Suddenoakdeath.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
77% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
75% 
Link structure
81% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
2.74 s
File size
109.40 kB
Words
520
Media files
8
Number of links
45 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Sudden Oak Death
The length of the page title is perfect. (243 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
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article:modified_time2025-04-29T17:26:48+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Sudden Oak Death
og:descriptionSudden Oak Death is a tree disease caused by the fungus-like plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. First recognized in the mid 1990s, the disease kills some oak species (primarily coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, and an oak relative, tanoak, Notholithocarpus densiflorus) and has had devastating effects on coastal forests in California and Oregon. The pathogen also infects rhododendrons, camellias, and […]
og:urlhttps://www.suddenoakdeath.org/
og:site_nameSudden Oak Death
og:imagehttps://www.suddenoakdeath.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Tanoak-dying-cropped.jpg
og:image:width1656
og:image:height672
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 520 words. That's ok.
29.6% 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.
8 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.59 words is good.
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, initial-scale=1" is provided.
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)
6 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...loads/2021/02/leafandbark-header-1-1.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...loads/2021/02/cropped-logo-trans-1-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...021/02/Tanoak-dying-cropped-1024x416.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ads/2015/02/CFPC-Logo-e1424302865387.jpgNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/thumbs.jpgNo alt attribute providedthumbs
...ontent/uploads/2021/02/logo-brands-1.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 News
H2 Calendar of Events
H2 Quicklinks
H2 Symptom Gallery
H2 Help support the COMTF
H3 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/Anchor Skip to content
A-TITLE Skip to content
/about-california-oak-mortalit...About COMTF
/site-map-2/Subdomain Site Map
https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/Subdomain No Text
https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/Subdomain Home
/about-sudden-oak-death/Subdomain What is Sudden Oak Death?
/diagnosis-and-management/Subdomain Diagnosis and Management
/maps-media/Subdomain Maps & Visual Media
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Newsletter
/library-archive/Subdomain Library & Archive
https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/about-sudden-oak-death/Subdomain Text duplicate What is Sudden Oak Death?
/diagnosis-and-management/Subdomain Text duplicate Diagnosis and Management
/maps-media/Subdomain Text duplicate Maps & Visual Media
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Newsletter
/library-archive/Subdomain Text duplicate Library & Archive
/about-sudden-oak-death/Subdomain read more here.
/welcome-to-calphytos-org-phyt...New window Subdomain Trivial anchor text
here
/welcome-to-calphytos-org-phyt...Subdomain Read more…
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Read more...
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Read more...
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Read the latest newsletter
http://www.firewood.ca.gov/New window External Subdomain California Firewood Task Force
http://www.bayareatreemortalit...New window External Subdomain www.bayareatreemortality.org
https://youtu.be/_98y3XQMbPANew window External Recording
/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr...New window Subdomain Agenda
https://youtu.be/VUx1i3K6MHYNew window External Text duplicate Recording
/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CA...Subdomain Text duplicate Agenda
https://youtu.be/t2yyL-tUqqoNew window External COMTF 2023 meeting recording
https://youtu.be/LTiM2hpN_A0New window External CalPhtyos 2023 meeting recording
https://youtu.be/zkgd1kCj89QNew window External Nov 8, 2022 recording
https://youtu.be/konlh1CrvSwNew window External Nov 9, 2022 recording
https://youtu.be/7zQjv9CFwnYNew window External Nov 10, 2022 recording
/newsletter-2/Subdomain latest newsletter...
http://caforestpestcouncil.org/New window External California Forest Pest Council
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Current newsletter
http://www.sodmap.org/New window External Subdomain SODMAP
https://nature.berkeley.edu/ma...New window External Subdomain THANQs - FAQ
/diagnosis-and-management/best...Best Management Practices
/contacts/Subdomain Contacts
/news-and-events/mailing-list/Get involved! Mailing list & more
/contacts/media/Media inquiries
/library/photos/Subdomain No Text
/library/photos/Subdomain See more in the symptom gallery
/contacts/about-california-oak...Task Force
https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/about-sudden-oak-death/Subdomain Text duplicate What is Sudden Oak Death?
/diagnosis-and-management/Subdomain Text duplicate Diagnosis and Management
/maps-media/Subdomain Text duplicate Maps & Visual Media
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Newsletter
/library-archive/Subdomain Text duplicate Library & Archive
https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/Subdomain Text duplicate Home
/about-sudden-oak-death/Subdomain Text duplicate What is Sudden Oak Death?
/diagnosis-and-management/Subdomain Text duplicate Diagnosis and Management
/maps-media/Subdomain Text duplicate Maps & Visual Media
/newsletter-2/Subdomain Text duplicate Newsletter
/library-archive/Subdomain Text duplicate Library & Archive

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/"
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 (2.74 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.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (109 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
link<https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/18724>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://www.suddenoakdeath.org/>; rel=shortlink
cache-controlmax-age=600
expiresSun, 27 Jul 2025 10:46:26 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding,User-Agent
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateSun, 27 Jul 2025 10:36:26 GMT
serverApache
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 220 referring domains.
This page has 329 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 118 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /pdf/
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.sod2010.net/sitemap.xml


# Web Optimizer options
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/web-optimizer/cache/
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www.suddenoakdeath.org
Home - Sudden Oak Death

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Oak64%Check
Sudden64%Check
Death64%Check
Sudden Oak64%Check
Sudden Oak Death64%Check
Live Oak49%Check
COMTF43%Check
California Oak Mortality Task41%Check
Phytophthora39%Check
species39%Check

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