Membershippuzzle.org - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
75% 
Page quality
80% 
Page structure
79% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.21 s
File size
86.90 kB
Words
621
Media files
8
Number of links
21 internal / 12 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Membership Puzzle
The page title is too short. (176 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://membershippuzzle.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
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 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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress 6.8.1
msapplication-TileImagehttps://membershippuzzle.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cropped-corres_favicon_32x32_membership_puzzle_05-1-300x300.png
langen-us
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 621 words. That's ok.
41.4% 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.
16 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 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 71 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"want to interview the former mpp team or have us present at your event?"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 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

URLAlt attributeTitle
...t/uploads/2025/03/corres_mpp_logo_01.pngMembership Puzzle
/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/project.jpegNo alt attribute provided
...p/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/mission.jpg
Insecure Content		No alt attribute provided
...5/03/mediadevelopmentinvestmenrtlogo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...ploads/2025/03/decorrespondentlogo-1.pngNo alt attribute provided
...uploads/2025/03/knightfoundationlogo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...nt/uploads/2025/03/democracyfundlogo.pngNo alt attribute provided
...content/uploads/2025/03/luminatelogo.pngNo alt attribute provided

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
H3 The Membership Guide
H3 If you are...
H3 Getting in touch
H3 Featured Research
H3 Figuring out a sustainable path for public service journalism
H4 Building healthy membership communities: Lessons from newsrooms around the world
H4 Want to make your journalism more memberful? Find a range of proven practices, including revenue-generating routines
H6 Membership Puzzle Project came to a close on Aug. 31, 2021.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 1 links with a trivial 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 12 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
/sunset/Read our signoff note
http://localhost:8888/membersh...External ›
https://membershippuzzle.org/IMG-ALT Membership Puzzle
/about/Project
/media/Media
/people/People
/summit/Summit
https://membershipguide.org/External Membership Guide
/articles/Resources
/tools/Tools
/fund/Fund
/articles-overview/introducing...Text duplicate Membership Guide
https://membershipguide.org/External the guide
https://www.lenfestinstitute.o...External Subdomain The Course
https://membershipguide.org/ha...External we’ve got that ›
/summit/recapSubdomain here are the recordings ›
/coachingsteal our coaching resources ›
https://pressthink.org/2020/09...External we have that ›
/articlesour research
https://letsgather.in/External Gather
https://newsproduct.org/slackExternal News Product Alliance
/lessons-from-newsrooms/Building healthy membership communities: Lessons from newsrooms around the world
/category/featured-research/Featured research
/memberful-routines/Want to make your journalism more memberful? Find a range of proven practices, including revenue-generating routines
/category/featured-research/Text duplicate Featured research
/articles/Trivial anchor text
Read More
/articles-overview/member-mani...including members themselves
/articles-overview/participati...knowledge and expertise
/fund/innovative membership models that are being tested at news sites as part of a global experiment
https://www.membershipguide.org/External Subdomain key membership lessons learned
https://www.facebook.com/Membe...External Subdomain Facebook
https://twitter.com/membership...External Twitter
http://instagram.com/membershi...External Instagram

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://membershippuzzle.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.21 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (87 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 01 Jun 2025 17:57:33 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
x-powered-byPHP/7.4.33
link<https://membershippuzzle.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://membershippuzzle.org/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/140>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://membershippuzzle.org/>; rel=shortlink
content-encodingbr
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 288 referring domains.
This page has 3,030 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 176 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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

Sitemap: https://membershippuzzle.org/wp-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
Membership74%Check
Membership Puzzle71%Check
Puzzle65%Check
Membership Puzzle Project61%Check
Membership Guide58%Check
membership strategy56%Check
community members56%Check
membership models56%Check
journalism47%Check
News43%Check
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