News.ycombinator.com - SEO Checker

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Meta information
59% 
Page quality
51% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
13% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.95 s
File size
33.70 kB
Words
573
Media files
3
Number of links
192 internal / 34 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Hacker News
The page title is too short. (119 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)
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)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
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)
No doctype markup was found.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
No paragraphs were detected.
This page contains 573 words. That's ok.
18.3% of the text are stop words.
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=1.0" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 11 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
3 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
https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.svgNo alt attribute provided
https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gifNo alt attribute provided
https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gifNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
29 links don't have an anchor text.
There are 1 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (34) on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://news.ycombinator.com/Subdomain No Text
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsHacker News
/newestnew
/frontpast
/newcommentscomments
https://news.ycombinator.com/askask
https://news.ycombinator.com/showshow
https://news.ycombinator.com/jobsjobs
/submitNofollow submit
/login?goto=newslogin
/vote?id=44468175&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net...External Subdomain Nvidia Is Full of Shit
/from?site=sebin-nyshkim.netsebin-nyshkim.net
/user?id=todsacerdotitodsacerdoti
/item?id=444681754 hours ago
/hide?id=44468175&goto=newshide
/item?id=44468175184 comments
/vote?id=44469124&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.kbkg.com/feature/h...External Subdomain OBBB signed: reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D
/from?site=kbkg.comkbkg.com
/user?id=tareqaktareqak
/item?id=444691241 hour ago
/hide?id=44469124&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446912429 comments
/vote?id=44465319&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/b...External Subdomain Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip
/from?site=jeffgeerling.comjeffgeerling.com
/user?id=ingveingve
/item?id=4446531910 hours ago
/hide?id=44465319&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44465319143 comments
/vote?id=44467912&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://maalvika.substack.com/...External Subdomain Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
/from?site=maalvika.substack.commaalvika.substack.com
/user?id=alihmalihm
/item?id=44467912Text duplicate 4 hours ago
/hide?id=44467912&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446791234 comments
/vote?id=44432272&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://branching.app/External Version Control for AI Coding
/from?site=branching.appbranching.app
/user?id=sheremetyevsheremetyev
/item?id=444322722 hours ago
/hide?id=44432272&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=444322727 comments
/vote?id=44468999&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/...External Subdomain The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor
/from?site=nelhage.comnelhage.com
/user?id=BogdanpBogdanp
/item?id=44468999Text duplicate 2 hours ago
/hide?id=44468999&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=444689998 comments
/vote?id=44465731&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.filfre.net/2025/07...External Subdomain EverQuest
/from?site=filfre.netfilfre.net
/user?id=dmazindmazin
/item?id=444657319 hours ago
/hide?id=44465731&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446573185 comments
/vote?id=44466697&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://backlit.neocities.org/...External Subdomain How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should (2022)
/from?site=backlit.neocities.orgbacklit.neocities.org
/user?id=fsfloverfsflover
/item?id=444666977 hours ago
/hide?id=44466697&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446669780 comments
/vote?id=44455196&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...External Subdomain Robots move Shanghai city block [video]
/from?site=youtube.comyoutube.com
/user?id=surprisetalksurprisetalk
/item?id=444551965 hours ago
/hide?id=44455196&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4445519618 comments
/vote?id=44467312&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.nationalgeographic...External Subdomain The story behind Caesar salad
/from?site=nationalgeographic.comnationalgeographic.com
/user?id=BluesteinBluestein
/item?id=444673126 hours ago
/hide?id=44467312&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44467312Text duplicate 34 comments
/vote?id=44467914&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.datagubbe.se/amix/External Subdomain The Amiga 3000 Unix and Sun Microsystems: Deal or No Deal?
/from?site=datagubbe.sedatagubbe.se
/user?id=wicketwicket
/item?id=44467914Text duplicate 4 hours ago
/hide?id=44467914&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=444679141 comment
/vote?id=44464068&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://sailhealth.substack.co...External Subdomain Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
/from?site=sailhealth.substack...sailhealth.substack.com
/user?id=glasscannonglasscannon
/item?id=4446406813 hours ago
/hide?id=44464068&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44464068178 comments
/vote?id=44462947&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...External Subdomain Larry (cat)
/from?site=wikipedia.orgwikipedia.org
/user?id=dcminterdcminter
/item?id=4446294716 hours ago
/hide?id=44462947&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446294761 comments
/vote?id=44467279&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.nanassound.com/pro...External Subdomain Show HN: AirBending – hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller
/from?site=nanassound.comnanassound.com
/user?id=bepitulazbepitulaz
/item?id=44467279Text duplicate 6 hours ago
/hide?id=44467279&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446727912 comments
https://www.ycombinator.com/co...External Subdomain Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco
/from?site=ycombinator.comycombinator.com
/item?id=44467852Text duplicate 5 hours ago
/hide?id=44467852&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/vote?id=44463967&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/maciej-treb...External Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process
