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Visitors

Traffic estimation

200,000 to 1,000,000 visitors/month
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Alexa rank

8,323

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Compete rank

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Content

Indexed pages

1,740,000
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This is the number of pages on your website that are indexed by Google™.

The more pages that search engines index, the better.

A low number (relative to the total number of pages/URLs on your website) probably indicates that your internal link architecture needs improvement and is preventing Search engines from crawling all pages on your website.

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In-Site SEO

Home analysis

URL

http://freebsd.org

Length: 7 characters

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Keep your URLs short. If possible, avoid long domain names.

A descriptive URL is better recognized by search engines. A user should be able to look at the address bar and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before reaching it (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/en/products).

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To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.

Title

The FreeBSD Project

Length: 19 characters

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Your title contains between 10 and 70 characters, which is great.

Make sure your title is explicit and contains your most important keywords.

Be sure that each page has a unique title.

Resource: Use this snippet-optimizer to see how your titles and descriptions will look in Google&trade search results.

Meta description

The FreeBSD Project

Length: 19 characters

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Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results.

Ideally, your meta description should contain between 70 and 160 characters.

Ensure that your meta description is explicit and contains your most important keywords.

Also be sure that each page has a unique meta description.

Meta keywords

FreeBSD, BSD, UNIX, Support, Ports, Release, Application, Software, Handbook, FAQ, Tutorials, Bugs, CVS, CVSup, News, Commercial Vendors, homepage, CTM, Unix

Length: 157 characters

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Meta keywords is used to indicate keywords that are supposedly relevant to your website's content. However, because search engine spammers have abused this tag, it provides little to no benefit to your search rankings.

Headings

H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6
1 13 0 0 0 0
  • [H1] Based on BSD UNIX
  • [H2] Header And Logo
  • [H2] Peripheral Links
  • [H2] Search
  • [H2] Site Navigation
  • [H2] LATEST RELEASES
  • [H2] Language Links
  • [H2] Mirror
  • [H2] SHORTCUTS
  • [H2] LATEST NEWS
  • [H2] UPCOMING EVENTS
  • [H2] IN THE MEDIA
  • [H2] SECURITY ADVISORIES
  • [H2] ERRATA NOTICES
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Your website is structured using HTML headings/levels (<H1> to <H6>), which is great.

Use your keywords in the headings. Make sure the first level (<H1>) includes your most important keywords.

For greater SEO, only use one <H1> title per page.

Images

We found 4 images on this website.

No alt attributes are empty or missing!

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Most or all of your images have alternative text (the alt attribute), which is good.

Alternative text describes your images so they can appear in Google&trade Images search results.

Check the images on your website and make sure effective ALT text is specified for each image.

Click here to find out how to optimize images for search engines.

Restrict the number and size of images to optimize your website's page load times.

Resource: Use the Wayback Machine to review the design of any website in the past.

Text/HTML ratio

16.86% (view text)

The FreeBSD Project Skip site navigation (1) Skip section navigation (2) Header And Logo Peripheral Links Text Size: Normal / Large Donate Contact Search Site Navigation Home About Introduction Features Advocacy Marketing Get FreeBSD Release Information Release Engineering Documentation FAQ Handbook Porter's Handbook Developer's Handbook Manual Pages Community Mailing Lists Forums User Groups Events Developers Project Ideas SVN Repository CVS Repository Perforce Repository Support Vendors Security Information Bug Reports Submit Bug-report Foundation Donate Based on BSD UNIX® FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world's busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices. »Learn More . Get FreeBSD Now . LATEST RELEASES Production: 8.2 Legacy: 7.4 Upcoming: 9.0-BETA3 Language Links de en es fr hu it ja nl ru zh_CN Mirror IPv6 Armenia IPv6 Austria IPv6 Brazil IPv6 Czech Republic IPv6 Denmark IPv6 Japan IPv6 Taiwan/1 IPv6 Taiwan/2 IPv6 Turkey IPv6 USA Argentina Armenia Australia/1 Australia/2 Austria Belgium Brazil/1 Brazil/2 Brazil/3 Bulgaria/1 Bulgaria/2 Canada/1 Canada/2 China Costa Rica Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland/1 Finland/2 France/1 France/2 Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary/1 Hungary/2 Iceland Italy/1 Italy/2 Japan Korea/1 Korea/2 Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Latvia/1 Latvia/2 Lithuania Netherlands/1 Netherlands/2 Norway Philippines Portugal/1 Portugal/2 Portugal/3 Portugal/4 Romania/1 Romania/2 Romania/3 Romania/4 Russia/1 Russia/2 Russia/3 Russia/4 Russia/5 San Marino Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia/1 Slovenia/2 South Africa/1 South Africa/2 Spain/1 Spain/2 Spain/3 Sweden/1 Sweden/2 Switzerland/1 Switzerland/2 Taiwan/1 Taiwan/2 Taiwan/3 Taiwan/4 Taiwan/5 Taiwan/6 Taiwan/7 Thailand Turkey/1 Turkey/2 Turkey/3 Ukraine/1 Ukraine/2 Ukraine/3 Ukraine/4 United Kingdom/1 United Kingdom/2 USA/1 USA/2 SHORTCUTS Mailing Lists Report a Bug FAQ Handbook Ports . New to FreeBSD? . LATEST NEWS 2011-10-06 New committer: Alexander V. Chernikov (src) 2011-09-28 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available 2011-09-27 New commiter: Jakub Klama (src) 2011-09-19 New committer: Gleb Kurtsou (src) More News . UPCOMING EVENTS 2011-11-05 - 2011-11-05 BSDday Argentina 2011 (Buenos Aires City, Argentina) 2011-11-05 - 2011-11-05 bsd_day(2011) (Bratislava, Slovakia) 2012-05-15 - 2012-05-18 BSDCan 2012 (Ottawa, Canada) 2013-05-13 - 2013-05-17 BSDCan 2013 (Ottawa, Canada) More Events . IN THE MEDIA 2011-03 PC-BSD 8.2 review 2011-02 FreeBSD 8.2 expands ZFS support 2010-08 PC-BSD 8.1 review 2010-02 Health Check: FreeBSD - The unknown giant 2009-11 FreeNAS 0.7 adds ZFS support More Media . SECURITY ADVISORIES 2011-09-28 FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix 2011-09-28 FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress 2011-09-28 FreeBSD-SA-11:03.bind More ERRATA NOTICES 2010-02-27 FreeBSD-EN-10:02.sched_ule 2010-01-06 FreeBSD-EN-10:01.freebsd More Site Map | Legal Notices | © 1995-2011 The FreeBSD Project. All rights reserved. The mark FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation and is used by The FreeBSD Project with the permission of The FreeBSD Foundation.
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Your website's ratio of text to HTML code is higher than 15%, which is great.

