Software.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
78% 
Page quality
90% 
Page structure
50% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
99% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.42 s
File size
42.30 kB
Words
510
Media files
20
Number of links
38 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Software.com | Data, AI to Unlock Developer Productivity
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Software.com automates data to measure and benchmark critical areas of investment in software development and R&D. Get actionable, quantitative insights to unlock developer productivity and accelerate innovation.
The meta description is too long: 1333 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.software.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)
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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
descriptionSoftware.com automates data to measure and benchmark critical areas of investment in software development and R&D. Get actionable, quantitative insights to unlock developer productivity and accelerate innovation.
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@software_hq
twitter:titleSoftware.com | Data, AI to Unlock Developer Productivity
twitter:descriptionSoftware.com automates data to measure and benchmark critical areas of investment in software development and R&D. Get actionable, quantitative insights to unlock developer productivity and accelerate innovation.
twitter:imagehttps://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6080d45a6168d45abde5cba9/61429e7e592d867c8b913eae_software.png
og:titleSoftware.com | Data, AI to Unlock Developer Productivity
og:descriptionSoftware.com automates data to measure and benchmark critical areas of investment in software development and R&D. Get actionable, quantitative insights to unlock developer productivity and accelerate innovation.
og:imagehttps://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6080d45a6168d45abde5cba9/61429e7e592d867c8b913eae_software.png
og:typewebsite
og:urlhttps://www.software.com
charsetutf-8

Automatically check software.com including all subpages at once!

Try for free
Guaranteed free of charge during trial period.

Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 510 words. That's ok.
30.2% 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.
11 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 12.74 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" 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 10 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Data, AI Insights to Unlock Developer Productivity
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Data, AI Insights to Unlock Developer Productivity
H1 Built for fast adoption
H2 Accelerate software delivery
H2 Fast, easy setup in minutes
H2 Enterprise-grade security
H2 See the path to faster, smarter software development
H3 Accelerate AI adoption
H3 Remove engineering bottlenecks
H3 Improve developer experience
H3 Get your teams up and running
H3 Pinpoint your biggest bottlenecks
H3 Adapt to changing constraints
H3 Never reads code
H3 Data encryption
H3 Read-only access
H3 SOC 2 compliant
H6 Connect a Git provider
H6 Get focused, actionable data
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 7 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
/legal/privacySubdomain Privacy Policy.
https://www.software.com/IMG-ALT Software.com
https://www.software.com/productPlatform
https://www.software.com/pricingPricing
/reports/future-of-workImpact of Remote Work on Software Development
/reports/code-time-reportCode Time: Friction, Productivity, and Flow
/guides/how-to-measure-softwar...Measuring Software Development Performance
/guides/measuring-and-improvin...Improving Engineering Team Performance
IMG-ALT Measuring and Improving Team Performance
https://www.software.com/aboutAbout
https://www.software.com/srcBlog
https://www.software.com/newsNews
/manifestoManifesto
/code-editorsCode Time
https://app.software.com/loginExternal Subdomain Sign in
https://www.software.com/demoGet a demo
https://www.software.com/genaiJoin our research study comparing AI coding tools →
https://www.software.com/demoText duplicate Get a demo
https://www.software.com/productExplore
https://www.software.com/genaiCompare GenAI tools
https://www.software.com/productText duplicate Explore
https://www.software.com/productText duplicate Explore
https://www.software.com/demoIdentify your top constraints
https://www.software.com/productExplore our platform
https://www.software.com/securityVisit our Trust Center
https://www.software.com/demoText duplicate Get a demo
https://www.software.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Software.com
https://www.software.com/productProduct
https://www.software.com/pricingText duplicate Pricing
/reports/future-of-workFuture of Work
/reports/code-time-reportCode Time Report
/guides/how-to-measure-softwar...Engineering KPIs
https://www.software.com/securitySecurity
https://docs.software.com/External Subdomain Documentation
https://www.software.com/supportSupport Hub
https://status.software.com/External Subdomain Status
https://www.software.com/aboutText duplicate About
https://www.software.com/jobsCareers
/manifestoText duplicate Manifesto
/legal/privacySubdomain Privacy Policy
/legal/securitySubdomain Security Policy
/legal/termsSubdomain Terms and Conditions
https://github.com/swdotcomExternal No Text
https://www.facebook.com/softw...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/software_hqExternal No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.software.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 0.42 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 (42 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateFri, 04 Jul 2025 12:00:52 GMT
content-typetext/html
cf-ray959e76f63846ee5c-MXP
cf-cache-statusHIT
age685930
content-encodinggzip
last-modifiedThu, 26 Jun 2025 13:24:58 GMT
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
surrogate-controlmax-age=2147483647
surrogate-keywww.software.com 6080d45a6168d45abde5cba9 pageId:62f5e52704e0679f0fe5a5c7
x-lambda-id76eb2234-8b20-41c6-aa0e-76b1de39a1b0
varyAccept-Encoding
set-cookie149 Characters
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
x-cluster-nameeu-south-1-prod-hosting-red
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 146 referring domains.
This page has 721 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 121 different ip addresses.

Search preview

www.software.com
Software.com | Data, AI to Unlock Developer Productivity
Software.com automates data to measure and benchmark critical areas of investment in software development and R&D. Get actionable, quantitative insights to unlock developer productivity and accelerate innovation.

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
Software81%Check
Data81%Check
Developer80%Check
Developer Productivity79%Check
Unlock Developer79%Check
Unlock Developer Productivity77%Check
Unlock73%Check
Productivity72%Check
Software Development69%Check
actionable data67%Check

Automatically check software.com including all subpages at once!

Try for free
Guaranteed free of charge during trial period.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our site work and also for analytics and advertising purposes. You can enable or disable optional cookies as desired. See the following links for more information.

We need these so the site can function properly

So we can better understand how visitors use our website

So we can serve you tailored ads and promotions