Msdclinicaltrials.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
99% 
Page quality
93% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
86% 
External factors
24% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.28 s
File size
66.60 kB
Words
643
Media files
25
Number of links
27 internal / 5 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Clinical research driven by science
The length of the page title is perfect. (310 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
We stand at the forefront of research to prevent and treat diseases. Search our clinical trials that are enrolling volunteers.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (742 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.msdclinicaltrials.com/
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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)
This page contains 643 words. That's ok.
36.1% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
13 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 23.74 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, shrink-to-fit=no" 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 13 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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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Medicine for the people, driven by research
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Medicine for the people, driven by research
H2 Browse our clinical trials
H2 Explore by areas of focus
H3 Cardiovascular diseases cardio
H3 Diabetes and endocrinology diabetic
H3 Hematology Asset 1 2
H3 Infectious diseases viral-1
H3 Neurosciences neuro
H3 Oncology oncology-V2
H3 Respiratory and immunology respiratory-V2
H3 Vaccines vac
H3 Our long-standing history in medical science
H3 Diversity in our clinical trial research
H3 Resources for patients and caregivers
H4 Have you ever wondered how an investigational medicine or vaccine goes from a concept to an approved medication? It’s a fascinating journey that includes numerous steps and phases. And the pivotal ...
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 5 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/MSD
/Clinical Trials
/about/About clinical trials
/process-of-participating/How does participation work?
/what-to-consider/What to consider
/diversity-inclusion/Diversity & Inclusion
/faq/Frequently asked questions
/glossary/Glossary
/patient-resources/For patients
/caregiver-resources/For caregivers
/medical-science/Our medical science
/for-hcps/For HCPs
/about/What are clinical trials?
/cardiovascular-diseases/View cardiovascular trials
/diabetes-and-endocrinology/View diabetes and endocrinology trials
/hematologic/View hematology trials
/infectious-diseases/View infectious disease trials
/neurosciences/View neurosciences trials
/oncology/View oncology trials
/respiratory-immunology/View respiratory and immunology trials
/vaccines/View vaccines trials
/medical-science/Learn more
/diversity-inclusion/Text duplicate Learn more
/patient-resources/Text duplicate For patients
/caregiver-resources/Text duplicate For caregivers
/glossary/Text duplicate Glossary
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IMG-ALT MSD-inverse-logo
https://www.msd.com/New window External Subdomain MSD.com
https://www.msdprivacy.com/New window External Subdomain MSD Privacy Policy
https://www.msd.com/terms-of-use/New window External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.msd.com/our-commit...External Subdomain Accessibility
https://www.essentialaccessibi...New window External Subdomain MSD Essential Accessibility
IMG-ALT MSD Essential Accessibility

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.msdclinicaltrials.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 is slow (1.28 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 (67 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateTue, 17 Feb 2026 22:59:46 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
link<https://www.msdclinicaltrials.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policyno-referrer-when-downgrade
content-encodinggzip
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http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 8 referring domains.
This page only has 490 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 5 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Allow: /wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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Disallow:

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Clinical research driven by science
We stand at the forefront of research to prevent and treat diseases. Search our clinical trials that are enrolling volunteers.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Clinical84%Check
Clinical Research83%Check
research82%Check
Clinical Trials78%Check
Clinical research driven78%Check
Trials68%Check
driven66%Check
diseases59%Check
Medicine59%Check
treat diseases56%Check
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