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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
75% 
Page structure
39% 
Link structure
35% 
Server
91% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.13 s
File size
492.50 kB
Words
1310
Media files
28
Number of links
177 internal / 16 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
PistonHeads UK - Stop Dreaming Start Driving
The length of the page title is perfect. (416 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Trusted by millions as the number one place to buy, sell and love premium, performance and collectible cars. PistonHeads: Stop dreaming, start driving.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (932 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.pistonheads.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 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)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
These Typos were found:
  • referal => referral
This page contains 1310 words. That's ok.
28.5% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
16 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 19.48 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 26 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
26 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)
Buy
The H1 heading consists of only one word. There should be more information given.
The H1 heading is too short (3 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 39 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 Buy
H2 Sell
H2 Belong
H2 Auction highlights
H2 Latest news & features
H2 Popular makes
H2 Popular models
H2 Popular searches
H2 About PistonHeads
H2 What people are saying about us
H2 Are you a car dealer?
H2 Sell your car
H2 Popular forums
H2 General Gassing
H2 The Pie & Piston
H2 Motorsports
H2 Supercars
H2 Events
H2 The Lounge
H2 Sign up to our emails
H2 Help & Support
H2 Buy Duplicate text
H2 Services
H2 Legal
H3 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric | UK Review
H3 Will Jaguar's all-in gamble pay off? | PH Footnote
H3 Official: stunning JAS Tensei NSX unveiled
H3 Manthey celebrates 30 years with 718 and 911 MR 30
H3 VW Golf GTI (Mk5) | Shed of the Week
H3 BMW iX3 earns 612hp M60 flagship
H3 Lamborghini Urus SE Performante | PH Review
H3 McLaren brings curtain down on 750S
H3 Zenos E10 RZ, £25k cars to keep for a decade
H3 vRS Plus marks 30 years of Skoda Octavia
H3 Production Jaguar Type 01 is officially here
H3 Porsche confirms new strategy - and a supercar
H3 Audi reveals UK pricing for new A2 e-tron
H3 222,578 cars
H3 Millions of visitors
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
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.
The number of internal links is ok.
There are 16 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

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/news/ph-japanesecars/official...Japanese cars Official: stunning JAS Tensei NSX unveiled We knew the JAS-Pininfarina NSX looked spectacular - now 420hp at 8,200rpm is confirmed... By Matt B...
/news/ph-porsche/manthey-celeb...Porsche News Manthey celebrates 30 years with 718 and 911 MR 30 A larger Porsche stake in Manthey means only one thing - bring on the limited editions! By Ma...
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/news/ph-germancars/bmw-ix3-ea...German cars BMW iX3 earns 612hp M60 flagship M Performance BMWs are popular; BMW SUVs are popular - so an iX3 with yellow lights was only a matter of time......
/news/ph-driven/lamborghini-ur...Driven Lamborghini Urus SE Performante | PH Review New chassis tech and EV smarts make the world's fastest production SUV even faster By Sam Sheehan50 comments
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/news/ph-eurocars/vrs-plus-mar...Euro cars vRS Plus marks 30 years of Skoda Octavia Almost eight million cars later, the Octavia hits the big 3-0 - time for the anniversary special By Matt B...
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https://www.trustpilot.com/rev...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Trustpilot
https://dealers.cargurus.co.uk...New window External Subdomain CarGurus and PistonHeads
https://dealers.cargurus.co.uk...New window External Subdomain check out our dealer packages
/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=23General Gassing Chat about all things motoring
/gassing/forumgroup.asp?c=41The Pie & Piston Chat about everything else...
/gassing/forumgroup.asp?c=10Motorsports Win on Sunday, talk about it on Monday
/gassing/forumgroup.asp?c=98Supercars Not all cars are created equal
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/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=210The Lounge Need to get something off your chest?
/gassingView all forums
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https://pistonheads.onelink.me...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Download on the App Store
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https://policies.google.com/pr...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Privacy Policy
https://policies.google.com/termsNew window External Subdomain Terms of Service

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.pistonheads.com/"
HTTP header
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The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.13 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (493 kB).

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External factors

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This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 408 referring domains.
This page has 1,968 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 347 different ip addresses.

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