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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.14 s
File size
53.60 kB
Words
291
Media files
5
Number of links
9 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
NPR Visuals + Editorial Graphics
The length of the page title is perfect. (295 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is 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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
descriptionEmpty
authorEmpty
langen
og:imagehttp://blog.apps.npr.org/img/nprviz-logo.png
og:urlhttp://blog.apps.npr.org/
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are only 291 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
These Typos were found:
  • slippy => slippery
32.6% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.89 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" 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 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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

URLAlt attributeTitle
https://blog.apps.npr.org/img/nprlogo.gifNPR
...ssets/synced/images/resized/0R9A8165.jpgImage
/img/swings-2024.pngImage
/img/election-2024.pngImage
.../synced/images/AralSea-Toned_DSC9138.jpgImage

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
visuals + editorial graphics NPR
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 visuals + editorial graphics NPR
H2 Photographers, videographers, coders and designers in the NPR newsroom.
H2 Recent Work
H2 Open-Source Tools
H2 On The Team Blog
H3 One family. One attack. 132 names.
H3 These charts show how Trump's strategy to lose by less won back several swing states
H3 Live: Election Results 2024
H3 Central Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water
H3 Dailygraphics Next
H3 Sidechain
H3 Interactive Template
H3 Elections Slackbots
H3 Self-hosted slippy maps, for novices (like me)
H3 How I make news comics
H6 January 29, 2025
H6 November 26, 2024
H6 May 29, 2024
There are too few (9) internal links on this page.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 3 links with a trivial anchor text.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://twitter.com/nprviz/lis...New window External Photographers, videographers, coders and designers
https://grnh.se/279ab2f05usExternal Senior graphics reporter
https://blog.apps.npr.org/work/Recent Work
https://apps.npr.org/gaza-buil...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Image
https://apps.npr.org/gaza-buil...External Subdomain One family. One attack. 132 names.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Image
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08...External Subdomain These charts show how Trump's strategy to lose by less won back several swing states
https://apps.npr.org/2024-elec...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Image
https://apps.npr.org/2024-elec...External Subdomain Live: Election Results 2024
https://apps.npr.org/aral-sea-...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Image
https://apps.npr.org/aral-sea-...External Subdomain Central Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water
https://blog.apps.npr.org/work/Trivial anchor text
More
https://blog.apps.npr.org/tools/Open-Source Tools
https://github.com/nprapps/dai...External Dailygraphics Next
https://github.com/nprapps/sid...External Sidechain
https://github.com/nprapps/int...External Interactive Template
https://blog.apps.npr.org/tools/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
https://blog.apps.npr.org/blog/On The Team Blog
/2025/01/29/election-bots.htmlElections Slackbots
/2024/11/26/slippy-maps.htmlSelf-hosted slippy maps, for novices (like me)
/2024/05/29/marker-comic.htmlHow I make news comics
https://blog.apps.npr.org/blog/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
More
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/...External Subdomain Terms of Use
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/...External Subdomain Rights and Permissions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
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 excellent with 0.14 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (54 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
serverGitHub.com
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
last-modifiedWed, 14 May 2025 14:02:07 GMT
access-control-allow-origin*
etagW/"6824a25f-d656"
expiresFri, 30 May 2025 02:53:05 GMT
cache-controlmax-age=600
content-encodinggzip
x-proxy-cacheMISS
x-github-request-id388C:F0A5E:1EF354A:1F357D7:68391B39
accept-rangesbytes
age0
dateFri, 30 May 2025 03:01:49 GMT
via1.1 varnish
x-served-bycache-fra-eddf8230111-FRA
x-cacheHIT
x-cache-hits0
x-timerS1748574110.709145,VS0,VE119
varyAccept-Encoding
x-fastly-request-id388c7d1157321895ac19b9f38cab2f7a6ccaeb73
content-length3164
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 90 referring domains.
This page has 102 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 65 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

No valid Robots.txt file was found.

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NPR Visuals Editorial Graphics69%Check
graphics66%Check
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