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Meta information
74% 
Page quality
78% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
65% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.17 s
File size
107.80 kB
Words
2057
Media files
27
Number of links
26 internal / 57 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Rick Steves' Travel Blog
The length of the page title is perfect. (217 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)
http://blog.ricksteves.com/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
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)
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)
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: I’ll be sharing more photos, stories, and tips from Mont Blanc on the ...
This page contains 2057 words. That's ok.
41.8% 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.
38 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 18.52 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 41 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
26 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)
Rick Steves’ Travel Blog
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Rick Steves’ Travel Blog
H2 Posts pagination
H2 Recent Posts
H3 Comrades No More: Thoughts on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
H3 The Tour du Mont Blanc: Some Tips I Learned Along the Way
H3 Taking it Easy on the Tour du Mont Blanc
H3 The Mont Blanc Esprit de Corps
H3 The Best Hike of my Life: The Tour du Mont Blanc
H3 About Us
H3 Travel Help
H3 Publications
H3 Media Partners
H3 Contact Us
H3 Follow Us
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 (57) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://blog.ricksteves.com/Anchor Skip to content
https://www.ricksteves.com/External Subdomain Home
https://blog.ricksteves.com/Blog
https://www.ricksteves.com/External Subdomain IMG-ALT Rick Steves' Europe
A-TITLE Rick Steves' Europe
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain About Rick
https://www.ricksteves.com/europeExternal Subdomain Explore Europe
https://www.ricksteves.com/toursExternal Subdomain Our Tours
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Travel Tips
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Watch, Read, Listen
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Rick's Travel Articles
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Watch the TV Show
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Monday Night Travel
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Travel Talks
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Travel News
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Travel Blogs
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Listen to the Radio Show
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Audio Europe App
https://www.ricksteves.com/wat...External Subdomain Audio Tours
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Travel Forum
https://www.ricksteves.com/shopExternal Subdomain Shop Online
https://blog.ricksteves.com/Anchor No Text
https://www.ricksteves.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Rick Steves' Europe
A-TITLE Rick Steves' Europe
https://www.ricksteves.com/External Subdomain Text duplicate Home
https://blog.ricksteves.com/Text duplicate Blog
https://www.facebook.com/ricks...New window External Subdomain Facebook page
/archives/Browse by Destination or Date
/blog/russia-ukraine/Subdomain February 24, 2022
/blog/russia-ukraine/Subdomain Comrades No More: Thoughts on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
/blog/tour-du-mont-blanc-tips/Subdomain November 14, 2021
/blog/tour-du-mont-blanc-tips/Subdomain The Tour du Mont Blanc: Some Tips I Learned Along the Way
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Register now
/blog/taking-it-easy-on-the-tmb/Subdomain November 12, 2021
/blog/taking-it-easy-on-the-tmb/Subdomain Taking it Easy on the Tour du Mont Blanc
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Text duplicate Register now
/blog/mont-blanc-esprit-de-corps/Subdomain November 10, 2021
/blog/mont-blanc-esprit-de-corps/Subdomain The Mont Blanc Esprit de Corps
/blog/tour-du-mont-blanc/Subdomain Hiking Europe’s Tour du Mont Blanc
/blog/tour-du-mont-blanc/Subdomain November 9, 2021November 10, 2021
/blog/tour-du-mont-blanc/Subdomain The Best Hike of my Life: The Tour du Mont Blanc
https://classroom.ricksteves.c...External Subdomain Tour du Mont Blanc
https://www.tpt.org/External Subdomain TPT – Twin Cities PBS
/page/2/Subdomain Page 2
/page/555/Subdomain Page 555
/page/2/Subdomain Next page
/archives/Text duplicate Browse by Destination or Date
A-TITLE Blog Archives
https://www.facebook.com/ricks...New window External Subdomain Rick on Facebook
A-TITLE Rick Steves on Facebook
https://twitter.com/rickstevesNew window External Rick on Twitter
A-TITLE Rick Steves on Twitter
/?feed=rss2New window RSS
A-TITLE Rick's Blog on RSS
/blog/russia-ukraine/Subdomain Text duplicate Comrades No More: Thoughts on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
/blog/tour-du-mont-blanc-tips/Subdomain Text duplicate The Tour du Mont Blanc: Some Tips I Learned Along the Way
/blog/taking-it-easy-on-the-tmb/Subdomain Text duplicate Taking it Easy on the Tour du Mont Blanc
/blog/mont-blanc-esprit-de-corps/Subdomain Text duplicate The Mont Blanc Esprit de Corps
/blog/tour-du-mont-blanc/Subdomain Text duplicate The Best Hike of my Life: The Tour du Mont Blanc
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain Contact Information
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain What We Do
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain Meet the Staff
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain Social Responsibility
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain Climate Smart
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain Jobs
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain FAQ
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Tours FAQ
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Ask Us
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Travel Classes
https://www.ricksteves.com/tra...External Subdomain Visit the Travel Center
https://www.ricksteves.com/eur...External Subdomain Guidebook Updates
https://www.ricksteves.com/for...External Subdomain Submit Book Feedback
https://www.ricksteves.com/pub...External Subdomain Travel News Email
https://www.ricksteves.com/pub...External Subdomain Tour News Email
https://www.ricksteves.com/pub...External Subdomain Subscription Center
https://www.ricksteves.com/tv-...External Subdomain TV Programmers
https://www.ricksteves.com/rad...External Subdomain Radio Programmers
https://www.ricksteves.com/syn...External Subdomain Syndicated Content
https://www.ricksteves.com/pre...External Subdomain Press Room
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain phone
https://maps.google.com/maps?q...External Subdomain map
https://www.facebook.com/ricks...External Subdomain Facebook
https://instagram.com/rickstev...New window External Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/rickst...External Subdomain YouTube
https://www.tiktok.com/@rickst...External Subdomain TikTok
https://www.pinterest.com/rick...External Subdomain Pinterest
https://twitter.com/ricksteveseurExternal Twitter
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain Terms of Service
https://www.ricksteves.com/abo...External Subdomain Privacy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://blog.ricksteves.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 (1.17 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 (108 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 86 referring domains.
This page has 3,387 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 81 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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