Americanwhitewater.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
96% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.48 s
File size
140.30 kB
Words
2928
Media files
29
Number of links
118 internal / 25 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
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American Whitewater
The page title is too short. (192 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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The primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater rivers throughout the United States and connects the interests of human-powered recreational river users with ecological and science-based data to achieve goals within our mission.
The meta description is too long: 1555 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Language defined in meta tags: english
Server location: Canada
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The following language is defined by HTML: english
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Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
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Page quality

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This page contains 2928 words. That's ok.
35.8% 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.
21 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 24.38 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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Some tags are too long. With 100 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"we want to hear directly from you about why you love these rivers and why they are worth protecting."
Image SEO
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5 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
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No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
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This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

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Heading structure

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There are 25 external links on this page.
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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 365 referring domains.
This page has 24,498 backlinks.
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American Whitewater
The primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater rivers throughout the United States and connects the interests of human-powered recreational river users with ecological and science-based data to achieve goals within our mission.

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