Mentalfloss.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
83% 
Page quality
45% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
71% 
Server
79% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.85 s
File size
450.70 kB
Words
400
Media files
26
Number of links
112 internal / 6 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Mental Floss
The page title is too short. (113 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (718 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/
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 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)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
There are only 400 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
26% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
6 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

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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 47 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

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H2 LANGUAGE
H2 HISTORY
H2 QUIZZES
H2 FEATURES
H2 An Oral History of When Geraldo Rivera Opened Al Capone’s Vault
H2 BIG QUESTIONS
H3 The Right Way to Clean Your Baseboards
H3 The Fastest Drivers in America By State, Mapped
H3 8 Dogs Bred for Oddly Specific Purposes
H3 Quiz: Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #39
H3 Why Do Grocery Stores Cover Potatoes at Night?
H3 Definition Detective Quiz #38
H3 Why Is It Called a “Swiss Army Knife”?
H3 12 Distant Places in the Solar System (And What They’re Named After)
H3 Would You Have Passed This 1920s Pronunciation Test?
H3 Why Do We Say “Uncle” When Admitting Defeat?
H3 Why Are There Two Dakotas and Two Carolinas?
H3 11 Bizarre Items Sold by Sears in 1902
H3 11 Things You Might Not Know About the Marine Corps
H3 What’s the Difference Between Memorial Day and Veterans Day?
H3 Quiz: Can You Name the Greek God or Goddess?
H3 What’s the Kennection? #167
H3 Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #38
H3 Tune Twist Quiz #42
H3 How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
H3 The Quest to Break America’s Most Mysterious Code—And Find $60 Million in Buried Treasure
H3 Why Do People Wear Corsages and Boutonnieres?
H3 Why Are Tires Black?
H3 What Is the Deepest Shipwreck Ever Found?
H3 Where Did All the Minivans Go?
H4 LIVE SMARTER
H4 TRAVEL
H4 Travelers Can Spend the Night Near Uluru in Australia for the First Time Ever
H4 SPACE
H4 7 Surprising Facts About Pluto
H4 HEALTH
H4 You Probably Shouldn't Be Mouth Taping While You Sleep
H4 AFTERNOON MAP
H4 DOGS
H4 QUIZZES Duplicate text
H4 BIG QUESTIONS Duplicate text
H4 SEE MORE
H4 SEE MORE Duplicate text
H4 SEE MORE Duplicate text
H5 CaLea Johnson | May 22, 2025
H5 David W Brown | May 21, 2025
H5 Tim Brinkhof | May 22, 2025
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
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 6 external links on this page.
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/article/501984/7-surprising-f...SPACE 7 Surprising Facts About Pluto David W Brown | May 21, 2025
/mouth-taping-for-sleep-dangerousHEALTH You Probably Shouldn't Be Mouth Taping While You Sleep Tim Brinkhof | May 22, 2025
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/article/57984/why-do-we-say-u...Why Do We Say “Uncle” When Admitting Defeat?
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/article/78842/oral-history-30...An Oral History of When Geraldo Rivera Opened Al Capone’s Vault
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/article/12247/how-paperbacks-...How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
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/about-usABOUT
/contact-usCONTACT US
/mental-floss-newslettersNEWSLETTERS
/privacy-policyPRIVACY POLICY
/cookie-policyCOOKIE POLICY
/terms-serviceTERMS OF SERVICE
/accessibility-statementACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
/sitemapSITEMAP
https://www.mentalfloss.com/indexA-Z Index
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.mentalfloss.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 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 (451 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 616 referring domains.
This page has 6,100 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 513 different ip addresses.

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