Although your text/code ratio is good, you can always improve it by adding more text content to your pages.

Higher ratios boost SEO by increasing keyword density.

Frames

No
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There are no frames used on your homepage, which is great.

Frames can cause problems for search engines because they don't correspond to the conceptual model of the web. Avoid frames whenever possible.

Flash

No
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No Flash content has been detected on your homepage, which is good.

Flash should only be used for specific enhancements. Avoid full Flash websites to maximize SEO.

Although Flash content often looks nicer, it cannot be indexed by search engines (however this may change in the near future).

This advice also applies to AJAX (however this may also change in the near future).

Inside analysis

Inside pages analysis

Nice! You have different titles on each pages!

Title Meta description Text/HTML ratio
FreeBSD Mirror Sites 18.34%
The FreeBSD Project The FreeBSD Project 16.86%
FreeBSD Donations Liaison 54%
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No duplicate content has been detected on the pages of your website.

Use Google™ Webmaster Tool to improve the way search engines index your website.

Website compliance

www resolve

Perfect! Your website with or without www redirects to the same page!
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Your website directs http://freebsd.org and http://www.freebsd.org to the same URL, which is great.

Redirecting requests from a non-preferred hostname is important because search engines consider URLs with and without "www" as two different websites.

robots.txt

http://www.freebsd.org/robots.txt
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Your website has a robots.txt file, which is great.

A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine robots that crawl the web, and it can prevent these robots from accessing specific directories and pages. It also specifies where the XML sitemap file is located.

Click here to check your robots.txt file for syntax errors.

XML Sitemaps

Missing
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Your website does not have an XML sitemap, which can be problematic.

A sitemap lists URLs that are available for crawling and can include additional information like last update, frequency of changes, and importance. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.

Click here to generate an XML sitemap for your website.

Despite sporadic debates regarding this issue, we recommend that you submit an XML sitemap to Google™ Webmasters Tools and to Yahoo Site Explorer.

Language

  • Declared: Missing
  • Detected: Missing
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You have not specified the language of your website. Use the META Language Tag to specify the natural language of your website.

Tips for multilingual websites:

Doctype

XHTML 1.0 Transitional
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Declaring a doctype helps web browsers to render content correctly.

Encoding

ISO-8859-1
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Language/character encoding is specified, which is great.

Specifying language/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of special characters.

Google Analytics

No
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Your website is not monitored by Google™ Analytics.

You're really missing a great opportunity if you don't have this or another analytics tool installed.

Google™ Analytics is a free solution that gives you valuable insights into your website traffic.

With Google™ Analytics, you can analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way and create higher conversion rates.

W3C validity

Invalid (1 errors, 0 warnings)
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Use valid markup that contains no errors. Syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index.

To fix the detected errors, run the W3C validation service.

W3C is a consortium that sets the web standards.

Microformats

Missing
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Your website does not take advantage of Microformats.

Microformat is a technical semantic markup that can be used to better structure the data submitted to search engines.

Thanks to Microformats, Google™ regularly improves its search results presentation.

Dublin Core

Missing
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Your website does not take advantage of Dublin Core.

Dublin Core is a set of standard metadata elements used to describe the contents of a website.

Geo Meta Tags

Missing
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Your website is not geotagged.

Although Google™ ignores Geo-Meta Tags, the search engine Bing takes them into account.

