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Meta information
90% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
32% 
Server
85% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.71 s
File size
173.10 kB
Words
1332
Media files
16
Number of links
115 internal / 13 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Climbing Magazine | Bouldering, Sport, Trad, and Alpine Climbing
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 584 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Since 1970, Climbing Magazine has been the voice of the climbing world, publishing climbing news, interviews, features, opinions, and advice.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (874 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.climbing.com/
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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There should not be dynamic parameters in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
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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
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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
This page contains 1332 words. That's ok.
35.4% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
17 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 17.2 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The amount of tags is very high (36). We recommend using a maximum of 27 tags for this page.
The following tag is repeated too often: maya silver
Some tags are too long. With 76 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"5 climbing nutrition guidelines for reaching your potential from amity warme"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

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Page structure

H1 heading
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There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
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Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 48 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Ice Climbing in Skirts? For These Bolivian Women, It’s Power.
H2 The Top Five Winners of the June Writing Contest
H2 Weekend Whipper: An Expert Catch Saves This Climber from Serious Injury
H2 I Live in My Van And Train on the Go. Here’s How I (and Some Pros) Make It Work.
H2 Does This Weird Hand-Cooling Device Actually Make You Climb Harder?
H2 Opinion
H2 Opinion Duplicate text
H2 Latest
H2 Training
H2 Technique
H2 Longreads
H2 Weekend Whippers
H2 Gear
H2 People
H2 Outside Apps
H2 Our Annual Climbers We Lost Tribute
H2 Climbers We Lost in 2024
H2 Outside+
H3 Opinion: I Run a Climbing Gym. Here’s Why I Tell People to Climb Outside More.
H3 Opinion: Stop Calling All Female Climbers “Influencers”
H3 Opinion: No One Cares What Grade You Climb—And Neither Should You
H3 Opinion: Shaving Grams Is a Bad Excuse for Not Wearing a Helmet
H3 Sometimes, the Scariest Move Is the One That Holds
H3 After Surviving Cancer, They Were Back on Rock. I Couldn’t Miss the Shot.
H3 These Socks Helped a 9-Year-Old Send 5.14b. Would You Try Them?
H3 For Me, the Beta Came From Within
H3 Don’t Fall on the Groms: How Kids and Adults Can Better Share Climbing Gyms
H3 I Took a Step Over a Crevasse. I Didn’t Expect to Find Myself on the Other Side.
H3 Nine-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Person Ever to Send 5.14b (8c)
H3 In Jamaica, I Watched Two Locals Try Climbing Because They Saw Themselves in Us
H3 Skip the Weekend Crowds in Squamish. Try This Nearby Bouldering Paradise Instead.
H3 Will Moss Completes Hardest Trad Rope Solo of All Time
H3 The Training Bible: A Complete One-Year Training Plan
H3 Moving Fast Means Climbing More: Alex Honnold’s Favorite Efficiency Tricks
H3 5.14cs Didn’t Exist When I Started Climbing. I Finally Sent One at Age 50.
H3 Weekend Whipper: Ice Soloist Lets Go of Both Axes and Decks. (He Lives.)
H3 Field Tested: The Edelrid Pinch Belay Device—No Locker Required!
H3 Babsi Zangerl Becomes First Person to Flash El Capitan
H3 Gaia GPS
H3 Trailforks
H3 Outside TV
H3 Outside
H4 Editors’ Picks
H4 Editors’ Picks Duplicate text
H4 Editors’ Picks Duplicate text
H4 Editors’ Picks Duplicate text
H4 Editors’ Picks Duplicate text
H4 Editors’ Picks Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
24 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 13 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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