Phillymag.com - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
86% 
Page structure
67% 
Link structure
25% 
Server
78% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.12 s
File size
136.50 kB
Words
895
Media files
25
Number of links
153 internal / 15 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Philadelphia Magazine | News, Restaurants, Best of Philly
The length of the page title is perfect. (517 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
At Philly Mag, We keep connected to the city by highlighting what’s great, exposing what isn’t, and doing our best to spark conversations about the news.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (937 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.phillymag.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 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 895 words. That's ok.
32.6% 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 20.92 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)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 18 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)
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)
Philadelphia Magazine
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 35 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Philadelphia Magazine
H2 184 Things to Do in Philly This Week and Weekend
H2 Trending
H2 Your Guide to Dog-Friendly Bars and Restaurants in Philly
H2 How This Dumpling Became Bastia’s Signature Dish
H2 An Inside Look at the Bellevue’s Stunning Transformation
H2 Find It PhillyWhat you need, when you need it.
H2 Latest Stories
H2 Krasner Goes Full FAFO on Trump: “He Better Not Try It in Philly.”
H2 Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook Talk Success, Failure, and How to Get a Table at Zahav
H2 Philly Today: The Return of the Rizzo Statue
H2 4 Statement Wedding Floral Ideas to Inspire Your Big Day
H2 Living in East Passyunk: A Neighborhood Guide
H2 The Newest Wave of Indoor Fun and Games in Philly
H2 Sign up to get the best of Philly, every day.
H2 FEATURED STORIES
H2 The 150 Most Influential Philadelphians
H2 All Hail the Hoagie
H2 Sonny’s Cocktail Joint Reopens … Again!
H2 How to Find a Therapist in Philadelphia
H2 The Bok Building’s Lindsey Scannapieco Shares a Peek Inside Her World
H2 Philly Today: A Biden Divorce in Philadelphia
H2 A First Look at East Passyunk’s Glam New Oyster Bar
H2 Read More
H2 An Optimist’s Guide to Philadelphia
H2 Best of Philly 2025
H2 Is It Doomsday for SEPTA?
H2 Sources: Controversial Wildwood Pizzeria Shuts Down After Bomb Threat
H2 The Assault of the Influencers
H2 What to Eat at the 2025 Best of Philly Soirée Presented by Wells Fargo
H3 Living in East Passyunk: A Neighborhood Guide Duplicate text
H3 SEPTA Unveils New Schedules With Drastic Service Cuts
H3 Krasner Goes Full FAFO on Trump: “He Better Not Try It in Philly.” Duplicate text
H3 A First Look at East Passyunk’s Glam New Oyster Bar Duplicate text
H3 Giordano’s Owner Says Goodbye as Italian Market Icon Closes
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
20 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 15 external links on this page.
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/home-design/Home Design Experts
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/weddingsText duplicate See All
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/foobooz/2025/08/14/zahav-phil...No Text
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/propertyProperty
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/things-to-doText duplicate Things to Do
/things-to-do/2025/08/12/immer...The Newest Wave of Indoor Fun and Games in Philly
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https://www.instagram.com/phil...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Instagram
https://twitter.com/phillymagNew window External Text duplicate Twitter

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.phillymag.com/"
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 (1.12 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 (137 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 430 referring domains.
This page has 12,890 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 281 different ip addresses.

Robots.txt

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Philadelphia Magazine | News, Restaurants, Best of Philly
At Philly Mag, We keep connected to the city by highlighting what’s great, exposing what isn’t, and doing our best to spark conversations about the news.

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Philadelphia70%Check
Philadelphia Magazine67%Check
Best66%Check
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