Website Review: sts.org
Generated on October 29 2026 19:45 PM
The score is 67/100
SEO Content
Title
Home 2026 | STS
Length : 15
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Description
Length : 0
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Keywords
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Og Meta Properties
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Headings
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 |
| 1 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- [H1] The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- [H2] Top menu
- [H2] Main menu
- [H2] Live Surgery, TAVR Advocacy, and STS 2027
- [H2] STS Updates
- [H2] 2027 Nina Starr Braunwald Extraordinary Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery (EWCTS) Awards
- [H2] 63rd STS Annual Meeting
- [H2] STS Risk Calculators
- [H2] STS Surgeon Compensation Survey
- [H2] Surgical Excellence After Neoadjuvant Therapy for NSCLC
- [H2] Member Voices
- [H2] Data & Research
- [H2] Resources
- [H2] Browse by
- [H2] Footer menu
- [H2] Legal Menu
- [H3] STS National Database
- [H3] Public Reporting
- [H3] Current Projects
- [H3] Data Access Programs
- [H3] Risk Calculators
- [H3] Early Career Resources
- [H3] Clinical Practice Documents and Policies
- [H3] Surgical Checklists
- [H3] Audience
- [H3] Area of Practice
- [H3] Topics
Images
We found 16 images on this web page.
8 image alt attributes were missing. Please add alt text to all images to help search engines better understand the content of your images.
Text/HTML Ratio
Ratio : 23%
Great, this page's ratio of text to HTML code is higher than 20, but lower than 25 percent.
Iframe
Not ideal - You have Iframes on the web page, this mean that content in an Iframe cannot be indexed.
SEO Links
URL Rewrite
Good. Your links look SEO friendly and are easy to crawl!
Underscores in the URLs
Great! No underscores found in your URLs.
In-page links
We found a total of 117 links including 1 link(s) to files
| Anchor | Type | Juice |
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| Skip to main content | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Thoracic Surgery Foundation | External | Passing Juice |
| The Annals of Thoracic Surgery | External | Passing Juice |
| Career Center | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS National Database | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Learning Center | Internal | Passing Juice |
| CORA | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Join | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Login | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Search | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS OnDemand | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS Consult | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Thoracic Surgical Curriculum | Internal | Passing Juice |
| 8-in-8 Video Series | External | Passing Juice |
| International Activities | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Educational Collaborations | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Credit Claiming | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Annual Meeting | External | Passing Juice |
| Calendar of Events | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Webinars | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Leadership Institute | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Resident Showdown | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Newsroom | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Blogs | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Podcasts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Magazine | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Newsletters | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Videos | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Press Releases | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Advocacy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Member Stories | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Leadership Skills | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Research | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Best of Lung Cancer Science | Internal | Passing Juice |
| The Annals of Thoracic Surgery | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Annals Short Reports | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Editors' Choice | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Editorial Board | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Annals Peer Reviewer Academy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Media Kit | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Trainee Hub | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Early Career Surgeons | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Compensation | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Mentorship | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Scholarships | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Inclusion & Belonging | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Wellness | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Clinical Practice Documents and Policies | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Patient Safety | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Surgical Checklists | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Lung Nodule | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Risk Calculators | Internal | Passing Juice |
| CORA: Cardiothoracic Online Resource Assistant | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Coding Resources | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Coding Help Desk | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Navigating Lung Cancer | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS National Database | Internal | Passing Juice |
| For Data Managers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS/ACC TVT Registry | External | Passing Juice |
| STS Research and Analytic Center | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Research Programs & Data Access | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Current Projects | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Published Research | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Industry Data Requests | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS Public Reporting | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS/ACC TVT Public Reporting | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS Database Participant Media Toolkit | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Join Now | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Overview | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Get Involved | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Key Issues | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS-PAC | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Advocacy News | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Surgical Workforce Mapping | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Roadmap to Mobile Lung Cancer Screening | Internal | Passing Juice |
| About STS | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Bylaws | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Policies | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Distinguished Partners | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Governance | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Boards | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Committees | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Councils | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Strategic Advisory Panels | Internal | Passing Juice |
| 2027 Nina Starr Braunwald Extraordinary Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery (EWCTS) Awards | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Blog | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Open | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Surgeon | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Resident / Fellow | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Data Manager | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Industry | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Cardiac | Internal | Passing Juice |
| General Thoracic | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Congenital | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Critical Care | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Quality | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Early Career | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Technology | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Annual Meeting | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Future Annual Meetings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Scholarships | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Magazine | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Podcasts | Internal | Passing Juice |
| STS Public Reporting | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Get Involved | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Grassroots Advocacy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Join STS | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Contact Us | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Join the STS National Database | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Jobs at STS | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Privacy Policy | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Proprietary Notice and Disclaimer | Internal | Passing Juice |
| X | External | Passing Juice |
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| YouTube | External | Passing Juice |
| Bluesky | External | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Consistency
| Keyword | Content | Title | Keywords | Description | Headings |
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| sts | 30 |  |
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| research | 12 | |
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| thoracic | 10 | |
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| surgery | 10 | |
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| career | 9 | |
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Usability
Url
Domain : sts.org
Length : 7
Favicon
Great, your website has a favicon.