Off-Site SEO

Popularity

Google last crawl date

Unknown
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Google™ periodically crawls websites looking for new and updated content. In general, you want Google™ to crawl your site as often as possible so your new content shows up in search results.

Click here to ensure your website's content and links have been indexed by Google™.

If Google's™ cache of your website lacks text or links, there's probably a programming problem.

Directories

DMOZ

Yes
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Your website is listed in DMOZ, a multilingual open content directory constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.

Make sure its description is up-to-date because search engines take DMOZ into account.

Yahoo! Directory

Yes
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The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory which rivals DMOZ.

It offers two options for suggesting websites for possible listing: "Standard" (which is free) and a paid submission process that offers expedited review.

Social Media

Delicious links

0
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Delicious is a popular social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering websites.

Monitoring Delicious is a great way to see what's hot on your website.

Resource: Monitor your brand in social media using tools like Addictomatic.

Digg entries

86
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Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content.

Monitoring Digg is a great way to see what's hot on your website.

Resource: Monitor your brand in social media using tools like Addictomatic.

Twitter recent backlinks

0
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Click here to browse the most recent tweets related to your website.

Monitoring recent tweets tells you what people are saying about your website in real-time.

Resource: Monitor your brand in Twitter using tools like Topsy.

Twitter account check

Twitter username freebsd is already taken. Is it yours?

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Twitter is a fast-growing social network.

If possible, register a Twitter account in your brand's name now to prevent identity theft.

You should also check the availability of your brand name in other social networks.

Feeds

  • ./news/rss.xml
  • ./security/rss.xml
  • ./gnome/rss.xml
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Your website provides a feed, which is good.

Feeds are especially important for blogs and news websites. Subscribers are notified of content updates, which improves your website's visibility.

Resource: Did you know that FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters and other web-based content publishers?

Usability

Readability level

Teenager
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This measures the approximate level of education necessary to understand content on your website.

A website targeting a large audience should be easy to read for a teenager.

Resource: To further improve the readability of your website, consider these 10 principles for web typography.

Favicon

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Your website has a favicon, which is great. Make sure this favicon is consistent with your brand.

Resource: Check out this amazing idea for improving user experience with a special favicon.

Website informations

Server

Load time

0.931 second(s) (0.046 s/Kb)
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Your website is fast. Well done.

Site speed is becoming an important factor for ranking high in Google™ search results

Resource: Check out these other tips to make your website run faster.

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IP

69.147.83.40
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Your server's IP address has no impact on your SEO.

Use Robtex and DNSstuff for comprehensive reports on your domain name server.

Location

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

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To improve your website's responsiveness, locate your servers close to your main markets.

Click here to test your website speed. Everything is OK if the average time over 10 pings is less than 300ms.

gzip

No
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Your website does not take advantage of gzip.

gzip is free and can help to improve your website's speed.

Other facts

Safe browsing

Yes
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Your website is safe.

No evidence of phishing and/or malware has been detected.

Domain

Whois

NOTICE: Access to .ORG WHOIS information is provided to assist persons in
determining the contents of a domain name registration record in the Public Interest Registry
registry database. The data in this record is provided by Public Interest Registry
for informational purposes only, and Public Interest Registry does not guarantee its
accuracy. This service is intended only for query-based access. You agree
that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and that, under no
circumstances will you use this data to: (a) allow, enable, or otherwise
support the transmission by e-mail, telephone, or facsimile of mass
unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities other than
the data recipient's own existing customers; or (b) enable high volume,
automated, electronic processes that send queries or data to the systems of
Registry Operator or any ICANN-Accredited Registrar, except as reasonably
necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. All
rights reserved. Public Interest Registry reserves the right to modify these terms at any
time. By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy.

Domain ID:D4488916-LROR
Domain Name:FREEBSD.ORG
Created On:19-Sep-1994 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:16-Apr-2010 00:24:31 UTC
Expiration Date:18-Sep-2016 04:00:00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:tuHbzdTWLmystFVY
Registrant Name:THE FREEBSD FOUNDATION
Registrant Organization:THE FREEBSD FOUNDATION
Registrant Street1:P.O. Box 20247
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Registrant City:BOULDER
Registrant State/Province:CO
Registrant Postal Code:80308
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.7202075142
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Registrant Email:board@freebsdfoundation.org
Admin ID:tuHbzdTWLmystFVY
Admin Name:THE FREEBSD FOUNDATION
Admin Organization:THE FREEBSD FOUNDATION
Admin Street1:P.O. Box 20247
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Admin City:BOULDER
Admin State/Province:CO
Admin Postal Code:80308
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.7202075142
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Admin Email:board@freebsdfoundation.org
Tech ID:tuHbzdTWLmystFVY
Tech Name:THE FREEBSD FOUNDATION
Tech Organization:THE FREEBSD FOUNDATION
Tech Street1:P.O. Box 20247
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Tech State/Province:CO
Tech Postal Code:80308
Tech Country:US
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Old domains are ranked higher by search engines and yield better SEO results.

Google™ temporarily reduces the page rank of new domains, placing them into a "sandbox".

Using a domain that has been registered for many years can mitigate this effect.

Consider these Whois tips to further improve your SEO.

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