Ianmcewan.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
83% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
91% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.25 s
File size
15.10 kB
Words
837
Media files
5
Number of links
23 internal / 8 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Ian McEwan Website
The page title is too short. (188 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is empty.
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 character encoding is not specified in the HTTP header.
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=1.0
descriptionEmpty
authorhttp://bootstraptaste.com
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 837 words. That's ok.
44.7% 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.
13 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.
The average number of words per sentence of 24.43 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Empty bold or strong tags were found on 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)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
http://ianmcewan.com/images/slides/1.jpgIan McEwan Portrait
/images/slides/WWCK_Slide.jpgIan McEwan What We Can Know
/images/slides/Vintage-Covers.jpgIan McEwan Vintage Covers
.../McEwan_WhatWeCanKnow_SocialSquare_4.jpgWhat We Can Know by Ian McEwan
/images/promo/GM_IM_HowToAcademy.jpgIan McEwan and George Monbiot in Conversation

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 Explore More about Ian McEwan
H4 Ian McEwan ~ What We Can Know
H4 Ian McEwan and George Monbiot in Conversation
H4 About Ian McEwan:
H4 Interviews & Videos
H4 McEwan on Science
H4 Translations
H4 Facebook
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
3 links don't have an anchor text.
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 8 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
http://ianmcewan.com/index.htmlIanMcEwan.com
http://ianmcewan.com/index.htmlHome
/books/index.htmlBooks
/books/index.htmlBy McEwan
/translations/index.htmlTranslations
/articles.htmlArticles
http://ianmcewan.com/science.htmlScience
/resources/index.htmlResources
/resources/booksabout.htmlBooks About McEwan
/resources/criticism.htmlScholarly Criticism
/resources/interviews.htmlInterviews & Videos
/resources/dissertations.htmlDissertations/Theses
http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/f...External Subdomain Harry Ransom Center: McEwan Papers
/publicity.htmlPublicity/Contact
http://ianmcewan.com/booksIMG-ALT Ian McEwan What We Can Know
http://ianmcewan.com/booksIMG-ALT Ian McEwan Vintage Covers
/books/lessons.htmlIMG-ALT What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
https://www.penguinrandomhouse...External Subdomain United States
https://www.penguin.co.uk/book...External Subdomain Canada
https://www.waterstones.com/bo...External Subdomain Waterstones
https://howtoacademy.com/event...External IMG-ALT Ian McEwan and George Monbiot in Conversation
/resources/interviews.htmlNo Text
/resources/interviews.htmlLearn more
http://ianmcewan.com/science.htmlNo Text
http://ianmcewan.com/science.htmlText duplicate Learn more
/translations/index.htmlNo Text
/translations/index.htmlText duplicate Learn more
https://www.facebook.com/Ian-M...External Subdomain No Text
https://www.facebook.com/Ian-M...External Subdomain Text duplicate Learn more
/disclaimer.htmlSubdomain Disclaimer
https://www.facebook.com/Ian-M...External Subdomain A-TITLE Facebook

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
The checked page does not redirect to another URL.
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
This page loads 6 CSS files. This may affect the page load time negatively.
This page loads 11 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
The page response time is excellent with 0.25 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (15 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
content-typetext/html
transfer-encodingchunked
connectionkeep-alive
x-ws-ratelimit-limit1000
x-ws-ratelimit-remaining998
dateWed, 04 Jun 2025 06:06:09 GMT
serverApache
last-modifiedMon, 12 May 2025 12:49:49 GMT
etagW/"3c5a-634efc05e5b25"
content-encodinggzip
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/1.1

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 334 referring domains.
This page has 396 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 111 different ip addresses.

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ianmcewan.com
Ian McEwan Website

Most important keywords

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

KeywordResultRecheck
McEwan67%Check
Ian65%Check
Ian McEwan63%Check
Ian McEwan Website56%Check
Know47%Check
IanMcEwan46%Check
Website43%Check
George Monbiot40%Check
Science38%Check
Book38%Check

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