Ground.news - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
85% 
Page quality
42% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
54% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.34 s
File size
2,317.80 kB
Words
73
Media files
7
Number of links
50 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Ground News
The page title is too short. (123 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Top Stories from around you and around the world. Compare how different news publishers frame the same news
The length of the meta description is perfect. (697 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
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
(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

NameValue
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descriptionTop Stories from around you and around the world. Compare how different news publishers frame the same news
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langen
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
twitter:site@Ground_app
twitter:titleGround News
twitter:descriptionThe biggest source for breaking news around the world. Compare headlines across the political spectrum using media bias ratings driven by data.
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og:titleGround News
og:descriptionTop Stories from around you and around the world. Compare how different news publishers frame the same news
og:site_nameGround News
og:imagehttps://groundnews.b-cdn.net/assets/logo4/GN_Square.png
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 73 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
No paragraphs were detected.
16.4% of the text are stop words.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (2317.8 kB).
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
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
(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.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 12 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://ground.news/Anchor Skip to main content
https://ground.news/subscribeGet Started
https://ground.news/extensionBrowser Extension
https://ground.news/No Text
https://ground.news/No Text
https://ground.news/Home
https://ground.news/myFor You
https://ground.news/localLocal
https://ground.news/blindspotBlindspot
https://ground.news/subscribeSubscribe
https://ground.news/loginLogin
https://ground.news/subscribeText duplicate Subscribe
https://ground.news/loginText duplicate Login
/interest/turkey-politicsTurkey Politics
/interest/world-cupWorld Cup
/interest/soccerSoccer
/interest/new-york-knicksNew York Knicks
/interest/united-states_b67315United States
https://apps.apple.com/app/app...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT App Store Icon
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain IMG-ALT Play Store Icon
https://ground.news/aboutAbout
https://ground.news/historyHistory
https://ground.news/missionMission
https://ground.news/blogBlog
https://ground.news/testimonialsTestimonials
/group-subscriptionsGroup Subscriptions
https://ground.news/subscribeText duplicate Subscribe
https://ground.news/giftGift
/free-trial-landingFree Trial
https://ground.news/careersCareers
https://ground.news/affiliatesAffiliates
https://help.ground.news/New window External Subdomain Help Center
/frequently-asked-questionsFAQ
https://ground.news/contact-usContact Us
https://ground.news/rating-systemMedia Bias Ratings
https://ground.news/rating-systemOwnership and Factuality Ratings
/checkout/referralReferral Code
/my/discover/sourceNews Sources
/my/discover/topicTopics
https://ground.news/appApp
https://ground.news/extensionText duplicate Browser Extension
/newsletters/daily-groundDaily Newsletter
/newsletters/blindspot-reportBlindspot Report Newsletter
/newsletters/burst-your-bubbleBurst Your Bubble Newsletter
https://ground.news/timelinesTimelines
https://apps.apple.com/app/app...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT App Store Icon
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Play Store Icon
https://www.facebook.com/groun...External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/Ground_appExternal No Text
https://www.instagram.com/grou...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...External Subdomain No Text
https://reddit.com/r/News_Blin...External No Text
https://ground.news/giftText duplicate Gift
/privacy-policyPrivacy Policy
/terms-and-conditionsTerms and Conditions
https://apps.apple.com/app/app...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT App Store Icon
https://play.google.com/store/...External Subdomain Text duplicate IMG-ALT Play Store Icon
https://ground.news/News
https://ground.news/myText duplicate For You
https://ground.news/searchSearch
https://ground.news/blindspotText duplicate Blindspot
https://ground.news/localText duplicate Local

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://ground.news/"
HTTP header
(Important)
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 is slow (1.34 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is very large (2,318 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
dateThu, 11 Jun 2026 06:40:16 GMT
cache-controlprivate, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
content-encodinggzip
document-policyjs-profiling
set-cookie129 Characters
varyrsc, next-router-state-tree, next-router-prefetch, next-router-segment-prefetch, Accept-Encoding
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x-cacheMiss from cloudfront
via1.1 79006a1b1266ae3c597864512702ebf8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
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x-amz-cf-id_96eAR3FCVgBEeaC9FjeoaJ_9czA4l8Ctp6yayrP3OMlFtxDnp3mJw==
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
timing-allow-originground.news
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 1,599 referring domains.
This page has 1,010,383 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,166 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /mediaopoly

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: YandexImages
User-agent: coccocbot-image
User-agent: image.coccoc
Disallow: /
Allow: /favicon.ico
Allow: /favicon-16x16.png
Allow: /favicon-32x32.png

User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

Search preview

ground.news
Ground News
Top Stories from around you and around the world. Compare how different news publishers frame the same news

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
news76%Check
New York57%Check
News Source57%Check
Ground News52%Check
World Cup45%Check
Breaking News40%Check
Blindspot39%Check
Topics39%Check
Trending Topics39%Check
Help Center39%Check

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