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Meta information
79% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
55% 
Link structure
90% 
Server
80% 
External factors
12% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
449.70 kB
Words
347
Media files
33
Number of links
34 internal / 24 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Budo Journeyman | Tim Shaw | Substack
The length of the page title is perfect. (366 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
• Wado karate, Budo and general martial arts, both technical and theoretical. Click to read Budo Journeyman, by Tim Shaw, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
The meta description is too long: 1085 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://budojourneyman.substack.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
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)
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)
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 347 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
28.8% 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.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0, viewport-fit=cover" 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 7 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
17 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)
Budo Journeyman
The H1 heading is too short (15 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Budo Journeyman
H4 Share this post
H4 Share this post Duplicate text
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H4 Share this post Duplicate text
H4 Share this post Duplicate text
H4 Share this post Duplicate text
H4 Share this post Duplicate text
H4 Budo Journeyman Duplicate text
H4 Share this publication
H4 Share
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
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 24 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/IMG-ALT Budo Journeyman
/Text duplicate Budo Journeyman
/Home
/archiveArchive
/aboutAbout
/p/the-ship-of-theseus-paradoxSubdomain The Ship of Theseus Paradox.
/p/the-ship-of-theseus-paradoxSubdomain Can there be such a thing as the original kata?
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Tim Shaw
/p/the-ship-of-theseus-paradox...Subdomain 2
/p/the-lucky-generationSubdomain The lucky generation.
/p/the-lucky-generationSubdomain Japanese martial arts most productive epoch?
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Text duplicate Tim Shaw
/p/the-lucky-generation/commentsSubdomain 3
/p/another-way-of-looking-at-o...Subdomain Another way of looking at Okinawan karate. Part 2.
/p/another-way-of-looking-at-o...Subdomain Other considerations.
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Text duplicate Tim Shaw
/p/another-way-of-looking-at-o...Subdomain No Text
/p/strangers-in-a-strange-land...Subdomain Strangers in a strange land part 2.
/p/strangers-in-a-strange-land...Subdomain The idiosyncratic crazy individualism of Foujita Tsuguharu.
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Text duplicate Tim Shaw
/p/strangers-in-a-strange-land...Subdomain 1
/p/are-eyebrows-essential-for-...Subdomain Are eyebrows essential for kata performance?
/p/are-eyebrows-essential-for-...Subdomain Serious question.
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Text duplicate Tim Shaw
/p/are-eyebrows-essential-for-...Subdomain 6
/p/another-way-of-looking-at-o...Subdomain Another way of looking at Okinawan karate. Part 1.
/p/another-way-of-looking-at-o...Subdomain Musings on Okinawan ‘Te’ and Japanese karate.
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Text duplicate Tim Shaw
/p/another-way-of-looking-at-o...Subdomain No Text
/p/strangers-in-a-strange-land...Subdomain Strangers in a strange land – Part 1.
/p/strangers-in-a-strange-land...Subdomain The Japanese in the West.
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Text duplicate Tim Shaw
/p/strangers-in-a-strange-land...Subdomain Text duplicate 2
/p/martial-arts-dynasties-part-5Subdomain Martial Arts Dynasties Part 5.
/p/martial-arts-dynasties-part-5Subdomain More recent family traditions in Japanese martial arts.
https://substack.com/@budojour...External Text duplicate Tim Shaw
/p/martial-arts-dynasties-part...Subdomain No Text
/recommendationsSubdomain View all 23
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https://jondiluca.substack.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT User's avatar
https://jondiluca.substack.com...New window External Subdomain Ki to the City
https://japanandbeyond.substac...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT User's avatar
https://japanandbeyond.substac...New window External Subdomain Secrets from Japan and Beyond
https://www.bunburyoudou.com/New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Bunburyoudou (文武両道) Substack
https://www.bunburyoudou.com/?...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Bunburyoudou (文武両道) Substack
https://hiroshionaka.substack....New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Japanese Traditional Artisans
https://hiroshionaka.substack....New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Japanese Traditional Artisans
/aboutText duplicate About
/archiveText duplicate Archive
/recommendationsSubdomain Recommendations
/sitemapSitemap
https://substack.com/privacyNew window External Privacy
https://substack.com/tosNew window External Terms
https://substack.com/ccpaNew window External Anchor Collection notice
https://substack.com/signup?ut...External Start writing
https://substack.com/app/app-s...External Get the app
https://substack.com/External Substack

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://budojourneyman.substack.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.63 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 (450 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 4 referring domains.
This page only has 6 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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