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Meta information
80% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
4% 
Link structure
23% 
Server
99% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.42 s
File size
116.80 kB
Words
953
Media files
171
Number of links
108 internal / 26 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Gramophone – classical music magazine, podcast and reviews | Gramophone
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 697 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The best classical music reviews, news, playlists, features and blogs from Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (826 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Ireland
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

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
The average number of words per sentence of 65.5 words is high.
This page contains 953 words. That's ok.
30% 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.
17 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
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=5" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 19 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
16 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)
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
(Critically important)
Features
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (8 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 50 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Features
H1 The Gramophone Podcast
H1 News
H1 Reviews Database
H1 Follow us
H1 Blogs
H1 Editor's Choice
H1 Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
H1 Special Editions
H2 Top 5 classical releases to hear this week – featuring Bojan Čičić and the Neave Trio
H2 New tools, new sounds: the composer’s evolving creative landscape in the 21st century
H2 Conductor John Andrews on recording The Seal Woman | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
H2 The Nagata Effect: how one man gambled his fortune on whisky and launched a cultural revolution
H2 Alfred Brendel: 10 Essential Albums
H2 Introducing the July 2025 issue of Gramophone, featuring Anne Akiko Meyers
H2 New tools, new sounds: the composer’s evolving creative landscape in the 21st century Duplicate text
H2 Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1988
H2 Gramophone Classical Music Awards 1987
H2 Alfred Brendel's lifetime of achievement, a tribute by Till Fellner
H2 Conductor John Andrews on recording The Seal Woman | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast Duplicate text
H2 Mezzo Kitty Whately on unknown French song | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
H2 20 Years of VOCES8 | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
H2 Andris Nelsons on the music and influence of Shostakovich | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
H2 Vote for Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2025
H2 Top 5 classical releases to hear this week – featuring Bojan Čičić and the Neave Trio Duplicate text
H2 Remembering Alfred Brendel, who has died at the age of 94
H2 Classical musicians recognised in King’s Birthday Honours 2025
H2 Introducing the July 2025 issue of Gramophone, featuring Anne Akiko Meyers Duplicate text
H2 Subscribe to Gramophone
H2 The Nagata Effect: how one man gambled his fortune on whisky and launched a cultural revolution Duplicate text
H2 Classical Pride at the Barbican: Choosing joy over fear
H2 Editorial: introducing the July issue
H2 My Father’s Son: How becoming a father inspired tenor Nicky Spence’s upcoming recital
H2 The Best Classical Albums of 2025 (So Far)
H2 Editor's Choice – July 2025: this month's outstanding classical recordings
H2 Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
H2 New box-set treasures: from Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar to Argerich’s superhuman pianism
H2 WiiM’s winning formula: compact style meets audiophile ambition
H2 Review - 'At Large: Behind the Camera with Brian Large' (by Brian Large and Jane Scovell)
H2 Gramophone Presents ... My Classical Music
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Film Music
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Mahler
H2 Gramophone Presents ... Mozart
H4 Gramophone Print
H4 From £6.67 / month
H4 Gramophone Digital Club
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H4 Gramophone Full Club
H4 From £11.00 / month
H6 The Gramophone Newsletter
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.
35 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (26) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://www.facebook.com/Gramo...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Facebook
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http://www.markallengroup.com/External Subdomain Mark Allen Group
http://www.markallengroup.com/External Subdomain About Mark Allen Group
http://www.markallengroup.com/External Subdomain International licensing

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HTTP redirects
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This page redirects to "https://www.gramophone.co.uk/"
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
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The page response time of 0.42 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 (117 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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This page has backlinks from 278 referring domains.
This page has 3,512 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 261 different ip addresses.

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