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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
95% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
92% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.29 s
File size
88.40 kB
Words
163
Media files
9
Number of links
39 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
The domain is used in the page's title.
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 200 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
The length of the meta description is perfect. (945 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.chess.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
Language for link pointing to page itself inaccurate
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)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
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 only 163 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.
23.9% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
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, minimum-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)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
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
.../offline-play/standardboard.1d6f9426.pngBoard
...eb/images/web/board-puzzles.4a54c49f.pngSolve Chess Puzzles
...es/web/images/image-default.445cb543.svgHikaru Nakamura
...es/web/images/image-default.445cb543.svgTake Chess Lessons
...es/web/images/image-default.445cb543.svgAnna Rudolf
...es/web/images/image-default.445cb543.svgGiri, Aronian, Nihal, Sindarov Grab Final Spots In Esports World Cup
...es/web/images/image-default.445cb543.svgTan Finishes 3rd With Black Win
...es/web/images/image-default.445cb543.svgYes, You Can Use The Engine To Improve—And Other Tips From A Data-Focused Coach
...es/web/images/image-default.445cb543.svgRare Fourth Moves

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Play Chess Online on the #1 Site!
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Play Chess Online on the #1 Site!
H2 Solve Chess Puzzles
H2 Take Chess Lessons
H2 Follow what’s happening in Chess Today.
H3 Giri, Aronian, Nihal, Sindarov Grab Final Spots In Esports World Cup
H3 Tan Finishes 3rd With Black Win
H3 Yes, You Can Use The Engine To Improve—And Other Tips From A Data-Focused Coach
H3 Rare Fourth Moves
3 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 6 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.chess.com/Subdomain Home
https://www.chess.com/playSubdomain Play
https://www.chess.com/puzzlesSubdomain Puzzles
https://www.chess.com/learnSubdomain Learn
https://www.chess.com/watchSubdomain Watch
https://www.chess.com/todaySubdomain News
https://www.chess.com/socialSubdomain Social
https://www.chess.com/searchSubdomain No Text
/register?returnUrl=https://ww...Nofollow Subdomain Sign Up
/login_and_go?returnUrl=https:...Nofollow Subdomain Log In
https://www.chess.com/Subdomain No Text
/register?returnUrl=https://ww...Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Sign Up
/login_and_go?returnUrl=https:...Nofollow Subdomain Text duplicate Log In
/play/computerSubdomain Play Bots Play vs customizable training bots
/puzzles/ratedSubdomain IMG-ALT Solve Chess Puzzles
/puzzles/ratedSubdomain Solve Puzzles
https://www.chess.com/lessonsSubdomain IMG-ALT Take Chess Lessons
https://www.chess.com/lessonsSubdomain Start Lessons
https://www.chess.com/todaySubdomain Follow what’s happening in Chess Today.
/news/view/2025-esports-world-...Subdomain Giri, Aronian, Nihal, Sindarov Grab Final Spots In Esports World Cup Colin_McGourty
IMG-ALT Giri, Aronian, Nihal, Sindarov Grab Final Spots In Esports World Cup
/news/view/2025-fide-womens-wo...Subdomain Tan Finishes 3rd With Black Win AnthonyLevin
IMG-ALT Tan Finishes 3rd With Black Win
/article/view/coach-of-the-mon...Subdomain Yes, You Can Use The Engine To Improve—And Other Tips From A Data-Focused Coach NathanielGreen
IMG-ALT Yes, You Can Use The Engine To Improve—And Other Tips From A Data-Focused Coach
/video/player/rare-fourth-movesSubdomain Rare Fourth Moves GM JanistanTV
IMG-ALT Rare Fourth Moves
https://www.chess.com/todaySubdomain Chess Today
https://chess.com/supportNew window Support
https://www.chess.com/termsNew window Subdomain Chess Terms
https://www.chess.com/aboutNew window Subdomain About
https://www.chess.com/studentsNew window Subdomain Students
https://www.chess.com/jobsNew window Subdomain Jobs
/club/chess-com-developer-comm...New window Subdomain Developers
/legal/user-agreementNew window Subdomain User Agreement
/legal/privacyNew window Subdomain Privacy Policy
/legal/privacyNew window Subdomain Anchor Privacy Settings
https://www.chess.com/cheatingNew window Subdomain Cheating & Fair Play
https://www.chess.com/partnersNew window Subdomain Partners
/legal/complianceNew window Subdomain Compliance
https://www.chess.com/Subdomain Chess.com © 2025
/play/apps/iosSubdomain No Text
/play/apps/androidSubdomain No Text
https://www.tiktok.com/@chessExternal Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/chesscomExternal No Text
https://www.youtube.com/user/w...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.twitch.tv/chessExternal Subdomain No Text
https://www.instagram.com/wwwc...External Subdomain No Text
https://discord.gg/3VbUQMEExternal No Text

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.chess.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 excellent with 0.29 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 6,380 referring domains.
This page has 1,217,201 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 4,482 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /developers
Disallow: /download/pgn
Disallow: /fb
Disallow: /home/
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /message
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /switch
Disallow: /unsubscribe
Disallow: /webhook
Disallow: /callback/
Disallow: /service/
Disallow: /password-management

Disallow: /club/*/join/

Disallow: /login_
Disallow: /login_and_go
Disallow: /payment/
Disallow: /games/archive
Disallow: /games/search
Disallow: /topic/
Disallow: /awards/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /game/
Disallow: /register?returnUrl=

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Disallow: /*/stats/
Disallow: /*/game/
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Sitemap: https://www.chess.com/sitemapindex.xml

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Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 200 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Chess90%Check
Play Chess81%Check
Chess Online81%Check
Play Chess Online78%Check
Play75%Check
Play Online74%Check
Chess Lessons65%Check
World52%Check
Site50%Check
Online Free48%Check
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