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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
72% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
98% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.32 s
File size
150.50 kB
Words
196
Media files
14
Number of links
25 internal / 21 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Detroit Free Press - Home
The length of the page title is perfect. (235 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)
https://www.freep.com/
The canonical link points to a different domain.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Germany
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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viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1
HandheldFriendlyTrue
MobileOptimized320
apple-itunes-appapp-id=904023476, app-argument=https://www.freep.com/home
theme-color#ffffff
descriptionEmpty
og:descriptionEmpty
langen
og:site_nameDetroit Free Press
cleartypeon
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 196 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
23% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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" 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
...4455334007-usatsi-26577219.jpg?crop=4845Tigers send one of July's top relievers to Toledo to make room for RHP Morton
...8897007-02152025-tigers-51.jpg?crop=2451This might be Tigers' best shot to win World Series. Scott Harris chose not to take it
...07-cain-photo-0803-du-mont.jpg?crop=30243,000 headed to Arsenal of Democracy
...007-milford-police-kid-rock.jpg?crop=420Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker make surprise appearance in Milford
...31/USAT/85461869007-topper.png?crop=2563No more GI Joe trucks: Army swaps iconic Humvee for a faster, cheaper vehicle
...094007-lions-112824-kpm-38.jpg?crop=3200Lions depth chart: Projecting 2025 starters after NFL draft
...5486391007-20250801-224138.jpg?crop=3000Cyndi Lauper's final Detroit show full of hits, memories and charisma
...5494423007-usatsi-26764990.jpg?crop=2129I saw the 2025 Tigers do something in their clubhouse that reminded me of '84 Bless You Boys
...5468178007-usatsi-11118244.jpg?crop=2049Meet Charlie Morton: Tigers' 41-year-old right-hander is 'resurrected'
...-1-1-139-fglpb-l-537127543.JPG?crop=1786All-21st Century teams: Michigan's top squads over the past 25 years, Nos. 25-21
...73661007-04192025-um-1-h-7.jpg?crop=1871Why Michigan isn't in a hurry to pick a starting quarterback
...eb/universal/icons/icon-instagram_24.pnginstagram logo

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 21 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://eu.freep.com/Anchor Skip to main content
https://eu.freep.com/IMG-ALT Detroit Free Press
https://eu.freep.com/Home
https://eu.freep.com/news/News
https://eu.freep.com/sports/Sports
https://eu.freep.com/autos/Autos
https://eu.freep.com/business/Business
/entertainment/Entertainment
https://eu.freep.com/opinion/Opinion
https://www.usatoday.com/External Subdomain USA TODAY
https://www.freep.com/obituaries/External Subdomain Obituaries
https://www.freep.com/enewspaperExternal Subdomain eNewspaper
https://eu.freep.com/life/Life
https://www.freep.com/public-n...External Subdomain Legals
https://classifieds.freep.com/External Subdomain Marketplace
http://michigan.com/advertise-...External Advertise
https://connect.freep.com/External Subdomain About Us
https://eu.freep.com/events/Events
https://connect.freep.com/External Subdomain Connect With Us
/contributor-content/Contributor Content
/news/israel-war-hamas/Israel War
https://eu.freep.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Detroit Free Press
/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/...Tigers send one of July's top relievers to Toledo to make room for RHP Morton tigers
IMG-ALT Tigers send one of July's top relievers to Toledo to make room for RHP Morton
/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/...This might be Tigers' best shot to win World Series. Scott Harris chose not to take it tigers
IMG-ALT This might be Tigers' best shot to win World Series. Scott Harris chose not to take it
/story/money/business/columnis...3,000 headed to Arsenal of Democracy CAROL CAIN
IMG-ALT 3,000 headed to Arsenal of Democracy
/story/entertainment/2025/08/0...Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker make surprise appearance in Milford entertainment
IMG-ALT Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker make surprise appearance in Milford
/story/news/politics/2025/08/0...No more GI Joe trucks: Army swaps iconic Humvee for a faster, cheaper vehicle Politics
IMG-ALT No more GI Joe trucks: Army swaps iconic Humvee for a faster, cheaper vehicle
/picture-gallery/sports/nfl/li...Lions depth chart: Projecting 2025 starters after NFL draft lions
IMG-ALT Lions depth chart: Projecting 2025 starters after NFL draft
/story/entertainment/music/bri...Cyndi Lauper's final Detroit show full of hits, memories and charisma BRIAN MCCOLLUM
IMG-ALT Cyndi Lauper's final Detroit show full of hits, memories and charisma
/story/sports/columnists/jeff-...I saw the 2025 Tigers do something in their clubhouse that reminded me of '84 Bless You Boys JEFF SEIDEL
IMG-ALT I saw the 2025 Tigers do something in their clubhouse that reminded me of '84 Bless You Boys
/story/sports/columnists/jeff-...Meet Charlie Morton: Tigers' 41-year-old right-hander is 'resurrected' JEFF SEIDEL
IMG-ALT Meet Charlie Morton: Tigers' 41-year-old right-hander is 'resurrected'
/story/sports/2025/08/03/michi...All-21st Century teams: Michigan's top squads over the past 25 years, Nos. 25-21 sports
IMG-ALT All-21st Century teams: Michigan's top squads over the past 25 years, Nos. 25-21
/story/sports/college/universi...Why Michigan isn't in a hurry to pick a starting quarterback wolverines
IMG-ALT Why Michigan isn't in a hurry to pick a starting quarterback
https://help.freep.com/External Subdomain Help
https://cm.freep.com/terms/External Subdomain Terms of Service
https://cm.freep.com/about-you...External Subdomain Subscription Terms & Conditions
https://cm.freep.com/privacy/External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.freep.com/sitemap/External Subdomain Site Map
http://cm.freep.com/accessibil...External Subdomain Accessibility
http://cm.freep.com/ethical-co...External Subdomain Our Ethical Principles
https://www.gannett.com/respon...External Subdomain Responsible Disclosure
http://cm.freep.com/your-priva...External Subdomain Your Privacy Choices
https://www.facebook.com/detro...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/freepExternal No Text
http://instagram.com/detroitfr...External IMG-ALT instagram logo
http://www.pinterest.com/freep...External Subdomain No Text

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 0.32 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (151 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-security-policyupgrade-insecure-requests
content-encodinggzip
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
x-robots-tagnoindex, nofollow
gannett-debug-pathregion: east
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accept-rangesbytes
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x-cacheMISS, MISS
x-cache-hits0, 0
x-timerS1754215874.249410,VS0,VE252
set-cookie63 Characters
varyAccept-Encoding
content-length34501
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 352 referring domains.
This page has 2,888 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 271 different ip addresses.

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