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Meta information
96% 
Page quality
55% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
72% 
Server
100% 
External factors
36% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
108.60 kB
Words
1758
Media files
12
Number of links
53 internal / 2 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
The Independent Music Insider
The length of the page title is perfect. (277 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
An editorial home for the independent music business, comprising an independent music newswire and directory, as well as original editorial
The length of the meta description is perfect. (861 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://independentmusicinsider.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-gb
Server location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The following language is defined by HTML: en-gb
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 name is very long.
The domain is no subdomain.
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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robotsmax-image-preview:large, index, follow
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article:modified_time2025-06-11T12:40:06+00:00
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og:typewebsite
og:titleThe Independent Music Insider
og:descriptionAn editorial home for the independent music business, comprising an independent music newswire and directory, as well as original editorial
og:urlhttps://independentmusicinsider.com/
og:site_nameThe Independent Music Insider
x-ua-compatibleie=edge
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 14 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate 1: Exceleration Music, the independent music company known for its unique...
  • Duplicate 2: Pioneering distribution and services company Unchained Music has agree...
  • Duplicate 3: The report is the result of a comprehensive survey distributed to the ...
  • Duplicate 4: Mahogany co-founder and MD James Gaster on how artists' changing needs...
  • Duplicate 5: With nearly 300 games developers working with its Beta programme, and ...
  • Duplicate 6: Music tech entrepreneur Sharooz Raoofi is aiming to disrupt the music ...
  • Duplicate 7: Independent music publishers from around the globe gathered in Palma f...
The average number of words per sentence of 26.83 words is high.
This page contains 1758 words. That's ok.
33.3% 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.
29 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 35 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
12 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
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/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Noctil.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2025/02/Karen-Emanuel-editorial-main.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/2024/12/James-Gaster-Mahogany.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2024/06/Reactional-Avenged-Sevenfold.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/2024/05/Wavetick-Main.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/2023/10/IMPF-Palma-main.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/2024/12/James-Gaster-Mahogany.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...2024/06/Reactional-Avenged-Sevenfold.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/uploads/2024/05/Wavetick-Main.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...tent/uploads/2023/10/IMPF-Palma-main.jpgNo alt attribute provided
...ontent/themes/imi/images/logo-footer.svgNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
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 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
H2 The Tangled Web of Music Metadata: How We Got Here
H2 Newswire Highlights
H2 Exceleration Music acquires marquee UK independent music company Cooking Vinyl
H2 Unchained Music partners with Sonic Wax for vinyl manufacturing and distribution
H2 New report shows independent promoters as vital champions of local talent - but under threat
H2 Key predictions for vinyl and physical music in 2025: Sustainability, special editions and smart products
H2 'Without human curation, it’s more challenging for new artists to reach those critical first audiences’
H2 'Spending on cosmetic in-game purchases is projected to grow to $100 billion by 2028. Music currently accounts for close to zero of this market.'
H2 'Music rights have been managed so archaically for years. If human creators are to flourish as licensors, we must modernise'
H2 'We need to work together. At the moment, we don’t even speak the same language'
H2 Newswire Highlights Duplicate text
H2 Exceleration Music acquires marquee UK independent music company Cooking Vinyl Duplicate text
H2 Unchained Music partners with Sonic Wax for vinyl manufacturing and distribution Duplicate text
H2 New report shows independent promoters as vital champions of local talent - but under threat Duplicate text
H2 Newswire Most Recent
H2 Tickets for Good annouunces launch of Belgian business at Wallifornia, opens £3m funding round
H2 IDOL appoints Johann Böhringer as General Manager, Germany, Austria and Switzerland
H2 The UK’s Independent Music Awards return for 15th year, submissions open
H2 Forward Slash founder Keturah Cummings wins ‘Music Entrepreneur of the Year’ at 2025 Young Music Boss Awards
H2 New festival Homestead cancels. AIF calls for Music Festival Tax Relief to mitigate closures and kickstart growth
H2 SONO Music launches free playlist submission platform with sustainability angle: One Song, One Tree
H2 Bucks signs Snorri Hallgrímsson to worldwide deal
H2 Mahogany Songs releases first year report: artists’ monthly listeners up +250%
H2 Music tech company Tickets For Good announces Derek DeVeaux as Global COO as part of international expansion
H2 4 join IMPF Friends & Supporters
H2 'Without human curation, it’s more challenging for new artists to reach those critical first audiences’ Duplicate text
H2 'Spending on cosmetic in-game purchases is projected to grow to $100 billion by 2028. Music currently accounts for close to zero of this market.' Duplicate text
H2 'Music rights have been managed so archaically for years. If human creators are to flourish as licensors, we must modernise' Duplicate text
H2 'We need to work together. At the moment, we don’t even speak the same language' Duplicate text
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
6 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 2 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/membershipMembership
/login/Login
/No Text
/newswire/Newswire
/editorial/Editorial
/index/Index
/editorial-articles/5029/Member Blog
/editorial-articles/5029/The Tangled Web of Music Metadata: How We Got Here
/press-release/exceleration-mu...Exceleration Music acquires marquee UK independent music company Cooking Vinyl
/press-release/unchained-music...Unchained Music partners with Sonic Wax for vinyl manufacturing and distribution
/press-release/new-report-show...New report shows independent promoters as vital champions of local talent - but under threat
/newswireView Newswire
/editorial-articles/key-predic...Text duplicate Member Blog
/editorial-articles/key-predic...Key predictions for vinyl and physical music in 2025: Sustainability, special editions and smart products
/editorial-articles/without-hu...No Text
/editorial-articles/without-hu...'Without human curation, it’s more challenging for new artists to reach those critical first audiences’
/editorial-articles/spending-o...No Text
/editorial-articles/spending-o...'Spending on cosmetic in-game purchases is projected to grow to $100 billion by 2028. Music currently accounts for close to zero of this market.'
