Literallystories2014.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
98% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
94% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
232.80 kB
Words
1367
Media files
23
Number of links
209 internal / 23 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
literally stories – Short story fiction from around the world
The length of the page title is perfect. (508 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Short story fiction from around the world
The length of the meta description is perfect. (247 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 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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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 1367 words. That's ok.
33.9% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
11 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 18.03 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 95 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"please note - we are a free service and no-one should have to pay a third party for submitting."
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)
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

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
literally stories
The H1 heading is too short (17 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 literally stories
H2 Sunday Whatever: The Canadian Poet and the Sicilian Prince by Michael Bloor
H2 Week 573: An Elegy For a Friend and the A to Z of Adjectival Slight
H2 The Anatomy of a Hare by Alex Faulkner
H2 Fisheye by Jade Lacy
H2 Nothing Else That I Would Ask by Antony Osgood
H2 Bananenbuigerij by Michael Smith
H2 Death to the Dean by Linda P. Rose
H2 Sunday Whatever – Channeling Rick James by Susan DeFelice
H2 Week 572 – Medals, Trys And Advice.
H2 Hell’s Half Acre by Danyl A Doyle
H2 Posts navigation
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 Search For Stories & Authors
H3 Recent Comments
H3 Browse By Category
H3 Story Archive
H3 Visitors
H3 The Anthology
H3 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
9 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 23 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/submission-guidelines/Submission Guidelines
/content/Content
/editors/Editors
/editors/diane-dickson/Diane Dickson
/editors/hugh-cron/Hugh Cron
/editors/nik-eveleigh/Nik Eveleigh
/editors/adam-west/Adam West (Retired)
/editors/tobias-haglund/Tobias Haglund (Retired)
/editors/leila-allison-editor/Leila Allison
/your-thoughts/Your Thoughts
/anthology/Anthology
/2015/10/11/e-book-literally-s...e-book: Literally Stories – The Anthology
/anthology/the-book-bus/The Book Bus
/about/About
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/author/ireneallison12/ireneallison12
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/2026/02/23/death-to-the-dean-...Anchor 8 Comments
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/category/latest-news/Latest News
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/2026/02/21/week-572-medals-tr...Week 572 – Medals, Trys And Advice.
/2026/02/21/week-572-medals-tr...February 21, 2026February 19, 2026
/author/gwencron/gwencron
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/author/literallystories2014/Text duplicate literallystories2014
/2026/02/20/hells-half-acre-by...Anchor Continue reading “Hell’s Half Acre by Danyl A Doyle” →
/tag/free-reading/Text duplicate free reading
/tag/literally-stories/Text duplicate literally stories
/tag/racing-the-rapids/racing the rapids
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https://twitter.com/LiterallyS...External Text duplicate Twitter
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https://wordpress.com/?ref=foo...Nofollow External Blog at WordPress.com.
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HTTP header
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Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.85 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 (233 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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