank and IDRC partner to inform investments in childcare in Vanuatu
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/en/search/content-type/resear...More research in action
/en/research-in-action/strengt...Research in Action Strengthening West Africa’s evidence ecosystem for better policymaking
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IMG-ALT Ghana UNFSS_ A woman walking in a grocery store
/en/research-in-action/innovat...Research in Action Innovation meets evidence: Emerging insights on inclusive MSME growth
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/en/perspectives/missed-connec...Missed connections: Health, gender and the climate crisis
/en/perspectives/laying-founda...Laying the foundation for businesses to pursue social and economic good
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/en/perspectivesRead more insights
/en/subscribe-newsletterSubscribe
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/en/contact-usText duplicate Contact Us
https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedir...External Subdomain Text duplicate Digital library
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/en/accessibilityText duplicate Accessibility
A-TITLE Accessibility Plan
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/en/privacy-noticeText duplicate Privacy Notice
/en/idrcs-advisory-committee-r...Text duplicate Research ethics
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://idrc-crdi.ca/en"
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 slow (1.06 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
This page loads 6 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 3 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (63 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,209 referring domains.
This page has 93,067 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,132 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:
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As part of Canada’s foreign affairs and development efforts, IDRC champions and funds research and innovation within and alongside developing regions to drive global change.

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