Citationmachine.net - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
93% 
Page quality
58% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
80% 
Server
72% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.00 s
File size
151.00 kB
Words
344
Media files
5
Number of links
53 internal / 10 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Citation Machine®: Format & Generate - APA, MLA, & Chicago
The length of the page title is perfect. (566 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Citation Machine® helps students and professionals properly credit the information that they use. Cite sources in APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard for free.
The meta description is too long: 1018 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.citationmachine.net/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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)
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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
descriptionCitation Machine® helps students and professionals properly credit the information that they use. Cite sources in APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard for free.
next-head-count8
turbolinks-visit-controlreload
langen
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 344 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
24.4% 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.
3 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 17.67 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
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)
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
/static/logo.svgCitation Machine, a Chegg service
...ic/images/compressed/polish-writing.webpWriting suggestions from Citation Machine Writing Assistant
.../images/compressed/writingAssistant.webpWoman refining writing assignment
...images/compressed/citationGenerator.webpWoman creating citation
...images/compressed/plagiarismChecker.webpMan checking plagiarism

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Get your paper hand-in ready
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 Get your paper hand-in ready
H2 Turn in your best writing with help from our tools
H3 Citation Machine® Guides & Resources
H5 MLA Format: Everything You Need to Know and More
H5 Comprehensive Guide to APA Format
H5 Everything You Need to Know About Chicago Style
H5 Citation Machine®’s Ultimate Writing Guides
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 10 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/apa/Citations
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Plagiarism
/resources/Guides
/upgradeUpgrade
https://www.citationmachine.net/IMG-ALT Citation Machine, a Chegg service
/apa/Text duplicate Citations
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Text duplicate Plagiarism
/resources/Text duplicate Guides
/upgradeText duplicate Upgrade
/registerSign up
/loginSign in
/writing-assistantGet startedGet started
/apaCreate citationsCreate citations
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Scan my paperScan my paper
/writing-assistantText duplicate Get startedGet started
/apaText duplicate Get startedGet started
/grammar-and-plagiarism/Text duplicate Get startedGet started
/mlaSubdomain MLA Citation Generator
/mla/cite-a-websiteSubdomain Website
/mla/cite-a-bookSubdomain Books
/mla/cite-a-journalSubdomain Journal Articles
/mla/cite-a-filmSubdomain YouTube
/mla/cite-a-imageSubdomain Images
/mla/cite-a-filmSubdomain Movies
/mla/cite-a-interviewSubdomain Interview
/mla/cite-a-digitalSubdomain PDFs
/mla/cite-a-websiteSubdomain See guide
/apaSubdomain APA Citation Generator
/apa/cite-a-websiteSubdomain Text duplicate Website
/apa/cite-a-bookSubdomain Text duplicate Books
/apa/cite-a-journalSubdomain Text duplicate Journal Articles
/apa/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate YouTube
/apa/cite-a-imageSubdomain Text duplicate Images
/apa/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate Movies
/apa/cite-a-interviewSubdomain Text duplicate Interview
/apa/cite-a-digitalSubdomain Text duplicate PDFs
/apa/cite-a-bookSubdomain Text duplicate See guide
/chicagoSubdomain Chicago Citation Generator
/chicago/cite-a-websiteSubdomain Text duplicate Website
/chicago/cite-a-bookSubdomain Text duplicate Books
/chicago/cite-a-journalSubdomain Text duplicate Journal Articles
/chicago/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate YouTube
/chicago/cite-a-imageSubdomain Text duplicate Images
/chicago/cite-a-filmSubdomain Text duplicate Movies
/chicago/cite-a-interviewSubdomain Text duplicate Interview
/chicago/cite-a-digitalSubdomain Text duplicate PDFs
/chicagoSubdomain Text duplicate See guide
/resources/cite-sources/Subdomain Citing Sources Guide
/resources/grammar-guides/Subdomain Grammar Guide
/resources/plagiarism/Subdomain Plagiarism Guide
/resources/writing-resources/Subdomain Writing Tips
/resources/grammar-guides/Subdomain Text duplicate See guide
https://www.chegg.com/about/ac...External Subdomain Academic Integrity
https://www.chegg.com/en/conta...External Subdomain Feedback
https://www.chegg.com/en/conta...External Subdomain Help Center
https://www.chegg.com/my/ordersExternal Subdomain Manage Subscription
https://collegemarketing.chegg...External Subdomain Advertise with us
/resources/cookie-noticeSubdomain Cookie Notice
https://privacyportal.onetrust...External Subdomain Your privacy choices
https://www.chegg.com/en-US/ge...External Subdomain General Policies
https://www.chegg.com/en-US/pr...External Subdomain Privacy Policy
https://www.chegg.com/en-US/ho...External Subdomain Honor Code
https://www.chegg.com/en-US/co...External Subdomain IP Rights

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.citationmachine.net/"
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 of 1.00 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 (151 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
serverCloudFront
dateWed, 21 May 2025 20:17:03 GMT
set-cookie141 Characters
etagW/"25c17-cQNlYYx/MTRXVKljiuR5Rsd1PKA"
cache-controlmax-age=0, private, must-revalidate
content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 6f4aa26c09fb9bb4d152519f44256a4c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popFRA60-P7
x-amz-cf-iduBUdciG5Wo4jbGZe80cTQ--CF695IFuL4hFlGiMKxhR6GDmohun1Fw==
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
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 727 referring domains.
This page has 79,879 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 607 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

Sitemap: http://www.citationmachine.net/sitemap.xml

User-agent: WeSEE
Disallow: /

User-agent: WeSEE:Ads/PageBot (http://www.wesee.com/bot/)
Disallow: /

User-agent: WeSEE:Ads/PictureBot (http://www.wesee.com/bot/)
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /items/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bibliographies/

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Chicago61%Check
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