Help.shopify.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
64% 
Page quality
48% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
83% 
Server
81% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.79 s
File size
41.40 kB
Words
52
Media files
0
Number of links
3 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Shopify Help Center
The page title is too short. (181 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://help.shopify.com/en
The specified canonical link points to a different page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Sweden
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
The alternate link to the page itself is missing.
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1
langen
twitter:site@Shopify
twitter:cardsummary
twitter:titleShopify Help Center
twitter:descriptionThe Shopify Help Center will support you as you learn about and use Shopify. We have documentation and videos to answer your questions.
twitter:creator@ShopifySupport
twitter:imagehttps://cdn.shopify.com/shopifycloud/help/assets/sharing/share-image-generic-bd3ce342a910c2489b672b00e45c74b1b1548662c41448e456547fa5b6e0f585.png
og:site_nameShopify Help Center
og:urlhttps://help.shopify.com/en
og:typewebsite
og:titleShopify Help Center
og:descriptionThe Shopify Help Center will support you as you learn about and use Shopify. We have documentation and videos to answer your questions.
og:imagehttps://cdn.shopify.com/shopifycloud/help/assets/sharing/share-image-generic-bd3ce342a910c2489b672b00e45c74b1b1548662c41448e456547fa5b6e0f585.png
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 52 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Only 1 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
The average number of words per sentence of 7.4 words is low.
36.5% of the text are stop words.
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=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)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
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

No media files were found.

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

Heading levelContent
H2 How can we help?
H3 Topics
H3 Resources
H3 English
There are too few (1) internal links on this page.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
Every linktext is unique.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 2 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://help.shopify.com/enNo Text
/en/user/loginNofollow Log in
https://accounts.shopify.com/s...New window External Subdomain Start free trial
/en/user/loginNofollow Text duplicate Log in
https://accounts.shopify.com/s...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Start free trial

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://help.shopify.com/en/"
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 of 0.79 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 (41 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateMon, 21 Jul 2025 23:05:23 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=utf-8
varyAccept-Encoding
content-encodingbr
strict-transport-securitymax-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-dcgcp-us-east1,gcp-us-central1
x-request-id9b7b277c-8d3b-4d1e-8f5b-761737584ed7-1753139123
cf-cache-statusBYPASS
report-to{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v4?s=Wl9aDzmTaqsOWHwJHKox9RhGn1wPLgHsQTPJyqmyqIKmoNcsKzwowDEQCRAsMV8jw26dgZYz3JXWMtRcxe8EMM3xuY7SF5SMw6%2B60RgGy8eOcphRkZopgNC6VpLbtCKTObc%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
nel{"success_fraction":0.01,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
server-timingcfRequestDuration;dur=328.999758
shopify-edge-ip185.146.173.20
servercloudflare
cf-ray962e57bf1ed0be96-CDG
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 621 referring domains.
This page has 81,664 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 450 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# robots.txt file for help.shopify.com

User-agent: *

Disallow: *?*shpxid=*
Disallow: /search$
Disallow: /search?q=*
Disallow: */search$
Disallow: */search?q=*
Disallow: */csv/*

Sitemap: https://help.shopify.com/sitemap.xml

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Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
help56%Check
Shopify Help54%Check
Shopify52%Check
Shopify Payments43%Check
Shopify Help Center39%Check
Topics38%Check
Resources38%Check
English38%Check
Payments34%Check
Free Trial34%Check
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