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Page quality
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Page structure
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Link structure
67% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.57 s
File size
196.70 kB
Words
1130
Media files
106
Number of links
30 internal / 0 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Photo Competition & Magazine | The Independent Photographer
The length of the page title is perfect. (572 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The Independent Photographer is an international photo competition awards and magazine, aiming to celebrate photography and support emerging artists.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (948 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
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There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://independent-photo.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
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
Alternate/Hreflang Links
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The specified alternate links have no errors.
Other meta tags
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There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
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The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
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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
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The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
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The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
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No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

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Page quality

Content
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Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: In a world saturated with colors, we’re turning the spotlight to black...
This page contains 1130 words. That's ok.
24.4% 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.
19 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 24.44 words is good.
Frames
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This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
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No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The following tag is repeated too often: $2700
Image SEO
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12 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
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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Page structure

H1 heading
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The Independent Photographer is a monthly photography award & online magazine
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Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 29 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 The Independent Photographer is a monthly photography award & online magazine
H1 Win $2700 Cash Awards & International Exposure
H1 Win $2700 Cash Awards & International Exposure Duplicate text
H2 Past Judges
H2 Square TIP Logo
H2 Winner Xavier Autrey Holschneider
H2 Previous winners:
H2 Upcoming Awards
H2 A unique chance to gain widespread exposure!
H2 FEATURED IN
H2 Stay in Touch
H3 Celebrating photography & supporting emerging artists
H3 Photography and The American Road Trip
H3 Bill Shapiro
H3 50 Inspirational Quotes for Photographers
H3 Mark Cohen – Tall Socks
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H3 Steve McCurry
H3 Alessia Glaviano
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H3 REZA
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H3 Visual Story February 2025
H3 Black & White January 2025
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Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are no external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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HTTP redirects
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
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The page response time of 0.57 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 (197 kB).

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