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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.77 s
File size
198.30 kB
Words
904
Media files
5
Number of links
29 internal / 45 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Press Forward | A nationwide initiative to reimagine local news.
The length of the page title is perfect. (561 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Press Forward is a nationwide, nonpartisan philanthropic initiative with 36 chapters in cities and states across the U.S. Collectively, we work to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news
The meta description is too long: 1201 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.pressforward.news/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
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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descriptionPress Forward is a nationwide, nonpartisan philanthropic initiative with 36 chapters in cities and states across the U.S. Collectively, we work to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news
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og:urlhttps://www.pressforward.news/
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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 904 words. That's ok.
27.9% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 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 14.55 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 21 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 18 tags for this page.
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
...oads/2024/02/Press_Forward_Logo_Blue.pngPress Forward
...rward-ImpactReport-2025-Illustration.gifPress Forward Locals MapPress Forward Locals Map
...ss-forward-impact-report-Jan2025-169.jpgPress Forward Impact ReportPress Forward Impact Report
...07/IWMF-brainstorm-session-1024x768.jpegA group of participants brainstorm risk assessment during an IWMF training in New York City. Photo by Sofia Navarette Zur
...2025/07/infrastructure-feat-1024x576.jpgPress Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Healthy communities need local news.
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 56 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Healthy communities need local news.
H2 Local news connects us to each other.
H2 That’s why our coalition is taking action.
H3 $200M+
H3 36
H3 110
H3 A country hungry for local news.
H3 Press Forward named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2025 list, not-for-profit category. Learn more.
H3 Stay Up to Date with Press Forward
H3 Congrats to the funding recipients in the Open Call on Closing Local Coverage Gaps. Learn more.
H3 Join the Coalition
H3 Press Forward Central Appalachia Led by Appalachia Funders Network
H3 Press Forward Blue Grass Led by Blue Grass Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Kansas City Led by Health Forward Foundation
H3 Press Forward Central Pennsylvania Led by The Steinman Foundation
H3 Press Forward Pennsylvania Wilds Led by Centre Foundation
H3 Press Forward Philadelphia Led by The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
H3 Press Forward Southwestern Pennsylvania Led by the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University
H3 Press Forward Rhode Island Led by Rhode Island Foundation
H3 Press Forward Maine Led by Maine Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Central Appalachia Led by Appalachia Funders Network Duplicate text
H3 Press Forward Middle Tennessee Led by Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
H3 Press Forward NE Wisconsin Led by Greater Green Bay Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Washington Led by Yakima Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Arkansas Led by Arkansas Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward North Florida Led by the Community Foundation of North Florida
H3 Press Forward South Florida Led by The Miami Foundation
H3 Press Forward Tampa Bay Led by the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
H3 Press Forward Central Appalachia Led by Appalachia Funders Network Duplicate text
H3 Press Forward Charlotte Led by the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund
H3 Press Forward North Carolina Led by North Carolina Local News Lab Fund, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
H3 Press Forward Central Valley Led by James B. McClatchy Foundation
H3 Press Forward Inland Empire Led by Inland Empire Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Silicon Valley Led by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Central Appalachia Led by Appalachia Funders Network Duplicate text
H3 Press Forward Central Appalachia Led by Appalachia Funders Network Duplicate text
H3 Press Forward Central Appalachia Led by Appalachia Funders Network Duplicate text
H3 Press Forward Vermont Led by The Vermont Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Northern Michigan Led by Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Southern Arizona Led by Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
H3 Press Forward Northeast Iowa Led by Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque
H3 Press Forward San Antonio Led by San Antonio Area Foundation
H3 Press Forward New Jersey Led by New Jersey Civic Information Consortium and Community Foundation of New Jersey
H3 Press Forward Colorado Led by Gates Family Foundation and the Colorado Health Foundation
H3 Press Forward Minnesota Led by McKnight Foundation
H3 Press Forward Wyoming Led by Wyoming Community Foundation
H3 Press Forward Wichita Led by Wichita Foundation
H3 Press Forward Chicago Led by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust
H3 Press Forward Springfield Led by Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln
H3 Press Forward New Mexico Led by Thornburg Foundation and the New Mexico Local News Fund
H3 Press Forward Mississippi Led by CREATE Foundation
H3 Press Forward Alaska Led by Atwood Foundation
H4 Learn about our impact in our latest report.
H4 February 2025 | Press Forward Impact Report
H4 Caring for journalists is at center of safety and mental health programs
H4 Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face
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 too many external links (45) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
A-TITLE LinkedIn
https://www.pressforward.news/Subdomain IMG-ALT Press Forward
/about/Subdomain About
/funding-opportunities/Subdomain Funding Opportunities
/locals/Subdomain Locals
/join-the-coalition/Subdomain Join Us
/news/Subdomain News
/stories/Subdomain Stories
/impact/Subdomain Impact
/signup/Subdomain Signup
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate About
/funding-opportunities/Subdomain Text duplicate Funding Opportunities
/locals/Subdomain Text duplicate Locals
/join-the-coalition/Subdomain Text duplicate Join Us
/news/Subdomain Text duplicate News
/stories/Subdomain Text duplicate Stories
/impact/Subdomain Text duplicate Impact
/signup/Subdomain Text duplicate Signup
/about/Subdomain Text duplicate Press Forward
/funding-opportunities/Subdomain Funding Opportunities.
/impact/Subdomain latest report.
/locals/Subdomain Learn how.
/fast-company-names-press-forw...Subdomain Learn more.
/impact/Subdomain IMG-ALT Press Forward Impact Report
/impact/Subdomain February 2025 | Press Forward Impact Report
/caring-for-journalists-is-at-...Subdomain A-TITLE Caring for journalists is at center of safety and mental health programs
/caring-for-journalists-is-at-...Subdomain Text duplicate Caring for journalists is at center of safety and mental health programs
A-TITLE Caring for journalists is at center of safety and mental health programs
/infrastructure25/Subdomain A-TITLE Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face
/infrastructure25/Subdomain Text duplicate Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face
A-TITLE Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face
/grantees/Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more.
https://www.joinmoreperfect.us/New window External Subdomain More Perfect
https://www.joinmoreperfect.us...New window External Subdomain Access to Trusted News and Information
https://pressforward.ca/about-us/New window External Canadian media association Press Forward
https://www.appalachiafunders....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more.
https://www.bgcf.org/press-for...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more.
https://healthforward.org/New window External Text duplicate Learn more.
https://steinmanfoundation.org/New window External Text duplicate Learn more.
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.pressforward.news/"
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 very slow (1.77 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 13 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 21 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (198 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateFri, 25 Jul 2025 13:09:26 GMT
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content-length26097
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
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http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 271 referring domains.
This page has 344,890 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 200 different ip addresses.

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