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Meta information
100% 
Page quality
63% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
55% 
Server
97% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.46 s
File size
157.20 kB
Words
611
Media files
44
Number of links
94 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Difford's Guide - the home of discerning drinkers
The length of the page title is perfect. (430 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Difford's Guide is the world’s best and biggest guide to cocktails, spirits and liqueurs
The length of the meta description is perfect. (514 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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No canonical link is specified.
Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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The specified alternate links have no errors.
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 parameters were found 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
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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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The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 43 words is high.
This page contains 611 words. That's ok.
33.7% 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.
12 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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A viewport "width=device-width" 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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1 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
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No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
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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
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

Heading structure

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H3 Cocktail of the Day 25th of June 2025
H3 Martini Cocktail
H3 20 best/most rated Martinis
H3 Giacosa x 69 Colebrooke Row
H3 Vegg White
H3 Little Rebel
H3 Madeira Negroni
H3 Maid in Cuba
H3 Lost Lake
H3 Old Barrel
H3 Pane Pistimiou
H3 Monastiraki Square
H3 Mezcalicus
H3 Red Cosmic Alaska
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H3 Waku Waku
H3 Tom & Jerez
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Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 8 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/cocktails/recipe/32304/little...Little Rebel A brandy and scotch whisky sour with grenadine fruitiness. I like to cut the grenadine with sugar syrup to rein in the fruitiness and, while doi...
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/cocktails/recipe/35967/madeir...Madeira Negroni As the name suggests, madeira replaces rosso vermouth in this Negroni variation, producing a fuller-flavoured and arguably drier cocktail.
IMG-ALT Madeira Negroni image
/cocktails/recipe/3243/maid-in...Maid in Cuba A Daiquiri freshened with mint and cucumber, opened with a splash of soda.
IMG-ALT Maid in Cuba image
/cocktails/recipe/32854/lost-lakeLost Lake Rum-laced tropical fruit with bittersweet and sweet 'n' sourness.
IMG-ALT Lost Lake image
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/cocktails/recipe/35970/mezcal...Mezcalicus A mezcal-based Margarita riff with bergamot liqueur replacing triple sec orange liqueur.
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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.diffordsguide.com/"
HTTP header
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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 0.46 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 (157 kB).

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