/editorial-articles/music-righ...No Text
/editorial-articles/music-righ...'Music rights have been managed so archaically for years. If human creators are to flourish as licensors, we must modernise'
/editorial-articles/we-need-to...Text duplicate Member Blog
/editorial-articles/we-need-to...'We need to work together. At the moment, we don’t even speak the same language'
/editorial/View More Articles
/press-release/exceleration-mu...Text duplicate Exceleration Music acquires marquee UK independent music company Cooking Vinyl
/press-release/unchained-music...Text duplicate Unchained Music partners with Sonic Wax for vinyl manufacturing and distribution
/press-release/new-report-show...Text duplicate New report shows independent promoters as vital champions of local talent - but under threat
/newswire/Text duplicate View Newswire
/press-release/tickets-for-goo...Tickets for Good annouunces launch of Belgian business at Wallifornia, opens £3m funding round
/press-release/idol-appoints-j...IDOL appoints Johann Böhringer as General Manager, Germany, Austria and Switzerland
/press-release/the-uks-indepen...The UK’s Independent Music Awards return for 15th year, submissions open
/press-release/forward-slash-f...Forward Slash founder Keturah Cummings wins ‘Music Entrepreneur of the Year’ at 2025 Young Music Boss Awards
/press-release/new-festival-ho...New festival Homestead cancels. AIF calls for Music Festival Tax Relief to mitigate closures and kickstart growth
/press-release/sono-music-laun...SONO Music launches free playlist submission platform with sustainability angle: One Song, One Tree
/press-release/bucks-signs-sno...Bucks signs Snorri Hallgrímsson to worldwide deal
/press-release/mahogany-songs-...Mahogany Songs releases first year report: artists’ monthly listeners up +250%
/press-release/music-tech-comp...Music tech company Tickets For Good announces Derek DeVeaux as Global COO as part of international expansion
/press-release/4-join-impf-fri...4 join IMPF Friends & Supporters
/mewswire/Text duplicate View Newswire
/editorial-articles/without-hu...No Text
/editorial-articles/without-hu...Text duplicate 'Without human curation, it’s more challenging for new artists to reach those critical first audiences’
/editorial-articles/spending-o...No Text
/editorial-articles/spending-o...Text duplicate 'Spending on cosmetic in-game purchases is projected to grow to $100 billion by 2028. Music currently accounts for close to zero of this market.'
/editorial-articles/music-righ...No Text
/editorial-articles/music-righ...Text duplicate 'Music rights have been managed so archaically for years. If human creators are to flourish as licensors, we must modernise'
/editorial-articles/we-need-to...Text duplicate Member Blog
/editorial-articles/we-need-to...Text duplicate 'We need to work together. At the moment, we don’t even speak the same language'
https://www.instagram.com/Join...New window Nofollow External Subdomain No Text
https://twitter.com/JoinTheIMINew window Nofollow External No Text
/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy
/cookie-policy/Cookie Policy
/Cookie Settings
/terms-conditions/Terms & Conditions
/membershipAbout
/privacy-policy/Text duplicate Privacy Policy
/cookie-policy/Text duplicate Cookie Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://independentmusicinsider.com/"
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 excellent with 0.35 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (109 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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servernginx
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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
varyAccept-Encoding
x-pingbackhttps://independentmusicinsider.com/xmlrpc.php
x-cache-enabledFalse
link<https://independentmusicinsider.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
x-httpd-modphp1
host-header6b7412fb82ca5edfd0917e3957f05d89
x-proxy-cacheMISS
x-proxy-cache-infoW NC:000000 UP:
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 7 referring domains.
This page only has 7 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 7 different ip addresses.
This page is referenced by wikipedia.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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The Independent Music Insider
An editorial home for the independent music business, comprising an independent music newswire and directory, as well as original editorial

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