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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
66% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
95% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.63 s
File size
131.70 kB
Words
336
Media files
15
Number of links
7 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
American Academy of Family Physicians | AAFP
The length of the page title is perfect. (430 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) represents 128,300 family physicians, residents, & students, providing advocacy, education, patient & practice resources.
The meta description is too long: 1049 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.aafp.org/home.html
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

NameValue
keywordsaafp, american academy of family physicians
descriptionAmerican Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) represents 128,300 family physicians, residents, & students, providing advocacy, education, patient & practice resources.
templateaafp-site-content-page
pubdate2025-03-10
nav-titleAAFP
categoryAAFP
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
referrerno-referrer-when-downgrade
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@aafp
twitter:titleAAFP
twitter:descriptionAmerican Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) represents 128,300 family physicians, residents, & students, providing advocacy, education, patient & practice resources.
twitter:imagehttps://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/images/logos_internal/aafp-logo-web-page-properties.png
twitter:image:altAAFP logo in blue with orange flame in torch
og:titleAAFP
og:descriptionAmerican Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) represents 128,300 family physicians, residents, & students, providing advocacy, education, patient & practice resources.
og:imagehttps://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/images/logos_internal/aafp-logo-web-page-properties.png
og:image:altAAFP logo in blue with orange flame in torch
og:urlhttps://www.aafp.org/home.html
og:typearticle
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
There are only 336 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
33.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.5 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)
Some tags are too long. With 86 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"family centered pregnancy care live course august 23—28 | denver, co 25.75 cme credits"
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
...FP/images/home/heart-fammed-home-hdr.jpgThree women in a row holding a sign in the shape of a heart that says I heart Fam Med and the AAFP logo below it.
...FP/images/home/heart-fammed-home-hdr.jpgThree women in a row holding a sign in the shape of a heart that says I heart Fam Med and the AAFP logo below it.
...nts/future-conference/future25-stamp.pngNo alt attribute provided
.../AAFP/images/fmx/2025/fmx25-stamp-bw.pngNo alt attribute provided
...logos_internal/afp-logo-stacked-2024.pngAmerican Family Physician
...am/AAFP/images/journals/fpm-masthead.pngFPM Journal
...nt/dam/AAFP/images/pubs/fpe/nav-logo.pngFP Essentials
...pubs/afp/issues/2025/0700/cover-etoc.jpgAFP journal cover for July 2025
...pubs/afp/issues/2025/0700/cover-etoc.jpgAFP journal cover for July 2025
...aafp/pubs/fpm/issues/2025/0700/cover.jpgFPM journal cover for July/August 2025
...aafp/pubs/fpm/issues/2025/0700/cover.jpgFPM journal cover for July/August 2025
...s/fpe/editions/554/fpe554-flat-cover.jpgFP Essentials July 2025 cover
...s/fpe/editions/554/fpe554-flat-cover.jpgFP Essentials July 2025 cover
...m/foundation/images/logos/foundation.pngNo alt attribute provided
...images/advocacy/content/FamMedPAC_tw.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
You Belong at the AAFP
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 You Belong at the AAFP
H1 You Belong at the AAFP Duplicate text
H2 Discover conferences that fuel your passion for family medicine.
H2 Choose Your Next CME
H2 New & Noteworthy
H2 Journals and Publications
H2 AAFP + You
H2 Featured Family Medicine Physician Jobs
H2 AAFP Affiliates and Partnerships
H3 There’s no specialty like family medicine. You put your energy into building healthy patients, families, and communities. Lean in to us for the connection and education you need to refuel that ener...
H3 There’s no specialty like family medicine. You put your energy into building healthy patients, families and communities. Lean into us for the connection and education you need to refuel that energy.
H3 Get the CME you need. We have live and livestream CME on topics important to you.
H3 You're committed to providing quality, cost-effective care. AAFP is committed to helping you make it happen.
H3 Not a member? No problem. Join the largest association that specializes in family medicine—just like you.
H3 Seize your opportunity in family medicine with the AAFP CareerLink job board. Upload your resume and set alerts to get matched with your best position. Plus, find career planning resources that can...
H3 The AAFP and its affiliate organizations work closely together to advance the specialty of family medicine.
There are too few (7) internal links on this page.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 2 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/pubs/afp.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT American Family Physician
/pubs/fpm.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT FPM Journal
/pubs/fpe.htmlSubdomain IMG-ALT FP Essentials
/pubs/afp.htmlIMG-ALT AFP journal cover for July 2025
/pubs/fpm.htmlIMG-ALT FPM journal cover for July/August 2025
/pubs/fpe.htmlIMG-ALT FP Essentials July 2025 cover
https://www.aafpcareerlink.org...New window External Subdomain View All Jobs
https://www.aafpfoundation.org...External Subdomain No Text
/content/brand/aafp/advocacy/s...No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.aafp.org/home.html"
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 (1.63 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 (132 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
access-control-allow-methodsGET
access-control-max-age1000
access-control-allow-headersx-requested-with, Content-Type, origin, authorization, accept, client-security-token
last-modifiedSat, 26 Jul 2025 04:59:06 GMT
etag"20ed8-63acdeb1381ef"
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
via1.1 www.aafp.org, 1.1 varnish
cache-controlmax-age=3600, public
content-encodinggzip
access-control-allow-originhttps://aafp.intrivium.com
accept-rangesbytes
age917
dateSat, 26 Jul 2025 08:10:34 GMT
x-served-bycache-fra-etou8220049-FRA
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits0
x-timerS1753517435.802601,VS0,VE1
varyAccept-Encoding
strict-transport-securitymax-age=300
content-length39341
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 1,348 referring domains.
This page has 8,978 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 906 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

# By accessing the AAFP website you agree to AAFP's terms of use, available at
# https://www.aafp.org/about-site/requests/terms.html
#
# No robots were harmed in the creation of this website.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /chapter
Disallow: /login
Disallow: *aafpvlogin*
Disallow: /afp/accessories*
Disallow: /fpm/accessories*
Disallow: /FPMprinter*
Disallow: /fpm/FPMprinter*
Disallow: /afp/AFPprinter*
Disallow: /afp/viewRelatedDocumentsByMesh.htm*
Disallow: /fpm/viewRelatedDocumentsByMesh.htm*
Disallow: *.html?null$
Disallow: /fpr/*
Disallow: /PreBuilt/*
Disallow: /online/etc/medialib*
Disallow: /cme/subscriptions/fp-essentials/editions.html?contentpar*
Disallow: /dam/AAFP/documents/cme*
Disallow: /dam/Documentation*
Disallow: /afp/1998/0301/p908.html
Disallow: *contentpar_gridblock*
Disallow: *content.pdflist.html$
Disallow: /usertesting*
Disallow: *?plainText
Disallow: /dam/*.pdf$
Disallow: /dam/*.xls$
Disallow: /dam/*.xlsx$
Disallow: /dam/*.docx$
Disallow: /dam/*.doc$
Disallow: /dam/*.ppt$
Disallow: /dam/*.pptx$

User-agent: OmtrBot/1.0
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.aafp.org/sitemap.xml

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American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) represents 128,300 family physicians, residents, & students, providing advocacy, education, patient & practice resources.

Most important keywords

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Physician63%Check
Family Physicians61%Check
American59%Check
Academy58%Check
American Academy58%Check
education54%Check
Belong54%Check
Family Medicine51%Check
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