Forums.flightsimulator.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.80 s
File size
25.20 kB
Words
338
Media files
13
Number of links
16 internal / 20 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums
The length of the page title is perfect. (299 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
This is the official forum for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Use this forum to connect with other flight simmers, ask for flight assistance, or log official bug reports.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (963 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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
descriptionThis is the official forum for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Use this forum to connect with other flight simmers, ask for flight assistance, or log official bug reports.
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theme-color#111111
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viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover
langen
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twitter:urlhttps://forums.flightsimulator.com/
twitter:titleMicrosoft Flight Simulator Forums
twitter:descriptionThis is the official forum for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Use this forum to connect with other flight simmers, ask for flight assistance, or log official bug reports.
og:site_nameMicrosoft Flight Simulator Forums
og:typewebsite
og:imagehttps://flightsimulator-forums-cdn.azureedge.net/uploads/default/original/4X/c/b/8/cb87e9f32afe55dc06d4e92f70e256ae1d6c9f0c.png
og:urlhttps://forums.flightsimulator.com/
og:titleMicrosoft Flight Simulator Forums
og:descriptionThis is the official forum for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Use this forum to connect with other flight simmers, ask for flight assistance, or log official bug reports.
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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 338 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
37% 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.
6 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.5 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover" 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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
...ads/2023/12/forum-MFS_40thAnniv_Logo.pngMicrosoft Flight Simulator
...m-xboxgamestudios2-on-black-726x81-1.pngXbox Game Studios
...uploads/2023/12/forum-asobo-on-black.pngAsobo Studio
...loads/2023/12/forum-logo-steam-white.jpgSteam
...ds/2023/12/forum-logo-gamepass-white.pngGame Pass
...23/12/forum-logo-windows-10-on-black.pngWindows 10
...ontent/uploads/2023/12/forum-twitter.svgTwitter
...ontent/uploads/2023/12/forum-discord.svgDiscord
...ontent/uploads/2023/12/forum-youtube.svgYouTube
...tent/uploads/2023/12/forum-instagram.svgInstagram
...ntent/uploads/2023/12/forum-facebook.svgFacebook
...et/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/esrb-e.svgESRB rating E for Everyone
...p-content/uploads/2020/05/pegi_3_svg.svgPEGI rating 3

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
H3 Official Microsoft Flight Simulator
H3 Sim Update 3 Beta | MSFS 2024
H3 Community Content Hangar
H3 Discussion Hub
H3 User Support Hub
H3 Bug Reporting Hub
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 20 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums
/c/official/140Official Microsoft Flight Simulator
/tag/msfs-2024msfs-2024
/t/release-notes-microsoft-fli...Subdomain 1.4.20.0
/tag/msfs-2020msfs-2020
/t/msfs-2020-release-notes-sim...Subdomain 1.39.9.0
/t/welcome-to-the-public-forum...Subdomain Forum Team here
/c/su3/389Sim Update 3 Beta | MSFS 2024
/c/community/401Community Content Hangar
/c/discussion-hub/358Discussion Hub
/c/user-support-hub/402Subdomain User Support Hub
/c/user-support-hub/402Text duplicate User Support Hub
/c/bugs/200Bug Reporting Hub
/Home
/categoriesCategories
/guidelinesGuidelines
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...External Subdomain Terms of Service
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlin...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.discourse.org/External Subdomain Discourse
https://www.flightsimulator.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Microsoft Flight Simulator
https://www.xboxgamestudios.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Xbox Game Studios
https://www.asobostudio.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Asobo Studio
https://store.steampowered.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Steam
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/gam...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Game Pass
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/win...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Windows 10
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlin...New window External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlin...New window External Subdomain Privacy & Cookies
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlin...New window External Subdomain Trademarks
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlin...New window External Subdomain Consumer Health Privacy
https://twitter.com/MSFSofficialNew window External IMG-ALT Twitter
https://discord.gg/msfsNew window External IMG-ALT Discord
https://www.youtube.com/micros...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT YouTube
https://www.instagram.com/msfs...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://www.facebook.com/MIcro...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://www.esrb.org/New window External Subdomain E for Everyone
IMG-ALT ESRB rating E for Everyone
https://pegi.info/New window External IMG-ALT PEGI rating 3

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://forums.flightsimulator.com/"
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 of 0.80 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 (25 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateThu, 14 Aug 2025 14:23:32 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection0
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policiesnone
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-discourse-routecategories/index
cross-origin-opener-policysame-origin-allow-popups
cache-controlno-cache, no-store
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests; base-uri 'self'; object-src 'none'; script-src 'nonce-Pi9pBP0d6bwhDsPoHniQAbeZs' 'strict-dynamic'; frame-ancestors 'self'; manifest-src 'self'
x-discourse-cachedstore
access-control-allow-origin*
access-control-allow-headersContent-Type, Cache-Control, X-Requested-With, X-CSRF-Token, Discourse-Present, User-Api-Key, User-Api-Client-Id, Authorization
access-control-allow-credentialstrue
access-control-allow-methodsPOST, PUT, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE
access-control-max-age7200
x-request-id18da8973-4707-4bad-8a59-a906d5b7d4e6
x-runtime0.053364
x-discourse-trackview1
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 247 referring domains.
This page has 1,931 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 158 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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