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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
71% 
Page structure
97% 
Link structure
85% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
46.10 kB
Words
619
Media files
18
Number of links
43 internal / 28 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage - Creative Commons
The length of the page title is perfect. (288 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://creativecommons.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
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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robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
article:modified_time2023-11-16T20:42:03+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titleHomepage - Creative Commons
og:urlhttps://creativecommons.org/
og:site_nameCreative Commons
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
The average number of words per sentence of 27.9 words is high.
This page contains 619 words. That's ok.
31.8% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
8 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
8 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
.../Farmer-and-his-brother-making-music.jpgBlack and white photo of two people with short, greased-back hair sitting on a couch and playing a violin and a guitar.
...ve-Commons-Global-Summit-2019-Lisbon.jpgA group of about 18 people of all ages smiling and waving in front of the doors of a white historical building.
...2023/09/Novel-Coronavirus-SARS-CoV-2.jpgColor photo of an extreme close-up of a virus that looks like a greyish-green ovoid, surrounded by chains of bright orange globules, all in a dark purple environment.
...r-in-Nagahama-warrior-Kumagai-12-y.o.jpgColor photo of a kabuki actor with dramatic red and black face makeup and traditional hairstyle, staring intently and wearing an ornate gold and blue costume and holding up an open yellow fan with a red dot in the middle.
...06/CC-signals-2025-—-Social-Assets-2.pngCC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
...blic-Domain.-Swedish-National-Museum.pngHavsstrand by Maurice Denis. Public Domain. Swedish National Museum
...uploads/2025/07/CC-Signals_An_Update.pngCC Signals - An Update © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
...nt/uploads/2025/05/Blog-Image-Size-4.pngNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2025/05/Blog-Image-Size-3.pngNo alt attribute provided
...blic-Domain.-Swedish-National-Museum.pngHavsstrand by Maurice Denis. Public Domain. Swedish National Museum
...uploads/2025/07/CC-Signals_An_Update.pngCC Signals - An Update © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
...nt/uploads/2025/05/Blog-Image-Size-4.pngNo alt attribute provided
...reativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ativecommons.org/presskit/icons/zero.svgNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2025/05/Blog-Image-Size-3.pngNo alt attribute provided
...reativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.svgNo alt attribute provided
...ativecommons.org/presskit/icons/zero.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Creative Commons
The H1 heading is too short (16 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Creative Commons
H2 Better Sharing, Brighter Future
H2 The nonprofit behind the licenses and tools the world uses to share
H2 Wikipedia
H2 The Met
H2 Khan Academy
H2 Latest News
H2 Images Attribution
H2 Contact Us
H2 Subscribe to our Newsletter
H2 Support Our Work
H3 55+ million articles
H3 492,000+ images
H3 100,000+ lessons
H3 Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
H3 Recommended Licenses and Tools for Cultural Heritage Content
H3 Why CC Signals: An Update
H3 Understanding CC Licenses and AI Training: A Legal Primer
H3 The Next Chapter: Strengthening the Creative Commons Community Together
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (28) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://creativecommons.org/Anchor Skip to content
https://creativecommons.org/Creative Commons
/about/missionWho We Are
https://creativecommons.org/aboutWhat We Do
/share-your-workLicenses and Tools
https://creativecommons.org/blogBlog
/about/support-cc/Support Us
https://creativecommons.org/?sSearch
https://www.classy.org/give/31...New window External Subdomain Donate
https://network.creativecommon...New window External Subdomain Global Network
https://certificate.creativeco...New window External Subdomain Certificate
https://summit.creativecommons...New window External Subdomain Global Summit
/chooseNew window Chooser
https://search.creativecommons...New window External Subdomain Search Portal
https://opensource.creativecom...New window External Subdomain Open Source
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Twenty Years of Creative Commons (in Sixty Seconds)
http://www.junell.net/External Subdomain Ryan Junell
https://www.linkedin.com/in/go...External Subdomain Glenn Otis Brown
https://creativecommons.org/Text duplicate Creative Commons
/licenses/by/4.0/CC BY 4.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain on Flickr
/missionLearn more
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/i...External Subdomain Farmer and his brother making music
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/r...External Subdomain Russell Lee
/publicdomain/mark/1.0/CC PDM 1.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Flickr photowalk at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2019, Lisbon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Sebastiaan ter Burg
/licenses/by/2.0/CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain NIAID
/licenses/by/2.0/Text duplicate CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain Children kabuki theater in Nagahama (warrior Kumagai, 12 y.o.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...External Subdomain lensonjapan
/licenses/by/2.0/Text duplicate CC BY 2.0
/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-sig...Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
/person/cc/Text duplicate Creative Commons
/category/licenses-tools/Licenses & Tools
/category/policy/Policy
/2025/07/09/recommended-licens...Recommended Licenses and Tools for Cultural Heritage Content
/person/brigittevezina/Brigitte Vézina
/category/open-culture/Open Culture
/2025/07/02/why-cc-signals-an-...Why CC Signals: An Update
/person/cc/Text duplicate Creative Commons
/category/licenses-tools/Text duplicate Licenses & Tools
/category/policy/Text duplicate Policy
/2025/05/15/understanding-cc-l...Understanding CC Licenses and AI Training: A Legal Primer
/person/sarahcreativecommons-org/Sarah Hinchliff Pearson
/category/policy/Text duplicate Policy
/2025/05/15/the-next-chapter-s...The Next Chapter: Strengthening the Creative Commons Community Together
/person/jocelyncreativecommons...Jocelyn Miyara
/category/community/Community
/blog/archive/more posts
https://unsplash.com/photos/pe...External Untitled
https://unsplash.com/@norevisionsExternal No Revisions
/publicdomain/zero/1.0/CC0 1.0
https://unsplash.com/photos/re...External Red and white coca-cola signage
https://unsplash.com/@john_cam...External John Cameron
/publicdomain/zero/1.0/Text duplicate CC0 1.0
https://creativecommons.org/Text duplicate Creative Commons
/about/contactContact
https://mail.creativecommons.o...New window External Subdomain Newsletter
/privacyPrivacy
/policiesPolicies
https://creativecommons.org/termsTerms
https://bsky.app/profile/creat...New window External Bluesky
https://mastodon.social/@creat...New window External Mastodon
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.classy.org/give/31...New window External Subdomain Donate Now
/policies/noted
/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
https://fontawesome.com/New window External Font Awesome

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://creativecommons.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 excellent with 0.35 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (46 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateThu, 24 Jul 2025 16:31:12 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
servercloudflare
link<https://creativecommons.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
varyAccept-Encoding
age1863
cache-controlmax-age=1800
cf-cache-statusHIT
last-modifiedThu, 24 Jul 2025 16:00:08 GMT
content-encodingbr
cf-ray9644ce77be450496-CDG
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 18,857 referring domains.
This page has 3,415,362 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 11,814 different ip addresses.

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