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Meta information
75% 
Page quality
100% 
Page structure
69% 
Link structure
73% 
Server
86% 
External factors
9% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.10 s
File size
249.70 kB
Words
606
Media files
26
Number of links
56 internal / 11 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Photography by Melanie
The length of the page title is perfect. (216 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Traveling Portrait Photographer based out of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Couples, Weddings, Family, Maternity, Newborn,, and Special Requests Photography Sessions. Serving Hampton Roads Virginia, Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Gloucester, Mathews, Yorktown, Williamsburg, and more
The meta description is too long: 1905 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.photographybymelanieh.com/
There is a valid canonical link 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)
No favicon is linked in the HTML code.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
This page contains 606 words. That's ok.
39.3% 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.
8 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 15.36 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 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
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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...anie_LaShae_Family-110-fe39a143-1000.jpgA joyful family moment captured during autumn with colorful fall foliage in the background.
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...c9a3f2220bd5847e165708-0de66f96-1500.jpgA romantic sunset beach wedding portrait showing a tender moment between newlyweds.
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...jLWZ4/G3EZxx/Melanie_8-f8e6e56f-1500.jpgA photographer in an olive green off-shoulder dress sits on a cream couch with a camera nearby and tropical foliage behind.

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Virginia Wedding &
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (18 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Virginia Wedding &
H1 Hampton Roads Family Photographer
H1 Easy-going and easy to work with
H1 Life is messy
H2 “She was super comfortable to be around and helped guide us along the way”
H2 Couples
H2 Family
H2 Maternity & Newborn
H2 Afton, VA Wedding | Jayde & Andrew at Hazy Mountain Vineyard
H2 Hey there!
H3 NOW OFFERING TRAVELING WEDDING PACKAGES!
H3 Audrey & Matthew
H3 Rohrs Family
H3 The Tereskas
H3 Krystal & family
H3 Nicole
H3 Yorktown, VA Family | The Grants
H3 Williamsburg, VA | Emma & Garrett in the Snow
H3 Sandbridge Maternity Session
H3 Instagram
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 11 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/maternity-newborns/Maternity & Newborn
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/blog-1/hazy-mountain-wedding/Afton, VA Wedding | Jayde & Andrew at Hazy Mountain Vineyard February 26, 2025 — Wedding
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/blog-1/yorktown-va-family-the...Yorktown, VA Family | The Grants February 18, 2025 — Family
/blog-1/williamsburg-va-emma-g...Williamsburg, VA | Emma & Garrett in the Snow February 10, 2025 — Couples & Engagement
/blog-1/sandbridge-maternity-s...Sandbridge Maternity Session February 3, 2025 — Maternity & Newborn
/about/New window About Me
/portfolio/See More Galleries
https://www.instagram.com/mela...New window External Subdomain No Text
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/family/Text duplicate Family Portraits
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/maternity-newborns/Text duplicate Maternity & Newborns
/creative-sessions/Text duplicate Creative Sessions
/contact/Text duplicate Contact
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https://www.facebook.com/Photo...New window External Subdomain No Text
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.photographybymelanieh.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 is slow (1.10 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 (250 kB).

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External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 3 referring domains.
This page only has 6 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 3 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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Photography by Melanie
Traveling Portrait Photographer based out of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Couples, Weddings, Family, Maternity, Newborn,, and Special Requests Photography Sessions. Serving Hampton Roads Virginia, Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Gloucester, Mathews, Yorktown, Williamsburg, and more

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Wedding70%Check
Virginia63%Check
Melanie61%Check
photo sessions61%Check
Family58%Check
Maternity58%Check
Roads Virginia58%Check
Virginia Beach56%Check
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