Volunteer.ca - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
87% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
95% 
Server
90% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
231.40 kB
Words
551
Media files
8
Number of links
60 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Home - Volunteer Canada
The length of the page title is perfect. (232 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We want to hear from you so that we can build a National Volunteer Strategy that reflects the experiences and the needs of all Canada’s volunteer eco-system
The length of the meta description is perfect. (970 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://volunteer.ca/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-ca
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-ca
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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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
descriptionWe want to hear from you so that we can build a National Volunteer Strategy that reflects the experiences and the needs of all Canada’s volunteer eco-system
robotsfollow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large
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article:published_time2024-04-09T20:50:21-05:00
article:modified_time2025-12-09T15:05:29-05:00
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twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:titleHome - Volunteer Canada
twitter:descriptionWe want to hear from you so that we can build a National Volunteer Strategy that reflects the experiences and the needs of all Canada’s volunteer eco-system
twitter:site@https://x.com/VolunteerCanada
twitter:creator@https://x.com/VolunteerCanada
twitter:imagehttps://volunteer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vc-logo-rgb.jpg
twitter:label1Written by
twitter:data1evergreen
twitter:label2Time to read
twitter:data22 minutes
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHome - Volunteer Canada
og:descriptionWe want to hear from you so that we can build a National Volunteer Strategy that reflects the experiences and the needs of all Canada’s volunteer eco-system
og:urlhttps://volunteer.ca/
og:site_nameVolunteer Canada
og:updated_time2025-12-09T15:05:29-05:00
og:imagehttps://volunteer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/vc-logo-rgb.jpg
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og:image:width960
og:image:height491
og:image:altHome
og:image:typeimage/jpeg
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 551 words. That's ok.
33.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
6 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 20.29 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" 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 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
4 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)
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/2024/06/volunteer-benevoles-canada.pngNo alt attribute provided
...s/2024/06/volunteer-benevoles-canada.pngNo alt attribute provided
...2025/12/vc-email-signature-v2-scaled.pngNo alt attribute provided
/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/4-2.pnggroup of engaged volunteers working to sort food cans
/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/9.pngman in wheelchair smiling in an outdoor setting
.../elementor/assets/images/placeholder.pngJessica Myers
...ads/2024/06/contact-volunteer-canada.pnghappy volunteer coordinator with sign up forms
...s/2024/06/volunteer-benevoles-canada.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.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 TAKE THE SURVEY
H2 JOIN THE MOVEMENT
H2 Susan J. Ellis - Author and Volunteer Management Expert
H2 Become a Volunteer Canada Member
H2 Testimonials
H2 STAY CONNECTED TO THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT
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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://volunteer.ca/Anchor Skip to content
https://volunteer.ca/No Text
https://volunteer.ca/about/About
https://volunteer.ca/about/About Us
/jaide-statement/JAIDE Statement
https://volunteer.ca/our-board/Our Board
https://volunteer.ca/our-staff/Our Staff
https://volunteer.ca/contact-us/Contact
https://volunteer.ca/membership/Membership
https://blog.volunteer.ca/New window External Subdomain Blog
https://volunteer.ca/donate/Donate
https://benevoles.ca/External Français
/volunteerism/Volunteerism
/volunteer-centre-directory/Volunteer Centre Directory
/virtual-volunteering-opportun...Virtual Volunteering Opportunities
/community-organizations/Community Organizations
https://volunteer.ca/membership/Text duplicate Membership
/engaging-volunteers/Engaging Volunteers
/volunteer-management/Volunteer Management
/consulting-services/Consulting Services
/intergenerational-engagement/Intergenerational Engagement
/volunteer-canada-at-work/Volunteer Canada at Work
/corporate-services/Corporate Services
/corporate-tool-box/Corporate Tool Box
/corporate-success-stories/Corporate Success Stories
/volunteer-centre-directory/Text duplicate Volunteer Centre Directory
https://volunteer.ca/screening/Screening
/volunteer-recognition/Volunteer Recognition
/truth-and-reconciliation/Truth and Reconciliation
/speakers-bureau/Speakers Bureau
/universal-declaration-on-the-...Universal Declaration on the Profession
https://volunteer.ca/research/Research
/data-on-giving-volunteering-a...Data on Giving, Volunteering and Participating in Canada
/volunteer-and-the-sustainable...Sustainable Development Goals
/economic-value-to-volunteering/Economic Value to Volunteering
/mandatory-community-service/Mandatory Community Service
/public-policy-dialogues/Public Policy Dialogues
/government-relations/Government Relations
/volunteering-and-the-law/Volunteering and the Law
/people-purpose-participation/People, Purpose & Participation
/national-volunteer-week/National Volunteer Week
/international-volunteer-day/International Volunteer Day
/international-volunteer-manag...International Volunteer Managers Day
/international-year-of-volunte...International Year of Volunteers
/canadian-code-for-volunteer-i...Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement
/engaging-volunteers/Text duplicate Engaging Volunteers
/value-of-volunteering-wheel/Value of Volunteering Wheel
/volunteer-centre-council/Volunteer Centre Council
/volunteerism/GET INVOLVED
https://volunteer.ca/No Text
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r...New window External Subdomain CLICK HERE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL SURVEY
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r...New window External Subdomain CLICK HERE FOR THE ORGANIZATIONS AND COLLECTIVES Survey
https://ivy26.ca/New window External No Text
/volunteerism/Text duplicate GET INVOLVED
https://volunteer.ca/membership/BECOME A MEMBER
https://volunteer.us8.list-man...New window External Subdomain Subscribe to our newsletter
https://volunteer.ca/contact-us/Contact us
https://volunteer.ca/No Text
https://volunteer.ca/about/Text duplicate About Us
https://volunteer.ca/careers/Careers
https://volunteer.ca/membership/Text duplicate Membership
https://volunteer.ca/contact-us/Contact Us
/volunteerism/Get Involved
https://volunteer.us8.list-man...New window External Subdomain Join Our Newsletter
https://blog.volunteer.ca/New window External Subdomain Volunteer Vibe Blog
https://volunteer.ca/donate/New window DONATE TODAY
https://x.com/VolunteerCanadaNew window External X-twitter
https://www.facebook.com/Volun...New window External Subdomain Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/user/V...New window External Subdomain Youtube
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain Linkedin
/terms-of-use/Terms of Use
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://volunteer.ca/"
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 0.41 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 (231 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 22 Dec 2025 12:12:15 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
content-encodingbr
varyAccept-Encoding
link<https://volunteer.ca/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-powered-byWP Engine
x-cacheableSHORT
cache-controlmax-age=600, must-revalidate
x-cacheHIT: 5
x-cache-groupnormal
cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
set-cookie278 Characters
servercloudflare
cf-ray9b1f86c37a27701a-CDG
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 594 referring domains.
This page has 41,752 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 386 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Crawl-delay: 10

Sitemap: https://volunteer.ca/sitemap_index.xml

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Home - Volunteer Canada
We want to hear from you so that we can build a National Volunteer Strategy that reflects the experiences and the needs of all Canada’s volunteer eco-system

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Volunteer Canada78%Check
National Volunteer70%Check
volunteer eco-system70%Check
Canada68%Check
Volunteer Management66%Check
International Volunteer64%Check
Volunteer Centre64%Check
National Volunteer Strategy64%Check
National51%Check
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