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Meta information
98% 
Page quality
76% 
Page structure
45% 
Link structure
0% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
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File size
153.80 kB
Words
809
Media files
16
Number of links
123 internal / 68 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The length of the page title is perfect. (394 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
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Q&A for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts
The length of the meta description is perfect. (451 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
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Language
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Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en
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This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
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Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 29 words is high.
This page contains 809 words. That's ok.
26.2% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
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There are no duplicates on the site.
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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 16 tags for this page.
Image SEO
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Social Networks
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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.

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The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.

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H3 Do I need commas when doing a sort of funnel in a sentence
H3 Fishes: a plural rather than a collective concept
H3 How did "issue" come to mean "problem"?
H3 Is there grammatical "agreement" in English beyond subject-verb agreement?
H3 Being adamant without "that/about ..."
H3 What do you call someone whose unmarried partner has died?
H3 'Were' for third person singular
H3 Is there a specific word to describe a long-term???oriented person?
H3 Were double consonants pronounced at some period of history?
H3 Can 'Find' Be Classified as a Perceptual Verb?
H3 What would you call a verb subject as an infinitive complement?
H3 Using "completely" to start a sentence
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H4 Hot Network Questions
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Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are too many external links (68) on this page.

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/questions/627052/do-i-need-co...modified 6 hours ago
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/questions/630480/fishes-a-plu...Text duplicate modified 6 hours ago
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/questions/528964/using-comple...modified yesterday
/questions/631140/are-there-an...Are there any words starting with the letter A or I that also start with a consonant sound (and so should be preceded by "a" instead of "an")?
/questions/tagged/pronunciationText duplicate pronunciation
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/users/77227/herissonIMG-ALT herisson's user avatar
/users/77227/herissonherisson
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