/from?site=github.com/maciej-t...github.com/maciej-trebacz
/user?id=M4v3RM4v3R
/item?id=44463967Text duplicate 13 hours ago
/hide?id=44463967&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44463967119 comments
/vote?id=44467949&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://dmitriid.com/everythin...External Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking
/from?site=dmitriid.comdmitriid.com
/user?id=troupotroupo
/item?id=44467949Text duplicate 4 hours ago
/hide?id=44467949&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44467949182 comments
/vote?id=44462896&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://linoscope.github.io/wr...External Subdomain Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
/from?site=linoscope.github.iolinoscope.github.io
/user?id=ibobevibobev
/item?id=44462896Text duplicate 16 hours ago
/hide?id=44462896&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446289638 comments
/vote?id=44464641&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://kepler.gl/External Kepler.gl
/from?site=kepler.glkepler.gl
/user?id=9woc9woc
/item?id=4446464112 hours ago
/hide?id=44464641&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446464117 comments
/vote?id=44444686&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://usefulfictions.substac...Nofollow External Subdomain Learn to Love the Moat of Low Status
/from?site=usefulfictions.subs...usefulfictions.substack.com
/user?id=jger15jger15
/item?id=44444686Text duplicate 1 hour ago
/hide?id=44444686&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44444686Text duplicate 1 comment
/vote?id=44465206&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://developer.mozilla.org/...External Subdomain Compression Dictionary Transport
/from?site=developer.mozilla.orgdeveloper.mozilla.org
/user?id=todsacerdotiText duplicate todsacerdoti
/item?id=44465206Text duplicate 10 hours ago
/hide?id=44465206&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446520622 comments
/vote?id=44433500&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/capsulescod...External Show HN: Flint – Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency
/from?site=github.com/capsules...github.com/capsulescodes
/user?id=mho22mho22
/item?id=444335003 hours ago
/hide?id=44433500&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44433500Text duplicate 1 comment
/vote?id=44464396&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://lwn.net/Articles/1027289/External Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
/from?site=lwn.netlwn.net
/user?id=ksecksec
/item?id=44464396Text duplicate 12 hours ago
/hide?id=44464396&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44464396139 comments
/vote?id=44466826&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.theregister.com/20...External Subdomain ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies
/from?site=theregister.comtheregister.com
/user?id=josephcsiblejosephcsible
/item?id=44466826Text duplicate 7 hours ago
/hide?id=44466826&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44466826Text duplicate 12 comments
/vote?id=44458890&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://www.merelkarhof.nl/wor...External Subdomain Wind Knitting Factory
/from?site=merelkarhof.nlmerelkarhof.nl
/user?id=bschnebschne
/item?id=444588901 day ago
/hide?id=44458890&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4445889059 comments
/vote?id=44465980&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/awwaiid/gre...External Gremllm
/from?site=github.com/awwaiidgithub.com/awwaiid
/user?id=andreabergiaandreabergia
/item?id=44465980Text duplicate 9 hours ago
/hide?id=44465980&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=4446598011 comments
/vote?id=44467539&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://privateisland.tech/betsyExternal Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking
/from?site=privateisland.techprivateisland.tech
/user?id=private_islandprivate_island
/item?id=44467539Text duplicate 5 hours ago
/hide?id=44467539&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44467539Text duplicate 1 comment
/vote?id=44461067&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://github.com/ziglang/zig...External Zig breaking change – initial Writergate
/from?site=github.com/ziglanggithub.com/ziglang
/user?id=Retro_DevRetro_Dev
/item?id=4446106721 hours ago
/hide?id=44461067&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44461067199 comments
/vote?id=44432857&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://gaudishop.ch/index.php...External OpenDrop – Electro-wetting technology to control small droplets of liquids
/from?site=gaudishop.chgaudishop.ch
/user?id=_V__V_
/item?id=44432857Text duplicate 7 hours ago
/hide?id=44432857&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=444328575 comments
/vote?id=44468380&how=up&goto=...No Text
https://crates.io/crates/tinykvNofollow External Show HN: Tinykv – minimal file-backed key-value store for Rust
/from?site=crates.iocrates.io
/user?id=hasanyildizhasanyildiz
/item?id=44468380Text duplicate 3 hours ago
/hide?id=44468380&goto=newsText duplicate hide
/item?id=44468380Text duplicate 1 comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/?p=2Trivial anchor text
More
https://www.ycombinator.com/ap...External Subdomain Consider applying for YC's Fall 2025 batch! Applications are open till Aug 4
/newsguidelines.htmlGuidelines
/newsfaq.htmlFAQ
/listsLists
https://github.com/HackerNews/APIExternal API
/security.htmlSecurity
https://www.ycombinator.com/le...External Subdomain Legal
https://www.ycombinator.com/ap...External Subdomain Apply to YC

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://news.ycombinator.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 0.95 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 (34 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-security-policydefault-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/ https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/; frame-src 'self' https://www.google.com/recaptcha/; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' https://account.ycombinator.com; frame-ancestors 'self'
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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 8,548 referring domains.
This page has 1,039,576 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 5,807 different ip addresses.

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Crawl-delay: 30
Disallow: /collapse?
Disallow: /context?
Disallow: /fave?
Disallow: /flag?
Disallow: /hide?
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /r?
Disallow: /reply?
Disallow: /submitlink?
Disallow: /vote?
Disallow: /x?

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