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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
61% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
82% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.59 s
File size
49.50 kB
Words
466
Media files
14
Number of links
30 internal / 33 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Journals Gateway | The Company of Biologists
The length of the page title is perfect. (418 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://journals.biologists.com/journals
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 466 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
27.7% of the text are stop words.
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.
The average number of words per sentence of 20.46 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, maximum-scale=10" 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 9 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 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

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/dev/current-coverDevelopment current cover
/jcs/current-coverJournal of Cell Science current cover
/jeb/current-coverJournal of Experimental Biology current cover
/dmm/current-coverDisease Models and Mechanisms current cover
/bio/current-coverBiology Open current cover
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...re-panel-2-tj-cropped.jpg?versionId=1328No alt attribute provided
...k-up_AW_RGB_FC_small3.png?versionId=8362The Company of Biologists 100 year anniversary logo
...teway/Bluesky-icon-bw.png?versionId=8362Bluesky icon
...te-transparent-noring.png?versionId=3065WeChat logo
..._BW_TransparencyNoBlk.png?versionId=8362Mastodon icon

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 At the heart of what we do are our five specialist journals
H3 Development
H3 Journal of Cell Science
H3 Journal of Experimental Biology
H3 Disease Models & Mechanisms
H3 Biology Open
H3 About The Company of Biologists
H3 Transformative Journals
H5 This Feature Is Available To Subscribers Only
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 (33) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/journalsAnchor Skip to Main Content
https://journals.biologists.com/IMG-ALT The Company of Biologists logo
/devDevelopment
/jcsJournal of Cell Science
/jebJournal of Experimental Biology
/dmmDisease Models & Mechanisms
/bioBiology Open
https://thenode.biologists.com/External Subdomain The Node Open External Link
https://prelights.biologists.com/External Subdomain preLights Open External Link
https://focalplane.biologists....External Subdomain FocalPlane Open External Link
https://www.biologists.com/lib...External Subdomain For librarians Open External Link
/advanced-searchAdvanced Search
/my-account/register?siteId=3&...Register
/journals/pages/publishing-mis...Publishing mission
/journals/pages/open-accessOpen Access
https://www.biologists.com/lib...External Subdomain For librariansOpen External Link
https://www.biologists.com/External Subdomain About usOpen External Link
/devIMG-ALT Development current cover
/devText duplicate Development
/jcsIMG-ALT Journal of Cell Science current cover
/jcsText duplicate Journal of Cell Science
/jebIMG-ALT Journal of Experimental Biology current cover
/jebText duplicate Journal of Experimental Biology
/dmmIMG-ALT Disease Models and Mechanisms current cover
/dmmText duplicate Disease Models & Mechanisms
/bioIMG-ALT Biology Open current cover
/bioText duplicate Biology Open
https://www.biologists.com/abo...External Subdomain About The Company of Biologists
https://www.biologists.com/External Subdomain Learn more
https://www.biologists.com/tra...External Subdomain Transformative Journals
https://www.biologists.com/tra...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
https://www.biologists.com/lib...External Subdomain Library hub
/my-account/alertsSign up to alerts
https://www.biologists.com/mee...External Subdomain Journal meetings
https://www.biologists.com/spo...External Subdomain Advertise
/devNew window Text duplicate Development
/jcsNew window Text duplicate Journal of Cell Science
/jebNew window Text duplicate Journal of Experimental Biology
/dmmNew window Text duplicate Disease Models & Mechanisms
/bioNew window Text duplicate Biology Open
https://thenode.biologists.com/External Subdomain The Node
https://prelights.biologists.com/External Subdomain preLights
https://focalplane.biologists....External Subdomain FocalPlane
https://www.biologists.com/grantsExternal Subdomain Grants
https://www.biologists.com/mee...External Subdomain Journal Meetings
https://www.biologists.com/wor...External Subdomain Workshops
https://www.biologists.com/lib...External Subdomain Text duplicate Library hub
https://www.biologists.com/sub...External Subdomain Company news
https://www.biologists.com/acc...External Subdomain Accessibility policy
https://www.biologists.com/con...External Subdomain Contacts
https://www.biologists.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT The Company of Biologists 100 year anniversary logo
https://twitter.com/Co_BiologistsExternal Twitter
https://bsky.app/profile/biolo...New window External IMG-ALT Bluesky icon
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain LinkedIn
https://www.youtube.com/user/C...External Subdomain Youtube
/ImageLibrary/WeChat.jpgNew window IMG-ALT WeChat logo
https://biologists.social/@Co_...New window External IMG-ALT Mastodon icon
https://www.biologists.com/pri...External Subdomain Privacy policy
https://www.biologists.com/ter...External Subdomain Terms & conditions
https://www.biologists.com/cop...External Subdomain Copyright policy
https://www.biologists.com/coo...External Subdomain Cookies
/sign-in?returnUrl=/journalsSign In
/my-account/register?siteId=3&...Create an Account

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://journals.biologists.com/journals"
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 0.59 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 (50 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 32 referring domains.
This page has 205 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 31 different ip addresses.

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Company52%Check
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