Language
Good. Your declared language is en.
Document
Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
Great. Your declared charset is UTF-8.
Email Privacy
Great no email address was found in plain text!
Deprecated HTML
Great! We haven't found deprecated HTML tags in your HTML.
Speed Tips
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Not great, your website is using inline styles. This is not optimal. |
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Great, your website has few CSS files. |
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This website has an excessive amount of Javascript files (more than 6). |
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Awesome, your website takes advantage of GZIP compression for SEO optimization. |
Mobile
Mobile Optimization
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Apple Icon |
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Meta Viewport Tag |
Optimization
XML Sitemap
Great, your website has an XML sitemap.
| https://www.sts.org/sitemap.xml |
Robots.txt
http://sts.org/robots.txt
Great, your website has a robots.txt file.
Analytics
Missing
Unverified
AI Search Readiness
AI Crawlers
AI search crawlers are allowed, so the site can be shown and cited in AI answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity).
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OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search | AI search |
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ChatGPT-User | ChatGPT (user requests) | AI search |
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Claude-SearchBot | Claude search | AI search |
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Claude-User | Claude (user requests) | AI search |
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PerplexityBot | Perplexity | AI search |
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GPTBot | OpenAI training | AI training |
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ClaudeBot | Anthropic training | AI training |
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Google-Extended | Google Gemini training | AI training |
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Applebot-Extended | Apple AI training | AI training |
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CCBot | Common Crawl | AI training |
Blocking AI training crawlers is a common choice and doesn't affect the score. Only the AI search crawlers count.
Structured Data
The homepage describes itself with schema.org structured data, which helps search engines and AI tools understand it: WebPage
Canonical Tag
The homepage has a canonical tag, which tells search engines which URL is the main version of the page.
llms.txt
No llms.txt file. It's an emerging convention: a short Markdown summary of the site for AI tools. Optional, so it doesn't affect the score.
Security
HTTPS
The site loads over HTTPS, so connections are encrypted. Browsers and search engines expect this.
HSTS
The site sends a Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers always use HTTPS for it.
Security Headers
3 of 5 common security headers found. At least 2 are needed to pass.
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X-Content-Type-Options |
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Domain Info
sts.org was registered on 14 Nov 1995 with NameCheap, Inc. and expires on 13 Nov 2029. It accepts email and has both SPF and DMARC records. The Wayback Machine first archived it in December 1996.
Registration
| Registrar | NameCheap, Inc. |
| Registered | 14 Nov 1995 (30 years ago) |
| Expires | 13 Nov 2029 |
| Last changed | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Nameservers | ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns3.dnsmadeeasy.com |
| DNSSEC | Not signed |
Hosting
| IPv4 address | 165.227.251.169 |
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IPv6 support |
Email Security
Mail servers: sts-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
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SPF record |
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DMARC record (policy: quarantine) |
Archive History
The Wayback Machine has snapshots of this site from 311 different months, from December 1996 to October 2026. View snapshots
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