Plainenglish.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
57% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
87% 
Server
100% 
External factors
78% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
219.20 kB
Words
356
Media files
6
Number of links
45 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Plain English: Upgrade your skills in English
The length of the page title is perfect. (391 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Upgrade your English skills with current events and trending topics. Make faster progress with exercises, videos, writing practice, and more.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (859 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://plainenglish.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

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0
google-site-verificationEmpty
theme-color#ffffff
robotsindex, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
descriptionUpgrade your English skills with current events and trending topics. Make faster progress with exercises, videos, writing practice, and more.
generatorWordPress 7.1.3
tec-api-versionv1
tec-api-originhttps://plainenglish.com
msapplication-TileImagehttps://plainenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/plainenglish-icon-16x16.png.png
article:modified_time2026-08-13T17:48:43+00:00
langen-us
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:localeen_US
og:typewebsite
og:titlePlain English: Upgrade your skills in English
og:descriptionUpgrade your English skills with current events and trending topics. Make faster progress with exercises, videos, writing practice, and more.
og:urlhttps://plainenglish.com/
og:site_namePlain English
og:imagehttps://plainenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/home-hero-graphic.png
og:image:width1200
og:image:height1180
og:image:typeimage/png
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 356 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
35.7% 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.
6 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 20.33 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
Multiple viewport tags are given. There should only be one.
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 7 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)
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
.../uploads/home-hero-graphic-1024x1007.pngNo alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided
data:[...] Base64No alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Upgrade your skills in English
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Upgrade your skills in English
H2 Learners from 160+ countries love Plain English
H2 Online English lessons with a personal touch
H2 Why Plain English?
H2 Now is the time to upgrade your English
H3 Love what you’re learning
H3 Understand every word
H3 Learn real-world English
H3 Get lots of practice
H3 Always find the right word
H3 Remember what you learn
H3 Lose your fear of speaking
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.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are 4 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://plainenglish.com/Anchor Skip to content
https://plainenglish.com/Plain English
A-TITLE Home
https://plainenglish.com/joinPricing
/why-plain-english/Why Plain English?
https://plainenglish.com/login/Sign in
https://plainenglish.com/joinSign up
https://plainenglish.com/Text duplicate Plain English
A-TITLE Home
https://plainenglish.com/No Text
https://plainenglish.com/joinText duplicate Pricing
/why-plain-english/Text duplicate Why Plain English?
https://plainenglish.com/login/Text duplicate Sign in
/wp-login.php?action=registerText duplicate Sign up
https://plainenglish.com/A-TITLE Home
https://plainenglish.com/joinText duplicate Pricing
/why-plain-english/Text duplicate Why Plain English?
https://plainenglish.com/login/Text duplicate Sign in
https://plainenglish.com/joinText duplicate Sign up
/start-trialStart now
/free-trialLearn more
https://plainenglish.com/Anchor Love what you’re learning
https://plainenglish.com/Anchor Understand every word
https://plainenglish.com/Anchor Learn real-world English
https://plainenglish.com/Anchor Get lots of practice
/start-trial/Sign up now
/start-trialStart trial
/free-trialText duplicate Learn more
/start-trialStart your free trial
https://plainenglish.com/No Text
https://instagram.com/plaineng...External No Text
https://twitter.com/plainengli...External No Text
https://facebook.com/plainengl...External No Text
/why-plain-english/About
https://docs.plainenglish.com/External Subdomain Help Center
/about-plain-english/About Plain English
/why-plain-english/Text duplicate Why Plain English?
https://plainenglish.com/contact/Contact
/category/features/Features
/resources/Resources
/all-transcripts/Podcast transcripts
/resources/All Resources
/category/listening/Listening
/category/speaking/Speaking
https://plainenglish.com/join/Join
/free-trial/Free Trial
https://plainenglish.com/plus/Plain English Plus+
/join/free-mp/Forever Free
https://plainenglish.com/terms/Terms of Use
https://plainenglish.com/privacy/Privacy Policy
https://plainenglish.com/contact/Contact Us

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://plainenglish.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)
A Content Delivery Network like Google Hosted Libraries can save bandwidth for the JQuery files.
The page response time is excellent with 0.35 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (219 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
dateWed, 21 Oct 2026 19:57:36 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
servercloudflare
cf-edge-cachecache,platform=wordpress
link<https://plainenglish.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://plainenglish.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/601>; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json", <https://plainenglish.com/>; rel=shortlink
x-tec-api-versionv1
x-tec-api-roothttps://plainenglish.com/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
x-tec-api-originhttps://plainenglish.com
x-breeze-cache-writeSUCCESS
cache-providerCLOUDWAYS-CACHE-DC
last-modifiedWed, 21 Oct 2026 00:10:33 GMT
varyAccept-Encoding
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age71223
x-cacheHIT
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cf-cache-statusDYNAMIC
content-encodingzstd
cf-raya4e2d50d7eb7e216-CDG
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page has only a few links from other websites.
This page only has backlinks from 26 referring domains.
This page only has 145 backlinks.
This page only has few backlinks from 26 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

# START WPFORMS BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpforms/
# ---------------------------
# END WPFORMS BLOCK


# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

User-agent: facebookexternalhit 
Crawl-Delay: 10

Sitemap: https://plainenglish.com/sitemap_index.xml
# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

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Plain English: Upgrade your skills in English
Upgrade your English skills with current events and trending topics. Make faster progress with exercises, videos, writing practice, and more.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
English92%Check
Upgrade82%Check
Plain English82%Check
skills78%Check
Plain72%Check
Learn English69%Check
English Lessons66%Check
English Learners66%Check
Speak English65%Check
English expressions64%Check
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