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Page quality
74% 
Page structure
43% 
Link structure
76% 
Server
91% 
External factors
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SEO Score
Response time
0.58 s
File size
61.20 kB
Words
597
Media files
33
Number of links
37 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
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Desiring God
The page title is too short. (117 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Find your joy in God with sermons, books, podcasts, video, and daily articles from the ministry of John Piper.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (666 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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https://www.desiringgod.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
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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
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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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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
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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Page quality

Content
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Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 597 words. That's ok.
34% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
11 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 13.27 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, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
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The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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18 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
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There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
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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

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Page structure

H1 heading
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Just Try to Outgive Your God
Too many H1 headings
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 28 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H1 Just Try to Outgive Your God
H1 New Resources in Your Inbox
H2 Recent More
H2 The Greatness of God in the Doctrines of Grace
H2 Realism and Hope for the Persecuted
H2 Does Appearance Matter to Christians?
H2 The Strength of Godward Joy
H2 The Evil That Stuns Heaven
H2 Forget Not His Faithfulness
H2 Humbled Yet Held: Simeon’s Secret Strength
H2 Do Not Neglect the Gift You Have
H2 Snatching Women and Stumbling to Ruin
H2 Does God Predict History?
H2 God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him
H3 Ask Pastor John
H3 Look at the Book
H3 Solid Joys
H3 Light + Truth
H3 Ask Pastor John Duplicate text
H3 Look at the Book Duplicate text
H3 Solid Joys Duplicate text
H3 Light + Truth Duplicate text
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H3 2 Timothy 3:10–13
H3 How Telling Stories Stirs Hope
H3 2 Timothy 3:6–9
H3 Ways to Follow
H3 New Resources in Your Inbox Duplicate text
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.desiringgod.org/aboutLearn more about Desiring God
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.58 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 (61 kB).

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