Papersapp.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.54 s
File size
109.70 kB
Words
605
Media files
43
Number of links
43 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Reference Management Software for Students, Academic & Corporate - Papers
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 710 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Papers is your award winning reference manager that will improve the way you find, access, organize, read, cite and share scholarly research.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (874 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.papersapp.com/
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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 605 words. That's ok.
26.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
14 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 18.05 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
32 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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)
Make Research Easier with Papers Reference Manager
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Make Research Easier with Papers Reference Manager
H2 Fast, intuitive access to all your reference materials
H2 Stop searching and start discovering
H2 Revolutionize your research with our AI Assistant
H2 Real-time collaboration & cross-device syncing
H2 Effortlessly cite and manage references with SmartCite
H3 Easy Importing
H3 Metadata Matching
H3 Collection Management
H3 Find new research
H3 Measure impact
H3 Dynamic Annotations & Notes
H3 Want to try Papers first? Sign up for a 30 day trial.
H5 Support
H5 Training
H5 Compare
H5 Resources
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 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.papersapp.com/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.papersapp.com/Subdomain IMG-ALT papers_logo
/pricing/Subdomain Pricing
/ai-assistant/Subdomain AI Assistant
/papers-vs-mendeley/Subdomain Papers vs Mendeley
/papers-vs-endnote/Subdomain Papers vs EndNote
/papers-vs-zotero/Subdomain Papers vs Zotero
/papers-vs-dropbox/Subdomain Papers vs Dropbox
/papers-vs-paperpile/Subdomain Papers vs Paperpile
/download-center/Subdomain Download Center
/training/Subdomain Training Center
/help-center/Subdomain Help Center
https://www.papersapp.com/blog/Subdomain Blog
/institutions/Subdomain Institutions
/enterprise-plans/Subdomain Enterprise
https://app.readcube.com/External Subdomain Log In
/30-day-trial/Subdomain Start Trial
/30-day-trialSubdomain Start Free Trial
https://www.dimensions.ai/New window External Subdomain Dimensions
/30-day-trial/Subdomain Text duplicate Start Trial
https://twitter.com/papersappNew window External No Text
https://www.instagram.com/get_...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Paper...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.youtube.com/@ReadC...New window External Subdomain No Text
https://www.g2.com/products/re...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT ReferenceManagement_Leader_Leader
/help-center/Subdomain Text duplicate Help Center
https://papersapp.frontkb.com/...External Subdomain Submit a Ticket
/release-notes/Subdomain Release Notes
https://form.asana.com/?k=xQIp...External Subdomain Feature Requests
/reseller/Subdomain Reseller Portal
/download-center/Subdomain Text duplicate Download Center
/getting-started/Subdomain Getting Started
/training/Subdomain Text duplicate Training Center
https://www.papersapp.com/events/Subdomain Live Training
/papers-vs-mendeley/Subdomain Text duplicate Papers vs Mendeley
/papers-vs-endnote/Subdomain Text duplicate Papers vs EndNote
/papers-vs-zotero/Subdomain Text duplicate Papers vs Zotero
/papers-vs-dropbox/Subdomain Text duplicate Papers vs Dropbox
/papers-vs-paperpile/Subdomain Text duplicate Papers vs Paperpile
https://www.papersapp.com/blog/Subdomain Text duplicate Blog
/comparison/Subdomain Comparison Chart
/papers-vs-readcube/Subdomain Papers vs ReadCube
/institutions/Subdomain Institutional Plans
/enterprise-plans/Subdomain Enterprise Options
/smartcite-for-word/Subdomain SmartCite for Word
/smartcite-for-google-docs/Subdomain SmartCite for Google Docs
/smartcite-for-citekeys/Subdomain SmartCite for Citekeys
/supported-styles/Subdomain Supported Styles
https://www.papersapp.com/terms/Subdomain Terms
/privacy/Subdomain Privacy
/security/Subdomain Security Statement
/data-protection-policy/Subdomain Data Protection

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.papersapp.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 of 0.54 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 (110 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 463 referring domains.
This page has 2,818 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 394 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Search preview

www.papersapp.com
Reference Management Software for Students, Academic & Corporat...
Papers is your award winning reference manager that will improve the way you find, access, organize, read, cite and share scholarly research.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Papers94%Check
Papers Reference88%Check
Reference83%Check
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Reference Manager74%Check
reference management71%Check
Research66%Check
Papers vs65%Check
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